The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-08
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in q Few Lines.
ENTERTAINMENTS.

ing up Two clerks robbed the safe ant
escaped on horyfbacK with $4,000.
posse following The robbers exchange.
shots With them but they escaped
rhe taking u Testimony In the spo
kane freight rats cases has begun q
Spokane before Commissioner Proutl
og ire interstate Coa.nerse com
mission,
Preslfsnt Taft reached Seattle OF
september 20, Just two weeks after
leaving Boston
The staiaRsde 10 the Iditarod coun
tfyi ~ ALASKA promises 10 rival the
rnfh 10 Dawson IN the days Of the
klonalke boom The pay streak II
ane mile III length and 800 feet wide
running three cents 70 s1.s6 70 The
pan.
i DOMESTIC.
I New York city'a share Ia The Hud.
sonlfalitm celebration ended satur
day aight With q carnival parade and
display " Fireworks ana wafship u
lumiualipos on The Hudson river
tlrg that threatened 70 destroy an
entire square III Pittsbnrg was gotten
under control after 100000 damage
haa been done
With delegates representing elgh.
teen atales present. The biennial con,
ysntlbn % the National German.Amer.
iean alliance opened IN Turner hall
In Cincinnati One 81 the slogans ~
me organization Is ant prohibition,
Unless some legal loophola may be
found Charles " Morse. the convict
led financieF, sill have 10 90 back 10
the rpmbs. owing 70 the lapse OF two
days between the expiration, on Octo,
Der . o. his bail bond Of sl25,0oU, and
tle calling uf his case hefofB the
United States circuit court Of appeals
on October H.
Parker Norton, owner ot the Mineola
Press, and Edward Baker, proprietor
ii 4 Mineoia garaae. we're instantly
killed In an automobile accident near
Mine1ia, /.
There has hean i fresh outbreak Of
nsRht riding n Kentucky, A tenant
On the farm OF I. j, MeDosoll. who
hnd steadfantiy refused 10 join the
peel 81 iobacro growers, WAS taken
from hin h0me u night stripped 10
tha waist and given thirty lashea,
William IL Palmer. head Of the arm
controlling che largest fieet Of coast.
iag seh00ueFs IN the world. ID dead
81 uestun. 10 the age Ot 50,
The trial % Patrick Calhoun on 4
charge Of having offered brlbe to
supervisor ef san Francisco has
heaH continued until November is. az
The request ot the defense.
lohn VI, Manrow. veteran engi-
noer IN the employ Of the Southern
Pacific company, shot and killed his
site NJ Oakland. Cal. and thcn aui.
eided Marrow deserted his wife six
mouths ago ana had often threatened
@ kid her
William Mitchell. white man.
convicted 0t tho murder 81 Squire w.
II iiipdman IN Rutherford county.
Tvnnesssa and Cecil Palmer. col.
ofed, sentenced TO death Tor crlmI.
nally assaulting a woman near Leba.
non. Tenn, were hanged at the state
prison a. Nashville
The Southern Pacific railroad
pleaded guilty In the United states
strict court ~ tos Angeles to re,
batiHg and was lined $1,000 BY Judge
| Neilburn
A voluntary increase In wages for
the sz00 motormeh aud conductors
employed By the Detroit United Rail
way Ia Detroit aud on interurban
hrea. who have been In the service OF
the company two years or more, has
/ been announced
Frederick T. Burton, newspaper
man and noyefiat, died suddenly at
| 'Ns HeraScorg ", j. The cause is
supposed 70 have been heart failure,
Mi hur,on was the author OF several
'iOyets among them strong Heart. :"
Hs musician and composer
o. ability,
ts Jones'. wife Of wealthy citi.
zen of Little Rock. Ark, was found
BY the Chieayo police after she had
/ wandered about Chtcago lost aud hun,
\ CRY for two days. because she could
hFsa saw 60 ask her way back
where they were stopping, and ala
not know how to SAX her way back
joint debate on the tariff by wi
liam J, Bryan and Senator Joseph W
Bailey OF Texas, at Atlanta. Ca. is
assured for some time next month.
/ Captain inman Scalhy, commander
81 the White Star line steamer. Re
public when she was sunk last Febru,
airy after a collision with the Italian
steamer, Florence, has entered the
University al Michigan as a freshman
law student at 50 years OF age.
Henry Whiting Flagg. son Of George
A. Flagg, secretary and treasurer Of
the Calumet 4 Heels Mining com,
pany, was found dead by suicide In a
room above the office OF the company
In Ashburton place, Boston. Young
Flag was employed as a clerk for
the Calumet a Hecla.
i The ordinance excluding automo-
hiies from the streets of Bar Har.
Dor, Me-, passed by the town govern
ment, is declared constitutional by
the court, the highest tribunal in
Maine, in a rescrIpt handed down Sat.
urday.
S. X. F1tzhugh, formerly an army
/ captain and lately a construction en-
gineer for the Warren Improvement
apauy ha been arrested at SaI
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