The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-07-12
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lNTERMouNTAIN


Bedford, Va.
Mr. and Mrs y. Kirke Of Littleton,
Colo, were killed Thursday when an
automobile in which they were riding
was struck by an engine on the DEN
yer Il Rio Grande railroad at grade
crossing. Mr.. Kirke was thrown from
the automobile and killed instantly.
Mrs. Rirke died later
Mrs Agnes @. Fitzpatrick, wife Of
Thomas J, Fitzpatrick OF Dubuque,
Iowa, a member OF the credentials
committee at the Elks' convention at
Portland, died suddenly near Harlow
ton, Mont, on special Elk train from
Dubuque to Portland.
John r. Brown was acquitted at
Price. Utah, OF the charge OF having
murdered his daughter and her hus.
band at Moab, November 10. Brown
shot James A. Dubois and his wife,
but the Jury decided the killing of the
woman was accidental. and that he
was justified in killing Dubois,
Abe Attell showed his old.time form
I Wednesday at Tacoma BY defeating
Eddie Marine In ten rounds of fast
boxing, in which the former champion
led all the way.
DOMESTIC
Senator Cummins OF Iowa, progress.
sive Republican candidate for the
presidential nomination at the Chi
cago convention, has formally de.
clared against the new party move
ment led by Theodore Roosevelt and
announced his allegiance to the old
party.
A lone bandit who late Friday en-
/ tered the Rome Savings bank at
Rome, Iowa, shot Cashier +. w. Hile-
man and escaped with $500, was shot
and killed by member OF party
that had been securing the country
in motor cars for several hours in
search for the Tobber,
Jack Johnson declares that he In.
tends to retire from the ring for good
after Labor day
Whether there will be a third party
organization in Missouri" said Cover.
nor Hadley on his return to Jeffer.
son City, Mo, on Friday, Il do not
| know. | know, however, there Is no
| occasion for any such organization"
The headless body of Angelica Par
meter was found by farmer In the
| Blackstone river near Providence, r.
l., and Henry De Shrover, with whom
the woman had eloped from France,
has been charged with her murder.
Suffrage received short shrift Fri,
day Mt the hands of President Moore
Of the General Federation of Won
ems clubs in session at San Fran
CISCO, Two attempts to bring the is-
sue before the biennial convention
were both ruled out of order
Twenty-Five persons were killed
and more than thirty injured, several
fatally, when heavy freight train
crashed into a passenger train near
Latrobe. Pa,
Eugene yagliO, aged As, Friday
killed his brother, John vaglio
proprietor of the Central hotel at
Dawson, Y, T.. his brothers wife and
their two children, Rosa, aged 10,
and Christina, aged 3, and then com.
mitted suicide.
Owners of patents as well as own
ers OF oil. who monopolize interstate
commerce by combination with others,
are included in the application of the
Sherman antitrust act, according to
an opinion of the fun bench OF the
Massachusetts supreme judicial court,
handed down Wednesday in suit in
volying the United Shoe Machinery
company.
Colonel Roosevelt has issued a
statement to his friends, declaring he
will stick in the fight. even II he
| doesn't get one electoral vote.
Mrs. Sarah Plat Decker, former
president of the General Federation OF
| Women's clubs, was taken to a SAM.
| .arium in San Francisco Tuesday
| aight and is said to be seriously H. |
The South Dakota Democratic con.
vention. adopted platform declaring
for sweeping tariff reduction, presi. |
Dental primary, popular election of
senator's and the recall
Richard Harding Davis, the novelist.
and Bessie Mccoy, the actress, are to
De married on July s, according to
statement made by Mr.. Davis at his
home in Mount Kisco, N. Y.
The Jack Johnson-Jim Flynn forty
ive-round fight for the heavyweight
championship was brought to close
n the ninth round by the state po-
ice, after Flynn had resorted to but
| ing tactics FLYNN made a Moor
showing against the colored cham
pion.
| Absolutely refusing by vote of
.wo to one to indorse Taft or the ac.
ion of the national Republican con-
5ention held recently in Chicago, the
Republican state convention Of South
Dakota elected five presidential cleo
.ors bearing the Roosevelt label.