Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-30
NEWS SUMMARY

April %.
Four persons lost their lives and
five others were severely injured in a
fire that destroyed the Central hotel
in Topeka, Kans.
George Leavens Lilley. governor OF
died at the executive
in Hartford April 81, after
an illness of four weeks.
Owing to long drought in the far
western part of Texas. reports are
being sent out to the effect that hun
dre6s of cattle are dying on the
ranges.
After burning fourteen days, sweep
ing an area of 200 900 acres and caus- !
ing an estimated loss of $4,000, a
prairie fire was extinguished near
Pecos, Texas.
Judge lands in the United States
district court at Chicago, in the test
case against the Santa Fe railroad, IL
the nine-hour law governing tele-
graphers, upheld the law.
Six persons were killed, at least
fifty injured and a million dollars
worth of property destroyed in tor
nado that swept through Cleveland
and northern Ohio, April 81.
Last week 10000 persons were
killed In the anti-Christian rioting in
the Adana and Tarsus districts. En-
tire villages were RACED and the coun-
try is a smoking wilderness.
There were 1874 people killed and
1924 injured in train accidents dur
ing the three months ending Decem-
Der 81 last, according to the Inter
state commerce commission report
The Columbus (Ohio) Biscuit COM
pany has announced that 1t has de-
termined to close down its bread de-
partment indefinitely because of the
high price of flour due to the corner
| in wheat in Chicago.
Asa, son of Whoa, has been elected
chief of the Apache Indians, to sue
coed Geronimo, the noted warrior.
who died last February. The cleo
| ton will be submitted to the war de.
| .partment for approval
/ The Waters-Pierce Oil company on
April "a paid probably the largest
fine ever paid by a corporation, nearly
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litigation of the state of Texas
sgainst the oil company.
A dozen persons were Injured ct
Centerville, Iowa, by the explosion OF
film In moving picture show. The
auditorium was crowded. Women
threw their children from the win
dows, many being badly bruised.
In a riot at the state inebriate asy'
lum at Knoxville, Iowa, six inmates
and three attendants we're injured
Twenty inmates were returning from
work in the fields when seven made
dash for liberty. A running t1ght
'ensued.
1t develops that Mrs. Boyle, the
supposed wife of James H. Boyle, al
legged abductor of Willie Whitla, ii
Helen McDermott of Chicago, and re
ports that she is a member of a prom
-inent and wealthy family are withou
foundation.
The expenditure of 1920, 900 OF
the canal zone during the month 0
January has brought the total expen
diture on the zone toward the con
struction of the canal, civil admins
tration, sanitation and plant building
to $93,915.000.
A severe eruption of the Colima vol
cano, in Mexico, followed by an earth
quake shock. has spread terror an
) confusion among the inhabitants @
= nearby towns, a number of whom de
t serted their homes and fed to point
outside the affected zone.
Colonel Gustave Pabst, while dirk
ing in an automobile in Milwaukee
ran down and killed Lille Winklel
a 14-year-old girl. The accident OF
|. Cured just as the girl alighted fror
: a street car and walked in front c
y the rapidly moving automobile.
'Tf the country knew the truth r,
garding the present condition OF tn
navy there would be panic,' is tn
striking sentence in letter from A
r miral Lord Charles Beresford read |
a meeting OF the Navy league held
e Bournmouth, England, last week.
Heirs of Uncle Jonathan Dea
who in 1870 died and left his 81
acre farm near Petersburg, Ind,
J. be operated for the benefit of a
n. widows within a radius of eight mile
q win try to break the WILL now tn
productive OF! wells have been bort
= on the land.
1t In full view of dozens of horrifi,
1t passengers, who were looking out
the car windows, Miss Matte Co
way, a young and pretty telephol
girl of Frankfort, KY. was ground
=. gu pieces by a Louisville & Nashyil
2 train from Louisville. The accide
happened on a curve.
II A telegram received at Vienna fro
~ Smyrna, Asiatic Turkey, declar
that Andre Kopassis Effendi, Prin
70 of Samos, has been murdered. Sam
N, is a Greek island on the west coz
of of Asia Minor. 1t pays an amt
tribute to Turkey and Turkey ma
tains a garrison there.
ne Secretary F. d. Coburn of the Sta
AN board of agriculture of Kansas, in
statement issued April 30, says til
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