Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-03-12
NEW s SUMMARY

The salary OF the president has been
definitely fixed at $4,000 per annum,
without any additional allowance for
travelling expenses.
Miss Belle Hagner, social secretary
to Mrs. Roosevelt, has been trans
ferred to position in the bureau OF
trade relations of the state depart
ment.
A number OF the women of Column
bus. Ind. have been circulating a pc
tition asking Mrs. Taft not to permit
the serving of wine at White House
dinners.
The bill prohibiting free lunches in
saloons was killed in the Wisconsin
assembly, and the bill prohibiting
treating in saloons was refused en-
grossment.
The New York suffragettes have or
ganized a crusade for the furthering
OF their propaganda among the news
Taper men who work on the morning
publications.
| W. H. Tilford, one of the vice-presi-
l.dents of the Standard Oil company,
died at his home in New York City,
March 2. Mr.. Tilford was a former
treasurer of the corporation.
When Charles Williams, a beggar,
was locked up by the police OF Chi
cago, he, confessed that he had reach
ed such a stage of thirst for whiskey
that he had pawned his artificial leg
for S..
While being shaved. in Bromley,
KY, Joseph Stolzer jumped from the
barber chair, grabbed razor, and, be
fore anyone could interfere, cut his
throat from ear to ear, dying almost
Immediately
GUY Razor was found guilty of man
slaughter at Medina, o., by the jury
trying him for the murder of his
sweetheart, Orie Lee, October 8. The
penalty is from one to twenty years
in the penitentiary.
Miss Fannie Hageldant, aged 40,
was found dead with bullet hole in
her head at her home near Columbus,
Ohio. The body was tightly wound
about with bed-clothing. The house
had been ransacked.
Mrs. Peter Derenbrecher of San
Diego, Cal, was fatally burned in the
explosion of a gasoline stove. she
was in her room preparing. breakfast
when the gasoline stove exploded. en-
veloping her body in flames.
The annual report of the Pennsyl
yania Railway company for 1908, made
l,ublic last week, shows a decrease in
gross earnings compared with the pre-
ceding year of $52,446.722, and de
crease in net earnings q $7,436,297.
The anti-cigarette bill was passed il
the house of the Missouri Legislature
last week. The bill prohibits the man
ufacture, sale or giving away of cigar
cites, cigarette papers or wrappers
The penalty is a fine of from $40 u
$500.
DR.. G. C. Threckmorton, aged 81
years, of Piqua, O., has beaten the mil
itary ride of President Roosevelt o
ninety-six miles military gait when hi
rode three horses on the relays IL
miles in thirteen hours and forty-fiv'
minutes
! Returns just completed by the for
eign office at Toxic show that between
, June and December, 1908, 1854 jar
anese left the empire bound for tn
United States, while $500 returne,
from the United States during tn
same period.
A conference of prohibitionists O
}, lie New England states was held i
}, Boston last week, the meeting bein
{ called for the purpose of discussin
llans for an active campaign, to b
waged by the party from now on t
;, the presidential campaign of 1912.
. Mystery surrounds the killing c
v Mrs. Jerome Hoover, wife of an A
Gibson, Kans.. tanner, who was foun
;. dead at her home. Thursday the Ill
q dertaker discovered a small woun
behind the right ear. The woun
> was probed and bullet taken frol
II.
Permanent headquarters for tn
d National League of Republican club
v, of which John Hays Hammond
d president will be established
IS Washington in the near future, in o
der to keep the $500 clubs and 200
v 900 members active throughout III
year.
70 What to do with our vice-president
1t is a question which has been solve
10 by at least one of them for himsel
f. Adlai E. Stevenson according to
h Chicago dispatch will retire from b
IT law business and his coal mining
g establish the La Sale Extension III
n. versity.
Two foreign mine workers We
KILLED, another is missing and abo
twelve were badly burned by an e
! l.losion Of gas in colliery of the Err
q Coal company at Port Blanchard, P
- Fire followed the explosion, and six
- miners were entombed back of Il
se FIRE for several hours.
Upon the recommendation of Seer
tary Newberry, the president has I
as duced the sentence of Lieutena
a. frank T Evans, son of Robley D.
ono m n loss of fifty numbers and