The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-14
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF The IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
IzED FORM.
Horne and Foreign News Gathered
From All Quarters Of the World.
and Prepsed for Busy Man.
lNTERmouNTAiN

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BY the collapse OF bleachers In the
X. M. c. A. building at Salt Lake, dur
| ing an athletic tournament, Lawrence
Love. aged 20, was seriously injured,
suffering bad scalp wound and Sc
verely wrenched spine.
The Washington legislature has
unanimously adopted tho joint resolu-
ton ratifying the constitutional
amendment for direct election OF SEN
ators.
After several hours struggle the
divorce law amendment requiring
twelve months residence In the state
OF Nevada, instead OF six. passed the
assembly by vote OF 80 to ~.
Fourteen desperate tramps practi-
caily took possession OF Salt Lake
overland train out on the Mojaye des-
ert on Thursday. cowing the trainmen
and terrorizinE the passengers.
Frank Baccus, a negro between ITO
and 100 years old, died at the county
hospital al Reno, New, February 6
Aged men who knew him sixty years
ago when he flrst came 10 Nevada say
he was an old man then. The aged
negro, a giant In stature, often told
OF accompanying his master during
the Black Hawk war in 1882.
Senator John Hecker, on the floor
OF the Colorado senate. declared that
twenty women 10 one man In Denver
drink intoxicating liquor. and that they
drink more than men.
DOMESTIC
Earl Rogers, counsel for Clarence
8. barrow. the Chicago attorney. in
his trial at Los Angeles. for jury brib-
ing. withdrew from the case Friday
after being confined to his bed all
afternoon.
The committees OF managers of the
eastern railways announce that their
firemen have voted almost unani
mously to strike.
Mrs. Ethel Lorraine Belmont, q
chorus girl bride. filed suit at New
York on Friday, asking separation
from her young husband, Raymond,
son Of August Belmont She charges
him with desertion.
Litigation over the bequest of ST.
100000 made to the First Church OF
Christ. Scientist, of Boston by Mrs.
Mary Baker @, Eddy, ended Friday
when her natural heirs Joined with
the trustees of the church in proposed
decrees entered in the several courts
involved
A spasm OF the throat that left
William Rockefeller a strangling,
trembling old man, on the verge of
nervous collapse, abruptly terminated
his examination by Chairman Pujo
and Counsel Samuel Untermyer of the
house money trust committee at Jekyi
Island. Ga. on Friday.
The report OF the land committee
OF the Mormon refugees which in
spected a proposed site for a colony
near Santa Fe. N. NJ, was unfavor-
able according TO a dispatch from
El Paso. Texas.
II is illegal to strike baseball UNI
pire In Illinois. This view was held
by the appellate court Friday in sus-
tanning a decision OF the Chicago
court rendered on November FL. 1908.
by which Robert Cantwell was fined
s75 and costs for assaulting Umpire
KERN OF the American league
Thomas Walsh has been held to the
federal grand jury at New York un-
der $4,000 bail on the charge of hav-
Ing shanghaied to the German steam
or Dortmund. at Norfolk. two months
ago. Gilbert Cochran. aged 2S, of
Pittsburgh. Pa. and Walter McGirt.
10. OF Maxton, N. G,
Despite serious labor troubles the
wooden manufacturing industry pros
pered In 1912. according to reports OF
officers. presented at the annual
meeting at Boston of the American
Wool Manufacturers association.
The state senate OF Missouri has
passed bill allowing travelling men
TO vote wherever they may be on
election day,
A new rule prohibiting bouts be.
tween white persons and negroes,
otherwise known as mixed bouts.
has been adopted by the New York
State Athletic commission, which con-
trolls boxing In New York state.
The two years warfare between the
Wisconsin Woman Suffrage associa-
ton and the Political Equality league
was ended Wednesday when repre-
sentatlyes of both met and by unani-
nous vote decided to unite their
/. forces
Betty Raspberry. said to have been
the leader OF a band OF land swind.
lers which operated in Oklahoma for
several years, has been convicted OF
forging deed TO valuable oil lands
in Tulsa county. and sentenced to
seven years in states prison.
I DR.. william ]. Arlitz OF Hohoken,
N. j.. who brought suit against Mayor
William J. Gaynor OF New York for
$500 for professional services rem