The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-09-29
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FNTEHMouNTAIN
Charged with misappropriation Of
funds sent to the Denver office from
substations and outside offices, Jos.
eph r. Haylick, for fifteen years sup
erintendent of the money order diyi.
sion OF the Denver postoffice, has
been arrested.
While watching workmen removing
a telephone pole from the streets OF
Ogden. Utah, John Farnsworth, aged
3, was crushed to death when the
pole came crashing down to the
ground.
Mistaking his companion for a
bear, Robert Waddle Of Centralia,
Wash, shot and killed @. j. Gates Of
Bucoda, Wash. The two men were
lifelong friends.
Henry y. Wayne, his wife and baby,
and Mrs, Alice Burnham and her two
children were found dead in their
homes In Colorado Springs. all six hay
Ing been murdered with an ak. There
Is no clue to the murderer.
John 7, Game, pioneer of Utah and
ex-deelgate to congress, died at his
home In Salt Lake, September 20, at
the age OF 49, Death was caused by
the natural decline incident to his ad.
vanced age, FASTENED by the grief and
shock Of his wife's death last July
When an officer called to serve G.
M, Smith with a summons for jury
duty in the Pelizzari murder trial, he
found the man had Just committed
suicide In his workshed in Sparks, Ne.
yada.
\ DOMESTIC
| Obediah Gardner OF Rockland, Me-,
has been appointed United States SEN
ator TO succeed the late Senator vii.
liam r. Frye, Mr.. Gardner was Dem
ocratic candidate for governor OF
Maine in 1906.
Nine or ten persons. all slays,
We're killed in boarding house fire
at Youngstown, o. The fire started
from a gas explosion.
Dare Deyir' Castellane, a Curtiss
aviator. met instant death at the
Maggiel Pa, fair. He had started in
an exhibition flight and when three
quarters OF mile from the grounds
his machine fell.
IL was announced at the conven.
ton OF the International Association
Of Bridge and Iron Workers at Mil.
waukee that 100000 had already
been collected by the organization
for the defense of ]. J. Mcnamara,
national secretary. The total funds
win probably reach 100000,
Forced into the air by the jeers OF
thousands who called him coward
Frank H. MILLER, 20 years old, Tole-
! do, o., aviator, shot into the sky at
Troy. o., and when two hundred feet
up was burned to death before the
eyes Of the spectators on the Miami
county fair grounds.
Footstuffs which might have been
affected by an influx OF Canadian
products had Laurier and his govern.
ment not been defeated In Canada,
rose sharply in price in all American
supply centers on Friday Wheat
| led the advance
President Taft had heart-to.heart
talk ut Peoria on Friday with the
leaders OF the different Republican
factions in Illinois, defined his status
as 10 progressiyeness, pleaded guilty
TO being very poor politician, &C.
kuowledged again that his ambition
had lain in the direction OF the office
81 chief Justice rather than the presi.
dency, admitted that he had made
many mistakes, but asserted that as
| president hS had tried to do what he
thought TO be right
After being shot twice by Mayor ].
II, Johnson OF oakhurst. Ca, p. w.
zuber. a grocer OF the town, beat the
mayor to death with piece OF scant.
ling, AS zuber dealt the last blow
with the scantlipg he fell dying ON
the body OF the man whom he had
killed.
A car ON the Taunton 4 pawtucket
street railway was stalled for nearly
an hour at Providence, II. L.. by an
army OF potato bugs which covered
the track. Finally the motorman man.
aged to get his car started over the
slippery insect mass by using sand.
Mary Mccarthy, believed to have
been the oldest person in Massachu.
sets. died at West Stockbrldge. Sat.
urday. aged liz years, For more than
fifty years she had lived alone in a
little house on the outskirts OF the
town
Egbert Gillespie. the shaker elder.
who with Elizabeth Sears. IS alleged 10
have administered chloroform to Sadie
Marehant. another member OF the
Shaker colony az Kissimee, Fla, has
been held for trial for murder.
Threatening to shoot the first man
who attempted to enter her house. the
wife of O. w. Toenges, former cashier
of the Night and Day bank at Mem.
phts, Tenn, held at bay for three
hours officers who had come IN orrest