The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-05-03
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRtEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines
INTERMOuNTAiN

herself in the breast, is slowly raj
lying from the effects of the wound.
Indirectly a victim of the Titanic
disaster, Edward H. Rothrock, city
editor of the Spokane Chronicle was
shot and killed by Richard Aleck,
Russian laborer. Aleck is believed
to be insane.
Ben Gilbert, night depot express
messenger for the Globe Express COM
pany at Grand Junction, Colo, is I'M
der arrest, charged with the theft of
$4,000 on the night of Friday, April
10, which had been consigned from
the Utah Fuel company at Salt Lake
City to the coal camps at Somerset,
Colorado.
Basing its action upon the conten-
ton that the state board of equaliza-
ton fixed the rate of taxes against
the company's property too high, the
Western Union Telegraph company
has refused to pay it's tax assess
ments in practically every county in
the state of Idaho, according to coun-
ty officials.
DOMESTIC
According to reports on Broadway
on Friday, a gang of wire tappers
took $4,000 from bookmakers oper-
ating poolrooms in New York City
City.
The women of California have no
light to serve on trial juries, accord
ing to an opinion which the attorney
general rendered last week The at
torney general holds that the amend
ment to the state constitution grant
ing the elective franchise to women
deals with their political rights and
duties alone.
The Southern Pacific company is
sued orders that no more wooden
coaches shall be constructed for it.
DR.. Francis Bacon, an eminent sur
gson and alienist and a recognized
authority on yellow fever, is dead at
| New Haven, Conn, in his eighty-first
| year.
Speaking at Newark, N. j., of his
controversy with Colonel Roosevelt,
and deploring the same, President
Taft said: Il didn't seek this l am
| forced against the wall-with my
! back to it-and | am bound, if l have
| any manhood at all in me, to fight"
| DR.. D. K. Pearsons. the aged Chica,
go philanthropist, died in a sanitar.
ium Friday. Death was caused by
pneumonia. He had given between
six and seven million dollars to small
| colleges.
Fear that her sister, who sailed on
the steamship Celtic, bound for Eng
land, might meet the fate of the I'll
tanic victims, is believed to have un
balanced the mind of Mrs. Beatrice
Barwell of Newark, N. j., and caused
her to commit suicide.
Discouraged over the persistent re
fusal of his offer of marriage to &
school teacher, Frank Penthouse, {
young man of Duncombe, Ia, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself in the
head in the presence of the teacher
and her pupils.
Military men and men prominent il
public and private life gathered a
New York on Friday to pay the las
honors to Major General Frederick
Dent Grant, who died here April II
The funeral exercises were deferred
to await the arrival of the generals
daughter, the Princess Cantacuzene
from her home in Russia.
Warned by telephone operator
that the MinevilIe dam had broken
500 persons residing in the valley o
Millbrook, Essex county, New York
fed to the hills and then watched thu
torrent wash their homes away.
The steamer Sonoma has left Sal
Francisco for Panama, Ancon ant
Balboa, carrying $50 representative
of the Pacific cities, who will visi
the Panama canal on a boosters
excursion.
John Rush, chief of the fifth bat
talon of the New York fire depart
ment, was almost instantly kille'
while endeavoring to keep his hors
from dashing into a group of schoo
children.
1t is understood there was a com
paratively new will made after Colo
mel Astor's marriage to Miss Fore. Tn
lawyers refuse, however, to give an.
details as to the disposition of the es
tate, which is estimated a
S125, 100000.
Twenty-Five persons were injured
ons' of them. James Davis, perhap
} fatally, when cyclonic wind struc
a Union Pacific passenger train nea
North Loup, Neb. The entire trair
the engine excepted, was blown fror
the track and all the cars were ovel
/ turned.
DR.. Daniel ]. Reagan said to hav
been at one time consulting physician
Of Bellevue hospital, New York, an
for years one of the best known phys
clans in the east. was sent to the stat
asylum for the insane at Phoenix, Ar
zona, at his own request.