The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-22
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
!. CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Al
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
lNTER. MOUNTAIN.

Lee Johnson, conductor. and Edwar6
Hooper. engineer. we're killed 10 I
railway accident between Scofield ant
Clear Creek. Utah, when the train q
heavily laden coal cars left the track
Johnson being crushed under the cart
and Hooper caught under his engine
and scaided to death The fireman
sayed his Iife by Jumping. but wat
badly hurt.
p0sitiye assurance that Theodore
Roosevelt viii attend the annual from
Ter celebration In Cheyenne. Wyoa
vas brought TO New York Friday BY
?. O. BonfiIs. proprietor Of this Denver
Post and Kansas City Post. who re-
urned from Europe on the Lusitanla
| When an automobile went on a
bridge into creek near Tacoma,
Margaret Brennan, nurse, was pinned
under the machine in two feet Of wa.
Ter and drowned before assistance ar
rived
William Taylor. resident OF Den
yer. and veteran Of the Crimean.
Mexican and Civil war, will celebrate
his i04lh birthday on May 20. He
coasts that no does not require glasses
% read the finest print.
The strike Of the switchmen on thlr.
leen railroads In the northwest, which
began November 30 last, was officially
declared OF on Tuesday. after the
votes Of the men on the question OF
continuing the strike had been
/ counted.
DOMESTIC.
Samuel l.. Clemens mark Twain
returned 10 New York on Thursday
rom Bermuda, IN q very serious con.
dillon. suffering from heart trouble.
Mr. Clemens had gone 70 Bermuda for
his health, following the death OF his
laughter.
A tornado passed near Parsons,
Kans,. destroying barns and out,
buildings. but no one was killed. Tel.
bphone poles we're twisted out of the
ground. and COW and calf we're car.
ried 200 feet.
w, G, Brown. president of the New
York Central railroad, believes that
the high cost OF living foreshadows a
national crisis. declaring that stalls.
lies show that consumption is incFeas.
ms at much greater rate than pro-
iuction,
The Brotherhood OF Railroad Train.
men and the Order Of Railroad Con.
iuctors on Friday ended the wage dis.
1ute Of yard employees with the Nickel
Plate railroad. The men were grant.
"a an increase In wages
Louise Flick. crippled tb.year old
girl, daughter Of Silas p. Flick. O law.
ger 0f Norfolk. Va, was accidentally
shot and killed at San Diego. Cal, by
Chandler Lewis, 1S years old. who is
also a cripple and has suffered besides
rom mental maledies,
A revolving murder was unearthed
In Chicago. when the body OF six-yGar-
Old Alfredo Doyerlska. daughter of
Marshal povoriska. banker OF 1861
Tell place. was found In a dlsused
shed two doors away. IL IL believed
the child was murdered by Iananose.
The GFenola hotel. half dozen
stores and many residences. were
wrecked at Grcenville. Ala, by a
storm which struck town Just before
noon Saturday. At Forest Home,
twelve miles below there. several
houses were unroofed,
The United States Steel corporation
has announced the adoption Of a plan
| tor the relief OF employees injured In
lts service and families OF men killed
In wreck accidents, During the tem
pqTaFy disability, single men win re-
CoiYe &c per cent Of their wages and
| married men 80 per cent, with con
/ uugeNt additional allowances,
| John Schtlhelmer. Long Beach
Cal, rancher, has been supplied with
part of q calTs lower Jaw 10 replace
maxlliary bones that were destroyed
when the ca'fs father. Jersey bull
| sared the mVn and butted him In the
lace last November II II expected
the operation will prove success.
Rosaltnd Morris. New York society
girl who was So badly burned by fam
| ing gasoline Ia an automobile collision
that che can no longer wear low
nccked evening gown. has been award
| ed $50 goo damages trcm the receiver.
oI the metropolitan Street Railwa,
company
THAT William J. Raohr, former,
city treasurer OF Kansas Guy. VIII,
died recently, vas short in his ae
counts sG34S0. has been reported u
the mayor by Arm Of accountants.
The end OF the Philadelphia ca
strike Is Ia sight. tho meu having
voted to accept settlement ouerv,
{ ry the Rapid Transit company Thu
/ eases Of the IA men whose dssCharE
/ prgcipllaItd the strike will be sub
I ullttcd 10 arbitration All tho 9TH
strikers are TO DO given employment
trapped by metal doors aud barre,
/ windows, six dgeneu wore harmed Il
. death during the partial destruction
Of the New Haven. Conn. county jai
on Wednesday. Three others wer
saved through the heroic efforts q
/ comrades
suddenly attacked in broad daylight
/ by an unknown man who dashed
quantity OF su'phuric acid into he
face, Miss Ruth Frances Wilson, /
years old, is In 4 San Francisco no:
/ pitai. suffering terrible agony fror
burns ON her face and neck, and ma
lose her eyesighL