The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-15
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANhER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given IN a Few Llnes
INTEHMouNrAIN

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A man and his wife have served on
the same jury at Tacoma. II was the
first time husband and wife have
served on the same Jury In the state
OF Washington, possibly in the coun-
try, and the couple were the center
Of attraction for many who visited
the trial
The 1919 session OF the National IT.
rigation congress will be held In Salt
Lake City.
Nearly 100000 acres OF land in
Idaho Withdrawn from entry about a
year ago for coal land classification
purposes, has been restored by order
Of President Taft on the recommends
ton OF Secretary of Interior Fisher
Although he was exonerated, mem
beers Of the board say. from charges
OF inhumanity and brutality, Super
lntendent r. III. Renisch OF the State
Orphans Home in Montana, has re-
signed
Governor shafroth has issued call
for the second annual good roads con-
ference to be held at Pueblo, Colo,
January 11.l2 Governors Of western
states and wardens OF penitentiaries
are invited.
DOMESTIC
Western governors who are talking
politics and not exploiting the nat
ural resources OF their country on the
governors special were taken to task
/ ,,f So ,,aattnD 80 fbn Markham Min.
nesota Development association at
st. Cloud. Mimi, by Louis w. Hill,
president Of the Great Northern rail
road.
This years freshman class at Yale
has more tall men than any other
class in the history of the college.
| The tallest man In the class Is six
feet six, and the average Is nearly six
feet.
An Indictment, containing man
slaughter, in six counts, for the death
OF six OF his followers ON the cruise
Of the yacht Coronet was reported at
Portland. Me-, by the grand jury of
the United States district court
against Rev, Frank w. Sanford,
leader Of the Holy Ghost and Us So
ciety.
Investigation into shooting near the
Nonconnah Tenn. yards OF the Illi-
nols Central. by which one man lost
his life and two more seriously
wounded, Is under way, .... .
Rising IN his seat In crowded pas
senger coach on Rock Island train
near Des Moines, Iowa, James VIII.
son. who claims his home is in Cali
ente. New. cut his throat with ra-
zor. He Is in hospital with fair
chance Of recovery.
One man was killed, the lives of
many others were menaced and much
damage was done TO property in a
windstorm Mt Los Angeles. G. r.
Jackson. llneman was blown from
sixty.foot pole while repairing elee.
trie light wires and instantly killed,
Joe Jeanette, the negro heavy.
weight. knocked out "Jewey" Smith
! OF England in the third round of a
scheduled ten-round bout In New York
City. Smith hit jeanette but twice
during the three rounds A wicked
right to the Jaw gave Smith his
quietus. r.,
Disguised as a decrepit laborer
walking with stick, General Ber-
nardo Reyes, once commander of the
Mexican army, but now charged with
melting revolution In has country,
came into Brownsville, Texas. on
Thursday.
Plcturing his client. Lillian Graham.
rs an innocent young girl, whose life
became dominated by man many
! years her senior, whom she had come
TO regard almost as her father, Attor.
uey Clark Jordan opened the case for
the defense In New York in the trial
OF Miss Graham and Ethel Conrad,
charged with attempting the life or
w. Il, d, Stokes, New York million.
alre,
After eight years travail in the
ways Of grand iuries and special pleas,
the cases OF ten Chicago meat pack.
ers, indicted tor alleged violation of
the criminal provisions OF the Sher.
man antitrust law, reached trial at
IChiehso on wednesday,
| Abrogation Of the treaty OF friendly
relations between the United States
aud Russia made In 1892, was urged
in speeches delivered by a dozen or
more men Of national prominence and
IN resolutions adopted at a large mass
meeting held in New York on We'd
| nesday,
In view OF thousands OF pedestrians
an unidentified FFenehman jumped to
bis death from the dome of the World
building. New York, SIS feet above
| the street.
Five trainmen were killed and a
score injured. number of them Sc
riously, I'm a wreck OF two freights
aud an express train on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at Devils Bend, Pa.
Samuel Balfour. his wife aud their
nine-yearNold daughter were burned
| to death or -suffocated in q fire that