The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-12-05
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAIN.

NTERMOUNTAiN.
A. L. Ringing, aged 81. who claims
70 be son OF one OF the Ringing
brothers OF circus fame, was arrested
at Price, Utah, charged with issuing
two bad checks
Rafael Lopez, whose list OF victims
includes j. w. Grant, chief of the
Bingham police force, Deputy Sheriffs
Otto Witbeck and Nephi s. Jensen of
Salt Lake county and Juan Valdez OF
Bingham, Is believed to be hiding In
the Minnie workings OF the Utah Apex
mine near Bingham.
The Twentieth United States in
fantry at Fort Douglas, Utah, under
the command OF Colonel Frederick
Perkins, will leave Immediately for
FL Paso. Texas. to patrol the interna-
tional border line outside the city
limits.
just after telephoning his wife,
Benjamin +. Price, aged 81, of Pueblo
fell dead. presumably of heart failure.
He was chief engine inspector of the
Denver & Rio Grande, which position
he has held for twenty-five years.
The scheduled ten-round fight at
Boise, Idaho. between Ike Cohen of
Boise and Dan Haley OF San Francisco
was stopped in the early part of the
seventh round to save Haley from
further punishment. and Cohen was
given the decision.
John w. Cody, former owner Of the
Boise baseball club in the Union asso-
citation and at one time ball player
well known In the west. died Tuesday
at Boise OF tuberculosis.
DOMESTIC.
The body of man found by hunt
ers In the woods near Concord,
Mass, has been identified as that OF
Alfred Bull Nicholas, professor OF
German at simmons college, who had
been missing since September s. He
had shot himself.
Ragtlme writing and speaking" UNI
derwent merciless attack at Chicago
before the National Council of Teach
ers OF English. Percival Chubb OF ST.
Louis, Mo-, delivered an address charg-
ing that in abusing the harmonies
OF speech as well as of song, Ameri-
cans are the chief sinners.
George Washington's surveying.
done In 1851, when, as lad of 10,
he ran line with chain and compass
through the wilderness of the Vir-
ginia hills for Lord Fairfax. has been
checked up by government Surveyors,
who have just made their report
They found the work of the immortal
patriot perfect.
Daniel H. Tolman, king OF the loan
sharks. must serve six months in
the penitentlary for usury. In SO de-
Gliding, the appellate division upheld
the lower court In New York city,
which imposed sentence.
That Eli Jones, after shooting and
killing his wife in his home at Moi
felt, Oklahoma, was murdered by an
unknown person. was the verdict re.
turned by a coroner's jury. Jones
shot his wife in the pesence Of his
eleven children.
Mrs. l. Bracket Bishop. wife of
wealthy business man of Chicago, has
made known that she planned to be-
come the mother, by adoption, OF fif-
teen children. each TO represent one
Of the fifteen most characteristic
racial types.
Reuben Field. whose phenomenal
powers as rapid calculator have
puzzled expert mathematicians from
all parts Of the country. died Thurs.
day OF apoplexy at the Jackson coun.
~, Missouri farm, where he had been
cared for since 1907. He was 20 years
old.
Mexican Joe Rivers came back" on
Thanksgiving day and whipped Leach
Cross in twenty rounds at Los An.
geles.
A loss OF $250,000 was suffered in
the wholesale district of Edmonton,
Alberta. when fire swept the McKin-
ney block and destroyed the stock of |
several wholesale firms.
The New York stock exchange, |
its board of governors, har |
taken the initial step toward uniform
laws for the careful supervision Of cor.
porate organizations and for greater
publicity OF corporation operations.
Striking employees of the Wabash
railroad shops in Decatur, ILL.,, re-
turned to work Tuesday. The non
union machinist who had been EN-
ployed was discharged.
With more than $4,000 employees OF
the General Electric company volun-
tarily idle, the city of Schenectady, N. |
X, faces an industrial crisis.
All card tables, chairs and musical
were ordered removed
from saloons in st. Louis county on
Wednesday by R. ]. Fine, Progressive
member of the excise board.
The Michigan copper mine strike
took a serious turn again Wednesday,
when an attempt was made to blow
up the compressor house at the All
meek mine.