The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-07-18
NEWS OF A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or The IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFRsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
sfappenInas That Are Making tiistery
--informatlon Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe sna
Given IN Few LInea
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INT ERMouNTAiN
The nfty.hrst annual convention ot
the National Education association,
held a. Salt Lake city, came TO close
Friday night, the meeting being gem
orally considered az orc or the most
auccessful Ia the history OF the or.
ganizatIon.
Denver & Rio Grande officials deny
that the decision OF the interstate
commerce commission will have such
a far-reaching effect as to force them
70 Yield ownership OF the Utah Fuel
company, but say II may force them
% contine their Interests 10 strictly In
| terstate trafiic.
A lone bandit supposed to be Hugh
Whitney. robbed the state bank at
Rigby, Idaho, OF $4,000. and, after
locking the cashier and assistant cash
Ter In the vaut. made bis escape.
| An overlooking Irrigation ditch two
miles east OF New Castle. Colo, UNI
| dermining the main track OF the DEN
yer q Rio Grande. caused the wreck
Of passenger train. The first engine
OF the train left the track and went
into the Grand river. The engineer
and fIremen are missing
Kuhn Interests In Idaho are under
stood 70 represent sl5,OoO.00O- They
include the Twin Falls Northside
Land & Water company, the Twin
Falls Salmon River company, the
Twin Falls Oakley company, the Sho-
shone Falls Light 4 Power company
ind numerous amalier concerns.
DOMESTIC
Jacob Oppenheimer. whom crimi-
noiogists have termed one OF Ameri-
cas most extraordinary conviets, was
hanged In Folsom prison. California
Friday morning. Though he had
killed two men. II vas not for muir.
ier that 0ppenheimer gave up his life
tiis crime was an attack on a fellow
prisoner.
Threats are being made at Laredo.
Texas. TO organize a Rough Rider
band to cross the border and rescue
Ave Americans, natives Of Texas. held
by Mexican reyolutionists.
James Murphy, who shot and killed
Mrs, Irene Matte Smith, chorus
girl. IN her apartments In Los Ange-
les, IN April last, has been found gull
" Of second degree murder.
Misuse by the Industrial Workers
u the World OF funds for the strikers
during the great textile struggle at
Lawrence Is alleged by William
frautman Of Chicago In an affidavit
aled Friday
Secretary Bryan has ordered Col.
onel Brewer Of the Fourteenth cavalry.
Il Fort Mcintosh. Texas. 10 demand
The immediate relase Of nvo Ameri.
cans. together with $50 cattle md
thirty horses, held by Mexiean revolu.
tionists at Hldalgo. Mexico
The diamond necklace composed
u fiftyfiye stones, weighing from one.
fourth 10 one aud seven-eighths karats,
which belonged to Jack Johnson's for.
mer white wife. Eta Duryea, was sold
% eweler Saturday Tor $2,tG0 at pub.
lie auction. In the Office OF the United
states marshal At Chicago
Christopher j. lake. one on the in
yentors of the even keel submarine
beat used In the uuited States navy,
has reported To TIE Aero Club OF
America thai he and his son, Simon
Lake. have evolved type 81 aero.
plano which. tested by being inverted
il an altitude OF sixty feet, easiiy
recovered Its balance and made q
safe and easy descent
An exodus OF nearly one.haH the
population OF Cherry, III, that survived
the coal mine disaster three years age,
when more than $50 lives were lost.
Is reported to the Cherry relief com
mission Since the disaster. Sl40..
z32.25 OF the 100000 fund contribute
I'd 10 the sufferers has been distrlb.
ated among the survivors.
WAGES, working conditions and va.
cations on pay are involved in a
strike vote nov being taken among
the 1887 telegraph operators on the
Northern Pacific lines
4 formal charge OF murder has been
placed against Piano Noumo. Mace
ionIan held as suspect In eonnec'
ton with the killing OF Mrs. Flossle
Woodruff. whose body was found in
Chicago.
The municipal assembly OF ST. Louis
has passed a bill outlawing the bust
aess OF fortupe-telling. The ordinance
Affects clalrvoyants. palmists and
seers. but does not apply to spiritual
SITS mediums.
In TT OF temporary insanity n A
Dodgen. living near Carnegie. Okla.
shot and killed his wife and infant
child. fatally injured his father-in-law
and seriously wounded two other men
who attempted to subdue him. bod
| gen lied but was captured by posse
It Fort Cobb, eight miles away.
DIR. r. NJ. Madison. charged with an
attempt TO burn San Diego hotel
committed suicide in his cell. He
tied his handkerchief and necktie to
gether fastened one end to the upper
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