The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-07-30
NEWS SUMMARY

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Two hotels and seven houses al
Long Branch. n. J.. we're destroyed
BY fire, causing a loss Of 100000.
A strike in every city and town in
Oklahoma in support Of the eight-hour
law. involving 10000 laborers, is pre-
dicted.
wenty workmen were killed and
large number injured at st. Peters
burg BY the collapse Of building in
course Of construction.
The prosecutors Of Harry Thaw are
criticised and insanity experts scored |
in a twenty-page booklet, which Mrs |
siary Copley Thaw, mother OF Thaw,
issued last week.
Seven men are dead and one man
| Is dying as result Of an explosion |
of dynamite at Walls, ". j., where a
branch line of the Susquehanna rail.
road is under construction.
The Russian admiralty has decided
not TO send any warDhips either to
the Hudson-Fulton celebration in
New York or the portola festival OF
San Francisco in the autumn
Secretary Meyer has ruled that the
spreadeagle figureheads which are to
be removed from warships Of the navy
may be loaned to the states or cities
for which vessels are named.
| BY the recklessness of a chauffeur,
who attempted to cross the railroad
in front of passenger train at San
Diego, Cal, seven people, occupants
of the automobile, we're seriously In
jured.
Louis Brown, years old. while
playing ball at Pittsburg, tried TO
catch a fly batted into left field The
lad stepped OF steep embankmeHt
into the Allegheny river and was
drowned.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Teheran, reviewing the situa-
tlcn, says both Great Britain and
Russia will be thankful to withdraw
and let the Persians work out their
own salvation.
Miss Eliza Warren, a well-known
actress and head of local school of
elocution and acting, probably was IA
, tally stabbed at Cleveland. o., by her
sister, Mrs. Mary Sutton, who was
. temporarily demented-
! Without firing a shot, mob took
d Albert Lawson, the negro who shot
|. Sheriff R. NJ Compton, at Paris.
e Tenn, from the Paris jail and hanged
:. him TO a tree. Thirty minutes later
the body was cut down.
e Jose E. Tiperina was killed, Cayet-
. tano Lopez badly wounded and two
s other Mexicans were shot near Meal
& len, Texas, by Deputy Shenn i. l.
E Mayfeld. The deputy was trying to
It arrest the men for gambling.
Emphatic denial Of the report from
Y. Mexico City that the United States
a. contemplates establishing a protector
Is ate over Honduras is made by state
b, department officials. Statements Of
II. that character, they saia, were merely
IS idle vaporings.'
Capt. Peter c. Hams, Jr., improv
a ing ne time ne Wa sentenced Il
% serve in Sing Sing for killing William
Of E. Annis, has invented an appliance
OF that is said to have increased the et
~ hclency o1 a STRENGTHENING machin,
I'd used in New York.
The Ella Gingles case is abso
n lutely closed so far as this Office i!
in concerned" said States Attorne,
al Weyman. one day last week. If Ell;
l' tries to bring additional charges
RI against Miss Barrette, shall tell he
q to keep out of my office"
,F ar-. ar
IL members of the house is preparing u
10 visit Hawaii. The visit will be in re
IT. Spouse to an invitation extended b.
en- the Hawaiian legislature at its las
~ session. and the party will sail from
1t san Francisco August "A.
=. Within a few feet of his bride O
an four weeks, George Click Orr, age,
- % years, an attorney of Atchisor
- Kan, was drowned while bathing il
- the surf at the south beach of La
~ jola, Cal. He went into the surf. an
a strong breaker drew him under.
nd Stanley Ketchel, the champion mid
ne dleweight pugilist, was painfully il
s, jured by being thrown against tn
in front of the automobile in which h
IN was riding when the machine collide
he with a wagon in San Francisco.
aiI was feared at first that his arm ha
been broken.
ng The Iowa board of pardOns has reC
on commended an unconditional pardo
Ia for Francis Smith, son of the autho
W. of the hymn America" who was col
nd victed FIVE years ago and sentence
Ct to the penitentiary for eleven year
ca on charges of perjury, larceny an
embezZlemenL.
ch The suffragettes who recently wer
ur- sent to prison for taking part in dij
st. turbances in Downing street, LondoI
OF we're liberated from Holloway jail las
re- week as the result Of hunger strike.
en- One of them, Miss Roberts, refuse
nth food for 126 hours. She is now III
der medical care.
he An appeal has been made by tia
Re ;ans Of Pittston to the Italian consI
ing for an official inquiry into the deaf
Ias of Fedelar LardenZ, who shot tw
ar men at PitIston and was then said
lei have killed himself to avoid bein
ess lyncheu. Lardenz's friends believe b
was killed by mob.
Pa w p. Drummond, a farm hand O