The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-01-16
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of The Globe and
Given In a Few Llnes.
INTERMouNTAlN.

Aroused by Jealousy to uncontroll-
able rage, Marie Arthur, also known
as Marie Jones, shot to death Frank
broadway Jones, bartender. In
Salt Lake City. and then, placing the
revolver to her left breast, sent bull
lei into her body, perilously close to
the heart.
Democrats OF Utah numbering near
iy 500 assembled at the Hotel Utah,
Salt Lake, Thursday night and cele.
brated jackson day in an elaborate
banquet. Orators Of local and state
prominence told eloquently Of the Dem
ocratic characteristics Of President
jackson.
In fusillade OF shots at the office
of the Tacoma Shelter company at
Tacoma, where a strike has been in
srogress for a week. Andrew Runeo,
striker, was shot in the abdomen.
The schooner Repeat, thirty-seyen
days from Honolulu, has arrived at
Port Townsend, Wash, and reported
that Second Mate F. w. King was
washed overheard and persisted on
the morning of December Is.
Search has been abandoned in the
mine at Bingham, Utah, for Rafael
Lopez, the Mexican murderer who
has killed six men, the sheriff now
admitting that Lopez has escaped
from the mine.
DOMESTIC.
DR.. John Grant Lyman, promoter
OF the defunct Panama Development
company. convicted at Los Angeles
of having used the malls to defraud,
was sentenced to one year and three
months in the prison at Florence,
Ariz.
The annual state hookworm report
showed that 46.S per cent Of about
$1,000 Texas children examined mi
croscopically during 1918 had hook
worm
Mrs. Margaret Ellison, whose first
husband was j. Clayton Erb, a Phila-
delphia millionaire, for whose muir.
der she was tried and acquitted ave
years ago, at Omaha, on Friday, was
granted divorce from Francis J. FL
lison. She married Ellison in Des
Moines in 1909.
Five sailors of the crew of the
flagship Wyoming Of the Atlantic
fleet are reported to have been
drowned at Old Point Comfort, Va,
when the flagship was swamped with
sixteen sailors aboard.
John Dale, who for twenty years has
defied revenue officers In the west.
ern counties OF Arkansas, was found
asleep in the woods near Waldron
Ark. and arrested by United States
marshals posse on the charge of op
Grating a distillery.
Raphael Lopez the Mexican outlaw
who killed six men and escaped from
several sheriffs' posses in the Utah
Apex mine at Bingham, Utah, was
seen in Los Angeles on Friday 1t is
asserted.
John II. Spooner, nephew of for
mer Senator John Spooner of Wiscon
sin and prominent insurance man
shot and killed Miss Emily McCon
nell, kindergarten teacher, at Madi
son, Wis. He then turned the reyol
yer upon himself and inflicted fatal
injuries.
The engagement of Miss Belle VII
lard. daughter OF Joseph Il. willard
United States minister to Spain
to Kermit Roosevelt, son Of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt and famous as his
fathers hunting companion. has been
announced.
Exceptions OF William G. Dorr OF
Stockton, Cal. to the verdict of muir,
der returned against him year ago
for the killing Of George f. Marsh, a
soap manufacturer OF Lynn. Mass, in
April, 1912, were overruled by the
supreme court at Boston.
Randall Mccoy, who was leader in
the McCoy-Hatiield feud thirty years
ago, fell into an open fireplace at
Pikeville. Ky, and before he could be
removed was fatally burned Mccoy
was Sc years old.
The public service commissions or
der giving consent to the issue by the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad company of S67,700,000 of
convertible debenture bonds, has been
annulled by the supreme court.
Mrs. Fred Wolf and two of her three
children were burned beyond possibil.
ity Of recovery In fire that destroy
ed their residence at Charlton, Iowa.
Mrs. Wolf was trying to start a fire
with kerosene
Ia the two years since the work.
men compensation law went into eff.
feet in Minnesota. employers of the
state have paid s396,345.73 as indem
nifty to injured workmen and their de
pendents
Joseph @. Cannon, former speaker
of the national house of representa-
tiyes, who has been i'll with cold a
his home at Danyille. Ill, is feeling
much better.
David Clement. president OF larg'
millinery company, died at st. Louii
from violent hfccoughs. He had beer