The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-03-15
NEWS Of 4 WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
HappenIngs That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines,
INTERMouNTAiN

INTERMouNTAiN
William Erwin OF Salt Lake wa
found by sheepherder on the desel
In southern Nevada and taken to th
Los Angeles hospital for medical q
tention. II is believed that Erwin wi
lose both legs, even IL his life
saved, his feet having been frozen.
Twenty million dollars will be speT
In port Improvement work In Seattl
during the next five years. or thi
sum. s13.500,0o0 will come from pul
lie funds, private enterprises col
tributing se,5O0,0OO more.
j. ]. Morris. the bandit convicte
OF murder for shooting ]. w. Axt,
on the streets OF Salt Lake City, mus
pay the death penalty for his Grim
according to q decision OF the 81
preme court.
Fred Burnham, formerly Of Butt
shot and probably fatally wounde
p. p. Layelle. a former mining par
ner, az Goldfieid, New, and then su
cided A quarrel over claim owne
In partnership In Montana is said |
have led to the crime.
Four men were killed, one fatal
and four seriously injured by snow
slide near Telluride. Colo, while 81
gagged In cleaning former slide froI
the railroad tracks,
That Socialist votes figured largel
Ia the election of George r. Cotteri
as mayor of Seattle is shown by
study OF the returns. Cotterill wa
elected by 665 votes over Hiram
Gill.
Warren Davis. wanted on tn,
charge Of the robbery OF a registere,
package containing $1,000 In bill
from the postoffiee at Salida, Colo
whore he was a clerk, was found deaf
with bullet hole in his temple. M
trace OF the missing package has beel
found ard the authorities believe Da
Wis destroyed II before ending hi
life.
Seven million dollars win be speI
In 1912 on improvements on the Del
yer Il Rio Grande main line betwee
Grand Junction, Colo and Utah. Ha
the amount win be expended In Col
RADIO.
DOMESTIC
Julius Rosenwald, a capitalist, {
Friday paid s2,5o0,000 in cash for Il
(tnI,,,,,h,,a Mnv,nrtol l,,tldinu ord ~
ground on which 1t stands in Chicag
This Is said to be the largest ca!
real estate deal ever made in tn
city.
That his wife shot him unlntentio
ally while dreaming is the unique tn
DRY SAID TO have been advanced
| Eugene H. Grace, who lies critical
wounded at Atlanta, Ga, while b
wife is In jail.
According to dispatch from Ca
den. NJ j., Andrew Herr, well know
athlete and for many years Il
| guard on the beach at Atlantic Gil
sneezed to death at his home there.
George Graham Rice and Berna
II, s. Scheftels of the brokerage fir
Of d. II, Scheftels 4 Co. of New Yor
ON Thursday pleaded guilty to h
charge OF conspiracy and misuse
/ the mails. Rice was sentenced to
year In Jail, while Scheftels go
free.
! Rounding curve on a thirty-fo
embankment two miles west of We
Lebanon, Ind, westbound continent
limited train on the Wabash railro
left the rails and rolled down the
cline, killing Ave persons and iniuri
seventy
The stockholders of the Standa
Oil company of Indiana met at VIII
ing, Ind, on Sunday, and voted to
crease the capital stock OF the In
ana corporation from $1,0oo,000,
$50, 100000.
The anti-capital punishment me
use which might have saved the liz
of three men under sentence of dea
including Rev, Clarence v. T. Ricl
! son, was defeated in the house of r
resentatiyes
Taking advantage of the threaten
strike of the coal miners in the
thracite regions OF the United Stat
SPECTATORS in this commodity
"Wednesday boosted prices from
| cents to so cents a ton,
. Mrs. Daisy Grace of Atlanta,
has been arrested on the charge
assault with attempt to murder
b young husband, Eugene H. Grace
prominent building contractor, '
was shot mysteriously at their no
Mrs. Grace declares that she is il
{ cent.
Anthracite coal operators in sess
in New York decided to reject the
mands of the miners for increa
pay. A committee was appointed
notify union officials of the result.
For the first time in Massachus
( criminal procedure, woman,
IS Lena Cusuamano of Hull, has |
u sentenced to death in the eleC