The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-03-01
NEWS Of A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE lMPoRTANr
EVENTS TOLD IN sRiEFRsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
--irformatiop Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
0lssn IN o Few LInea
IRTERmouNTaIN

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the result OF Fridays election, whe
the present charter was voted dow
and the Black law made to apply /
the city by q majority OF 2OI. Tn
Black law was enacted by the las
legislature and provides that any cit
In the state may pass under the com
mission form Of government.
William J. Bryan, In d speech a
public meeting In Denver. definite
ly set at rest reports that he nigh
be induced again to make the rae,
for the presidency.
Adelbert u. Clark. held for the muir
der OF Lawrence Bar, president OF III.
Centralla Farmers a Merchants
bank, confessed at Chehalls, Wash.
according to the prosecuting attor
neys Office He implicated as his &C
complete DR.. r. %. Johnson. promi
nent centralia dentist. who was ar
rested.
| David Townsend, rancher, residing
twelve miles south OF NamDa. Idaho,
committed suicide by hanging. Town.
send formerly was real estate
dealer In Nampa, He was SO years OF
age and leaves a widow.
seid Wing. cousin OF seld ping,
the wealthy young Chinese recently
murdered at Portland, was shot in
the hip Thursday night while stand
Ing In a doorway In Chinatown. The
police say the shot was Aired by a
Hop Sing man and reopens the
Quieacent tong war.
Representatives Of the Roosevelt
movement In Washington met at a
public dinner at Seattle, Thursday
night. and took steps 10 obtain
Roosevelt delegation TO the national
Republican convention. Mayor Geo.
w Dilling OF Seattle presided
DOMESTIC
The mystery OF eight deaths of
babies in the Brooklyn nursery and
Infants hospital was solved Friday.
the police say, by the confession of
Winifred Ankers, kitchen woman
Ut the hospital. admitting that abe
placed oxahc acid In the babies milk
bottles.
Secretary OF State Philander @,
Knox sailed from Key West Friday
on board the cruiser Washington, on
a political mission that will take him,
according to present arrangements,
to the capitals OF Central America,
TO Caracas, Venezuela, and possibly
TO Cartagena, Colombia, and also to
various points in the West indies,
John Morg, l24 years old. and
probably the oldest man In the Unit.
ed States, died Friday near Colum.
hia, Ky, He came to this country
from Germany In 1912 and enlisted
In the war of that year.
A st0.Ooo,000 increase In their ex.
penses Ia involved in the demands of
locomotive engineers, II Ia said by
officers OF the forty.nine eastern rail-
roads affected. The demands were
made on all roads east OF Chicago.
The passage by congress of the
berger old age pension bill and legis.
iation against loan sharks" were
urged in resolutions adopted by the
convention of the Illinois district,
United Mine Workers. at Spring.
neld. Ills.
Twenty persons were killed and at
least three score injured, many OF
them seriously, in the cyclonic storm
which swept through northern Louis,
lana and Mississippi.
The Oklahoma Democratic state
convention adjourned Friday, after
having named a list OF delegates
evenly divided between the Clark and
Wilson factions
Edward Hines, millionaire lumber.
man, has declined TO discuss a pub.
hshed report that he had been ex.
PEELED from the Union League club
OF Chicago, as a result of his connec.
ton with the Lorimer case.
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad |
recently acquitted in New York OF
shooting w, Il. ID. Stokes and since
that time members of the Bon Ton
Rurlesquers, have given up their en-.
Eagement with the company and re-
turned to Philadelphia. Kisses and
other disturbing annoyanees during
theA turns ON the BJASe proved too |
much for the show girls.
Frank Mantell of Pawtucket was
given decision over Billy Papke at
Sacramento on Thursday. 1t was the
slowest bout seen in many months,
and neither man showed any cham
pionship form. ....
Joe Mansen Of Buffalo was seriously
Injured in wrestling match at Al.
bion, Mich. Edwin SheIp OF Bancroft,
his opponent, lifted Manson in the
air and dropped him head first on the
mat.
A destructive windstorm swept over
Meridian, Wis, destroying thousands
of dollars worth of property, killing
herds of cattle and demoiIshing homes
In the surrounding country.
Alex. Barge, farmer living near
SeyeFy, Kans., was frozen to death in
the storm of Tuesday. His body was
found Wednesday.