The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-08
RECORD or The IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings Thss are Making hlstory
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years ago iObn Wolf, aged ~ years,
was released from the Seattle fail on
suspended sentence Wolf was con.
yieted % boot leggius
The iury Ii the trial u Waiter u,
Moore, president IL The defuHet Ore.
/ gon Trust and aaFfaga bank 81 Port.
land chafR 4 with accepting De.
pesit atteF he kHew the baak 10 be
inselyaut returned ycrdici 81 mot
guilty, hul recommending that Moore
be- MOST severely eensuInd ~ the
court
Copies 81 4 letter signed by ]. J..
Tobias. Chancellor Of the Chicago
i.aw school. aud advocating Clifford
| finchut o. 4 candidate for president
iof tile United states have been re.
rotyed III Denyer
NilHOn Peterson d raueher, living
near MarshiieId, Ore, became sudden.
Is insane and shot hla wife twice aud
attempted 10 XIII his daughter aged
~, and Bessie Hope. aged rs who was
visiting his family when the girls OF
tempted 10 iiaarm him, Peterson then
committed suicide
Satisfying the decree Of his chief
and conforming 10 the laws of his
tribe hy paying the doctors fee aEd
pufehRsiHs tho rude coffin for the In.
dian bad man" he had stabbed 60
death, Henry Dlekins, Modoc county
indian, surrendered to the authorities
Al AltnFas, Cat, was given prellm
mary examination and acquitted on
the ground IL Heii.uetense.
DOMESTIC,
VFeeRWeck a Valdermana, one Of
The most important tirins on the oil
exchange az Amsterdam, failed on
Saturday Their liabilities are report
ed % BE- between slt25 900 and
o., 600 600.
John y Rockefeller, 1r,. IL the lat.
est Sew Nurk millionaire 10 md place
90 The personal tax assessment list.
Hia assessment was Axed At s25O,000.
and was not disputed
-Four persons were burned TO death
In prairie IRE In Mcpherson county,
Nebraska
head, Hugh McFall, a prominent busi'
mesa man OF Mansfield. Ohio, was
found dying on his doorstep II is
believed he WIS assaulted By robbers,
More than 5000 white aud negro
men. women and children. employed
Ia the American Tobacco company's
atemmaFieB nj Louisville. Ky. struck
on ThuradAy for higher wages,
Miss Martha H. Blackstone. daugh,
ter uf G. J Blackstone. was murdered
hy masked burglar IN the home Of
Mrs Sarah J Dow, at Springfield,
Mas Miss Harriet Dow. daughter OF
the house. was shot ia the head and
removed TO Springfield hospital. dy.
tnE The murderer escaped,
George W, Grimm, negro porter,
WAS awarded $1,000 damages for false
arrest aud imprisonment from Daniel
NJ Brady 4 manufacturer, by jury
Ia the supreme court at New York,
reversing the action at previous
tHal when the court laid down the
diCfum that a colurCd man could not
suffer shame 10 the same extent as a
white man rs the result of false ar.
rest
ResecchlnE Judge bupuy Of Chica'
Sc 20 sentence him 10 life imprison'
ment as an incurable morphine user,
Christian E, Matters. pleaded guilty
nf larceny and was sentenced to the
p6nhentlaTy for an indefinite term OF
from enc In ten Years
Commander Robert E PeaIy, In an
interview In Chicago, declared he was
positively thrOush with polar explora.
tons for ALI time. Il am absolutely
ut the end Of ms career as an ex-
Eiblgr,' said he Reports that am
10 had gu expedition tato the ant0rc-
tic tegigus are not true"
Judge Edward T. sanboru Of the
circuit eourt IT the United States at
Nashville. TenR- has handed down an
0ptatou granting 10 the Postal rele.
graph Gable company an Injunction
against the Cumberland Telephone
ard Telegraph company IA Bell com.
uabyl discriminating against the Pos.
tai In the way of use OF telephone.
Announcement OF "A $4,000 gin by
Andrew Carnegie 10 hutId library to
br called the Frances Folsom Cleyr-
land library. IN honor OF President
CtByE.and'a widow. was announced
az The seventh annual reunion Of the
Wells eallgEg Alumni la New York
A strike vote has been ordered an
the Lake Shore 4 Michigan railway
BY the officers 81 the Brotherhood OF
Railway Tralumrn and the order ~
RallGay Conductors, About 20,OO0
met are tnyelyGd. The result IT the
vote will be knoWu on April 5.
fGe grand Jury program. which
calls for the examination % nearly a
hundred directors and officials OF six
I tsbuFg banks, IN connection With
tno alleged bribery Of couuctimeu to
secure iegiElatiun making these banks
8ffieial Repositories for the city. be,
gan on Monday.
Il IL now believed that Alexander
J. Moody, who died at Chicago on
February 20, presumably from pto-
maize poisoning. @as really poisoned
/ ~ alrychnlns, a woman ~ his house.
hold and Que Of his employees being
under EgplciuH Of having administered
the poison,
BY a compromise sis widows Of vic,
TINS Of the Cherry mine disaster. in
which nearly 30e lives We're lost
we're awarded Judgments on wsdDes
! day OF $3.50 each against the 81. Paul