The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-03-20
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings THAT Are Making History
s-Infsrmstlon Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
0iven In a Few LInss.
INTERMouNTAlM.

fN tEnMO0N HsNs
The public utilities COMMISSION will
ask for conference with the Mofrat
Tunnel commission at Denver. at an
early date TO discuss plans for bring
ing water through the tunnel.
Leslie Lowe. city health inspector
OF Seattle. while serving a warrant on
Rev Robert f.. Butterworth. a
preacher of the Reorganized Church
OF Latter-day Saints, was shot and
seriously wounded.
3. F. ONeils petition for pardon
was denied by the unanimous vote OF
the Idaho state board composed Of
Governor Haines, Attorney General
Peterson and Secretary of State Gift
ford
Military invasion Of the strikers
tent colony at Forbes, Colo, in which
eleven tents were taken down by mil
'tiamen. has thrown the striking min.
ers in that district into furore of ex-
element.
Governor Oddie has sent kilograms
to the Southern Pacific and the West
ern Pacific railroad general managers
protesting against the possible ship
ment. of the idle army near Sacramen-
70, into Nevada.
The subcommittee OF the house
committee ON mines and mining,
which has spent four weeks investi-
eating the Colorado coal miners
strike. departed Sunday from Denver
for Washington.
DOMESTIC.
Directors OF the United States Elk
press company have voted unanimously
to liquidate its affairs and dissolve 1t
In the shortest possible time. They
blame the parcel post for loss OF bust
ness.
Two men were killed and two dep.
uty sheriffs and woman wounded as
the result of an attempted hold.up of
Chicago & Northwestern freight
train at Manlius, Ill.
Fred Kohler, former chief of police
Of Cleveland, o., known as the golden
rule chief, In an open letter announc-
Ing his candidacy for sheriff, said he
had paid In full for his dismissal
h@1AaA RatNC "a yNah A6o.
Gilbert Woodward, aged 70, a prom.
inent lawyer. congressman from 1888.
85, and Democratic candidate for gov.
ernor In 1856, is dead at La Crosse,
Wis.
Walter l.. Goodnow, aged So, owner
of several department stores in New
hampshire, was killed at South Pasa.
lena, Cal, when the automobile which
he was driving was struck by sub
lrban electric train from Los Angeles.
George Westinghouse, the famous
engineer and inventor, who died at
New York, OF heart disease. provided
IN his viii for the continuation of his
arge business interests under trus-
leeship.
Captain John A. Fish of New York
was sentenced to five years in the
federal prison at Atlanta for burning
ais yacht Senta, in Egdartown harbor,
On October Fl. 1910. In order to obtain
$4,000 insurance money.
James w. Mum, assistant general
passenger and ticket agent OF the
chicago 4 Northwestern railroad,
died suddenly at Chicago of heart dis.
sase. He had been with the road
since 1879.
George Westinghouse, foremost
figure in the world of engineering and
inventor of the air brake that bears
his name, died Thursday at his resi-.
dence in New York Of heart disease.
He was in his 6Sth year.
Mrs. Anna Pedogil, aged 30, was
cut to pieces in her home in Cleve-
land. O., while tied to bed. Frank
Stika. son of the man for whom Mrs.
Pedogii was housekeeper, has been ar.
rested charged with murder.
Former President William II. Taft
on Wednesday night delivered the
last OF his course Of lectures at Am
herst (Massachusetts) college. tax,
ing THE Monroe Doctrine as his
subject. He supported the retention
OF this doctrine.
A cable message received at Phil
adelphia by the Earn Line stated that
the Norwegian steamer Cecil had
stranded on Mariguana island in the
Bahamas and that the vessel and car
go are total loss.
Henry siegel, head of large depart
ment stores in New York. Chicago
and Boston. and his partner in the
banking business, Frank e. vogeI,
have been indicted by the grand jury
on a larceny charge.
A knockdown scored in the seventh
round and superior glove play gave
Willie Richie. lightweight champion
of the world, ten-round victory over
Ad Wolgast at Milwaukee.
Hugh H. Cooper of Rochester, Mimi.
builder of the dam across the Missis-
sippf river at Keokuk, Iowa, has been
appointed consulting hydro-electric en-
gineer for the Egyptian government.
Four men were killed by a pre-
mature explosion in a tunnel being