The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-07-23
NEW SUMMARY

Spain mas BeBuh measures against
the Moors for the recent murder Of
four Spanish workmen in Morocco.
The Washington wheat crop for
1903 viii be 10000 bushels greater
than that of 1908, and within 1000 900
bushels Of the bumper crop Of 1907.
The monument erected at Mines,
France, to Bernard Lazare, the first
defender Of Alfred Dreyfus, was de
molished with a hammer one night
last week.
The old Anacostia bridge. over
which John Wilkes Booth sped hts
horse to escape from an infuriated
city the night he shot Lincoln. soon
will be torn down.
]. S. Phillips, president of the
Plttsburg-Q Quincy mine at Masonic.
near Bridgeport, Call was instantly
killed when he lost his footing and Tell
down an incline upraise
It is officially reported that TIA
deaths from the bubonic plague and
thirty-six deaths from cholera oc-
CURED at Annoy, China, during the
two weeks ended July 10.
The National Council Of Women. in
session at Seattle, elected Mrs. Lillian
"a. HOLSTER Of Detroit, president, and
Mrs. Kate Waller Barch Barrett OF
Washington, D. c., vice-president.
Protesting his innocence to the
last Garry R. Barrett. who killed
Deputy Warden Stedman in the AL.
berta penitentiary, april Is, was
hanged, July IA, in the Edmonton
prison. ,=.
Christian Johnson, believed to be
the notorious bigamist, Madison"
was sentenced by Judge Welch in the
superior court at San Jose Cal, to
serve seven years in the states prison
at San Quentin.
A tornado struck Fithian, Ills,
wrecking a number of stores and dam.
aging a large elevator there, and also
the .sub-power station of the Illinois
Traction system. So far as known
few persons were hurt.
Clarence A. Ruggles, school
teacher of Denver, died in the county
hospital in Chicago last week. sup.
posedly from the effects of poisoning.
Ruggles was found unconscious in a
room in a downtown hotel.
Baron Oskar Rothschfld the young
est son Of Albert Rothschild. head of
the Austrian branch of the Rothschild
house, committed suicide in Vienna.
July 10, because of an unfortunate
love affair. Baron Oskar was q years
Of age
Prince Won Buelow, chancellor of the
German empire, retired from ohice on
July IA, and was succeeded by DR.. Won
Bethman Hollweig. The latter was
succeeded by Herr Delbrueck as min
lister of the interior and vice chan
cellor.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her
three children were met at Genoa,
Italy, July IL, by Miss Carew, Mrs.
Roosevelt's sister. The party then
left for Miss Carew's villa, where the
Roosevelts will remain for two
weeks. -s,. ....
Six wounded, two fatally, and fif-
teen seriously injured by flying bricks,
iron Stag and clubs, sums up the re.
suit of the first days surprise strike"
by the men employed in the Pressed
Steel Car company's plant at McKees
Rocks, Pa. ,,-..--
The sensational price of 1000
was paid last week at Tattersalls,
Newmarket, England, for the brood
mare Flaire, the property of the late
Sir Daniel Cooper. The previous rec,
ord price for brood mares was $62, 500
paid for La Fleche.
One dead and nine badly burned
Is the result of an automobile acct, |
dent, which occurred about five miles
from Sylvania, Ga. While crossing /
a bridge the gasoline tank was
pierced and the fluid, which fell on
the occupants of the car. took fire.
Mrs. William oIyphanL, living near
West Bratch, Ia, while respondent |
over family troubles, gave her four
small children strychnine and then
swallowed strychnine and carbolie |
acid. One child died, but it is prob,
able the other three and the mother !
will recover.
The destruction of two imposing |
mountain, peaks, the transformation OF |
a bay into lake, and the creation Of
Two brand-new islands, are the aston.
ishing feats of nature discovered in
Boring sea by government party |
and reported to the treasury depart.
ment last week.
A man named Rosenberg, from
was found murdered forty I
miles from Detroit, at a summer re,
sort on the st. Clair flats. Rosenberg
arrived there with two friends. 1t is
that one of Rosenberg's +
friends committed suicide after being
placed under arrest
The. Nationalist quarter of Belfast,
ireland, has been the scene of serious
rioting, owing to the disturbed state
Of the district since the conflicts be-
.ween the Nationalist and orangemen
IN July II. Already several encount-
srs have taken place between the
police and the mob.
Crowds along Broadway, New York
City, were interested spectators on
July II of a fight by Frank w. Good
ne a young aeronaut, who drove his
lirigible balloon high above tlsat thor
1ughfare. He rose 5000 feet, then
'wooped downward until he was about
800 feet over Broadway.
"shalxe-un" in the nersonnay oF