The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-03-27
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD inv BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Aappennsss That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAin.

fhuO coal Heiuh nave Hieu suit lot
damages totaling million dollars
against the United Mine Workers Of
America.
Joseph Henry Martin, alleged
hlackmailer. has been indicted, under
fourteen counts, by the grand jury at
Ogden, Utah
Henry Roberts. 70 years old, a
wealthy farmer, suicided at Layton,
Utah, by shooting, while temporarily
insane.
Approximately $500 troops OF the
regular army and the organized mil,
lila Of Washington, Oregon Montana,
Idaho and Utah viii participate in q
big joint maneuver camp In the vi
entity of Salt Lake this summer, ac-
cording to the announcement by the
war department
Nedman Erb, president Of the
Denver a Salt Lake railroad, will ar
rive In Denver March 20 to confer
with the Moffat tunnel commission
relative to the plans for commencing
the construction OF the tunnel and to
make an inspection trip over the road
to Craig.
Laurence Duke, nephew of James
y. Duke, the tobacco manufacturer,
was found not guilty by a jury in the
superior court at Seattle on the charge
Of manslaughter preferred after his
automobile ran down and killed Hen
ry N, Farr. a saloonkeeper on the
county road south or Seattle. October
Us last.
DOMESTIC.
A clerk Of the Third National bank
of ST. Louis is short $4,000 In his
accounts, according to the announce
ment OF the president of the bank,
who claims the clerk has been steal
ing for the past four years.
II. l.. Taylor, American colonist,
has arrived at El Paso from Colonia
Juarez. Mexico. and tell story Of
being driven out of the country by
bandits. being forced to leave his
wife and daughter behind. after being
robbed and his property confiscated.
Marie Jansen. comic opera IA.
vorite of twenty years ago, died at
Milford, Mass. at the age OF So.
Former Senator w. A. Clark OF
Montana, had narrow escape from
death In New York City. when a
fourteen-ton girder fell. only the
stoutness OF the bridge over the side
walk saving him. Four workmen
were killed.
The 1918 cotton crop was the most
valuable ever grown and second larg,
est in point OF quality. Statistics an.
nounced by the bureau of the census
indicated 1t amounted to $7.373,557
pounds Of 14.767,15i bales of lint and
Inter cotton.
Fire caused by gas explosion at
Ardmore. Okla, burned to death
Mrs Dora Murphy. aged 20; her
daughter Corrine aged 13; Miss Ma,
bel Cults. aged 81, and Mrs. Eliza.
beth Finley, aged 40.
Glynn w. Bridgemann OF Lockport
N. X, was killed and twenty persons
were injured In collision between
two cars on trolley line at Wickwire,
New York.
Harry schaeffer, who confessed
that he strangled to death William Z.
Martin, Toronto. Can. miller,
was convicted Of murder in the Sec
ond degree.
His calls for drink OF water led
to the rescue of Thomas Burke from
the ruins OF the st. Louis Seed com.
pany's building, thirty-seven hours az
terq the structure collapsed under the
weight OF fallen wall. Burke died
at the city hospital several hours after
being taken from the ruins.
Bound. gagged. tied to a wagon
wheel, robbed and shot, Frederick
Altschweger wealthy ranch owner,
died at Oakland In sanitarium of a
wound inflicted Thursday. The rob.
Der obtained 81.
Fire, which destroyed the job print
ing department OF the Evening Wis
consin. the Offices OF the Western
Newspaper Union and the Windsor
hotel at Milwaukee. caused a loss OF
$350,000.
Mrs. Irene Morrison Of Milwaukee
was given $4,000 damages In suit for
$4,000 brought against five members
Of the state fair board of 1910 for in
iuries suffered when Archie Hoxey's
aeroplane fell into the crowd in front
OF the grand stand.
@1n explosion at the Equitable Pow.
der company's plant at Alton, Ill,
near st. Louis, shook territory in ILL
nois within a distance Of 100 miles.
The effect of the explosion, however,
did not cross the Mississippi river
into Missouri.
Delegations from several western
states met at st. Joseph, Mo-, and or
ganized the Pixies Peak Ocean,to
Oasan highway. The plan is to build
q Eaaa which will run through Illinois
Springfield through Hannibal,
Joseph, Mo. and Colorado