The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-01
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD mi sRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given IN Few Lines
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to have embezzled 1852 November
10 last, was arrested at Los Angeles
by poatcffice inspectors. Louden u
said to have confessed and VIII be
taken TO Idaho for trial Immediately.
The supreme court OF Montana has
affirmed the Judgment Of the Silver
Bow court In the case of w. A. Rob
erts. convicted at Butte for the muir
der OF William Verholz and given
twelve years in the penitentiary.
William s. Sandercock, aged Az,
was beaten and shot to death by
burglars at Garfield, Utah, early
| wednesday morning. Two suspects
are under arrest.
Returns from the local option cleo
lions In Kootenat and Idaho counties,
| Idaho, show that prohibition was de-
feated by a small margin. Both coun-
ties voted "dry" two years ago.
DOMESTIC
| six men. haxe been convicted OF as.
saulting Mary Chamberlain, q school
\ teacher, near Lincoln Center, kans.,
/ and pouring tar on her Four nave
/ been sentenced to one year in the
county Jail, and the others will DC
sentenced later,
Samuel b. Axtell, former editor Of
a newspaper at Lodi. Cal, was found
guilty Of having murdered Charles Sol
lars a business man OF Lodi. The jury
recommended that Axtell be confined
/ In prison for life.
The jury at Springfield, Mass, In
the case of Bertram G. Spencer,
/ charged with the killing Of Miss Mar
that B. Blackstone, returned a YER
diet finding the defendant guilty of
first degree murder.
DIR. Arthur McDayit, chargd with a
statutory offense in connection with
the Imprisonment of Miss Jessie Nc
i Donald for sixteen months in a room
next his office in San Bernardino, Cal.
/ was found guilty by the Jury, which
deliberated less than half an hour
Women voted Saturday in the liquor
election at Fullerton, Cal, and the
city was carried for prohibition by a
vote of $40 to 100.
death at dawn Friday, at Richmond,
Va, the confessed murderer of his
young wife, although the confession
was not made public until four hours
after he had paid the toll exacted by
the law. Beattie walked to the cleo
/ trio chair with firm tread and a
sneer on his face.
Three persons were killed and two
seriously, perhaps fatally injured,
when an inbound train from Riverside
wrecked an automobile at a grade
crossing near Cotton, Cal
That the Amalgamated Society of
Carpenters and Joiners must merge
with the United Brotherhood of Car,
penters and Joiners of America by
July next or lose their charter in
the American Federation of Labor,
was decided by the federation conven
ton at Atlanta, Ga.
II an operation to be performed
upon George Pierce. at Los Angeles, Is
successful, he will breathe in through
his lungs and out through openings
cut in his skin, As the result of an
injury to his right lung, Pierce can
tnhale, but cannot exhale.
A masked white man robbed the
mail car of Atlantic Coast Line train
No. 65 between Registers and Column
bia, s. c., took the registered letters,
stopped the train and jumped of just
before 1t reached the city limits.
One hundred and fifty Chinese stu
dents whose means of educational
support was recently cut off by the
Manchus, will give up their college
careers In America and return to
China on the liner Persia, Novem-
Der 80.
Elmer w. Moore, treasurer of the
Federal Oil G Gas company, was ar
rested at Pittsburg on capais, issued
by Judge Charles Orr of the United
States circuit court. 1t is alleged
there Is a shortage of 100000 in the
accounts OF the company,
Progressive Republican league
leaders held conference at Detroit
on the 22nd, to lay plans for further
ing the presidential candidacy OF Sem
alto La Toilette in Michigan.
Samuel Astergutt, a wholesale
meat deliverer and cattle buyer of
Alvarado, Cal, was killed when mis-
automobile slxidded and hurled him
against fence.
The advocates OF federal appro-
priations for highway improvement
were victorious at the Good Roads con-
gress at Richmond, Va. when the
resolutions came to final vote. The
yeIls of the southern delegates, who
have led the fight for government
help, filed the auditorium when the
report of the resolutions committee
was adopted
Two children were fatally injured
and a number of men were seriously
hurt when fire destroyed the plant OF
the J. Baum Safe and Lock company