The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-07-04
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islator, charged with the murder OF
his wife and 6-year-old stepdaughter
May a. when the Bacon home was de.
stroyed by an explosion of dynamite,
died Friday, the result Of wounds In
fiicted by a penknife which he had
been given to trim his fingernails.
James l.. Bacon. former representa-.
tive In the Colorado legislature, In
| jail at Cripple Creek on charge OF
numbering his wife and stepdaughter
by blowing up the family home. at.
tempted suicide, cutting himself with
a small knife he had borrowed with
which to trim his fingernails.
Ray Diamond. the Glendale, Ore,
bank robber. appeared in Gold Beach
Thursday and was arrested. He had
the entire amount taken from the
bank, 1920. in his possession. Dia-
mond said he had become lost In the
hills, where he successfully lodged
/ pursuit for ten days.
The first payment on the big judy
ment secured in the United States
courts by the Silver King CONSOLIDATE
ed Mining company against the Silver
King Coalition Mines company was
made at Salt Lake on Thursday in
the form OF check for 100000.
In celebration OF his 25th birthday,
Giovanni Anselmo purchased revol-
yer, slashed companion with a
razor In saloon fight In Salt Lake,
killed Policeman Thomas f. Griffiths,
who arrested him: escaped the po-
lice dragnet for hours, only to be shot
down by the police and is now In
the prison hospital.
DOMESTIC
The industrial council at a meeting
In Kansas City unanimously recon.
4 mended that general strike of all
union crafts In Kansas City be called
Immediately Twenty-Five thousand
meu are involved.
II has been decided to close the
spillway gates at Gatun lake July /,
after which the lake will be allowed
to fill continuously. The lake stage on
June 20 was forty-eight and one-half
feet, and the maximum level, about
eighty-flve feet. probably will be at.
tanned by December.
Gunboat" Smith OF California de.
feated George Rodel, the South
African Boer. in the third round OF a
scheduled ten-round bout at Madison
Square Garden. New York. After Ro.
del had been Knocked down twice Ref
cree job stopped the bout.
! One man was killed, one fatally and
eighteen seriously injured, when q
westbound Pennsylvania passenger
train crashed head on into work
train at Woodville. o.
Edwin f. Young, former treasurer
of the Chicago. Terre Haute & South.
eastern Railway company. pleaded
guilty at Chicago to the embezzlement
OF $4,000 of the company's funds and
was sentenced to an indeterminate
term OF from one to ten years in
prison.
Commander-fn-Chief Beers of the
Grand Army OF the Republic, in adj
dressing the encampment OF the Penn
sylvania civil war veterans at Gettys-
burg on Friday, advocated the cree
tion of memorial to the women OF
the civil war period.
The woman's suffrage bill has been
signed by Governor Dunno of Illinois.
The act gives women the right to
vote for all statutory offices in the
state and also for presidential elect
ors.
James MacConalogue, Ia, is dead
at Scammon, Kansas, OF tetanus re-
sultlng from a wound inflicted by q
toy pistol, which he obtained from q
shop kept by his mother.
Although the California state rail.
road commission has acquiesced in
the proposal the corporation commits
sion of Arizona has declined permits
sion to the Southern Pacific company
TO issue sSo.000.0o0 In trust notes.
Eight persons were killed and
more than twenty injured when two
colonist cars on the Canadian Pacinc
railway slid down the embankment
and plunged into the Ottawa river.
The last hope of the Missouri bar
tender and his Tree lunch" devotee
was shattered when Assistant Attot-
ney General w. r. Rutherford ruled
that 'pretzels are food and serving
them in saloons violates the anti-free
lunch laws"
Live stock men from all over the
country were at St Joseph. Mo-. on
June 26 for the opening session of
the twenty-fifth annual convention OF
the National Live Stock exchange,
which began with the address OF the
president OF the exchange, Abel f..
Daley of st. Joseph.
Practically complete returns from
the Democratic primary election in
Arkansas give Judge W. Hays a ma
jority Of 705 votes over former Con.
gresham Stephen Brundidge In the
contest for the nomination for gov