The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-06-14
NEWS OF 4 WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
HvENTs TOLD IN eRIEFRsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
aIvsn In Few LInea
INrERMouNTAiN

i ~S~h1 ~ NAS tttbhoihAbtut IN 1hlL AShAt
City. coilided with a light post and
YVES fatally injured. Potter was
motorcycle policeman and was partici-
pating In his FIRST race.
Convinced that love had flown from
her. Mrs, Josephine Smith. bride OF
nine months. shot herself as she lay
In bed beside her husband. az Bing-
ham. Utah.
Growth In importance, efficiency and
i personnel OF the nursery business was
reflected in the reports OF committees,
the annual address OF President p. A.
Dix OF Salt Lake and In attendance
az the tenth annual convention OF the
Pacific Coast Association OF Nursery
men, held In satl Lake during the
week
Frank WEIGH, city detective OF
Aberdeen, Wash, was shot and fatally
wounded while watching the homo
OF Mrs. ]. s. Greech, who had tele-
| phoned that some one was prowling
around her house. II Is charged that
Greech came home unexpectedly and
shot the officer
Freight tariffs have been prepared
providing for reduced rates on carload
lots from st. Paul and eastern points,
to Spokane. Wash. and Montana
points. effeetlng an annual reduction
Of 100000.
Robert Kidder, business man and
nnancier OF Idaho Falls, committed
suicide by hanging himself in his
barn. Fianclal difficulties evidently
caused the rash act
The Idaho state Democratic conyen-
ton ut Occur d'Alene selected six.
teen delegates TO the Baltimore con-
ventlon, each with half a vote, in
structed for Champ Clark, but Fred t.
Dubois, manager of the Clark national
campaign, was not among them,
DOMESTIC
Violence marked the beginning of
strike OF several thousand employees
Of the Boston elevated railway at day.
light Friday, Those who refused TO
work demanded recognition by the
sompany OF recently formed union,
Twenty.four delegates from Ala.
bama and Arkansas we're added to the
Taft column on Friday by the action |
Of the Republican national commit. |
tee upon the so-called Roosevelt con.
tests from those states.
Nashville tTenn) Socialists, who |
Insist they have been prosecuted and |
prevented from having meetings by
the Nashville police force. have OBJ |
tanned temporary injunction. pre- |
venting the police OF that city front |
Interfering with them,
Ernest Clifford Peixotto, the well |
known American painter and illustra.
tor, IL critically III at Oakland of an !
obscure tropical fever. which he con.
traeted this spring on an extended |
trip through Central and South Amer.
lea.
l., X. Stockwell. for many years a |
we'll known San Francisco actor,man-
Rger, died Friday after long illness.
He had been blind for several years |
He was about 60 years old.
Superior Judge William P. Lawlor
OF San Francisco, VINO sentenced |
Abraham Ruef to fourteen years In |
San Quentin penitentiary, has no.
fused to indorse Ruers petition sor
parole.
The name OF President Taft will be
presented to the Chicago convention
by Warren G, Harding, former lieu.
tenant goyerno rof Ohio. Mr.. Hard.
Ing announced Friday that he had
received letter from Mr.. Taft asking
him to name him at the Chicago con
ventlon.
While asleep and attempting to
slide down the brass pole In fire |
engine house, Lieutenant Joseph T.
Balak fell from the second floor of |
his quarters In Chicago and was kill |
ed. Circumstances indicate that the |
lieutenant, while in a somnambulistlc
state, believed he was responding to |
a fre alarm,
A surprise was sprung at session |
Of the New Mexico state senate when |
the sergeant-atarms locked the doors |
and the senate, overrulng its presid- !
Ing officer, declaring itself in Joint |
session.
Supreme Court Justice Keogh has |
/ hled an order permitting the trans |
fer OF Harry K Thaw from the asy- |
lum at Matteawan to the county Jail |
at White Plains, NJ Y. Thaw is to be |
kept at the jail subject to the further |
/ order of the court.
The lower house of the Minnesota
assembly has unanimously ratified |
the amendment to the federal consti- |
tuition providing for an income tax
and the amendment providing for the
election of United States senators by
direct popular ballot.
All members of the Industrial Work
ers of the World in the city Jail at
San Diego have announced they
would plead guilty to charges of VIC
lating the city ordinances in the free
speech fight. They probably win be
placed on probation by the court and