The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-10-17
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN HRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters o. the Globe and
Given In Few Llnes-
inrEnmounrAlN

fNTERmoynrAiN
Earl J. MInckler. second-class
electrician OF the navy. attached TO
xhe United States cruiser New Orc
leans at the navy yard at Bremerton,
wash.. was murdered BY strangling
on September s and his body, sewed
On gunnysack. was sunk in Port
Orchard bay. Il was cast up on the
beach near Port Madison.
Ralph Sterling Ferris. OF a wealthy
Rawllns, Wyo.. family. must stand
trial third time for having run down
and killed Michel Wecor. q school.
BOY. IN an automobile accident at Los
Angeles.
Reports received at Trinidad. Colo,
seIl OF another battle between mine
guards aud strikers at Ludlow. The
sight is said to have started when
strikers Cred on an automobile load
cd with employees OF the Victor
American Fuel company
A two-Etory frame structure, known
a. the old Seattle hotel on the water
front. IN Seattle. Is to be demolished
because a rat found to be infected
with bubonic plague germs was
caught In the building.
why shouldn't voter ! am old
enough, am not?, said Grandma"
Sarah Todd. aged 1903 years. who reg.
astered at Eugene. Ore, as voter
Tor the first time in her life. She
d sister-in4law OF Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln, her second husband having
been a brother OF the war presidents
wife.
Relief supplies Tor Nome viii be
transported free by the steamship
companies operating vessels from
Seattle.
DOMESTIC
Tho momentary touch OF key by
the president OF the United States on
Friday sent a flash OF electricity
through a continuous telegraph and
cable connection OF 1900 miles, set
ting OF gigantic blast OF dynamite.
which exploded the Gamboa dixie, the
last OF the great physical barriers OF
water communication in the Panama
canal.
A passenger train was partially de-
rallied and two trainmen were prob
ably fatally injured In a collision with
handcar near Columbus, Ohio. The
passengers were badly shaken up
but none were severely injured
The home OF Arthur jackson and
Leonard McCrea at Alton. Wis. were
blown TO pieces and many barns were
demolished by a severe storm. -Four
persons were injured.
A Nome dispatch says snow con
tinues and the long sub-Arctic winter
has begun. Five hundred white per
sous and 800 Esiximos are homeless
and destitute. Six hundred houses
were destroyed by the recent storm
6now win prevent further salvage
from the beach.
The body or Badly" Sullivan. ono,
familiar figure In the betting rings
az western race tracks. Is In the SaI
Francisco morsue and unless former
friends intercede Il will be buried il
the potters field.
"Gunboat'' Smith was given the de
cision over Carl Morris. the oklahom,
white hope" In the hfth round o
their fight at the Madison Squar,
Garden. The decision went TO Smitl
on a foul, the blow being struck nea
the end Of the NTH round.
Reports have reached Nome tina
Solomon. a mining camp forty mile
east OF there. was destroyed by tn,
storm which damaged Nome.
Julian Hawthorne. the author. ans
DIR. Morton. sentenced with him 4
Atlanta penitentiary after conviction
OF completely IN using the malls (,
defraud. will be free men again octo
Der IS. when their terms expire
Revenge was the motive to whicl
the police ascribed the murder o
Charles Sing. a wealthy naturallzet
the head nearly severed from tn,
trunk. was found in Sings third foo
room on the north side In Kansas
City.
James Pollack, q deputy sheriff. wa
killed by strikers at the Isle Royal'
UlAE 1NA1 AAOAHni0Af hths tAt va
shot In the back Of the head and al
took with clubs BY ten men and die
an hour later.
While watching an electric score
board IN Philadelphia showing tn
game between the Giants and AthleI
icA John sherrick collapsed on tn
sidewalk and died a few minutes later
What Is said TO be the biggest pc
lice shakeup which New York has ha
win be effected during the next FEY
days BIZ the uDrooting Of all the pc
llcemen ia the upper west side tendel
lion section and replacing them wit
500 young men Just turned ont OF IN
police school
The estate OF BENJAMIN Ai'mai
president OF the dry goods firm Of
Altman and company, who died
New York al the age Of 70 years Q
Tuesday, is said 10 amount prohasl