The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-12-30
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 a Few Lines,
TERMouNTAIN


contractor shot Mrs. Dagmar Carroll
Inc woman, who came to Los Angeles
recently from Ephriam, Utah, is not
expected to live.
Four men who robbed the postof
hce at COlburn, Idaho, were pursued
by the sheriff and a lone deputy, one
OF the robbers being killed and the
other three surrendering to the off.
GERS.
Sixteen members of the Lafayette
Colo, union Of the United Mine Work,
ers OF America have begun serving a
years sentence each in the county Jail,
Tor violating a temporary Injunction
restraining striking miners of the
northern Colorado coal district from
interfering with non-union men.
Cattlemen in the western part of
Of Montrose and San Miguel counties,
Colorado, are greatly concerned over
the presence in that section of the
! state of Navajo Indians from the Utah
reservation, who are reported to be
killing cattle and deer in abundance.
Patrick Holland, charged with the
murder of Josephine Putnam, former
ly Spokane school teacher, on No
Vember Z, was found guilty of murder
in the second degree.
All charges against Binger Hermann,
former congressman and former com
missioner of the general land office,
growing out Of the Oregon land fraud
indictments have been dismissed.
Clarence T. Johnson, state irrigation
engineer of Wyoming, has been ap-
pointed professor of surveying in the
University of Michigan. He spent
two years in Egypt for the United
States department of agriculture, in
iestigating irrigation problems.
The sheep ranging on portions Of
Spring valley, White Pine county, Ne
vada, are afflicted with peculiar
disease. It's origin or ultimate cause
S shrouded in mystery. No method
mas been devised by the wool growers
in that section by which the dread
malady can be eradicated. The sheep
die within twenty-four hours after be-
ing attacked by by the disease.
Joe Sillia and Carnival Pancrasio,
Italian laborers, each lost part of his
right arm in an explosion that oc-
CURED in a mine at Bingham, Utah,
when they We're thawing out dyna-
mite.
Hundreds of expectant people in
twenty-five states may be disappoint-
ed at Yuletide because a thief robbed
mail pouch at Price, Utah.
DOMESTIC
Twenty years in the penitentiary
was the sentence passed on Montella
Watha, who was convicted of man.
slaughter on December II on a charge
d having taken part in the lynching
Of Carl Etherington, a dry" detec-
tive at Newark, o., last July.
Floyd Mcfarland, one of the great
est bicycle riders in the history of
he sport, was married in New York
City last week to Mildred Jolly.
Serious injury to two nurses and two
patients and minor hurts to several
other inmates of the city hospital in
Cincinnati, resulted from a life and
death fight with an insane man weigh
ing 215 pounds and armed with
knife.
United States Sneator Lafayette
Young upon his arrival in Des Moines,
Iowa, on Friday, renewed his request
tor special primary to determine who
shall fill out the unexpired term of
the late Senator Dolliyer.
Three business houses in New Or
leans were destroyed by fire, causing
a loss of $25O,0O0.
William Quinn bet $40 that he could
swim the East river at New York with
the thermometer u degrees below
freezing. He lost his wager and may
lose his life. The icy water Slapped
his strength in just one minute.
John D. Rockefeller has completed
the task he set himself in founding
the University of Chicago. a few
days ago public announcement was
made of a single and final" gift of
SIC, 100000. This makes $35, 100000 ne
has donated to the University.
The charred bodies of J. L. Sanders, |
his twenty-two-year-old daughter, |
Mary, and his four-year-old grand |
daughter, Irene Overton, was found |
in the ruins of their home at Hester,
n. C. Nathan Montague, young ne
gro. is accused by coroner's jury of |
assault, murder and arson.
The trial of James Gallagher for
the shooting of William Edwards, |
street cleaning commissioner. while |
the latter was trying to protect Mayor
Gaynor of New York from Gallagher's |
attack on August last, has been post
poned until January 8.
While looting a house in Trenton,
n. J., Jason Meany, burglar, dropped |
a diamond ring, which rolled under !
stove. While cropping in the dark, he
put his hand into rat trap. There
was a sudden snap. Three Of his fin
gers were broken and he made no at
tempt to escape.
The Gideons, an association of
Christian travelling men, will place
1000 Bibles in Chicago hotels. They
will not be chained down. If guest
steals Bible to read it, the book will
be replaced and the loss charged to
he credit account, because the pur-
pose of the project is to encourage
Bible reading.