Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-05-21
NEW s SUMMARY


A passenger train ran through an |
open bridge into Bull creek, near Ran |!
dolph, Mo-, and several tra'nmen are
missing.
A. P. Riddle, former lieutenant-gov-
srnor of Kansas, was killed near Sa-
lima, Kans., May IA, in an automobile
accident.
Fifteen families have been burned
out In the Rush lake, Saskatchewan
district, by prairie fires, two children
losing their lives and others being
badly burned.
Salvador Rizzo, fruit dealer, who
died suddenly at his home in Cincin-
natl, having received threatening let
tiers from the black hand" is belieFed
to have been poisoned.
A dispatch from Tangier says it is
reported from Megador that a party of
American tourists has been captured
by natives near Agadir, which is the
most southern part of Morocco.
Henry Goodale was fatally burned
and his son, Thomas, badly injured at
| st. Joseph, Mo-, by an explosion OF
| gas, caused by lightning during the
worst electrical storm of the year.
Rev. w. g. Barber, superintendent
| of the Iowa Anti-saloon league, an
nounces that the league has decided
to abandon the fight for the re-sub-
| mission of constitutional prohibition
in Iowa.
Ex.President Roosevelt, in the cur
rent number Of the Outlook, combats
the statement credited to Count Leo
Tolstoi that Bryan represented the
party of peace in the last presidential
campaign
While clearing a lot in Burnaby, a
suburb OF New Westminster, B. O.,
workmen found the body of woman
in an advanced stage Of decomposition,
death having occurred at least SIX
months ago.
Five persons, four girls and a
young man, members of party OF
eight, were drowned when a boat in
which they were attempting TO cross
the river at Hackensack, N. j., during
storm, capsized.
Fire accompanied by an explosion
|
Seaboard Air Line railway at Ports
mouth, Va, entailed a loss Of from
5000 900 to $25O,O00 and resulted il
the injury of four men.
Miss Clara Cooper, of Montaur
Iowa, was suddenly stricken blind OF
the eve of her departure for Iowa, at
! ter visit to friends in Redding, Ca
{ Miss Cooper had never had any pre-
vious trouble with her eyes.
George Hall, aged 81; R. H. Sweet
aged As; Sweets wife and four chill
4 dren were drowned in Chippewa rive
: at Eua Claire, Wis, when Halls case
: line launch capsized in midstrear
upon striking some sunken piling.
The mangled body of James Moore
a waiter of Butte, was found lynn
e beside the tracks of the Oregon Shor
is Line, several miles south of Silve
4 Bow. Moore is supposed to have fallel
from the southbound passenger trair
In an explosion on the quarter boa
No. 3 at Codjoes Key, about twent
IF miles from Key West, Fla, on tn
al Key West extension of the Florid
"a East Coast railway three men wer
instantly killed and twelve badly IL
~ jured.
le BY a vote of IA to 104, a resolutio
by Mr.. Garrett, of Tennessee, directin
= the speaker forthwith to appoint
committee on insular affairs to col
\ slider the presidents Porto Rican me
sage. was defeated in the house @
n May IL.
u A large rat in her hair saved ii
6 life of Mrs. Richard Frost in an aut
n mobile accident at Jackson, Mich. Mr.
Frost and her baby were both throw
from the machine when it collide
II with telephone pole. Mrs. Fro
II struck on her head.
iii julius Meyer, for many years
III prominent figure in business circl
III of Omaha, and president of the Me
III ropolitan club, committed suicide
II Hanscom Park, April 10, by shootin
ii Dependency on account OF Ill heal
ii is the supposed cause.
II The war department at Washingt
II has awarded to Amos Weaver, of DIV
ii kirk, Ind, a medal for conspicuo
II bravery in the Philippines. Weav
II on November 5, 1899, alone routed
III band of fifteen insurgents, kllihg 10
and wounding several others.
II Because his son-in-law, August 10
would not pillow a furrow the way
wanted it, Herman Rabner, wealt
farmer, living near Des Moines, 1oN
shot and killed the young man, a
II then burned his body. Rabner. "
was 20 years of age, then killed b
self.
I'll The Kochnische Zeitung semit
| cialIy announces that the Germ
banks will not deliver up deposits
the former sultan of Turkey, unless
voluntarily renounces them or
: court orders their delivery to the /
III resentatives of the new Turkish c
ernment
Rats gnawing at matches in sn
store at Maturana, Mexico. starte'
fire. The fire reached quantity