Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-19
NEWS SUNNI RY

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coed P. c. Knox.
Grieving over the death of his dog.
MARITIME Aororio, retired chef, at
tempted to commit suicide in the city
hall at Oakland by biting himself to
death.
Lumbermen of Arizona, New Mex
leo and West Texas met at Ell Paso,
Texas, last week in secret session. 1t
is believed the schedule of prices is
to be boosted.
Ruth Bryan Leavitt, eldest daugh~
ter of William ]. Bryan, has been
granted a divorce from w. H. Leavitt.
Mrs. Leavitt was granted the custody
of the two children.
Mrs. Lew Crist of Chicago shot and
killed her 14-year-old boy and then
killed herself at Rushville, Ind. The
tragedy occurred at the home OF
friend she was visiting.
The police of Oakland, CAL, have
uncovered plot which they claim
has revealed a modern "Fagin," who
has Systematically trained a young
boy to rob his employer.
plans for an extension of the rapid
transit system of New York City, to
cost about $5O,OOO,OOO are being pre-
pared by engineers Of the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit company.
Thirty or more lives were lost, six
ty people were injured and property
worth one million dollars was de-
stroyed as a result OF the tornado
that wrecked the town of Brinkley,
Ark.
The first death from cholera of an
American in the Philippines for some
months was reported to the bureau OF
insular affairs last week, the victim
being Joseph L. Larmour, civil en-
gineer of Baltimore, Nd.
The National Horse Show associa-
| ton of America, in session in New
| York City, adopted resolutions pledg-
ing itself to hold a horse show in
! 1909. This disposes of all rumors
that the horse show was to be aban-
| doned.
J. ]. Mack is dead, Avery Bernstein
| is in the hospital with bullet over
his heart, Policeman Robbins is seri-
ously wounded and Detective j. e.
Stowe is slightly injured as the result
of shooting affray in San Antonio,
Texas.
The wife of a Havana cigarmaker,
already the mother of fourteen chill
dren, gave birth to bankruptcies, two
boys and two girls. President Gomez
cent his congratulations to the
mother as woman deserving well OF
the republic.
Don Luis Proto, a millionaire ranch
owner, merchant and pioneer Of the
instantly killed near Devisaderos sta
ton, ON the Nogales-C ananea railroad
while on the way to his ranch east Of
Magdalena, Arizona.
The Kansas senate has adopted the
report of the railroad committee on
-e 2-cent fare bill. The recommends
ton OF the committee was that the
bill be not passed. This ends the 2
cent fare legislation in the Kansas
legislature at this session.
Urey Jones, on trial at Muscatine
Iowa. for the murder of Mr. and Mrs
Vanwinkle, committed suicide in the
county jail by hanging himself witt
his bedclothes. Jones was to have
taken the stand in his own defense
on the day that he suicided.
John Goodwin, prominent Repub
, lican politician of Wilmington, Della
convicted of offering a money brib'
to q voter at the last election, wal
sentenced to a fine of $500 and twt
, years in prison Goodwin took an az
peal and was released on $4,000 bail
) After a seven-year hunt the Chicag
: police declare that the murderer O
! Policeman Patrick II. Duffy has bee
{ found. Vincent Briscoe, alias Brittor
q who is serving a sentence for rof
berry in the San Quentin penitentiar
:, in California, is thought to be tn
:. man.
. The court of appeals has affirme
:, the Judgment of the lower court /
the case of Dominador Gomez, the M'
: Mia labor leader convicted some tim
:. ago of having written a threatenin
:. letter during the strike of the launch
men, but reduced his Imprisonment
four months.
The spectacle of horse riding |
an automobile was witnessed on tn
streets of Oakland last week. TIL
) horse, which was attached to a ligf
: delivery wagon ran away and jumpe
: into a passing automobile and rod
for almost block before the machin
: was stopped,
Edward p. Moxey, special nations
y bank examiner, whose work furnishe
the basis for the successful prosec
ton of Charles w Morse, is about
retire from government service, 1t
a announced, to take charge of the a
counting department of the Gugge
y helm interests.
y A fist fight at Knoxville, Tenn, b
IL tween ]. G. Miller, pastor of Zion L
y theran church, and Solomon McGal
le mon, a member of his flock, result'
&c in the arrest of several members
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