Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-08-28
NEWS SUMMARY

Governor John A. Johnson mas DUcn
tuomiIrated for governor of MinnesOea
by the Democrats.
CtAonel William Walker, editorial !
writer for the New Orleans Picaydne
for tthe past thirty years. is dead, at
tine age of 65.
Bandits attacked and pilfaged the
| Kazansky monastery, near Tambo'
| Russia, and secured gold and Jewels
valued at $4,000.
Charles A. Clark of Alsen, s. D., is
dead, the result of a bullet wound in
the abdomen, inflicted by hts divorced
wife. Mrs. Clark was arrested
John Gluek,' a wealthy Minneapolis
| brewer, and his wife were killed at
Cottagewood, MINI, when their auto
mobile was struck by train.
Fierce forest fires, causing damage
| to timber likely to total millions OF
| dollars are reported from several sec
| tions of Vancouver island, B. Q.
William Seibert, one Of the local
organizers of the Republican party
| and delegate to the first national con-
vention, died at Pittsburg last week,
aged SO years.
"A decrease Of $40 ,532,7s In revenue
over operating expenses and taxes 10
shown by the annual statements Or
the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cffice companies.
| 1t was announced at Republican
headquarters In Chicago last week
that Speaker Joseph G. Cannon will
make speaking tour of the country,
beginning in September.
Nineteen sentences of death were
signed in various parts of the Rus
sian empire one day last week. Ten
condemned at LODI are peasants con-
cerndd in revolutionary activities.
Governor Folk Of Missouri has
granted stay of execution of thirty
days to Albert Filley, under sentence
of death for killing his wife, his z
year4old daughter and his brother,
Clay Filley.
George d. Horras, former cashier OF
the failed Hot Springs, s. D., National
bank, has been sentenced to five years
in the federal penitentiary at Fort
-Leavenworth, Kan. He pleaded gull
ty to embezzling$5, 900.
BY the premature explosion of TWEEN
ty pounds of dynamite in an Oil well
near Santa Rosa, N. M, William Lane
was instantly killed and Michael
Doyle, William Wickstrom and Thos.
Connolly severely injured.
The Esperantists, who are holding
their fourth international congress In
Dresden, have decided to publish
books in Esperanto for the blind, and
to prepare proper exhibition to give
information relative to Esperanto.
Judge Alton B. Parker, candidate
for the presidency on the Democratic
ticket four years ago, opened the
Democratic campaign In Oregon al
Portland on August IS, at large and
enthusiastic meeting in that city.
DIR. Joseph Eichberg, a prominent
physician of Cincinnati, was drowned
in Big Topper lake, N. Y, while on {
fishing trip In trying to land 6
large pickerel his boat was capsizef
|
Passengers from Guatemala City ar
rived at Mobile, Ala, on the steamer
Harold say that the uprisings In Hon
duras were a part of the project O.
President Cabrera of Guatemala tt
make General Morales president o
Honduras.
! Isaac Upham, well known retiret
wholesale merchant Of San Francisco
while riding a bicycle at San Jose
was struck by an automobile driver
by s. B. Hunkins, president OF thu
German City bank, and received in
juries from which he died within al
! hour.
Mrs. Jennie Roberts, 45 years old l
dead as the result of murderous al
tack made.on her while she lay ASLEEP
In her bed at her home In Cincinnati
Her face was smashed almost to I
pulp. David M. Roberts, her husband
is being held by the police on sus
picion.
Walter Allen, a cofored man, AM
several companions ieered at a Chi
cago policeman who had ordered then
to move on late at night. An en-
counter between Allen and the office
followed, with the result that Allel
was shot and seriously wounded h
the back.
According to adyices received ii
London from Geneva, the leaders o
the Young Turk party are to NEE
In that city at the end of this month
to discuss the question of deposin
the sultan of Turkey, and, in the cas-
of an affirmative decision, to select
successor.
Japan has formally signffed it
readiness to negotiate a sealing cor
vention with Russia similar to tn
Russo American and the Russo-Brit
ish convention Through the aequi
sition of the south half of the islam
of Saghalin, Japan becomes owner Q
Seal island.
The Chinese commissioners havfn
the matter in charge have selecte
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