The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-09-17
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Washington park zoo, Portland, was
seriously injured in an encounter in
a pit with an Alaska black bear
Hardly an inch of his body escaped
the teeth and claws of the infuriat-
ed animal
DR.. w. W. Kenney lies on hospital
cot in Denver watching death stalk
grimly by his side. He had taken a
dreaded poison by mistake, thinking ii
a sleeping potion.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean National Bankers association at
Seattle adjourned after eIecting James
K. Lynch of San Francisco president
and Peter K. Goebel of Kansas City,
Kan, vice president for the ensuing
year and recommending that the 1916
/ convention be held in Kansas City,
Mo.
Angered, she says, because Mrs An
ma Pennivitch, wife of a miner at
Tooele, Utah, refused to elope with
him, Nick Borest, also a miner, first
cut her nose with knife and then
bit off the end of the member. He
then fled to the hills.
The American Bankers association,
in session at Seattle, adopted a res
olution strongly approving and pledg-
ing support to the several state gov
ernments, as well as to the national
! government, in all efforts to secure
practical preparedness along the lines
of national defense.
Because of the boys youth, Dis
| trict Judge McClernan of Butte
showed leniency in sentencing W. w.
Wright Of Salt Like, who entered a
plea of guilty to having stolen a $25
check and S. in cash. Wright IVES
given not less than six months nor
more than a year in the penitentiary.
DOMESTIC.
Five Chicago firms, said to have
contracted for the manufacture of
shell castings or machinery for max
ing them, are the objects of strikes
by machinists, according to a story
printed in the Evening Post
Four persons were killed and one
severely injured when an automobile
in which they were riding was run
down by train on a crossing near
West Frankfort, Ills.
Excessive heat and humidity caused
three deaths and large number of
prostrations at Philadelphia on Thurs
day. 1t was the hottest September
since 1884.
The farmers union, in its national
convention at Lincoln, Neb., went on
record as opposed to the professional
farm adviser, sent out, it is alleged,
by some of the agricultural schools.
tice of supplying theorists to teach
farming instead of those who have had
practical experience as well as theory.
Albert G. Spalding, well-known
sporting goods manufacturer and San
Diego capitalist, died Unexpectedly at
his home at Point Iona, Cal. Death
was due to apoplexy. He was 65 years
old.
Six English and French financiers
are on their way to New York City
to borrow a huge sum of money,
popularity estimated at half billion
dollars or more, with which to pay
for American supplies for the allied
armies and other imports from this
country.
In an address at Rochester, N. Y,
William C. Redfield, secretary of
commerce, urged American citizens TO
view with sober minds the slaughter
abroad and to look a little under the
surface of things in their own coun-
try and consider ways of preventing
what he called the slaughterers of
peace; those of industry and pre-
ventable diseases.
Howard F. Smith, aged %, oldest
son of Walter /. Smith, United States
circuit Judge and former congressman,
was found dead at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, from a bullet wound, believed
to have been accidentally inflicted.
Water from the Marmaton river,
which rose thirty feet in few hours,
flooding wholesale and residence sec
lions of Fort Scott, Kans, and imper-
ling the lives of hundreds of persons,
is receding.
The elevated and subway transpor-
tation lines of New York City during
the year ending June 80, carried 647,-
37S,266 passengers. This number is a
decrease of 4,5O0.O00 compared with
the previous year.
A new national tennis champion
was crowned at San Francisco when
William M. Johnston of San Francisco
defeated Maurice E. Mclaughlin, also
of the Golden Gate City, in Cruel
ling four-set match for the singles
title.
A company of the Ohio national
guard was called out Monday by
Sheriff Eley of Allen county to pre-
vent promoters from staging box
ing show in which Jack Dillon of In
dianapolis and Yankee" Gilbert of
New York were to appear in the prin-
cipal bout.
A number OF mysterious fires in the
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