The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-25
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD ~ 5RIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
GIven In Few LInes.
INTER.MouNrAIN.

plate in front of the furnace, he at
| tempted to turn on an electric light
A power line OF the electric company
had become entangled with the light
ing circuit.
Ralph tombstone, the brilliant young
| aviator, holder OF the worlds altitude
record, dropped like plummet from
a height of 500 feet into the Enclosure
at Overland Park aviation field al
Denver on Thursday and was instant
~ killed, every bone in his body be
ing broken.
4 Charles Moore of Pierce, Colo,
filled his pipe with tobacco from q
pocket of his hunting coat and rl..e
cartridge got mixed with the tobacco
The resulting explosion shattered the
pipe and the bullet grazed Moore's
head, infiicting a slight wound
Ex-senator Clark of Montana has
donated S150,000 to the Los Angeles
Young Women's Christian association
to be used in erecting home for
working girls, as a memorial to his
mother, Mary Andrews Clark, who
died in Los Angeles a few years ago
i Horace G. Henry. millionaire build
or, banker and philanthropist, has
obtained a city license to do business
as pawnbroker at Seattle. It is his
purpose to lend small sums of money
on collateral at low rate of interest
to needy persons who might other
wise fall into the clutches OF extor,
/ toners
i Fitzjames Mccarthy, well known as
a newspaper man and writer under
pseudonym of 'Fitzmac," who for years
lived in Denver, died in Poenix, Ari'
zona, on November Is.
DOMESTIC.
Myron Crippen, father of DR.. H. H.
Crippen, condemned to death in Lon
don for the murder of his wife, Belle
Elmore, died at Los Angeles on Sun
day, from old age and grief over his
sons conviction.
Contrasting, according to the police,
that he had shot and killed Mrs.
Richards and probably fatally injured
her daughter, Mrs. Peter Fauls, after
having been caught stealing at her
home near Pottsville, Pa, Frank
Mitchell has been placed in jail.
Judge John r. Mccall, in the United
States circuit court at Jackson, Tenn,
rendered verdict which ended the
efforts of the government to have as
sessed against the Standard Oil COM
pany of Indiana penalties aggregating
more than $30,000,000. The judge in
structed that verdict of not guilty
be returned.
Insurgent leaders,. who have at
tackled the integrity of the administra-
ton of the national grange, patrons
of husbandry, may be expelled unless
they prove their charges, according to
advices from Atlantic City, N. J.
Thomas Baron, one of the wealth.
est farmers of Drake county, Ohio, was
Killed by his son Charles, "a years old,
while the two were shooting rats in
the granary.
Wassili Ivankowsk and Andre Isuen
have been sentenced to death for the
murder of Thomas A. Landregan, a
shoe manufacturer, and Policeman
James H. Carroll in Lynn on June 25
last.
Frank Stevens, an automobile driv-
err of Oakland, Marie Brown and Gertie
Davis, two women of Moren, were
killed in an automobile accident near
Maricopa, Cal.
/ Decapitated and dismembered,
crushed and mangled beyond all rec.
ognition, portions of the body of q
man We're picked up along the rail-
road track in Sacramento, being
strewn for almost an entire block.
A jury at Duqueen, Ark, has return,
ed verdict of murder in the first de-
gree against John Ford and his wife
Leila Ford, for the killing of William
Nichols, on September 30. Judge
Cowling sentenced both to be hanged
on January 20.
Juan Buroel, Mexican, who it is
claimed was 1872 year months and
20 days old, died at San Diego, CAL
on the 18th. Buroel was. born in Son
ora. Mexico, and had lived in this
country many years.
Ella Smith of Benton Harbor, Mich,
uV years VI uSSt huokdnu VI lhS VIZ
man who received burns when her
clothing caught fire. from which she
died, now rests in cell in the coun
ty Jail. charged with the murder o.
his wife.
George Bohmp. q 16-yearold schoo
boy, is in custody at Glendale, L. l,
charged with using a fiame-tipped ar
row TO set fire to the home Of .
wealthy neighbor. The boy had beer
reading novels about how Indians Sc
fire to the cabins of their white enc
mics.
Drowned in his own developing
tank, where he had lain for three days
the swollen body of August obermuel
Ter, an aged photographer, was -foun;
in rear room behind the studio il
New York City he had occupied fo
thirty years.
The defenseless condition of th'
Pacific coast In the event of suddel
war and the necessity or sattleshil
fleet in the Pacific, was the keynote
Of the speeches made Thursday be
/ fore the first Pacific coast, congress
called by Governor James n. Gillett
, in San Francisco.
Christ Frederick. a retired farmer
| hought a cemetery lot and monumen