The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-01-03
NEWS OF A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRiEFKsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Nappenings That Are Making History
--Informatlon Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe ard
0ivsr In a Few LIne&
iNrERMouNTAiN

j y. Quean at Iona, Colo, James
D. Hemsiey and his i5-year-old son.
Joseph. stood or three deputy sheriffs
for two hours in the Main street. A
bullet killed the son, the father sur
rendered, charged principally with re.
sisting officers. He is believed TO be
insane.
Bert Dalton. bank robber. one-time
leader OF the Whitney gang that held
Wyoming In terror year ago and who
engineered a sensational jail break of
nineteen convicts from the Rawlins
penitentiary was captured Friday at
Big Plney, Wyo
Judge o. w. Powers OF Salt Lake,
one OF the best known criminal law.
yers OF the middle west. will act as
associate counsel with Earl Rogers In
the defense OF Clarence Darrow In his
second trial at Los Angeles.
With both hands cut OF and his
skull fractured, Max Won Bulow, said
70 be q descendant OF Count Won Blu.
low, the famous German general. was
picked up on the railroad tracks near
the state line Friday night and died
two hours later in the railroad hos
pltal at Sparks, Nevada.
William Nelson. aged 81, serving
his first night as marshal at Midvale,
Utah, was shot and killed by drunken
foreigners early Christmas morning.
Denyer's preparation for the obser.
rance OF green Christmas and an
eighteen-year record was shattered
when snow began falling shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock.
r. II. MacWhorter, Seattle real
estate broker. pleaded guilty TO using
the mails to defraud In connection
with the s35OO.O0O de Larm Columbia
river orchard swindle.
DOMESTIC
Fewer cattle by PSI .29s have been
received at the Chicago stockyards
this year than In 1911, according to
figures given out Friday. Despite this
TACT more money was paid for beef
during 1912 than In 1911 by s3.2S2, 1876.
The total paid out this year was
b1s3. ass, 909.
TWO men probably were fatally in
lured while seven others sustained
more or less serious injuries when a
street car jumped the track on the
Central bridge which spans the Ohio
river at Cincinnati and were pre-
cipltated into vacant lot on the
Ohio side after drop OF forty feet.
Representative John G.. McHenry OF
the Sixteenth Pennsylvania district
lied at his home in Benton. Pa, Fri
day
Lew Van Alstine, a Taylor county
farmer, has been arrested at villisca.
iowa, on warrant charging him with
the murder of the Moore family and
The Stlllinger girls on the night OF
June 3.
AS Clara lie May. aged IA. was EN-.
terlng the Cords cotton mill at Mill
bury, Mass. she was, shot and killed
BY Charles Adams. aged l5. The hoy
then shot himself. inlicting fatal In.
iurles. jealousy was the cause.
James ]. Hill. the Great Northern
railway magnate, on Friday announced
the engagement OF his daughter Miss
Rachel to DR.. Agil Boeckmann OF st.
Paul
Captain Gould and his crew OF eight
men We're rescued Friday night from
the schooner Savannah, which ran
ashore on Frying Pan shoals in a
heavy gale. Life savers from the
Cape Fear and Oak Island stations
took the men on.
The Missouri Pacific and the Den.
yer \ Rio Grande railroads will re-
/ duce the running time on freight
trains between Kansas City and Den.
yer from seyenty-two to forty.eight
hours
! Virginia welcomed home Friday
night Governor Woodrow Wilson, the
eighth Of her native sons to be chosen
president OF the United States, when
he visited the little parsonage where
he was born Just iifty-six years ago.
Examination OF the body OF Mrs.
Sarah Johnson, who with her sister,
Miss Mary Scott. died Christmas eve
In ST. Louis. apparently in want. re-
yealed that bag around her waist
| contained $500 in cash and three
| gold watches.
Jason Brown, 90 years old. second
SON OF John Brown, famous as the
leader OF the raid on Harpers Ferry
w Va, died at his home in Akron
O., on Wednesday.
The Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake
company is alleged to be violating the
Sherman law In a petition filed In tbs
district court at Detroit, Mich. by or
der Of Attorney General Wickersham
to settle for all time the extent tc
which manufacturer may control re-
tail prices.
Boarding house keepers all ovel
the country may celebrate, for the ex
press companies have been compelled
by the government to lower the rate
on prunes. 1t was brought abou
Il through the agency of the nareal.