The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-07-09
NEWS SUMMARY

a project Is on foot to grant the
Films seats In the Russian duma and
the council of empires.
Attorneys for Banker Charles w.
Morse have succeeded in having his
bail reduced from $4,000 to $4,000.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
at San Rarnardino, Cal, on July L,
about the same time the shocks were
felt in Messina.
Edward Cooley was killed near
Elizabeth, N. j., when a tire on his
automobile burst and the machine
crashed into telegraph pole
Two negroes were killed and Ave
others We're wounded in a fight start,
ing over a crap game at stone
quarry near Ripley. Oklahoma.
A mutiny in the prison at wilma.
Russia, led to pitched battle In the
court yard. Four wardens and seven
conyicts were killed and six wounded.
Because the spectators applauded
winner Of a prizefight at Vera Cruz,
Mexico, the loser OF the fight emptied
his revolver into the crowd. Four per-
sons were wounded.
Major General Franklin J. Bell.
chief. of staff of the army, has left
Washington for Seattle. after which
he will visit Alaska for the purpose
Of inspecting the military posts.
Official orders have been issued at
Winnipeg, Man, prohibiting any Unit
ed States circus from parading on the
streets of Winnipeg unless it flies the
British instead of an American flag.
1t is announced that the Interna,
tional Harvester company of Chicago
has contracted for 250,000 bales of
sisal hemp. to be delivered by Yucca
tan planters in monthly instalIments
till May 81, 1910,
The thirteenth vain attempt of the
militant suffragettes to obtain access
to Premier Asquith resulted in excit.
ing scenes in Parliament square, Lon.
don, June 20, and the arrest of more
than 100 women.
DR.. Haldane Cleminson of Chicago
has been indicted for the murder OF
his wife. When Dr. Cleminson was
arrested, following his wife's death,
he told the police she had been chloro-
formed by burglars.
Prince Won Buelow has authorized
the announcement that he intends to
retire from the chancellorship OF the
German empire as soon as the pend
ing finance reform measure is dis.
posed of in one way or another.
Inspector McCaffery, chief of the
New York detective bureau, an.
nounces that there is no doubt that
Leon Ling, the Chinaman who muir
dered Elsie Sigel, will be captured in
time, providing the murderer is still
alive.
All present legal barriers to the
long contemplated municipal water
supply scheme for San Francisco were
removed last week by a decision Of
Superior Judge Sewell, and the
Hetchy-Ketchy project will now 60
through.
Because he interfered in behalf O
some oyerworked and disabled mules
George F. Guernsey, humane otficer
was shot and killed near Memphis
Tenn. Charles w. Siier, foreman O
| a construction camp, was arrested
charged with the murder.
| James Treadwell former directo
| of the California Safe Deposit ant
Trust company, of San Francisco, un
der Indictment charging embezzle
ment of bank stock valued at $4,000
has been freed, the charge being dis
missed on motion of the state.
Gen. y. Franklin Bell, chief o
staff, in speech before the arm!
service schools at Fort Leavenwortl
at the graduation exercises held OF
| June 30, declared he saw indications
of war and insisted that the day o
international peace was far off.
! Two companies of white soldier
will occupy Fort Brown, Texas, for
merly held by the negro soldiers wht
were dismissed from the service b!
President Roosevelt. This is the frs
move on the part of the government
to fill the places of the discharged sol
diers.
Kentucky now has but twenty-fou
counties in all parts of which liquo
can be sold. At midnight, July 80
Ashland, in Boyd county, became dry
and twenty-six saloons closed thei
doors for three years. This is tn
most prominent town in eastern Ken
lucky.
The verdict of the coroners jur.
in the Woodill murder case was tina
Lame Bob" Eastman killed Edit
May Thompson Woodill or was acces
sorry to the murder four of the mem
bers refusing to sign the verdict un
til the words ''or accessory" wa
added.
In her anxiety to kiss her husban,
farewell. at the Charlerio station
Pittsburg, Mrs. Marie Antonio of Ca
ifornia neglected to take the car win
dow into account and thrust her hea,
through the glass. She was severed
gashed on the neck and is not expect
/ ed to survive.
The municipality of Odessa, now il
the hands of the reactionGsts, ha
brought suit against the municipal Of
ficers of 1905, charging them wit
misuse of the city funds. 1t
claimed large sum was spent 70
; military movements against the ant
, Jewish outbreaks.
! A cannon firecracker, thrown int
an automobile in which Gertrude Vo
; patznId fbp notad woman Suffrag 8