The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-04-17
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Glven In Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAIN.

disastrous tidal wave, has resigned
as chief engineer of the Oregon-syasn-
ingtoH Railroad q Navigation com
pany, a Union Pacific subsidiary, after
twenty-nine years Of service with the
Hartman system.
Mrs. Belle Van Dorm Harbert. pres
ident Of the international Congress OF
Farm Women, has been decorated
with the cross OF the Order Of hgri-
culture OF Belgium Notification OF the
award was received at Denver from p.
de Vuyst, minister Of agriculture. The
letter states that Mrs Harbert is the
first woman TO receive the decora-
tion.
The only standard gauge railway
ever built and operated by the United
states government was run at profit
in 1913. Figures given out by the
reclamation service show the road
the Boise q Arrow Rock. of Idaho
had net earnings OF s9.721 last year.
Government financial aid state, fed
eral or both combined--for the re-
lief Of irrigation projects in the west
was held up as crying need by
speakers at the first days session OF
the irrigation conference called at
Denver by Secretary Lane OF the In
terror department
Joe LaBella, a caretaker of prop
erty for the Reynolds-Ely Construc-
tion company, was murdered near the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad track
at a point about two miles west of
Tucker, Utah, by two men with whom
he had an alteration, and who
crushed his skull with club
Richard Soules, who was being
tried at Pocatello. Idaho. for alleged
robbery OF the postofflce substantion.
was acquitted Soules is Short
Line engineer.
An alleged shoplifters' syndicate.
composed Of nearly score of persons.
mostly women, has been uncovered
at Portland, the police assert. fol-
lowing FIVE arrests made in one day.
DOMESTIC.
Captain John Hanson, master of
stone barge, was knocked into Ne
wark bay, and drawn into a govern
ment sand sucking dredge half mile
away. His dismembered body was
carried through fourteen inch pipe
1000 feet long out into the Newark
meadows.
Bituminous coal operators repre-
senting IS per cent OF the output OF
central Pennsylvania decided by
vote Of 80 to rs to close their mines
pending the signing OF a. new agree
ment with their employees.
Copper country locals of the West
srn Federation OF Miners have decid.
% to take a referendum vote on the
question OF calling off the strike
which has been waged In Michigan
since July 2S, 1913.
Prof. Henry s. Savage. head of the
Hampton Womans college near New
port News. Va. committed suicide by
Mrs. +. A. Tannehill, SO, known to
the stage for three generations as Nell
lie Tannehill, died at her home in New
York Of paralysis. In her day Mrs.
rannehill supported such famous stars
as Forest and Nine. Modjeska.
Governor George II. Hodges of
Kansas was made the defendant in
civil suit for $4,000 damages filed by
Mrs. Luella West of Wichita, Kan.
who charged in her petition that the
governor wrenched her wrist and arm
and struck her with his fist during an
alleged alteration In his office,
Emil Schwyer, animal trainer In a
circus. was attacked and torn by a
leopard while trying to make the ami
NAL perform at st. Louis. The Loop
ard tore the flesh from the trainers
arm and shoulder. Circus attaches
beat OF the leopard with iron bars.
The police OF all the large cities in
the country have been asked to help
rid New York Of pickpockets The To-
cal authorities seek photographs. |
finger prints and histories of all the
on record in the United
States.
A negro arrested near Media, Pa, |
on suspicion of having murdered Win.
liam McKniff, confessed, according
to the police, that he had committed /
the crime out Of revenge because Nc
Kniff's father, then chief of police Of
Media, had sent him to jail on a bur. /
glary charge.
Edward J. Knauer. a prominent at.
torney. once associated in practice
with Chester A. Arthur, committed
suicide at his office in Long Island
City by shooting. A letter addressed
Q his wife said that financial troubles
nd failing health had made his life
9 Longer worth living.
Students at Graham Hall. a school
r girls at Minneapolis on Thursday
light a fire in the third floor Of the
rmltory by passing buckets of wa
Up the stairs until firemen ar Fl
The Are started from gas I
''fPsns BY house cleaners :