The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-07-16
NEWS SUMMARY

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The international congress on tuber-
culosis is in session in Stockholm,
Sweden.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Rawalpindi India, July s, several
houses eolIapsing but no lives were
lost.
Harry K 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
million dollars
The state suprem court has handed
down decision upholding 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,
but 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 a quarantine on the frontier
against cholera
James Corcoran, of Lowell Mass
| aged 2S years, an aeronaut, was killed
by falling 200 feet from a parachute
during the Fourth of July celebration
at Portland, Maine.
! During celebration in Reservoir
! park, at Camden, N. j., cannon ex.
ploded piece of which killed Mrs.
lrma 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
$1,000 in gold and currency.
Miss Isola Kennedy of Morgan Hill,
near San Jose, Cal, is in a 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. Both
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 anc
land services, died at his home al
Boyds, Md, July 6.
Ambassador Reid has been in
formed that the fifth cruiser squadron
of the fifth British naval arm, consist
ing of four ships, has been designated
to attend the Hudson-Fulton celebra,
ton, to be held in New York, August
is to October next.
Mrs. M, Lecumber, who keeps a
boarding house at a mining camp near
New Idria, in the southern part OF
San Bentto county, California, and
her four children, were burned tc
death as the result of an alleged in.
cendiary fire last week.
In the Fourth of July cowboy tour.
nament at Nogales, Sonora, the
worlds record for throwing and tying
wild steer was broken by Ed Hall
of Mutt, N. M, who performed the
feat in Il seconds fiat. The previous
record was II Is seconds.
The mysterious shooting of Mrs.
Lorena de la Montanya, in her apart,
ment in San Francisco, last Friday
night, which the police at first thought
to have been suicide, is said by par.
ties present at the time to have been
a case Of accidental shooting.
i Ira w. Lamunyon, aged 80, the only
surviving member of the Massachu,
sets convention held in Jackson,
Mich, July 6. 1854, at which the Re.
publican party was organized, died at
Denver, Colo, July Z, at the home Of
his daughter, Mrs. Michael Doyle.
Frank Cecil Hopkins, the 12-year'
old boy of Modesto, Cal, who recently
shot and killed his baby brother and
then buried the body in pig pen,
has been sent to the reform school
The boy will be confined in the insti-
tuition until he reaches his majority.
The American Sugar & Refining
company, in the United States Circui,
court In New York City, on July 6,
entered pleas of not guilty to the in
dictments recently found against it as
a corporation, charging conspiracy
! and combination in restraint OF trade
Gyula Rudnyansky, the Hungarian
! journalist, who has been detained on
Ellis island for some time to deter
mine whether or not he was an unde-