The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-10-04
NEWS OF 4 WEEK IN
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EVENTS TOLD IN HRIEFKsT
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happenings That Are Making History
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INTERMouNTAiN
The Nevada Consolidated, at Ely,
New, has Issued official announcement
Of general raise In wages TO take
place October /. Employees who are
now receiving s3 Or more per day win
be advanced Is cents, while those re-.
ceiYing less than SO will be given a
raise OF 20 cents d day.
Establishment OF board OF medical
men TO pass on persons desiring to
become Married as to their becoming
fathers and mothers was Endorsed by
the convention Of physicians Of Utah
at Ogden.
William Jennings Bryan's campaign
tour carried him on Thursday to the
picturesque mining towns Of the Com
stock lode lie spoke In Virginia
City. Silver City and Carson, conclud-
Ing his Nevada visit with an address
ut q largely attended meeting In
Reno.
The Republican state platform was
adopted by the state candidates in
conference at Denver on Wednesday.
The tariff plank declares that the In.
dustrles Of Colorado are dependent
upon the maintenance OF duties at
least equal TO the difference In cost OF
production at home and abroad, and
affirms adherence to the protective
principle,
Not guilty" was the verdict of the
Jury In the case of Ray Weaver, on
trial at Shoshone, Idaho, for the muir
der OF Lena Speers, to whom he
mailed drug that caused the girls
death. Weaver produced evidence
that Miss speers had written to him
for the medicine, hoping to relieve an
embarrassing condition.
In dispute over SIC, Mrs. Mary
Theodorson, nineteen years of age, was
shot and killed near her home in Salt
Lake by a Greek, Tom Tesogas, who
later suicidad
DOMESTIC
Judge Loren w. Collins, former jus
tice OF the Minnesota supreme court
and man OF national note in the
9, A. r., died at his home IN Minneap-,
oils, following an attack of heart
trouble.
Ten per cent Of the population OF
the United States Is permanently de-
fectiye and IL an economic and moral
burden on the other ninety per cent,
and should be eliminated from So
oiety, asserted Blocker Van Wagenen
of New York, in speaking to the in
ternational congress on hygiene and
demography at New York.
As the climax to rloting In Augusta,
Ca. and shooting OF three citizens
by state guardsmen Governor Brown
has proclaimed the city to be In
state OF Instruction and ordered the
enforcement of martial
law.
Demar Bowman, the Mormon who
was captured by the Mexican rebels
and held for $4,000 ransom, was liber.
ated ind has returned to Pearson.
1t has just become known that
$t1,500 in gold was mysteriously
stolen September Is from the National
Newark Banking company. The money.
in three bags, was tawen from the
teliers cage while most of the EN-.
ployes were at lunch The theft was
accomplished from the cor.
ridor by means of a long pole and
hook.
Andres Cuevas, one of the Oldest
residents OF California. is dead at So.
boba reservation in San Jacinto. Rec.
ords prove that he was ITO years old.
Two brothers were electrocuted in
the state prison at Eddyville. ny, on
Friday. They were James and Charles
Smith, negroes, who killed an aged
OF their race In a small town
in eastern Kentucky year ago.
Led by letters from husbands who
declared their wives were gambling
in hair.dressing establishment in
New York, police raided the place.
They caught five women, we'll dressed
and apparently wealthy, playing
poker,
AS Sever Yttri and his bride start.
ed on their honeymoon from La
Crosse, Wis. John Peterson, disap-
pointed sutton of the girl, shot and
waiting guests. Peterson then shgt
killed her in view OF hundreds of
His wound is not dangerous
and he was arrested.
Three persons were killed, three Sc.
riously injured and six others slight
ly hurt when a passenger train bound
from Chicago TO Jacksonville was
wrecked near Plainview, Ga.
William H. Bell, twenty.year-old
bank clerk, has confessed that he rob-
bed the First National bank at Pen
sacola, Fla, Of package containing
$50, 1000.
A force of $50 marines will sail from
Philadelphia on the transport Prairie
for Santo Domingo to protect the
American custom house there.
Preparations are being made for the
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