Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-09
NEWS SUMMARY


ton, KY, with his bride, was drowned
near Chaplin, N. Y. Hill was lead
er IN the Methodist church in Ken
lucky.
The cholera in the Yang Use valley
is abating, but the toll of death this
season has been heavy. In Hankow
5000 natives and score of foreign
ers have died of the malady.
The two-cent postage rates on let
ters between the United States and |
the British Isles, including England |
Scotland, Ireland and Wales, went
into effect Thursday, october l.
Robert Louis Stevenson's former |
home on the heights of Russian HILL
San Francisco, has been purchased by
! Mr.. and Mrs. Francis j. Sullivan for
the establishment of nunnery.
An explosion of gas at the plant
Of the Pittsburg Plate Glass COM
pany's works No 2, at Tarrentum,
Pa, resulted in loss by fire OF
100000, and threw 800 men out OF
employment.
Fearing to face disgrace, which he
felt would follow his arrest on
charge, of abusing his wife, Leonard
]. Schmidt, piano maker OF New
York City, killed himself by inhaling
Illuminating gas.
What is practically the final settle
ment of the estate of the late Archi'
bald Blount of Orelton Manor. Hert-
fordshire, England, shows that Yale
university will receive from the estate
about $32S,000 net.
A London dispatch announces that
the kings gardeners have plucked 900
punches of big black Hamburg grapes
from the 150-year-old grape vine at
Cumberland lodge, one of the kings
many little country houses.
Robert HUI Tung, the Hongkong
: millionaire, with his two wives and
: three children, who arrived at San
Francisco from the Orient on the
steamer Korea, will be deported to
the land from whence they came.
Massachusetts Democrats in state
convention at Boston nominated Sen
ator James H. Fahey OF WATERFOWL
for governor by reclamation. Edgar
, Brown of Brockton, the only other
. candidate for the Office, withdrew.
: The promised fight of the Anti
Saloon League of America against the
reelection to congress of Speaker
Cannon is almost al hand, according
to a statement issued by General Su
: perintendent Baker of the league.
Director of the Mint Leach an
nounced last week that he would re
sumo the purchase of fine silver fol
subsidiary coinage. He states that h'
t. expects to purchase about l25,0O'
ounces each week for an indefinite
4. period.
!" Ignorant of the fact that her two
. months-old child was asleep under thu
: cover, Mrs. Mary Storti of Brooklyn
closed up a folding bed in a darkene'
room and the little one was smothere'
Ia to death before his mother realize
what had happened.
: Losing her bearings in the dens
smoke and fog the steamer Neshotc
bound down with iron ore, ran ashor
on Crisp Point, eastern Lake Superior
and was broken to pieces by the gal
raging She is total loss. The cre'
was rescued by life savers.
A gang of robbers blew open tn
safe of the State bank, at Ladysmitl
Wis, taking about $4,000 They she
- a policeman in the arm and fired Sc
eral shots at the Baker hotel to kee
anybody from coming out. They the
took a handcar and escaped.
The San Francisco Call says tn;
Comte Camille de Rudio, the Italia
exile who threw one of the bombs thi
shattered the carriage OF Emper'
Louis Napoleon III and Empress q
genie. killing ten persons and tnju
ing $50 others, in Paris, on the mig
of January IA. 1858, is living quiet
in Los Angeles with his English vii
With her right arm tightly clasp
about the dead body of her year-o
baby boy, whose life she ended wi
q her own, Mrs. Eric Sutherland of Ca
of bridge, Mimi, was found in the sa
lis low water in Powderhorn lake
It MINNEAPOLIS. Domestic trouble led
as the deed.
he The great historical and industr
OF parade, the most important event
me Pittsburg's sesqui-centennial celeb
on. ton, was held on October 1. HI
'oy dreds of thousands of perso
lses crowded the streets along the ro1
SUI of the parade, distance of abe
four miles.
- Standard Oil company attorne
AN presented evidence before JUG
w Franklin Ferriss, at Chicago, on
ola tober 1, in support of the content
that the oil company has not be
nth the recipient of preferential ra
my from railroads in different sections
.ayi the country.
end Charles Edward Davis, char
able with the murder of DR.. Frederick R
and tin at Omaha. has been bound over
lree the court in bonds of ten thous;
1elt dollars. which was signed by his