Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-16
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A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Rawalpindi, India, July s, several
houses collapsing, but no lives were
lost.
Harry X. Thaw is again trying for
release from the asylum, and declares
he has high hopes of securing his
freedom.
Heavy rains in Mexico the past
week have caused damage to the rail-
roads of at least three quarters of a
million dollars.
The state suprem court has handed
down decision UNFOLDING the valid
ity of the Colorado local option law,
passed two years ago.
An epidemic of typhus fever is rag
ing at Monterey, Mexico, and scores
OF people are dying, the death list
among the poor class being very
heavy.
The long expected coal strike at
Sydney, G. B., is on, three thousand
men having refused to enter the pits,
out at least that number remaining
at work.
The German and Austrian railroad
authorities have informed Russia that
they are about to take steps to insti.
tute quarantine on the frontier
against cholera.
James Corcoran, of Lowell, Mass,
aged % years, an aeronaut, was killed
by falling 200 feet from a parachute
during the Fourth of July celebration
at Portland, Maine
During a celebration in Reservoir
park, at Camden N. j., cannon ex.
ploded, piece of which killed Mrs.
Trina Hebel and her six weeks old in
FAINT and fatally injured two boys.
Seventeen inspectors and four rev.
enue agents on the denatured alcohol
rolls of the internal revenue depart
ment have been dismissed because
their services are no longer needed.
The trial of d. w. Woods, Fred
Torgensen, James Gordon and Jack
Shelton. charged with the Union Pa
cific mail robbery at Omaha. on May
%, has been postponed until Septem-
Der 20.
Working the combination of the
safe in the offices of the Los Angeles
Pacific railway, at Los Angeles, a
thief, believed by officers of the COM
pany to be an employee, procured
$S,7O0 in gold and currency.
Miss Isola Kennedy, of Morgan Hill
near San Jose, Cal, is in critical
condition from injuries inflicted by a
mountain lion. Miss Kennedy was
taking an outing with two young men
when the animal sprang upon her.
Verne Yohn, an amateur aeronaut
Of Chicago, fell nearly a Thousand
feet under his Debated balloon, at a
celebration at Waukegan. Bott
wrists and ankles were broken and his
back was injured. but he will recover
George A. Pollock, assistant com
missioner of the general land office
during the Roosevelt administration
| widely known in the west and north
west, particularly in the forestry ant
land services, died at his home a
Boyds, Md, July 6.
Ambassador Reid has been in
formed that the fifth cruiser squadroi
of the fifth British naval arm, consist
Ing of four ships, has been designatet
to attend the Hudson Fulton celebra
ton, to be held in New York, Angus
10 to October next.
Mrc Nj ac.,uohar uyho 1yaarr
boarding house at a mining camp nea
New Idria, In the southern part c
San Benito county, California, an
her four children, were burned t
death as the result of an alleged il
cendiary fire last week.
In the Fourth of July cowboy tou
nament at Nogales, Sonora, tn
worlds record for throwing and tyin
wild steer was broken by Ed Hal
of Mutt, N. NJ, who performed tn
feat in 81 seconds fat The previou
record was 81 1-5 seconds.
The mysterious shooting of Mr.
Lorena de la Montanya, in her apaT
I ment in San Francisco, last Frids
! night, which the police at first though
to have been suicide, is said by pa
ties present at the time to have bee
case of accidental shooting.
Ira w. Lamunyon, aged 81, the on
surviving member of the Massach
3 sets convention held in Jackso
= Mich, July 6. 1854, at which the R
J publican party was organized, died |
Denver, Colo, July Z, at the home (
his daughter. Mrs. Michael Doyle.
. Frank Cecil Hopkins, the 12-yea
I old boy OF Modesto, Cal, who recent
shot and killed his baby brother an
= then buried the body in pig pc
has been sent to the reform schoc
The boy will be confined in the inst
tuition until he reaches his majorit
. The American Sugar & RefiniI
i company, in the United States Circu
i court In New York City, on July
, entered pleas of not guilty to the
: dictments recently found against it
r corporation, charging conspira,
, and combinat1On in restraint OF trad