The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-11-19
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD nv HRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making flistor,
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given IN Few Llnes.

/ Portland, November 49, 1903, was
hanged IN Salem % Friday last
ltalrh Williams. a prominent min.
is's man III Alaska was acquitted ~
! paldez 0f the nnrder Ok Frank Dunn,
formerly roadbonae keeper AZ SD
4ittna station Williams pleaded
selfdefensa.
The astaNation strike inaugurated
by the Industrial Workers placed III
The Spokane jail. has been practically
broken, the rtan deciding that d bread
and water diet was better than moth.
Ing. and some OF them agreeing To
Wnrk on the streets as required Of
city prisoners
a. w Woods William Mathews,
Lawrence Golden. Frank GriBware and
fred Torgsason have been convicted
at Omaha of robbing the mail ear Of
the Overland limited train On the
! Union Pacific, near Omaha on the
night Of May az,
A runaway car Of lumber collided
with street ear al Vancouver,
2. e., fourteen persons being killed
and seven injured, two Of whom may
die
locomotive firemen OF fertytwo
railroads west Oh Chicago have hled
demands for a wage Increase Of from
10 70 rs per cent. Approximately 2br
900 men are involved IN the demands
and their territory covers all the west,
southwest and northwest portions Of
the United States.
DOMESTIC.
Earl Bullock, the 17,year.oid boy.
who recently robbed the Eudora. Kan,
bank, murdered policeman and shot
another man, making his escape, again
entered the same bank on November
H. shot Fred Starr, the cashier and,
when surrounded by posse, com
mited suicide, shooting himself Ia the
ed suicide, shooting himself In the
head. Bullock was accompanied by
William Mckay. aged Is, on his last
venture. Mckay surrendered to the
posse.
A society for tho prevention and
study of infant mortality has been
formed at New Haven, Conn, as a
result OF conference of delegates
from different sections OF tho coun,
| Try.
Quartermaster Sergeant Roy Ford,
after killing Thomas Mplally. an army
clerk by hurting him from window
Of the barracks at Aleatraz Island.
to the rocks, blew out his own brains.
The discharge Of Poiander at
Schenectady, NJ. ", who INDUCED in
practical iakes on workmen, employed
BY the General Electric company. has
resulted In a strike of laborers, or
helpers to the coremakers and mould
ers at the foundry
In pItohfork duel between two
| farmers near L4aporte, Ind, Clarence
Remington was probably fatally In.
! Idred by John w, Rank. Bennlng.
| hoff's body was a mass OF wounds.
| A tong war Is In progress in the Chi
nesa quarters In San Francisco, sew
Grad members Of both sides having
been killed Ia the past week
| Edward Hon. farmer living near
| indianapolis, Ind. has confessed to
] pushing his wife Off bridge into the
river. causing her death. Hoff dc.
| elarea he became nngered because hts
wife insisted on using morphine.
Robert Perry. an active Sunday
| school worker and writer OF many
sacred songs. has confessed to the
authorities at Los Angeles that he Is
| guilty Of the theft Of eleven horses
and buEgles, which he sold IN order
10 gain money TO satisfy his passion
for gambling.
David I Richardson. former cashier
uf the defunet Cosmopolitan Nationa'
bank ef pttEshurg, convicted recently
al making false reports eonceruine
the banks condition, has been sent
eneed to Ave years In the United
states penitenttary at Fort Leaven
worth
President Hastings, head Of the
American Paper & Pulp association
| which comprises about unehaif of the
paper and pulp makers Of the country
declares paper will never again be
as cheap as under the pingley tariff
This means additional expense fol
newspapers
Max Cohen. cigar dealer Of Chi
caEo, and his tlanee, Miss Beatrice
shapiro. and chauffeur, We're killed
when the machine ran into the Chi
ease river, The ehautteur's body nn,
been recovered but the others are
missing,
As the result ot a collision between
| the harkentine John s, Bennett and
schooner supposed to he the Merritt c
Hart, Off Block Island, SIX of the crew
Of the Bennett were drowned wheI
i the vessel sunk. and Il Il believed IN,
other vessel went down and all OF
board were lost.
Arthur Eyerton q selt-styled hypnu
/ list. was anahle TO awaken auher
Simpson, formerly street car ceuduc
tor, whom he had placed Ia a hypnotic
state. and Simpson Is dead. Eyertoi
IS charged with manslaughtsr and 1
IN jail at sammerytile. N. }.
Insane because she had failed /,
win back the love 0t her former hus
hand. Emma Rogers attempted sui
eide in Los Angeles, shooting hersel
twice, but viii recover She was for
meriy resident Of Salt Lake City.
Ignste Noyikow, Russian laborel
shot and killed his wife and he
/ mother. Mrs +. A. SHAH. wife OF
Sonoma county rancher. In the Ferr
building at San Francisco. and the