Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-05-28
NEW s ST. M NJ A RY

The third federal grand jury called
to investigate the Muskogee town lot
frauds has been completed.
The town of Alger, O., has been al
most entirely wiped out by fire. George
Phillips, a fireman, was killed.
In a clash between union and non
union seamen at foledo, o.. FRANK
Hoffman, fireman, was shot in the
head.
Bank robbers secured $4,000 from
the Cairo (Neb) state bank, demon
ishing the safe and building by three
explosions.
The four children of Ernest Old
field of Toronto, Ont, were burned
to death as the result of the explosion
of lamp in their home.
1t is announced that Mrs. William
e. Annis, wife of the man for whose
death Captain Peter c. Hams is now
serving sentence in Sing Sing, is to
go on the vaudeville stage.
Western Texas and southern Okla
homa were swept by a severe wind
and rain STERN May IS, that did much
damage to growing crops and houses.
0ctavius Dodge of Bonham was killed
by lightning.
The local option bill, giving cities
and villages the right to vote on the
saloon question regardless of the
township vote under the present law,
was passed by the Illinois mousse W
vote of 7S to TO-
Climbing merrily to the top of
steel light tower IN San Diego, Cal,
15-year old Earl Weston came in con
tact with an uninsulated electric tight
wire and was knocked to the ground,
dying four minutes later.
me Nor his PROMPTED the PR
due ion in London of George Bernard
| nav new pla.', TIE Showing ut
of Elanco Posnol." The play was Oh
| theological subject and WIS in adj
yanced rehearsal for an early prodac-
ton.
A report received from st. Anne
des Monies, twenty-five miles east of
Quebec says that while party was
crossing the river at that point the
boat upset and fifteen persons were
thrown into the water Five were
drowned.
Adeline Hawkins, a negro woman,
was frightened to death at Foroche,
La, by powerful searchlight of the
battleship Mississippi on it's way up
the river to Natchez. ITS de judg-
ment light she screamed, and then
fell dead
There are still 100 Armenians in
prison in Adana, according to re-
cent dispatch, and many of them are
in chains. Christians alone are being
punished for the recent outrages, and
it is apparent that those really guilty
are immune.
Ex-Warden A. N. Armstrong of the
Michigan state prison, has made an
affidavit that Mi TIN A. Daly OF Chic A.
go paid him $1,000 for helping get a
lot of second hand machinery accept
ed In the state binder Irvine plant as
new material.
Secretary Ballinger has decided to
create a bureau of colonization in
connection with the reclamation ser
vice to take charge of immigration
to lands as they are opened to set
eminent projects.
The wife of Fay Irish of Thorp
Clark county, Wisconsin, has given
birth to five babies, three daughters
and two sons. All are alive and well
There are now ten children in the
family The other five were borr
singly and all are living.
Limitation of armament and the per
manent establishment - peao'
throughout the world by arbitration o
international disputes is the purpose
of the Mohonk Lake conference OF
international arbitration, which openet
at Mohonk. N. X, May 10.
The incubator forcing process faile
tragically at Los Angeles, when Rieh
ar. -. aEaln. one of the city's mos
promising young inventors, tried 1t o.
v tvo-m enths old Daby. The cor
blew out of the hot water bottle an
the babe was fatally scalded.
All of the officers and men of tn
United States army who served
Cuba during the period of pacifici
ton, from October 6, 1906, to April
1903. will receive from the govern
ment service medals with ribbons
recognition of that service.
Miss Helen Taft. daughter of I'll
president. has accepted an invitatio
to unveil the monument erected
n Gettysburg, Pa, in memory of I'll
D soldiers of the regular union arm
\ who participated in the Gettysbnl
v campaign. The ceremony will tai
place May 81.
a. Nord Alexis, deposed president
A. Hayti, will come to Peru, Ind, for
y visit, as the guest of James Turne
u colored. Turner and Nord Alexis hay
d landed in New York from the We
t. Indies Turner is wealthy, and hi
70 invited the ex-president to spend Il
(. summer with MN.
F. w. Lurvey, ranchman, W;
= struck by lightning at Grand Jun
: ton, Colo, dur ng cloudburst of e
ceptional violence. The physician
declare that the fact that he was II
a Instantly killed is due to his raj
oIatbfnal ttrbioh conducted II