The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-06-20
NEWS OF A week IN
CONDENSED FORM
REcoRp or The IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFzsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
--Infcrmatlon Gathered from Al
ouarters Of the Globe and
Given IN . Few Llns&

iNTERMoUNTAlN
Jimmy Clabbie OF Hammond, Ind.
earned the decision over Eddie Nc
Goorty OF Oshkosh, Wis. at Butte
Mont, after twelve rounds OF hare
hghting.
Ninety-two OF the 268 laborers and
transfers empoyed in the city street
department at Salt Lake have signed
a petition to the city commission ask
ing for raises in pay. Transfers want
so cents per day more and the labor
ers want an increase OF % cents per
day
Steve Ketchell OF Chicago won from
Phil knight OF Lewiston on foul in
the sixth round OF scheduled twelve.
round match at Lewiston, Mont. after
a low blow had been landed on the
Chicagoan, putting him on the ropes.
The forty-sixth annual encampment
OF the G A. H., department of Cali
fornia and Nevada. opened in Reno on
June 10. with an attendance of APP
! proximately 400 delegates.
Ezra Nelson, 20 years OF age, OF
Smithheld. Utah, was killed Monday
by lightning. He had just left his
home driving hayrack for load OF
hay east OF town He had not gone
far when both he and his team wers
killed
DOMESTIC
The Anal chapter in the litigation
over the $l0,000.00O estate OF Claus
| Spreckels probably was written Fri
day at San Francisco, when the SUI
preme court denied the appeal of John
y, and A. b. Spreckels, who were not
left share of the property.
Mrs. Dorothy Daniels, frail little
woman of %, was beaten, choked and
robbed In the streets OF New York by
a lone bandit who had followed her
from the bank to her place Of employ.
ment.
Bridge Weber, one of the princi-
pal witnesses in the Rosenthal murder
case, was stabbed in the back on an
east side street In New York, by gang
sters, and is probably fatally injured
Supreme Court Justice Minturn
made an order Friday granting the
right TO the Paterson. N. j.. silk mill
strikers, when arrested. OF trial by a
Jury from another county.
The ninth annual convention of the
Associated Advertising clubs OF Amer
lea finished its business at Baltimore,
June IS, and adjourned to meet next
year at Toronto. William Woodhead
Of San Francisco was elected presi-
dent.
A bank which collects sight draft
representing the purchase price of
liquor shipped in interstate commerce
into prohibition state. does not vio-
late the law prohibiting carrier from
acting as an agent, according to an
opinion handed down Friday by the
United States circuit court of appeals
at st. Paul.
A near riot took place in the Illinois
house OF representatives when George
II. Wilson, leader OF the "drys." was
knocked down by Representative
Thomas b, Gordon.
Orders have been issued by James
J. Hill stopping all work on the Great
Northern railroad lines that is not alb
solutely necessary. 1t is said the ac-
ton was taken as a result of the re-
cent supreme court decision in the
Minnesota rate cases.
The estate of Colonel John Jacob
Aston. who persisted in the Titanic dis
aster, has been officially appraised at
SS6,966.6l1, of which Vincent Astor i
receives $6S.s64.499; Mrs. Madeline
Force Aston s7,67s,Ss6: Muriel Aston
$4.S56.75S. and John Jacob Aston. son
by his second marriage, $2.922,672.
Denny simmons. young negro who
was jailed at Anadarko, Okla, on the
charge of murder OF Miss Susie
Church, twenty miles north of Ana
darko. was lynched Friday.
George Marguerite, an Austrian, |
aged so. prosperous mine operator
of Sayer. Arizona, was shot and killed
at New Orleans by fellow country
man named Milo zibiiich. an oyster
merchant. The men quarreled about
business transaction.
Frederick e. Atteaux, the dye manu-
facturer, who was eo-defendant with /
President William II. Wood of the
American Wooden company in the re-
cent dynamite planting" case, will
not be tried a second time. The
Jury reported disagreement as to
him and the district attorney has
nolle pressed the case.
Mrs. Rebecca Dennis wylie. who
celebrated her one hundred and first
birthday last August. died at her
home in Bloomington. Ind. ON We'd
nesday She was the widow of T. A.
Wylie. once vice-president of the In-
diana university, and its first profes-
sor of chemistry and natural history.
The submergence record for sub
marine boats was broken at Los An
geles by locally constructed vessel
which came to the surface at 5 p. m.
Wednesday after having been resting
m the bnftnm 0f The ooaon ,fe az.