Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-01
NEW s SUMMARY

Secretary Root has signed treaty
with Minister Mejia of Salvador pro-
viding for the arbitration Of disputed
questions which may arise with that
country.
Patrick Sullivan last week found
$4,000 bill in the bottom of an old
tomato can which he picked up in an
alley In the residence part of East
st. Louis, ILL.,
Practically the entire. business sec
tion Of Ravia. Okla, a town of 1900
Inhabitants. was wiped out by fire on
Christmas day, the loss aggregating
about $4,000.
The German government resents
statements attributed to the Amer
ican press that 1t has shown an un.
duly friendly attitude toward Presi-
dent Castro.
A battle betkeen striking miners
end five United States marshals took
place at Stearns. KY, coal mining
town, on Christmas day, and resulted
in the death of two men and the
wounding of several others.
Pushed by crowds OF Christmas
choppers. Elmer A. Birdseye. the T.
year-old son OF George Birdseye,
wholesale grocer of Seattle, Wash,
was crushed to death in an elevator
of the Boston store, in Chicago.
According to news from reliable
source from Hermosillo, capital Of
the state Of Sonora, a mysterious dis.
case is killing many people there.
The inhabitants are terror-stricken
and are leaving as fast as possible.
C. r. Moore, young planter, and
w. T. Smith, a well to do middle
aged neighbor, are dead and Smiths
only son is in jail at Bishopville,- s.
c., charged with murder as the re-
suit of fight, brewing out Of an old
feud.
Spanish exiles in southwestern
France are said to be cooperating
with the revolutionary leaders OF
Spain and Portugal in an effort to
consolidate the entire southwestern
European peninsula into single re-
public.
Man catching by frivolous wo-
men was depIored in sermon by
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf at Kene-
seth Israel temple, Philadelphia.
This, he declared, was responsible
for a good portion of American d.
vorces.
After celebrating eighteen hours,
the jury in the case of Harvey Hazel,
the seventeen-year-old boy charged
with murder in the first degree for
killing his mother at Toledo, O., re-
turned verdict Of murder In the sec
ond degree.
An explosion OF hot water heater
In the stables Of the Montana cab and
messenger service, in Seattle, fatally
injured L, Carroll, a stableman, and
wrecked the corner of the building
hurting pieces OF metal more than q
hundred yards.
A mail coach loaded with Christ.
mas presents was burned, five mail
clerks barely escaped with their lives
while one was injured in jumping to
safety, and an engine was overturned
when two trains collided in the west
side of Chicago.
Mollie Hillman, who for fifty years
up to 1880, appeared all over this
country and Europe as one OF the
foremost circus performers, died las
week in the poor house at Greenfield
Pa, aged 80 years. She was a ia
nous eQnestrienne.
van Dwight Sheldon of Lockport
N. Y, aged 10, student In the schoo
of engineering at New York univer
sity, lost his life in battle with {
burglar in the cellar OF the home o
Dean Snow, of the school of engineer
ing, in New York City.
One man was killed, two injured
and 1--WE others were plunged int
Cheat river, near Uniontown, Pa
and rescued with difficulty when
portion OF the false work under
new county bridge slid into the river
carrying eight workmen.
The Illinois Manufacturers assc
citation has addressed to all transcor
tinental roads vigorous protes
against the increase in all transcont
mental freight rates applying betwee
points east of the Missouri river an
the Pacific coast on and after Jan,
airy IL.
In a revolver duel at Cripple Creel
Colo, Arthur J. Lake was Instant
killed and Tony Cuaz was she
through the right eye and is in a s.
rious condition Frank Taylor. b
lieved by the police to have fired tn
shot that wounded Cuaz, is bein
sought for.
The United States navy stands Sc
ond among those of the great worl
powers, according to the navy yes
book prepared by P. L. Pullsife
clerk to the senate navy committe
Germany follows third, while Franc
has dropped to fourth place, and ]
pan Is fifth.
While helping her mother decoraf
a Christmas tree in Chicago, Pea
y a.1-. o x,oo..F a1d nsaIxad - -