The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-04-24
sEcoRp 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.
lNTERmouNTAIM.


Colorado Springs last week, has been
aled by the county commissioners of
Ell Paso county against the Denver
& Rio Grand and the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railroad companies
Mother" Mary Jones, held as a mil
itary prisoner in the Walsenburg
Colo. jail, was resleased on Thursday
The release of the aged strike lead
er was simultaneous with the depart
ure Of the last o. the state troops from
Huerfano county.
Extradition papers for William H.
Mathews of Boise, Idaho, formerly
vice-president of the Overland Insur.
ance company, were brought to Chi
cago by Sheriff John NJ. Roberts Of
Boise. Mathews is charged with en-
bezzling $4,000 from the company.
A mob of fifty masked men at
tempted to take Charles Rogland, a
negro, accused of numbering Joseph
Petty, a Florence, Colo, merchant,
from the Canon City Jail, but was
frustrated by the officers.
Guilty on the charge of assault with
deadly weapon, with intent to do
bodily harm, was the verdict returned
by the jury in the Joseph Henry Mar
tin case at Ogden, Utah. Martin was
accused of shooting detective.
DOMESTIC.
In an attempt to murder John Pur-
roy Mitchell, mayor of New York, Mi
chael P. Mahoney, an aged man. fired
into a group of three men seated In
the mayors automobile. The mayor
escaped injury, but Corporation Coun-
tsel Frank L. Polk was shot in the jaw
and seriously injured. Mahoney Is
in jail
Censored messages received al
Naco, Arizona, indicate that the labor
troubles which occurred last week at
the Cananea copper mines over the
deportation of union leaders by con-
stitutionalists have been renewed.
A tumor at the base of the brain
of Dr. William T. Kirby, former pri-
vate banker of Chicago, was found by
physicians conducting an autopsy on
Kirby. who died April Is. Kirby
swindled depositors out of 100000.
Malcolm Clifford, Jr., l9-year-old
son of wealthy manufacturer OF Hud-
son, N. Y, is in Jail at Albany. \. T.,
charged with the murder of Frank J.
Clute, chauffeur. Clute was shot to
death on April /, 1913, while driving
an unidentified man to Troy.
Mckee Rankin, the veteran charact-
er actor who was identified for years
with Nance O'Neill in Shakespearean
productions. died April II at San
Francisco.
Lightweight Champion Willie Rit-
chic administered a twenty-round
beating to Harlem" Tommy Murphy
in the ring at San Francisco. April II,
but failed to score a knockout.
The seventeenth annual session of
the American Mining congress. it has
become assured, will be held in Phoe-
nix. Ariz., in December.
Robert Higgins, confessed wife-mur-
derer. has been taken to the Jotiet
prison from Galesburg. Ill, to begin
his term of life Imprisonment, Hlg-
gins killed his wife because he was
infatuated with his step-daughter Ju-
liza Flake.
Bitten by lion several days ago IN
posing for moving picture thriller
DR.. William Warner Kirby, member
of Paul Raineys expedition to ART
ca. and well known throughout the
circus world. died at Los Angeles.
Jams Euwer, aged 2S, OF Centeryille'
Iowa. in an insane frenzy took knife
and mutilated his own face almost De-
yond recognition. He was captured
by the police after desperate strug'
gle.
Twenty sticks of dynamite with
lighted fuse attached were fouhd \
the new hall of the United Mlh'
Workers of America at lselln, Mlcn.
by the foreman of construction gang
The fuse was extinguished a lev
inches from the explosive.
With two wounded sailors on ooaro
the German tank steamer Usage iron
Tampico put in quarantine at Tampa
Fla. Stray bullets fired in the nsh'
ing between Mexican federals an
rebels at Tampico struck the sallor
who were on the ship. One oil ID
sailors may die.
Edward and Charles Barrett an
Arthur Friedman, charged Win ~
murder of Frank Witt, street ca
conductor, were found not guhty 2
a jury in Chicago. Witt was sue
during strike of pressmen in III
T. d. Collins, millionaire LUMBER
man. died Thursday at his nome
Nebraska, Pa, aged S. Mr. CONN
contributed many thousands q 90
lars to the foreign missionary mo''
ment of the Methodist Episeopa
church. founding mission schools
India, China, Manchuria, Porto hio
and South America.