The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-06-18
NEWS SUMMARY

ton of the village Of Nome. y. D.,
causing loss Of $4,000.
Cholera has again bro1en out n
ST Petersburg, there being as many
as sixteen cases day reported.
During the north OF May there
were 81 cases Of bubonic plague. with
n deaths at Guayquil. Ecuador.
The strike OF the Georgia firpmen
for seniority Of white men over ne
groes. has passed to the arbitration
stage.
Four women were drowned whH"
an automobile ran into the rIseT at \
knights Landing, Cal. The caauf-
feur escaped
Walls OF many buildings We
cracked and much other damage was
done as the result OF an earthquake
at Copispo, Chile.
The people Of Santa Fe, n. NJ, have
decided to allow the saloons TO con
tinue business, the vote, however, be
ing very close one.
The wage scale OF the Pennsylvania
Steel company, cut - per cent on
April /, is TO be restored on July /.
About 1000 men are affected.
William r. Downs. a $500 a year
clerk in the registers Office at Bal
timore, is to be placed on trial on the
charge of having embezzled SCI, 600.
The governor of Missouri has s....
ed the bill prohibiting the smoking
of cigarettes in public places By per
sons between the ages Of 10 and Is
years.
| The report comes from Berlin that
| the Turkish authorities last week
/ executed twelve of the ringleaders.
/ including six Armenians, concerned
/ in the Adana massacres.
| Post office inspectors from Cncin-
| natl believe they have discovered
! the headquarters of the "BlaC.
! Hand society in Marion, Ohio, where
three men have been arrested.
The strike which has closed TWEEN
ty-two hat factories in Danbury, New
Milford and Bethel, Conn, for the last
| five months has been practically end
ed. both sides making concessions.
| Mistaken train orders resulted in a
bad smashup on the Great Northern,
FIVE miles out of Vancouver B. c.
Engineer McCade was killed and a
number of passengers were badly in
jured
The head of one OF the auditing de
partments of the Union Pacific al
Omaha has issued orders that none
of the men may chew tobacco while
on duty. and has removed ali the Gus,
pidors from his Offices.
Lazarus Snyerman, a pioneer bank
er and financier of Chicago, wao Is
credited with originating the plan fol-
the resumption of specie payments il
1873. known as the Sherman bill, died
in Chicago, June 9, aged 79 years.
Secret service men have been en-
gagged by the federal authorities Il
prevent the importation and sale /"
lottery tickets in Porto Rico iron
Santo Domingo. The tickets are being
seized and coniscated by the authors
: | ties.
Fred Moheile. on trial at St LOnt
! for the murder Of Constable San
: Young. was assassinated in the corr
. dor of the Four Courts by William
! Kane, an ex-deputy constable and
friend of Young, while Moheile wa:
, being taken into court for trial. kan'
: is under arrest.
? Mrs. Electra R. Beard, convicted o
Incorporating about $4,000 o
. the funds of the Children's Hospita
= association, of Denver. while she va
2 acting as treasurer OF that institu
q ton, has been sentenced to from eign
teen months TO three years in tn
4 state penitentiary.
e The town of Korinchi, lS5 miles Il
= the southeast of Padang, Sumatra
8 was destroyed by an earthquake OF
J. the night of June 81. Two hundTe'
4 people were killed and many other
t Injured. The shock was accompa1
+ led by a tidal wave which swep
away the native huts.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sharp, a prominen
society woman of Salem, o., killet
{ her l2-year-oId son and then ende
: her own life. Grief over the incul
q able nature of her sons malady, VII
D had been mentally deficient fror
birth. is supposed to have caused IN
Ii woman to lose her reason
, The American-Hawaiian Steamshi
company has contracted with IN
,, | PENNSYLVANIA Steel company for IN
- construction of three steamships G
IA | 5000 tons each, at a cost Of Sl,7o0,o 0(
= These vessels will form an additio
: to the feet maintained by the con
pany on the Pacific ocean.
, NJ. Guchkoff, leader Of the October
!. list party in the Rssian duma, has il
!, stituted proceedings for criminal /
bel against Dr. DubrOvin, editor c
:. the organ of the Union of Russia
. People. which printed an article a
= leging that money had been used i
passing the Old-belieyers' law.
II Andrew Carnegie has founded Use
A libraries, representing donations as
!. gregating ISL ,596,69S, according I
: his own statement The major POI
|, ton of these libraries are located i
4 America, England being second il
4. the number installed. while Canad
has been literally remembered.
8, While returning home from a plcni
; near Uniontown, Pa, in compan