Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-05-07
NEWS SUMMARY

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by tornado in Gold Mo-, April 20.
Eighty-two saloons in Muncie, Ind,
are to be closed as the result of the
victory at the polls last week OF the
"drys"
Fourteen persons were injured, two
seriously, in a tornado at Knoxville,
Tenn, April 20. Many houses were
wrecked.
The woman's suffrage bill, which |
passed the Wisconsin senate some
time ago, was killed in the assembly |
last week.
Cipriano Castro, deposed president |
of Venezuela, announces he will wait |
in Paris the coming of his wife from |
the West indies.
Four workmen were killed by an |
explosion in the glycerine packing
house of the Potts Powder company
at Reynolds, Pa.
Beech Hargis was refused new
trial at Irvine, KY. and Judge Adams
directed that Hargis be taken to the
penitentiary at once.
A cyclone struck Horns Lake,
Miss, April 20, killing three white
men. Horns Lake is small town
Is miles below Memphis.
In fight caused by an election day
arrest at Talequah, Okla, John Taylor
was shot and killed by Peter Smith,
a special election policeman.
Heinrich Conreid, former director of
the Metropolitan Opera house in New
York, who suffered stroke of apo
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The German crop report for April
Is shows the condition of wheat and
rye to be considerably worse this year
than for the corresponding period OF
1908.
An explosion on the submarine boat
Foca at Naples killed seven men and
injured several The boat was sunk
at her dock to prevent further explo-
sions.
Furious because his sweetheart, Mo
desta Fuentes, refused to elope with
him without a wedding certificate, Pc
dro Secundino of Toluca, Texas, stab
bed her to death.
BY an official majority of 76S, Tip
pecanoe county, Indiana, last week
voted wet" in the county option cleo
ton. jefferson, Marlin and Washing
ton counties voted dry"
A verdict of guilty of criminal libel
was found against the publishers of
the New York American by the jruy
in the trial charging the publication
of an article libeling John D. Rookie
Teller.
Because she had not been included
in fishing trip, which her husband
had planned, Mrs. Anna Fry, aged "a,
of Los Angeles, placed pistol In her
mouth and fired shot which imme-
, diately ended her life.
Charles K Shu, probably the first
Chinaman to be made a justice of the
peace of this country. has been in
vested with that authority by the com
monwealth of Massachusetts. Shu is
a native of Seattle. Wash
bill has been introduced in the
Hawaiian legislature prohibiting WON
en- from wearing sailor blouses, mill
tary hats, hat pins made of military
or naval buttons warship ribbons, oil
j. other naval or military insignia.
Y Eleven men were killed and clever
a wounded as a result of the explosion
at Naples on board the Italian subma
rine Foca The American gunboa
Scorpion, although only ninety fee
r distant from the Foca, suffered nj
+ damage.
/, Charles Warren Fairbanks, forme
ice-president, has concluded through
is agents a deal for the purchase of
a, $4,000 residence in one of the fash
~ ionable districts of Pasadena, Cal
It Is said he will make Pasadena hi
- future home.
. "A pitched battle at Asher, Okla
bona, between the families of Stanle
- Ware and Perry Brewer over rent du
Brewer from Ware, resulted in tn
killing of Ware. Brewer was perhap
fatally, and Jesse Brewer, his sol
seriously injured.
Brooding over a quarrel with hi
sweetheart, Alexander Jennings, 2
years old, the son of wealthy parents
threw the congregation at a crowde
country church at Little Hickman, Ky
into panic by firing bullet into hi
brain. He died shortly after.
The secretary of agriculture ha
sent to the senate the information r
garding the beet industry for whie
he was asked in a resolution. TIL
data shows that the production of s
gar from beets has increased fro
$4,000 tons in 1896 to 425,000 tons
1908
Confederate Memorial day was o
Re served at Atlanta, Ga, April 26, vii
n all the dignity and reverence that hi
4 characterized this occasion for Sc
M eral years. The graves of the Co
II federate dead were decorated and Il
"a schools and business houses we
II closed.
~ Official reports of the recent ROTH
IA at Velardina, Mexico, following Il
IA stopping by the municipal authoriti
lSs of a religious parade, show that !
kl less than twenty-five men were eS
= cuted, for participating in the Ri
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