Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-15
NEWS SUMMARY

ing 100000.
Alonzo E. Horton, founder of San |
Diego, Cal, and its oldest inhabitant. |
is dead, aged IS years, as result of |
infirmities incident to old age.
Philip Brushart, said to be the old
est man in Michigan, died at Jackson
last week, aged 104 years. His father
fought in the battle of Waterloo.
The Baldwin and Colonial theatres
in Springfield, Mo, have been de.
stroyed by fire as the result of a gas
explosion, causing loss of 100000.
The macaroni wheat trade with
Sicily has been ruined by the earth
quake. Messina was one of the big
gest durum wheat markets of the old
world.
Fire destroyed the home of Joseph
Kohl, near Dickinson, N. d. Three
young girls alone in the house were
burned to death and a fourth was
fatally burned
When the monitor Cheyenne steamed
out of the harbor at San Francisco on
January A, an oil burning warship
went to sea for the first time in the
history of the navy.
Julian Burns, wealthy Italian of
New Castle, Pa, is probably a vic
time of the Messina earthquake. He
arrived at Messina Christmas day for
the purpose Of getting married.
fast passenger train ran into an
open switch at Caperon, W. Va, kill
ing the engineer and fireman, the en-
CINE and four cars being ditched, none
of the passengers being seriously hurt
While attempting to arrest Arizona
Jack" Elton, a miner and cowboy from
Imperial valley. Deputy Constable
Charles De Manville was shot and
killed at Newhall, Cal. Elton made
his escape.
The stockholders of the American
Telephone &c Telegraph company, at
a meeting in New York City, author
lied an increase in the capital stock
Of the company from $3.50 100000 to
$500, 900, 600
Colonel Zavarnitsky, chief of the Sc
scret police at Vladivostok, has been
sentenced to. four years penal servi-
tude and the loss of his military rights
on the charge of having manufactured
evidence in political cases.
A tornado near Mineola, Texas.
swept bare a section five miles long,
wrecking the homes of L. c. Johnson,
H. e. Bryant and ]. E. Burkhead. So
far as known no one was killed, but
several persons were injured.
The emperor of Korea, accompanied
by Marquis Ito of Japan and his min.
listers, has left Seoul for tour of the
empire, it being his purpose to inves-
tigate conditions. This is the first
trip of a Korean ruler to the interior
of the empire.
A dispatch received in st. Peters.
burg from Rome says mat NJ Petroff,
a prominent Russian basso, and two
Italian singers, Signores Catani and
Cambi, tenors, persisted at Messina.
These artists all appeared last winter
in st. Petersburg
An explosion which shook houses
and shattered windows five miles dis.
tant, occurred at Woodriver, ILL.,, when
a tank of oil of 100000 gallons capa-
city caught fire. Henry Johnson,
Waterman, was caught by the flaming
oil and burned to death.
Phillip Berkis, wealthy merchant
of San Francisco, reported to the pc
lice of Chicago that he had been rob
bed of purse containing $4,000 while
sleeping at the home of Jacob Bickow
Bickow was arrested, but denied all
knowledge of the alleged theft.
The entire western coast of Mex
leo was shaken by an earthquake
! January 8, which was most severely
felt at Acapulco, in the state of
Guerrero. and at Oaxaca, in the state
of the same name. The damage was
trivial and no fatalities have been
reported.
Nah Hong, Chinaman, was hanged
at Macleod, Canada, by Radcliffe, Can.
ada's official hangman. The Chinaman
went to the gallows with the custo
mary racial stoicism. Nah Hong shot
his partner, Nah Ling. The latter had
collected money for the firm and LOST
it gambling.
The Asiatic squadron. commanded
by Rear Admiral Giles B. Harbor. has
returned to Manila from a cruise
through the southern islands of the
Philippine group. The fleet officers re
port enthusiastic receptions to the
ships at the various ports at which
they stopped
In a pitched battle near Mesa
GRANGE, Cal, between a gang of cat
tie rustlers and members of the vigi
lante committee, four rustlers were
killed and one vigilante seriousl!
wounded. The other rustlers fee
! across the border line into Mexico at
ter the fight.
1t is estimated by those interested
. that 100000 of the little red cross
! Christmas stamps which were ISSUED
q to aid the tuberculosis crusade wer'
q sold in New York alone during thu