The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-26
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD m BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given IN Few LInea
lNTERMouNTAIN

/ boys bound and gagged the express
| agent Of the Denver a. Rio Grande
station at Grand Junction, Colo. and
stole $4,000 from the safe.
Mrs ]. J, Brown of Denver, one OF
the survivors Of the Titanic, says
she was forced to row In the life boat
for four hours, and that Mrs. Astor
was made TO row for two hours.
James Brady wealthy sawmill
operator, and his wife were found
dead In their bed at their home in
Edmonds, Wash. Apparently Mrs.
Brady had shot her husband and
then had committed suicide.
That John Weir. formerly president
OF the Nevada-Utah Mines & SmeIt-
ers corporation, and d resident OF
Salt Lake, was passenger on the Ill
starred Titanic and that he has
been one OF the hgSdreds who per
ished, is considered certain.
Clarence Dayton Hillman, multi-mll-
lionaire townsite promoter of Seattle,
convicted Of having used tho United
States mails to defraud, has been
taken to McNelll island to begin his
! prison term Of two and half years.
The man who committed suicide at
the r. M. @. A, in Seattle, and who
was believed to have been former
prominent Chicago physician, has
been identified as Horace Bates of
Wayerly, Tenn, who had been miss
ing since last December.
The biggest fire in the history Of
Logan, Utah, wiped out OF existence
the Thatcher bank and opera house
block, The total loss Is approximate.
ed at 100000. The block structure
was the largest and finest In the city.
The private bank OF W. +. Shricker
4 Co. OF Laconner, Wash, has closed
it's doors and announced its insoi-
yency Deposits amount to 1926, 900.
Bad investments caused the failure.
The comptroller of the currency
has authorized payment OF second
dividend Of 10 per cent to creditors of
the First National bank of Salmon,
Idaho, which was closed last June.
DOMESTIC
The White star line has issued a
statement declaring that at least l..
635 peple met death as result of
the sinking of the Titanic.
Stephen Wellmon, aged sixty,
prosperous farmer at Linoolnville, Pa,
shot and killed his wife and, accord.
ing to the story of Griscom Wellmon,
aged nine, he compelled the boy to
blow the back of his head away with
the same shotgun used to kill the wo.
man.
Speaking at times almost In a wnIs-
per, J. Bruce Ismay, managing direc-
tor of the White Star lines, testified
before the senate investigating COM
mittee at New York on Friday. Is
may declares he was passenger in
the last boat to leave the ship and
that there were no women to take
his place.
Six Chinese coolies, who hid be.
meath the seats of the Titanic life
boats before they were lowered, are
among the survivors, The coolies
were undetected until after the life.
boats reached the Carpathla.
Carl Morris, Oklahoma heavyweight
and Luther Mccarthy, Chicago, have
been matched for ten-round bout at
Springfield. Mo, May 3.
The Mississippi river levee four
miles south of Beulah, Miss, and
about forty miles north OF Greenyille,
broke and water Is coming through
with rush, endangering four coun.
ties.
The apparent fact that the Titanic
hfeboats were not sufficient to &C.
commodate the ships personnel Is
causing much comment in London.
although the papers are chary of dis.
eussing the subject.
Miss Georgette Madin. reported
among the saved In the Titanic dis.
aster' is one OF the youngest heir,
esses OF st, Louis. She is Is years
old and has an annual income of $50.
600. WV
Robert f. Wright. at one time
prominent in Democratic politics in
Pennsylvania. Is dead at AIlantown.
Pa. In 1903 he was grand sire of the
Order of Odd Fellows, the highest
| Office In the order.
H0 case OF Bert CORNERS, the
union ironworker charged with hay-
ing conspired TO dynamite the county
hall OF records at Los Angeles, Sep
TENDER 8, 1910. has been dismissed in
| the superior court.
Ad Wolgast and Willie Richie
have been matched for four-round
fight in San Francisco on the after.
noon Of May IL. Promoter James
Cohroth is the matchmaker.
The inroads OF Socialism among
the working class of Jews was de-
plored in reports and speeches. made
at the conference OF American rabbits
at Baltimore
Richard Wayne Men, president OF a
soap company and one OF the best
known men OF Cincinnati. lies at the
point OF death from bullet wound