The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-19
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFGsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and +.
Given IN q Few Llnea
lNTERMouNrAlN

cisco. II Is believed that William
Schmidt, sought the country over dur
ing the last ten weeks as the muir.
/ derer OF Mrs Marcia s. Croft who
was strangled TO death at her home
in Salt Lake, January 81, has been
/ captured
Supposedly stricken with an acute
attack OF heart disease, j. Beyan Phil.
| lips. a prominent sheep ranch owner
and coal operator OF Congress county,
Wyoming. fell dead from his automo-
bile.
9. s. Tlngey, secretary OF state or
Utah. who has been in southern Cali
fornia, Ia recovering rapidly from
serious operation at hospital In Los
Angeles,
A private dispatch, said to have
been sent by an official OF the war |
department at Washington, was re.
ceiyed at Fort Cheyenne, Wyo.. de,
claring that Frederick Funston would
succeed Major General Grant
by agreement Thursday between
the management Of the Denver q Rio
Grande railroad and the four trans
portation brotherhoodsr- tiremen, en-.
gineers. conductors and trainmen--
negotiations OF three months ended /
with tho men being granted an In
crease In wages and better working
conditions.
According TO unanimous opinion
OF tho state supreme court of Utah,
handed down Thursday, the liquor
law passed by the last legislature re.
pealed by Implication all ordinances
in effect In cities and Incorporated
towns at tho time the state law be.
came effective.
Fire started by ssay,. from All On 4
sine dropping into loose hay In feed
store destroyed property valued at
100000 In South Butte. An entire
block was wiped out
Finley McRae, national grand
treasurer OF the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, died In Helena, Mont, follow.
Ing an operation
DOMESTIC
Miss Clara Barton. founder OF the
American Red Cross and probably the
most widely known American woman ,
OF her day, died at her home. Red ,
Cross, In Glen Echo, Nd, April IL. at
the age OF 90.
Mrs, Julia o. Martin OF Evanston. ,
III, was brought to McAlester Okla. !
and placed In fall on the charge of !
having caused the death by poison of
her mother, Mrs Sophronla A. Moore, !
aged rs.
A report that the Great Northern, \
through James J. Hin. had purchased r
two miles Of lake front near Fort VIII. I
Ham, Ont, as site for steel works
and blast furnaces and as an eastern
terminus for new line OF railroad
through western Canada, is current.
BY majority OF more than $4,000 B
out OF $4,000 votes cast. locomotive a
engineers ON fifty railroads east OF
Chicago and north OF the Norfolk a \
Western have authorized strike, =
should further negotiations with the a
railroads for increased pay fail. !,
Word has been received at Nome, =
Alaska. that John Yiedel an old
miner, was found frozen In snow.
drift near the east fork OF the solo. :,
mon river. He was on his way from !
Council TO Casadepaga.
Professor Walter II. Howard, mrs,
dean Of Middlebury college. at Middle.
bury VT, Is dead at the age of So.
Professor Howard served as United
States consul at Ontario. and Cardiff,
Wales g
Aside from break In the Ashland Y
leyee north of Natchez, by which sew. l
eral thousand acres OF jefferson II
county were flooded, the dykes of the
Mississippi river safely held back the +
food on Thursday. II
General Frederick Dent Grant. com. n
mander of the department OF the p
east, died of heart failure, superin. I
duced, 1t Is believed, by the deadly $
ailment that killed his father, Ulysses q
s. Grant, at 1890 O'Clock Friday, at
a hotel in New York. q
Eight charges OF nitroglycerine o
We're used in an unsuccessful attempt l,
70 loot the safe in the bank of Red Ii
Ford, Oklahoma. The outer vault +
door was blown out but the safe it.
self withstood the robbers attack. h
Maine delegates to the national Re r
publican convention are pledged to c
Colonel Roosevelt.
President Taft charged in speech
In New York that many of those per- \
sons who advocate the recall of 5
judges or the recall of judicial decis.
ions are insincere demagogues, acting
without sufficient knowledge of the
need for preservation of the constitu- 4
ton or its guarantees. i
The federal grand Jury IN New I
York which investigated the alleged
destruction of certain papers desired 1
by the government in it's antitrust {
suit against the United States Steel {
corporation, failed to find anyone