The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-11
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
INTER.MOUNTAIN,

inent attorney of Seattle and former
state senator, committed suicide in his
office by shooting himself through the
head.
Federal indictments charging con
spiracy to defraud the United States
government out of more than 10000 |
acres of Alaska coal lands valued at |
100000 were returned in the Unit
ed States court at Spokane by the fed |
eral grand jury on Thursday against
six men.
A Batlin was shot and probably ia
tally wounded at Garrison, Mont, by |
George Melville, a bartender.
Highwaymen shot and killed ]. E.
Roberts, a real estate man of Seattle, |
and robbed him of $4,000, which he
was carrying to his brothers home to
pay q note. 1t is believed the high
waymen had knowledge of his pos
session of the money and followed
him from his home.
Harry ]. Weiter, the Bellingham,
Wash, banker, convicted of receiving
deposits when he knew the bank was
nsolyent, has been sentenced to four
years Imprisonment.
DOMESTIC.
Louis Hoffman, a butcher, shot and
killed his twelve-year-old son Carl,
wounded his wife, his brother Ernest
and the latter's son Walter, at Cedars-
burg, Wis.
A rr,, oy,plos;op in tho yr,ines nf the
Yolande Coal and Coke company, near
Birmingham, Ala, killed five men.
Helen Starr, 16 Yeas Ulu, IVES killed
at Akron, O., and her sister, Anna,
slightly hurt, and Laura Walkirk,
Is, so badly injured that she will prob
ably die when an automobile, in an
attempt to dodge a motorcycle, ran
onto the sidewalk and struck the girls.
John Seckanina, who had deserted
his wife a year ago, entered the little
grocery conducted by the woman in
Chicago, on Thursday, shot her dead
wounded the baby in her arm, and
then killed himself.
Santa Barbara county, California,
has been practically determined upon
as the site for a great Russian colony.
The leader of the plan is Paul Cher
box, editor of a Russian publication
| in Los Angeles.
One of the fiercest fires in the his.
tory of Philadelphia Thursday night
destroyed two large buildings that
were supposed to be fireproof and
! three residences.
Dexter Loomis, a prisoner charged
with horse stealing, was perhaps fatal
ly injured, during a mutiny at the
county Jail at Lawton, Oklahoma.
A Pullman car was burned while a
Rock Island train was nearing Tex
ahora, Texas one passenger being
burned to death.
The Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon has
completed the dramatization Of his
book. In His Steps" 1t will be pro-
duced December 10 and 20, at the
Central Congregational church in To
peka, Kans., of which DIR. Sheldon Is
pastor
John J. Smith of Norfolk, Va, has
been sentenced to death for the MUIR
der OF his wife and his 13-year-old
daughter. Smith will be electrocuted
December Sth.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
Merchants and Farmers bank at Hi
lard, Ohio and took between $4,000
to $4,000 in gold and currency.
Motorcycles are the latest vehicles
To be used by burglars in Kentucky
Several men mounted on these swift
moving machines raided small town:
in Boyle county.
H. P. Mccoy, a clerk in the aud!
tors office OF the Southern PaClnt
railway at Tucson, Arizona, has b-eI
awarded a Carnegie medal and PIE
If $1,000 for having saved a work
mans life at the risk of his own.
John Willhart. assistant chief Girl
If the federal prison at Leavenwo. tn
Kans., has been dismissed from tn
government service as the result of
recent investigation of the affairs
the prison.
Charles Ritch and George OYiat
we're killed and Arthur Miller was ia
ally injured, when a threshing ma
chine boiler exploded near LaPeel
! Mich.
] Charles E. Erbstein of Chicago, o
: counsel for Lee O'Neil Browne, VIII
r was recently acquitted on charge G
brfbing a state representative to Vot
| for William Lorimer for Unite
l States senator, has been indicted
charged with corrupting member c
t. the jury that cleared Browne.
: Jacob Meyers, a wealthy farme'
near Sterling, Ills, 50 years of ag'
. and Miss Ellen Wraft, is years OLE
= eloped and were married Meyer
son, 60 years old, objected to the ma
riage. The bridegroom has thre
! great-grandchildren.
That Jose Zavalde, a Spanish ele'
r trician, working in Moro castle an
{ probably a fanatic, was responsible
f for the destruction of the battleshi
4 ! Maine. was the statement made
=, Kansas City Wednesday night by Co
, onel Jasper E. Brady, retired.
A bullet from the sky killed Ralp
Lisman, eight years old, at Sullivan
Ind. His playmate, Lawrence Barku
trying out a new rife, shot into tn
] air and both boys peered upwar
hoping to see the bullet. Descendin
: 1t struck the Lisman boy in the rigl
Z | ,,,. arnnnnd dead