The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-06-11
NEWS SUMMARY

The senate judiciary committee has |
decided to report fayorably the nomi- !
nation Of A. w. Cody as federal judge |
In New Mexico
Six young men were seriously in
jured one probably fatally, during an
automobile hill climbing contest at
Bridgeport, Conn.
BY thepremature explosion of can
non at Wapakoneta, o., on Memorial
day, Henry Mahan, aged 20 years,
former soldier, was killed.
A tornado in the San Jose mining
district in Mexico did considerable
damage Practically all the native
shacks in the district were wrecked
Two men lost their lives by the pre-
mature explos on OF a charge OF dyna-
mite in the Coalinga, Cal, oil fields.
The bodies were frightfully mangled,
Luke oDonnell and his wife were
| drowned and two others narrowly es-
capped the same fate in row boat col
lision at Washington park, Chicago.
The premier of the province of Que
bee declares that the policy of Canada
will be to prevent the expectation OF
pulp wood from the crown lands to
the United States.
| Charles Barr, who claims to be
bricklayer, has been arrested at Los
Angeles on suspicion of having stran-
Eled to death Laura Register, 26 years
old, in Providence. R. l.. en- the night
of May 10.
| Bert Simpson, an Englishman well
known throughout the southwest, was
shot and killed by S. S. Carpenter at a
| ranch near Cllnt, reXas. Carpenter
is one of the most prominent ranch.
men in west Texas.
Wholesale harness and saddle deal
ers of the middle west, at a conven.
| ton at Des Moines, Iowa adopted reso-
buttons demanding free hides. Present
high prices of leather. the resolutions
| declared, are due to the tariff.
One was drowned and five others
narrowly escaped drowning in the Pc.
tomac river at Washington when a
large gasoline launch carrying three
young married couples caught fire
from the explosion of the oil tank.
Mrs. Catherine Teal, wealthy
| apartment house owner, was MUIR
dered in her home in St. Louis. pre-
sumably by robbers Her face was
hacked almost beyond recognition,
and her skull was fractured. She
also was shot
Sheriff Frank CaZalas, of Mobile.
Ala, has been ordered removed from
office by the state supreme court la
a decision which followed the trial of
Cazalas on a charge of dereliction of
duty in allowing a negro to be lynched
in Mobile on January q.
Calvin Johnson, negro, has been
convicted at Alexandria, Va, of the
murder of Walter F. Schultz, Chi.
cage artist, on March last. Schultz
was lured to a field just outside the
city of Washington, and his throat cut,
robbery being the motive. go
The new freight rates. on coal re-
Gently announced by the National
Railways of Mexico went into effect
Oh June ]. 1t is declared by promi'
ment coal men that in six months the
revised rates will result in an annual
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Flying into a rage when told that his
twenty-year-old sister, Bessie, was to
be married, William B. Blessing. 30
years old, attacked the girl in their
home, in New Orleans with Ratchet,
inflicting several serious wounds. He
then threw acid in her face.
Official notices have been posted in
all the mills of the American Sheet
and Tinplate mills at Wheeling, w
Va, announcing that after June 80 all
of the plants of the company would be
open shops. The order affects about
10000 men, and strike is expected.
For the first time in history wheat
has been shipped back from New YORK.
to the west for consumption. Recent
inquiries have been received from as
far away as Texas for New York red
wheat. This is result of the great
scarcity of wheat all through the west
The Chicago Journal published an
affidavit sworn to by Alois Jaeger, a
masseur of Chicago, in which the lat
ter states that in 1ST4-75 he was valet
to Joann Salvador, archduke OF Aus
tria, and that on June 2. at Paines'
vile. o., he recognized Joann Salvador
as the lost archduke.
The test case of the Southern Rail
way company against the interstate
commerce commission, involving the
right of the commission to fix the
charge for the consignment of hay
shipped through East st, Louis, has
been decided by the supreme couri
against the commission.
At the United Presbyterian genera
assembly at Knoxville, Tenn, DR.
Wallace, former pastor, now editor
of an Iowa publication, declared that
the entire United States is over
churched, and that the church at large
would be in better condition with hall
the number of preachers.
John Maxey, a negro. who shot and
seriously wounded B. c. Bowers. cir
Gus man, was taken from Jail at Frank
fort, KY, and lynched The jailer re
sisted the mob. but the door wa:
broken down. The shooting was the
result of the negro's efforts to get into
the tent without a ticket.
A murder, followed by a spectacular
arrest. occurred at Mfddletown, Ohio
last week. The body of an aged UNI
brella member was found in lot. The
head had been crushed and the mar