The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-02-10
DOM EsTIC

DOMESTIC
Three million pounds of butter
must be shipped abroad during the
next few weeks in order to prevent
heavy Losses in cold storage holdings.
according to commission men of Chi
cago.
The commission appointed to deter
mine the sanity of Ewing Watterscn,
son of Col Henry Watterson of Louis
vile, KY, reported that WatteTson
was insane July /, last, when he shot
Michael j. Martin at Saugeries, N.
Y, and is still insane.
The bodies of three Chinese, We
tins of the murderous band of Next
can smugglers whose existence was
revealed by one celestial whom they
had failed to kill, have been found il
a canyon near Noga,es, Ariz. The
Chinaman had been lured to the place
on promise of being struggled across
the border and robbed and murdered.
Three hundred passengers had a
narrow escape from drowning when
East River. The shock of the collision
tilted the float, causing several of
the cars to slide from the tracks. A
deck hand fell across the tracks and
one of the cars passed over him, kill
ing him instantly.
Gen. Jacob H. Smith of Samar island
fame, broke his years of silence last
Saturday and defended the course of
acton which preceded his retirement
from the army following his memoir
able campaign of 1902. General Smith
denied vigorously that he had ordered
| or countenanced the killing of women
and children by his soldiers.
A bill to legalize limited boxing
contests in Connecticut has been in
| troduced in the legislature.
The senate constitutional amend
ment. providing for the submission of
| the question of woman's suffrage to
the people was passed by the Cali
fornia assembly, 65 to 6. The amend
ment already had passed the senate.
Miss Edna Cooper and Stanley
| Clark are dead, and four companions
are injured. three probably fatally, as
| a result of a collision between a Chi
cago Great Western motor car and an
| automobile at st. Joseph, Mo.
President Taft has committed the
sentence of Fred D. Warren, the
| Kansas Socialist editor, who was re-
| Gently sentenced to six months i'm
| prisonment and $500 fine, by strik-
! ing out the Imprisonment and reduc-
| ing the fine to 800, 10 be collected
| by civil process only.
Salina Bowling. the most beautiful
| halfbreed maiden in Alaska. was ar
| rested at Juneau, following an invesu-
CATION into the death of her mother,
| Mary Bowling, who died in agony af-
| ter eating three fish brought to her
by John Harris, an Indian sultor Tor
| her daughters hand.
Thirty people were killed and a
property less of nearly million dol
! lars resulted from the explosion OF
dynamite being unloaded at Commul-
! ipaw. N. Y. The cause of the accident
| will probably never be known. ihe
shock of the explosion was felt 40
miles away.
Joseph G. Robin, alleged wrcck-r
| of banks, must stand trial on eight IN
| dictments charging larceny in the
first degree. Although five alienists
testified that in their opinion he was
| crazy, a jury before Judge Swan IN
! New York City, thought otherwise
William Mckinley, a shopkeeper'
of Newark. O.. has been found guilty
of manslaughter in connection with
the lynching last July Of Carl Ether
lngton, a detective for the dry" eLe,
ment of the community. Mckinley
is the second of the mob leaders to
be convicted.
Mrs. Ida J. Golden, AFTER Sleeplhs
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