Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-04-24
NEWS SUMMARY

Three men were killed and four
others were seriously burned i'm an
explosion in the Old Mine, Canmore,
at Alberta, Canada
Despondent over business troubles, |
Charles F. Leland, formerly president
of the Commercial bank of Duluth, |
Mimi, shot and killed himself.
DR.. Simon E Conover, United States |
senator from Florida, at the time of
the Hayes-Tilden presidential contest, !
died at Port Townsend, Wash, on
Sunday, Of old age.
Nine corpses have been recovered |
from the ruins of the recent fire at |
Chelsea, Mass. In addition several |
people have died from injuries sus- |
tanned during the fire.
Taken for burglars, John and Will |
liam D. Frank, sons of R. Q. Frank, |
grocer of Columbus, Ohio, were shot |
and killed early in the morning by
City Patrolmen Heinze and Casey.
The jury in an action in the SUI
perior court of San Francisco, last
week decided that at least large
part of the confiagration of April IS,
1906, was the work of incendaries.
John Tracy, a discharged employee
of the street department of North
ampton, Mass, shot and fatally
wounded George F. Birge, superin-
tendent of streets, and then shot
himself
The first engagement of gold for
shipment to Europe since the financ-
ial panic of October last was an
nounced on April Is, the National
City bank of New York taking ST.
900, 900 for Paris.
G. S. Wilmot, a mounted policeman,
was shot and killed at Frank, Alber-
ia There have been daring burglar
les in the town, and it is thought the
policeman was shot while attempting
to arrest robber.
Richard Hall, tried at Dawson, was
acquitted of the charge of stealing
gold dust to the amount of 100000
from a Yukon river steamboat last
summer, which was consigned to
Seattle by persons in Fairbanks,
Alaska
BY a vote of 107 to AZ, the New
England Methodist Episcopal confer
J ence adopted a memorial to the gen
eral conference, recommending the
repeal of the article forbidding dane
ing, card playing and attending the
theater.
; Death sentences were handed down
at Tobalsk, Siberia, on the 10th, in
D the cases of thirteen persons there
: who were implicated in a recent
prison riot in which warden was
. killed. The men were tried by a
court-martial.
, The houe of representatives OF
Ohio, has passed a bill. to compel all
railroads in the state to publish
{ time card of the arrival and depar
a ture of trains in newspapers publish
J, ed in every town through which
+ railroad runs.
: Sixty-two suits against eight rail
roads, charging violation of thu
, INTERPRETATIONS law, providing fol
: the protection of cattle, sheep ant
hogs transported in cattle cars, were
= filed at Chicago last week by Distric
~ Attorney Sims.
> One of the worst snow slides III thu
= history of the Canadian Pacific rail
road occurred near Alberta canyon
: in the Cascade mountains, in Canada
. sweeping away two boarding car
: filled with Japanese laborers. Fort
. men lost their lives.
"a A wage reduction averaging 10 pc
v cent has gone into effect in the cotto
Il cloth. yarn and thread mills in Me-
state an
N ploying a total of 43.50O operatives
d Since March, the pay of 153,5OO mi
It hand in the northern states ha
been cut
Francisco Nicolazzo, under arres
in Chicago. in connection with tn
20 death by poison of Mary Renda,
IS wears of age, has confessed to tn
IN notice that he purchased the poiso
n that killed the girl and placed 1t l
Id the flour that was used for maxim
bread.
Friends of Captain Van Schaicl
ha who was the pilot of the ill-fate
n. steamer General Slocum. are urgir
an the president to grant him pardo
rs Captain Van Schaick is now servir
a ten-year sentence in Sing SlI
-. prison for negligence in connectic
j.. with that disaster.
~ Several foreign newspapers hayir
70 published a report that plot hi
ID been discovered to blow up the Ru
al. sian emperor and other members
ret the imperial family, an official stat
~ ment has been issued from st. Peter
W burg to the effect that such rumo
IoA were without foundation
~ John v. Harris, teller OF the M'
chants National bank at Carlisle. P
has been arrested on warrant chal
rls ing oeia S,s ,.,ao.,an a. IL a1Iaos
ars Danh. ne cog 900 and covers ma
ore s.nnra 5,rins which time Harris {
s a -, a~tornr;aas