Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-11-06
NEW S SUMMARY

ers at Bolton, Texas, totally destroyed
the Bolton compress and 10000 bales
of cotton. Loss $250.000.
George Obach, a well known Ger
man butcher, shot and fatally wound
ed his wife at Bridgewood Heights, L.
D.. and then killed himself No cause
is known.
Cadet G. Cooke Ferde of Norfolk,
Va. is dead from conclusion of the
brain due to an injury in game Of
football between Virginia Military in
stitute and Roanoke college.
Three firemen were hurt in fire in
San Francisco which destroyed the
warehouse of the American Can COM
pany, badly damaged the plant itself
end caused loss Of 100000.
At Sac City, Iowa, Will H. Pettis,
former county treasurer, pleaded gull
ty to embezzling $4,000 of the funds
Of the county and was sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary.
Caught in a chicken-coop in Los An
geles, Casper Benson, a peddler, was
injured by small-sized mob that
made the capture. Only the timely ar
rival of the police saved Benson from
being lynched.
BY the blowing up of the magazine
of the Hammond Mining company at
Gadsen, Ala, property damage to the
amount of $4,000 was caused. Thus far
one death has resulted, that of Henry
Kiel, a foundryman.
T. G. Jones, aged so years, a promi-
nent merchant at Holland, Va, was
shot from ambush in his own yard
late at night and died the next morn
ing. Jones was to have given testi-
mony in a contested will case.
The assignment Of Brigadier Cen
eral Frederick A. Smith to command
the department of California, it is
said at the war department, may be
only temporary A general rearrange-
ment of army commands is contem-
plated.
Grafton Starbuck, aged AZ, a miller
Of Gauley Bridge, w. Va, was shot
and instantly killed as he was leaving
his home by an unknown assassin.
MIR. Starbuck was active in the recent
fight against saloons in Fayette
county
An admission that the Standard Oil
company benefited from a preferential
freight rate lower than that quoted
to any other shipper was drawn from
witness at the hearing in New York
of the government suit to dissolve the
company.
Deputy Marshal McAfee and w. E..
Bass of Sherman, Texas, who arrest
ed William Hatfield, the Durham sus-
pect, and accompanied him to San
Jose, Cal, have departed for Texas.
Their last words were: Hatfield is
Durham"
What is described there as "gas
explosion" occurred at the royal pal
ace at Oporto, Portugal. General
Cibrao and three other persons suf-
fered injuries. The palace was being
prepared for the coming of King Man
uel on November 5.
Ward building B, of the state GUS
todian asylum for feeble-minded wo.
men at Rome, N. Y, was burned last
week All the sick and helpless were
safely removed 1t will cost 100000
to replace the burned structure and
$4,000 to furnish it.
Wreckage picked up in the North
sea confirms the fears that the Var
mouth foundered while crossing from
the Hook of Holland to Harwich. The
Yarmouth was a channel freighter
and carried crew of twenty-four men,
all of whom persisted.
1t is rumored that BATTLE between
Papago and Yaqui Indians has taken
place at Altar, Sonora, and that forty
Yaquis were killed. According to re
port, the Mexican government armed
the Papagos, who lured the Yaquis
into ambush and slaughtered them.
According to newspapers received
from Venezuela, there is already or
foot in that republic on the part Of
the government party a movement Il
bring about the election OF Presiden
Castro for another term of Office il
1911, when his present term expires
1t is reported from Turin that Dow
sger Queen Marguerite remains i'm
movable in her attitude of opposition
TO the marriage of the Duke o
Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins
but the duke has declared he vii
have his own way in spite of opposi
ton.
Riotous acts followed the loss o.
September 80 of the steamer STAN
houl, plying between Smyrna and tn
suburban town of Cordelio, Turkey, II
which large number of lives wert
lost Three piers v I destroyed b.
fire before the mob was gotten unde
control.
Union county, Tennessee, agail
voted for prohibition by about 800 ma
jority out of 800 votes cast. Durin
the past three years of prohibition tn
arrests for drunkenness decreased
per cent and property valuations il
the county are said to have increase
$2,000.000
P. Shelly Organ, member of tn