The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-12-20
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Spokane. Democratic national com
mitteeman for Washington. has been
convicted OF charge OF grand lar
ceny and given an indeterminate sem
tence In the state reformatory.
william Davidson, Utah pioneer,
who freighted between Corinne, Utah,
and Helena In the early days, but for
the last twenty-elght years engaged
In horse raising and ranching near
Belt and Arlington, Mont, Is dead
Albert Burt. convicted at Butte
Of the murder OF Thomas slonskl. was
sentenced 10 100 years in the peniten-
tlary A quarrel between the mems
wives led TO Inc killing, which oc-
CARED August O.
Kit Gould, an attorney OF Seattle,
has lodged complaint against his SON
in.iaw, Pardon ] Keyea. who, he said,
had planted dynamite under his bed
room with view 70 blowing him up
Ethel Williams was found dead In
her room In Bingham. Utah, having
been choked TO death. Two foreign
ers are suspected Of the crime.
G. johnson and wife were found
dead in bed at their hotel In Denver.
with bullet wounds Ia their heads. The
couple came to Denver recently from
Hutchinson, Kansas,
DOMESTIC
Lady Show YOU" hen that won
the national egg-laying contest at the
state poultry station, Mountain Grove,
Mo. this year, was sold at Springfield,
Mo-, last week for $500 by ], Blcker-
dite OF Millersville. Illinois.
Three persons were killed and eight
Injured. several mortally, when an ex.
press train on the Central railroad OF
New Jersey ran into an automobile
stage at a grade crossing between
Roosevelt and Perth Amboy. N. J.
Following the lead set by the
women OF Philadelphia. the Womens
Clean Food league OF Chicago Ia pre-.
pairing war for lower prices for eggs
The wooden frigate Nipsic, for sew
eral years past prison ship at the
Bremerton, Wash, navy yard Is to be
offered for sale within a few weeks
The vessel was launched In 1879 and
performed many important duties on
the Pacific coast and In the Orient.
Mrs. Clara Schumann, 80 years old
Jumped to her death from the fif
teenth story OF the new Bank OF Com
merce building In st, Louis. Nearly
eyry bone in her body was broken
She had been under treatment for Q
nervous disease.
Because she frequently sang sons
for thirty-slx consecutive hours, Mrs
Florence Queen, whose home Is sait
to be In North Dakota, was sentenced
to ninety days in the workhouse Al
Minneapolis.
An aged widow, known only as Mrs
McMullen, was found dead OF starva
ton In squalld hut In Chicago. Their,
was neither fuel nor food In the room
3 and some OF the window panes wer'
3 out.
One man Is missing and eleven per
; sons were Injured as result of a fir
0 which destroyed Library place. -four
!, story brick apartment building Ii
Q pittsburg. causing a loss estimated a
100000.
Q Rudolph II. Miller, years old, 10
i. twentyShree years in the railway ma
. service and formerly preacher
y pleaded guilty at Lincoln, Neb., I
n stealing letters from the mails.
& Only one Chicago hotel Is maxim
, an extra charge for bread and butte
served with meals, according to o
II icers OF the Hotelmens' Proteetiv
1. association, which met in Chicago o
i. Friday.
4, Two former councilmen Of Allan /.
. City, N. j.. were found guilty of COZ
Q spring 10 accept brides for the pas
age OF an ordinance authorizing a Co
II crete board walk.
N With the melting pot at white hea
Z, and moids waiting for the liquid me
d al. Giaeinto de Carrie and his vii
r were arrested at their home In Bra
10 dock. Pa. by secret operatives I,
a. counterfeiting.
Several hundred striking employee,
ID Of the New York, Susquehanna ra
3 way amhushed under the pallisas
n overlooking the Hudson river open,
Is fire on a boetload OF strikebreako
Z, landing at coal docks In Edgewatt
~ N. ]. Two railroad detectives we
n killed.
y Twenty-Five thousand dollars stalk,
- on the California election will be pa
- on at San Francisco by Comm seion
~ Tom Corbett Those who bet In
g Roosevelt would carry the state vi
- Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. former
president of the National Education
lu association. has been reelected for
- third term superintendent of seho,
'lt for Chicago.
Thomas ]. Lynch was re-elec,
- president OF the National league
20 the annual meeting OF that organ
- ton In New York. and John Arm
Heyder reelected secretary