The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-10-27
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
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 Few LInea
lNTERMouNTAIn

lNTEHMOUNTAiN
The threatened strike of engineers
and trainmn on the Colorado Midland
railway has been called off. according
to an announcement made by Presi.
dent Vallery The employees de.
manded 71s per cent wage increase.
Police Detective Joseph Binachi
shot and killed Walter Stanbridge,
alias Frank Harris, aged %, who fed
when the detective attempted to ar
rest him at Seattle. Stanbridge was
drug fiend.
The battleship Oregon, rebuilt and
modernized, moved under her own
steam on October 20 for the first
time in six years and made "a trial
spin from the Bremerton navy yard
to Seattle and return.
Mrs. John A. Widtsoe of Logan,
Utah, was elected a vice-president OF
the Congress of Farm Women at Colo.
RADIO Springs. Mrs. G. A. Merrill of
Salt Lake was chosen member of the
executive committee.
Belle London, mistress of Salt
Lakes stockade, has been sentenced
to eighteen years Imprisonment, hay
Ing been convicted of panderIng. Her
attorneys announce they will appear
to the supreme court.
On the charge of charging excess
sive freight rates, a part of which he
Is alleged to have appropriated to his
own use, ]. G. Todd, Northern Pacific
agent at Yates, Mont, has been taken
to Helena to await the action of the
federal grand jury.
DOMESTIC
Rev. Clarence Virgil Thompson
Richeson, 35 years or age, the pastor
of the Emmanuel Baptist church,
Cambridge, Mass, has been arrested
for the alleged murder of Avis Lin
nell of Hyannis, Mass, to whom he
had been engaged. The young wom-
an was poisoned with cyanide of po.
| tassium, and 1t was at first supposed
that she had suicided to hide her
shame.
Senator La Toilette said few
days ago that no plans have been
completed for campaign speaking
tour in November, although he still
hopes to be able to make several
progressive speeches before congress
meets.
Labor leaders at Kansas City an
nounce that the five allied crafts of
shopmen on strike along the Hartman
railroads are preparing 10 strike on
the Rock Island system.
Twelve men were drowned at Hiber-
mia, N. j., when blast destroyed the
partition between two shafts in the
iron mines of the Wharton Steel
company and let great quantity of
water, accumulated in an old shaft,
flood the gallery where they were at
work.
Miss Emma G. Paulding, a trained
nurse, has announced that she will re.
fuse to accept the bronze Carnegie
medal offered her in recognition Of
her share in a heroic rescue from
drowning at Rhinebeck. ~ Y, in which
her own brother lost his life.
AS a result of an alleged confession
of Ortle e. McManigal, made in Jail
"Wednesday, a subpoena may be is
sued for John e. Munsey, business
agent Of the Structural Iron Workers
union at Salt Lake. McManigal is al
legged to have confessed that Munsey
learned of the alleged conspiracy to
blow up the Times building from the
lips of J. b. Mcnamara in Salt Lake
a few weeks after the explosion.
A verdict for the defendant was
found by the New York jury in Rus
sell G. Griswold's $4,000 breach of
promise suit against Miss Helen
Woodruff Smith of Stamford, Conn.
United States coast artillery has
been recalled to San Diego by the
war department from the Mexican
border line near Campo, Cal, where
1t was sent when Mexican troops
were allowed to cross American ter.
| ritory to conduct an expedition
against the Magonistas in Lower
California. Order in Baja., Cal, ap-
pears to have been restored
Michigan Baptists have adopted a
resolution asking President Taft to
remove from office Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson because of his
appearance at the brewers conven-
ton at Chicago
Addressing the American prison con.
gress at Omaha, L. A. Halbert of Kan.
sas City advocated employment of
prisoners found guilty of misdemean.
ors on farms in every state.
The last step in uniting practically
all the liability insurance companies
OF this country and Europe in one
organization was taken in New Ytrk
on Thursday, when the Liability In
surance association, at it's fifth an
nual meeting, voted to join the COM
| btnation.
An earthquake shock of several
seconds duration was felt at Cordova.
Alaska, on the 18th. The trembler
was not as severe as that of seutem.