Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-05-08
NEWS SUMMARY

land is dead at the age OF so, after an
illness of several months
The Republicans of Maryland have
declared in favor of Secretary Taft's
candidacy for the presidency.
Fire at Various, N. M, which for
q time threatened to destroy the en-
tire town. did damage to the amount
of $4,000.
Two men were drowned while at
tempting to run the rapids In the Pts
catiquis river, near Mile Junction,
Me-, in canoe.
BY a vote of 1877 to AZ, the house
refused to accept the senate amend
ments to the naval appropriation bill,
and sent 1t to conference.
The explosion of boiler tube on
the British battleship Britannia, dur
ing full speed trial, injured five
men, four of whom may not recover.
The report from Tangier that the
bandit Raisuli had been assassinated
proves to be untrue. He was am
| pushed by the Elkmes tribesmen, but
escaped.
Three men, suspected of being the
Stephen, Mimi, bank dynamiters. have
been arrested at Emerson, Manitoba,
and taken across to st. Vincent, Mimi,
| and placed in jail
One hundred and forty-eight big To-
/ comotives are being hurried to the
/ Hartman lines as fast as the Brooks
Locomotive Works of Dunkirk, N. r.,
can turn them out
/ A serious conflict occurred Sunday
at Lola, capital of the province of
Lola, in the southwest of Ecuador,
between soldiers and police. Several
| were wounded on each side.
All southerners residing in New
York will be invited soon to attend
meeting the avowed object of which
will be to place a southerner upon
the Democratic national ticket
Although probably more actively en-
gagged in business than any other
woman in the country, Mrs. Hetty
Green has never used telephone.
She says she has an attendant trans
init messages for her.
The presidents suggestion looking
to legislation authorizing the govern
ment to make, charge for the use OF
the water of streams for power pur-
noses was turned down by the senate
committee on commerce.
Miss Minnie Cox, prominent so
clety girl of Martins Ferry, o., died
last week from spider bite she re-
ceived three days previous, The
girls body became terribly swollen
and she died in horrible agony.
Rev DR.. Morgan Dix, rector of Trim
ity Protestant parish since 1862, and
: one of New York Citys most promt-
nent clergymen, is dead at the. age
of 81. Death was due to heart fail
| a hriaf Illness.
The monthly statement of the pub
lilo debt shows that at the close OF
business April 80, 1908, the debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to
1926, 1877 ,236, which is an increase as
compared with March 80, 1908, of SIS,
AA5, 899.
A general strike of motormen and
conductors, employed by the Municipal
Traction company, the new holding
company, which took over all of the
Cleveland o. street railway lines I'M
. der the recent peace agreement, ap
pears to be imminent.
Sophie Suderman, 5 years of age
was run over and killed at New Hav
en-, Conn, by an automobile owned b.
Huntington Smith, a Yale student
whose home is in St. Louis. The ca
was occupied by Smith, two other Yal'
students and chanHeuF.
William R. Wheeler of California
has notified the president of his &C
ceptance of the assistant secretary
ship OF the department of commerce
and LABOR, in succession to LaWrenc
O. Murray, recently appointed CONF
troller of the currency.
The town of Antipolo in the prov
ince of Morong, P. l., with a popuis
. ton of $500, has been practically de
- stroyed by fire. Four hundred house
~ were burned and hundreds of peopl
!. are homeless. The famous shrin
=. was saved The fire was caused
In lightning.
~ -Four armed men held up the guard
:. who were conveying $4,000 frol
I'd WEIGH to Dairy, w. Va, to pay Q
- employees of the United States Coal
ID Coke company. There is no clue
10. the robbers, but a sheriff's posse
Z securing the country In the hope
S capturing them.
"Dr." w. W. Goelet, graduate
Columbia college and traveller, WI
was married to young society W
man of Oakland four months ago,
= in the Berkeley, Cal, city prise
81. charged with the burglary of eight re
- licences and apartment houses in Ga
NJ land and Berkeley.
n Secretary Straus of the departing
of commerce and labor has been rea
pointed for another term of six yea
as one of the American members
the permanent court of arbitration
The Hague. Secretary Straus W
appointed after the death of the Ia
President Harrison.