The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-07-16
GENE RAJ.


Brownlow of Tennessee died at John
son City of Bright's disease. Brown
law had served In Congress since
1897.
Caught in q death trap OF quick
sand and mire. William Elbrecht. %
years of age, of Maspeth. L. L., died In
q desperate manner today while
friends sought to save him.
BY an order of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago
reduced sleeping car rates ordered by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
cannot go into effect for several
months, pending a rehearing.
Walter Wellman and Melvin Vani.
man will attempt this fall to cross the
Atlantic ocean In the dirigible balloon
America, which was built for the Well
man polar expedition and has twice
been tested in voyages over the Attic
ocean north OF Spitzbergen.
Three masked burglars intent on
getting $500 in cash and other valu.
ables belonging to the church. were
caught at work In the rectory Of st.
Leonard's Roman Catholic chuch In
Brooklyn. Three priests sprang to the
defense Of the church's treasures.
Thugs and churchmen battled for more
than q quarter of an hour before the
issue was decided in favor of the
priests. The burglars fled.
In q liquor war at Newark, Ohio.
Carl Etherington, 20 years old. en-
ployed by the State Anti-Saloon
League as a blind tiger raider. was
lynched Friday night, following day
of almost continuous rioting. Ether
ington early in the evening confessed
he killed William Howard. proprietor
Of a restaurant and former chief OF
police. In a raid of alleged speak
easies." during the afternoon.
Cleverness on the part of the engin-
eer prevented three youthful bandits
from robbing the Missouri, Kansas C
Texas Southwestern flyer No. near
Larimore, about fifteen miles from st.
Louis. early Sunday morning. Engin-
eer Quinn. through ruse. prevented
the baggage car and passenger
coaches from being looted. The ban
dts at the point OF revolvers com.
PEELED the engineer and fireman to de-
scend from the cab and go with them
to the baggage car to assist in I'M
coupling It. While tinkering about
the coupling the engineer and fireman
managed to slip away in the darkness.
Springing into the cab the engineer
threw the throttle wide open and
dashed away with the train.
Stirred by the growing sentiment
throughout the country against the ex-
hibition Of the Jeffries-Johnson fight
films, George Kleine, William selig
and George T. Spoor, representatives
of the moving picture syndicate have
issued the following statement in Chi
cago: mo effort will be made to
show the pictures In any city or town
where adverse legislation has been
taken. It will not be necessary to get
out injunctions. for this combine does
not intend to buck the law in any city
or state. We do not think these pic
lures are any different from those
which have been displayed of the
Burns and Johnson-Ketchel
fights, but II we find that popular sen
timent is against them we will lay them
on the shelf and not show them at
ALL"
John D. Rockefeller. speaking he
fore the Euclid Avenue Baptist
church Sunday school. declared that
the time had come for universal re-
ligion. In his address Mr.. Rockefeller
declared that his church and Sunday |
school work was one Of the things in
life which gave him the sincerest
pleasure.
The United States submarine boat.
which sailed from Quincy. Mass, on
the afternoon of July 5th made st.
David's Light, Hamilton. Bermuda, at
! O'Clock Sunday morning without the
least damage or mish."-