Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-23
NEWS SUNNI R Y

president of Venezuela, mas .Deen re-
fused admittance into Venezuela.
The cabinet has decided definitely
that the Spanish fleet shall be recon
structed. The work will be entrusted
| to British firms.
Advices from various north and east
Texas points are to the effect that
heavy frost April IL seriously damaged
the fruit and corn crops.
Rev. C. w. Eldredge of Cincinnati,
while delivering a speech in favor of
the dry at Adelphi, small town in
Ohio, was given shower of rotten
eggs.
Richard Stedman, a deputy warden
in the Alberta penitentiary at Ed
monitor, Alberta, was killed by con-
vict, who struck Stedman on the head
with an ak.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company has asked the Kan
sas railroad commission to allow the
road to issue seventy-three million
dollars worth of common stock.
Charles Dewes and Moses Lantz
were blown to atoms when the nitro
glycerine factory of the Independent
Torpedo company at Gordon, Ills,
was destroyed by an explosion.
An investigation conducted by the
Des Moines Qowa) Tubercular asso
citation has resulted in the discovery
that six out of every ten children ex
amined are infected with tuberculosis
President Taft has instructed Di-
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disregard party lines in securing suit
able men for supervisors and other
appointive places under the new cen
Sus act.
John Bullette, a wealthy Indian
landowner, widely known throughout
Oklahoma, Texas, and old Mexico,
was assassinated while sitting at his
desk in his office at Claremore, Okla
homa.
Colonel Moses Gibson, who served
in the confederate army during the
campaign in Virginia, committed sui
eide at Louisville, KY, by drowning
in bathtub, after slashing his wrists
with a razor
That a combination Of silk indus
tries in southern France, representing
SIC, 100000 of capital, will transfer its
plants to this country, is stated by
Jean Duplan, head of a large silk dye
:. works at Hazleton, Pa.
During March, 4,7S3 settlers from
Ethe United States entered Canada al
] North Portal, on the 500 line, with 72(
cars of effects. During the year end
, ing March 81, the total was 1909 set
tiers and 1859 cars of effects.
Mrs. Blanche O'Neill, once a we'll
known opera singer, is in Provi
: dence, R. l., hospital under treatmen
for illness said to be due to hunge
and exposure. The woman has beer
living in poverty for several years.
A vacancy as chaplain in the nav.
will be filled by the appointment of ;
:. minister of the Methodist Episcopa
) church, and Secretary Meyer will
t ask the board of bishops soon to NEE
in Richmond to nominate candidate
Stanley Ketchel. who has beef
matched to fight Jack Johnson for tn,
heavyweight championship of thu
4 world, will fight the breach of prom
, Use case brought against him by Mis-
Elizabeth Houman of Grand Rapids
: Mich.
: Seven young farmers from the tow
of York, Mimi, were lodged in Jail las
= week. charged with trying TO black
! mail DR.. d. Beckman out of $4,000, tn
4 alternative being the burning of tn
q Beckman residence and the l1idnapin
|, of his son.
b While attempting to cross the Pa
/. eific Electric tracks near Pasadena
Y Cal, in an automobile, Mr. and Mrs
r H. B. Hoffman of Pasadena were in
iured in a collision with car. Mrs
Hoffman died fifteen minutes afte
The accident.
u The Japanese government Is negC
tiating with an American builder O
submarine boats for the purchase O
plans and specifications for ney
type of submarine of smaller mode
than the type now in common use, bu
of double speed.
The strike OF coal miners at tn
:. Port Hood, N S., mines ended frui
"a less1y last week, $50 miners who ha
= been out for several weeks returnin
= to work under conditions which wer
G. practically the same as those existin
= previous to the strike.
= Steps have been taken to haste
d final adjudication by the Kentuck
: court of appeals of the test case t
,s determine the status of the Latoni
a Jockey club. A decision by that bod
= Is expected before the opening da
:, of the Latonia spring meeting, Ma
" rs.
- =. John Craig was killed In his HON
:" at Roaring Fork, Va, and his tw
sons. aPtrick and Arthur, aged 9 an
II, respectively, were arreste
IT. charged with the crime 1t is sal
D Craig had been brutally treating th
~ boys and that while he was aslee
W they shot him.
Marian Grey, the youthful matr