The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-01-13
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
accord OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD w 5RIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
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Three masked men entered the sa-
loon OF Eugene Quilici at Inlay Ne
yada, and shot the owner dead, fol-
lowing BY shooting his wife In the
back. She IS believed 70 be fatally
injured. The robbers took $1,000 in
cash and departed in the darkness.
While sitting in his home in Seat
tie, Thursday night, Captain OF Po-
lice John Sullivan was shot by some
person who fired through the win
dow. Sullivan was taken to a hospi-
tai, and 1t is said he cannot recover.
He was formerly chief Of police.
The executive committee of the
Western Federation Of Miners has
adopted resolutions condemning the
sentencing OF sixteen strikers OF the
northern Colorado coal fields to pri-
son for a year for contempt, and
calling upon organized labor In Colo
RADIO to bring impeachment proceed
lngs against Judge Greeley w. Whit
ford OF Denver
The police are convinced that the
two men who robbed the mail car OF
the Northern Paclfic's eastbound
north coast limited as 1t was leaving
Seattle. and shot and seriously wound
ed Harry o. Clark, one of the mail
clerks. are still in Seattle.
Two masked highwaymen entered a
mail car on the Northern Pacific near
Auburn, Wash, and after shooting
and badly iniuring one of the mail
clerks, locked the two mail clerks in
"a closet and looted the car.
Six deaths resulted from an explo-
sion of coal dust in the Portland ce-
ment works at Portland, Colo, two
are in the hospital fatally burned,
while another, badly burned, lies in
the hospital, but will recover.
While trying to save his 6-year-old
son, James Forgie, proprietor of the
Forgie hotel at Milford, Utah, perish
ed in the flames that destroyed his
hotel early Tuesday morning.
DOMESTIC
Opposition of the Union League
club of New York to Jews has result
ed In the refusal of admittanee to the
club of William Loeb, Jr., collector
of the port of New York and at one
time secretary to former President
Roosevelt.
The explosion and fire that almost
destroyed the plant of the General
Electric company in Minneapolis, in.
iuring three men and causing an esti-
mated loss of $750,O00, left the city
practically in darkness.
A satisfactory agreement has been
reached between the Vacuum Oil
company, an American corporation
and the Austro- Hungarian minister OF
finance, in the controversy between
that company and the oil companies
controlled by Austro-Hungarian CAPT
tai.
After his father had been arrested
in connection with the shooting to
death of his grandmother, a five-year-
old boy OF Danville, KY, confessed
that he had shot the woman accident
ally and had run away to escape a
whipping.
Frederick Plaisted of Augusta, Me-,
took the oath OF office in the hall of
representative Thursday and is now
governor of Maine, the first Democrat
to hold the office in thirty years, OF
since the completion of the term OF
his father, the late General Harris NJ
Plaisted.
johnson Thurston or Altoona, Pa.
Weighing about $50 pounds, stepped Of
m iee.inerusted sidewalk and in fall
ing crushed a perambulator in which
an S-months-old infant was riding
The child was instantly killed
The little mining town of Hart, Cal.
was destroyed by fire Thursday will
loss OF more than $4,000.
With the appointment of a board o
control, composed or one membe
from each of the tobacco counties o
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, an indt
pendent movement to combine tn
growers into one organization starte
at Lexington, KY, on Thursday.
According to statements made |
Cincinnati by President Barney Dire!
fuss, the joint schedule committee {
the National and American league
has arranged the schedules for bot
leagues so that each club will say
/ between $1,000 and $4,000 in railws
fares next year
Two masked bandits entered Il
: office OF the Augelus hotel, in
Paso, Texas, and robbed the safe
about $4,000 in cash and iewelry. III
clerk and porters were forced in
e tho basement at the point OF rev
Yers.
q Senator Stephen B, EIkins of We
Virginia died at midnight wednesds
death being due 10 blood poisoniI
Senator Eikins was born in Ohio
q 1871, and was first elected to the 81
ate in 1895, after having served
many public positions, having be
Il secretary Of war under Benjamin II
o Tison.
o Mr.. and Mrs Chris Nelson. as
J. aighty-twO and seveuty-two we're bu
= ed 10 death in a fire which destroy
= their home az Yankton. S. d. Tt
IT were we'll known residents. The (
gin Of the fire is unknown.
: Walter Logh. alias Fred Brand
a twenty-five years old. an inmate
~ the Karsaa ssa.. s-fs-,s,.,,