The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-06-09
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or The IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 5RIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Az
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given IN Few Lines.
lnTERMouNTAlN


Mrs. Riley OF Portland, ore. was dan
gerously wounded by the woman's
husband az Bend, Ore, while endeay
oring TO escape from an Infatuated |
husband, who later surrendered to the
police.
Trailed TO their room In a Denver
hotel, two highwaymen made stand |
against three detectives, and In the
battle which followed one OF the ban
dts, James Lynch, was mortally In |
jured.
Almost one week TO the hour after
8. r. Won Phui Of st. Louis and two
bystanderB were wounded In mid
night fusillade OF shots fired by Har.
old r. Henwood IN the Brown Palace
hotel bar room az Denver, George u,
Copeland, wealthy mining man OF
Victor, Colo. an innocent spectator,
died from the effects of his wounds.
The national anthem. sung on the
streets by a hundred thousand per.
sons. will be one OF the features of
the sane Fourth OF July celebration
planned for Denver.
The frst through train from Chi
cago over the Chicago. Milwaukee &
| Puget Sound railroad, rolled into Ia
coma Wednesday morning, with , a
crowd OF $500 citizens and brass
band 10 welcome 1t.
Robert Lester. formerly assistant
passenger agent for the Oregon Short
Line at Butte. Mont, was arrested at
San Jose, Cal, ON charge Of embez'
element, He was traced through let
tiers written by his wife.
DOMESTIC
! Although the wheat win not be
ready to cut for two or three weeks,
Kansas farmers already have called
for 10000 harvest hands, ..
Eight hundred miners employed at
the Hollenbeck, Pa, mine of the Lee
high and Wilkesbarre Coal company
went out on strike Friday, Their
grievance ia alleged excessive dock
age.
For time on Friday San Francisco
had two chiefs OF police and for the
moment Il looked as II Mayor Nc
Carthy's long and hard fight TO de-
pose Chief Seymour would be success
full.
w, Hampton Caffey, so years old, a
drug clerk OF Pittsburg, Kans,, has
been sentenced to serve thirty years
I In the Kansas pen!tentiaTy for wife
murder. He shot and killed his wife
February %, 1911. after quarrel with
her
The Davidson county. Tenn. grand
Jury returned an Indictment against
u. G. Goodpasture of 0verton county,
accused of Offering to bribe Repre-
!, sentative J. II. Mcdonald. Republi'
cun, by Offering him $500,
Mrs. Lena Feakin of McCook and
II. II. Culbertson of Brimheld, ILL.,,
both injured In the Burlington wreck
at mdanola, Ills, died Wednesday
This brings the death list up Ia
eighteen.
The directors OF the American To
=. bacco company met Wednesday, hui
=, Il was announced after the meeting
that the company had nothing more
-. to say regarding the decision OF the
supreme court,
Charles Gibson, p years old, was
!, fatally wounded at Nj Jnongahela, Pa.
y the result of being shot through the
: body with Il gas pipe ramrod from al
old smooth bore cannon while firing
a salute ON Memorial day,
Professor j. ]. Abel OF Hopk'n ms has
!, produced u heart stimulant from pots
p onous toads that eNCels dtgiraliS sue
cessful demonstrations OF the new
ID drug have been made,
Rather than we'd man whom she
did not love, eighteen-year-old Re
becca Boltman hurled herself from |
third floor window of her home II
! New York City and sustained injuries
! from which she will probably die,
+ A cyclonic storm struck Brook Parl
and Pukegama, Mimi. Tuesday after
o noon, killing three persons and injur
, ing several
The total investment in electri
light plans In the United States 4
0 more than 5000 ,000 900. according 4
: reports presented to the Nationa
9 Electric association.
Il Miss Vera Mcdonald, 10 years old
= and Charles Scadden. 81 years old
y we're drowned in the Sacramento rive
few miles north Of Sacramento, Cal
when a skin capsiZed
+ Charles II. Picard OF Melrcse. Cal
l. In whose home an internal machin
0 blew up, severely injuriug a constable
d has explained that he had arrange
" the machine In hopes that II would b
> encountered by his wife, to whom ha
been granted writ OF restitution 70
- the house.
n Theodore Roosevelt stood besid
n General Daniel w. Sickles,, the onl
IT surviving corps commander of tn
10 civil war, at Grants tomb. Decoratio
n day. and aroused a Memorial da
d. throng to long applause by the denul