Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-16
NEWS SUMMARY

successful night Oh IWelNe HootS
alton one day last week
Three men were killed when lou
quarts of nitroglycerin explode" In
construction camp at Blus sulphur
w. va.
A violent earthquake occurred Sat
urday near Sundsvall, Sweden. II
lasted nearly minute, and, accord
ing to reports, did considerable dam
age.
Wool growers OF Mexico have re-
duced considerably their shipments
of wool to the United States because
Of the duty. Most of the product is
going to London.
A 3OO-ton, schooner for the north
pole expedition under Walter We'll
man was launched at Christensen
Norway, last week. 1t Will be taken
to Spitzbergen in May.
The date for the trial OF the Star
company, publishers of the New YORK
| American, charged with criminal libel
against John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has
been set for April 20.
Tom" an elephant in circus at
Des Moines, Iowa, ran amuck, and,
| selling his keeper, Charles BelleW,
/ hurled him high in the air and when
| he fell trampled him to death
The Illinois Central Flyer struck
and instantly killed Anna, Mabel and
Ruby, aged Z, s and IA, respectively,
daughters of Fred Folder, four miles
west of Dubuque, Iowa, Sunday morn
ing.
By a majority of 11,463, Frederick
Kriesmann, Republican, was elected
mayor of st. Louis. He received 3D.
SIG votes and his Democratic oppo-
nent, William G. Woerner, 48,35S
votes.
Thirteen school boys were drowned
near Ramnetz Russia, as result OF
The floods They were on bridge
over the Morritch river at the village
# Orinina when the structure col
apsed.
Governor Shallenberger of Ne
braska has signed the daylight sa-
loon bill The measure forbids the
sale of liquor except between a. m.
and D. m. The bill goes into effect
July 6.
: The city council of Santa Fe, N. M,
by a vote of five to four, passed an
ordinance closing all saloons In tn
| city after December 81, 1909. In the
3 meantime the license fee for saloons
l will be doubled.
A dispatch from Pyatigorsk, a wat
. ering place in Sis-Caucasia, says the
governor OF the province has issued
orders that Jews be denied admission
to the health resorts in the Caucasus
during the coming season.
;. MIS-. Fanny Van Zandt, mother o
the Texas republic" died at For
: Worth, Texas, April 8, aged 81 years
: She was the widow of the late Isaac
{ Van Zandt, who signed the treaty be
Y tween the Texas republic and Mexico
y Former Queen Liluokalani of Ha
Al wall, otherwise Mrs. Lydia Dominis
Is must pay $11,60O to her court ply
10 sician," under a judgment rendere
IL BIZ Chief Justice Calbaugh of the 81
u preme court of the District of &c
lumbia.
Zoe Landi, a miner, has been al
rested at Hartshorne, Okla. charge
!" with being a member of the Blac
Hand organization and with trying t
extort 81 900 from J. H. Baker, vicC
~ president of the First State bank c
as Hartshorne.
With a possible prohibition battl
in prospect the Florida legislator
conS ened at Tallahassee, April 6. A
~ though the prohibition forces hav
waged vigorous campaign, their o.
ponents hope to block all dry" LEI
=. islation from the outset.
~ Anonymous blackmailers, who wrot
eff from DeIavan, Wis. have threatent
rs the lives of the mother and sister
It's 10-year-old Harold Moon, whse boz
ed was found in pond at Flint, Micl
IS. unless L. N. Moon, the boys fathe
turns over $4,000 to them.
Sergeant Lima, who betrayed b
CO comrades involved in the revolutio
airy uprising of January, 1908, wh'
~. King Carlos and the crown prince
Portugal were assassinated, W
stabbed to death in Lisbon, April
NY The act was one of revenge
to1 Just as Mrs. George CULVER
Osage Ia, had started search
her aged mother, she was Mortified
of see her plunging to the ground frc
for fifty-foot windmill to her deaf
it Mrs. J.. Pierce was rs years old al
1ad been i'll several months.
The British steamer Mabritta, FRI
Calcutta for London, which we
ashore on Goodwin sands has brok
shI- In two and been abandoned. The p
sengers were landed soon after
49,, vessel struck, and all the crew VIZ
rescued. The loss is estimated at
:. 100000.
The general land Office holds that
order to enable the heirs of hor
stead entryman to submit commu
ion proof of his entry, they mi
Nd show both residence on and cult
9th ion of the land for fourteen mon
pain by the entryman or heirs, or par
by both.
While playing wild west" with
az companions, at Linton, Ind, Cliff
lOL MLolfnrd TX years old was shnt