The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04
NEWS OF A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making HIotory
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Llnes ...
lNTER-MoUNTAIN

JUN r. sullivan, the young United
states forester, who disappeared ST,
weeks ago and was believed to have
perlshed in the woous near Gray,s
haroor, Wash, by suicide or from ex
posture, has been heard from in me
east, where he had gone after tirine
of his work.
r. w. Paget, manager of the Albany
MOTEL Denver, was elected president
OF the Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
association at the closing session OF
their convention in Denver
Miss Esther Ramsey, 20 years old,
was fatally burned when she attempt.
ed to start fire with kerosene at her
nome in Denver
counterfeit $40 notes on the First
National bank of Portland, Ore, are
being passed freely in New York City.
| Secret service men are Convinced that
the notes are being foated by the
same gang which is passing counter
telts on the National Bank of Los An
geles, Cal, and the First National
bank of Williamsport, Pa.
Thrown into the river by a crazy
man and kicked back i1to the water
when he was scrambling out, Joseph
Sleater, aged would have drowned
at Salt Lake City, had not an aged
man come to his assistance. Young
Sleater's assailant is in jail
DOMESTIC.
William Z. Davidson, a train dis
patcher for the Southern Pacific COM
pany, committed suicide by asphyxia-
ton at his home in Oakland His sui
eide is supposed to have been due to
the breaking down of his nervous sys.
tenn under the strain of his work
AS becomes the Indian nature, Will
bur Benjamin, the murderer of little
Violet Gilmer, met death on the gal
lows at Folsom prison, California, on
Friday, as stoicaIly as he faced his &C
cusers at his trial.
Otto Sahli, chancellor of the Swiss
legation, died at his residence in Chi
cago on Friday of diabetes. He was
81 years old.
John Leyely and wife of Caldwell,
e,
his wife and two children, also of
Caldwell, were seriously injured when
the carriage in which they we're rid
ing was struck by a switch engine.
Rioting occurred in New York City
as a result of the strike of express
company employees, strike-breakers
being assaulted and several men
knocked unconscious, although there
were no fatalities.
The Independent Telephone COM
pany, operating in approximately |
twenty-five cities and towns in north
ern and central Illinois, has been
placed in the hands of a receiver.
BlarIous Nachouter, aged %, killed
his wife, aged 81, and baby, aged 2 |
years, at st. Gainesville, o., and then
shot himself.
Since June l twenty-five cases of in
fantile paralysis have been reported |
to the state board of health of Rhode
Island. OF this number twenty-three |
have resulted in death.
Whisky and morphine are blamed |
for his troubles by Henry b. Smith
formerly archdeacon for the southern |
half of the Episcopal diocese of Okla
hOma, and once rector of the St. Phil !
fps church of Ardmore, Okla, arrested |
at Kansas City on a forgery charge.
E. F. Shelly, banker of Ashland
county, Ohio, has been convicted of
$4,000 from the estate of
Paul Oliver. This conviction is the
first definite step in the prosecution
of a so-called lawyers trust"
through which a number of people
have been swindled.
Bertha Anderson, aged II, anu Ul-
lie Anderson, aged IL, were married
at Kennesaw, Ga. on Sunday to Andy
Champ, 81, and John Champ, aged %.
The father of the girls has instituted
habeaus corpus proceedings in an Ell
fort to separate the two couples.
Crazed with jealousy at the sight of
his divorced wife driving with another
man, Wnuam Maley of Mount City, !
Mo-, shot and fatally wounded the
woman and then killed himself.
A marriage license has been Is,
sued at Philadelphia to Connie Mack,
manager of the worlds champions
and Miss Katherine Hal ohan, West
gii*.
Edward Jardine has been arrested
at Goderich, Ont, charged with the
murder of Elizabeth Anderson. 16
years old, whose body was found in
he cellar of a lonely house.
John J. Smythe, charged with hav-
ng shot and killed his wife and
laughter, at Norfolk. Va, September
|, has been found guilty of murder.
The bodies of seven men, all vic
inns of the recent hurricane, were
washed up by the waves at Punta Cor
Ia, Fla.
News of the death of Hugo Rich
ards Garden, organizer and captain of
he famous confederate palmetto bat
cry, comes from Southport, N. c.
Death was caused by apoplexy. Mr.
Garden was 70 years of age and was
7Orn at Columbus, S. c.
The special grand jury empaneled
Los Angeles to investigate the Los n,
ngeles Times disaster has decided W
lat dynamite was the cause of the G
iplosion, while the committee ap- OF
1inted by the State Federation of is
abor has reported that the explosion al
as caused by gas.