The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-11-26
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE,
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
INTERMouNrAln.

groceryman, and his SON Airing Nor
rison, was executed at the state
prison Friday morning. Killstrom
went 10 his death without faltering,
after a night spent In sleep. Presi-
dent Wilson's eleventh hour request
for Communication Of sentence was de-
MED by Governor Spry, no new evil
dence being offered In the case.
William Holt, So years OF age. ho-
tel owner, real estate dealer and
fruitgrower, who died at Seattle of
tuberculosis. bequeathed nearly all OF
his s150000 estate to Miss Joe SUI
.suki, q Japanese woman, who had
been manager of large hotel In
which he owned q half interest.
Oscar Peterson died at TooeIe,
Utah, from bullet wound in the
neck, inflicted by William Johnson,
81 years of age. Johnson maintains
that he fred in self-defense. as Peter
son advanced toward him with a
pitchfork.
Frederick w. Mcclure, prisoner
in the United States penitentiary at
Leavenworth, Kans., who was being
taken to Portland, Ore, to stand trial
for robbing the United States malls,
escaped from his two guards by
jumping through the window of a
moving passenger train near Sand
Point. Idaho.
B. r, Ospal OF Price, Utah, go years
of age. was killed at Springfield, Ore,
by gravel train on the Willamette
Pacific siding,
DOMESTIC.
Six physicians. composing cor
oner's jury. at Chicago, held that DR..
III. ]. Haiselden, who permitted an In
FAINT, Allan John Bollinger, to die
when an operation might have saved
him to a life of unhappiness as
defective, was morally and officially
justified in refusing to perform the
operation which his conscience did
not sanction.
Eugene v. Debs, Socialist candi-
date for the president OF the United
States in 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1912.
in a formal statement has announced
that he had declined the fifth nominal
tion for the presidency at the hands
OF his party
Initial steps toward organizing the
unemployed men of the United States
were taken by the American Fedora
ton OF Labor, in convention at San
Francisco.
George w. Perkins, comforting at
Chicago with local leaders of the Pro-
gressive party, said that the Pro
gressive party must and will have a
national ticket in the field in 1916"
Henry Ford. automobile manufac-
turer. announced Friday that he will
go to Washington soon to discuss with
President Wilson the plan to have the
United States join conference of
neutral nations for the purpose Of
bringing about peace In Europe.
Because 1t shipped liquor as red
tnk" as favor to It's customers in
dry territory, wholesale leather
firm of st. Louis has been required
by the internal revenue department to
take out a Wholesale liquor dealers
license.
DR.. Henry r. Carter, veteran vel.
low fever fighter of the United States
public health service, has been strick-
en- in Porto Rico with denmue, the
malignant tropical fever against
which he recently inaugurated
on the island.
Senator William Finn of Pittsburg
has been granted court judgment
against the Twenty-Five Mining com
pany of California and its directors
for $4,000, as the result of an ef- |
fort on the part of the company to
sell "salted mime" to him.
Three physicians who examined AL
fred Jennings, a cattleman OF Ellis
worth county. Kansas. who is i'll with
disease which has been pronounced
foot and mouth disease, have con-
hrmed the original diagnoses.
Two masked robbers held UP the
cashier of the First State bank at
Adamson, Okla, secured $1,000 and
The cashier and citizens in
the bank at the time were locked In
the vault.
After an all-day chase by a posse.
John Coroner. who shot and killed his
young wife while she held her baby in
aer arms, was captured by farmer
and taken to Princeton, w. Va.
Boies Penrose, United States sena-
or from Pennsylvania, said at San
Texas, that he would be a
candidate for the Republican nomina.
ion for the presidency in 1916
The four railroad brotherhoods, in
Guiding more than $4,000 engineers,
iremen, conductors and brakemen on
Ill railroads in the United States, an
lounced Thursday they are preparing
o make formal demand about March
that the railroads grant them an
,ight-hour day with the same pay they
low get for ten hours.
Twenty-Five clerks and carriers in
he postoffice at Fairmont, w. Va,
the entire force, struck as
i protest, 1t is said, against the dis
,harge of w. Fl. Brand, assistant post
master. and three other employees.