The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-05-14
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 6RiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
iNTERmouNTAiN.

OptHSu az Dlb huuyt Olct, MAY v.
Seeking the hide OF grizzly with
which to adorn the den OF his home
in New York. Mayor Mitchell has ar
rived at Cody, Wyo.
Woolgrowers represented at the auc-
tion OF wool at Rawlins, Wyo.. are re-
prices offered.
A celebration commemorative com.
pletion of The DallesCelilo canal and
the successful trip of steamer to
Portland. Ore, through the new canal
10 Lewiston was held at Lewiston,
Idaho, May 8.
John II. Lawson, member OF the ex-
ecutive committee Of the United Mine
Workers, was condemned by a jury
10 spend the remainder Of his life at
hard labor In the Colorado peniten-
tiary He was found guilty of first
degree murder In connection with the
death OF John Nimmo, deputy
sheriff, killed in strike battle octo-
Der rs, 1918.
Hodgkin's disease, a peculiar NAL
ady which Is said to be battling the
medical profession at Butte, has
claimed as its victim the son OF DIR. t.
G. Witcherspoon, who has made a spe-
cial study OF the disease and Is rec
ognized as an authority on It,
DOMESTIC.
Mrs Lee Bum and her child were
killed and Mrs. &c. Hilliard was prob
ably fatally hurt when their homes
near Huntingdon, Tenn, were wreck.
ed by windstorm
According to steamship agents
twenty persons from the Pittsburgh
district had booked passage on the i'll
fated louisiana. In the number were
eight flrst cabin. eleven second cabin
and three third cabin passengers.
Speaking Of the sinking OF the
Lusitania, Theodore Roosevelt said
This represents not merely piracy,
but piracy on yaster scale OF murder
than any oldtime pirate ever prac-
ticed"
The British steamer Transyivania
Of the Anchor line sailed from New
York ON Friday for Liverpool, few
hours after news OF the Lusitania s
sinking had been received. The Tran.
sylyania's cabins were crowded, her
agents said. There were $40 passen-
gers aboard
Traffic through the Panama canal
during March was considerably
greater than for any preceding month.
total OF 1876 sea-golng vessels pass
ed, carrying 635,5O7 tons Of cargo
In his first political speech since the
1912 campaign William Howard Taft
declared at Madison, Wis. that he be-
lieved there was favorable prospect
OF Republican success at the polls in
1916.
The letterwriting murderer who
killed 5-yearold Elenore Cohn and 4.
year-old Charlie Murray has written
70 the Murray boys mother, in New
York City. that he will commit an
other murder when the excitement
over her childs death subsidies
Bread for the Polish women and
children and seed for the Polish farm.
er are the greatest needs OF that ma.
ton at this time, according TO Ignace
Paderewski the pianist, who is in
New York for the purpose OF organic
ing a committee of prominent Ameri-
cans for relief OF Polish war victims.
The national board of National Won.
an Suffrage association has issued
call for a conference OF suffrage lead
ers to be held In Chicago June to 3
for the purpose of discussing the sixty
fourth congress,
Fifteen persons were killed and
more than two score injured by tor.
nado which passed through the west.
ern part Of Acadia parish. in southern
louisiana
The vets won in the local option
election called by the United States
district court TO determine whether
the people of Nome wanted the court
TO license saloons for another year.
William II. Taft. former president,
addressing the Wisconsin legislature.
commended President Wilson for the
policy Of neutrality, (which he has so
conseientiously followed"
Mrs Ella Coppersmith, "a years old.
wife OF John l.. Coppersmith, a com.
mission merchant, and her son John,
years old, were found murdered in
heir home in Chicago. Robbery is be-
ieyed TO have been the motive.
Charges that the Pennsylvania state
sonstabulary is used to break strikes
ini to create reigns of terror in times
of industrial disputes have been made
20 the United States Commission ON
Industrial relations by James II. Maui
fer, president OF the Pennsylvania
State Federation of Labor and member
Of the state Legislature.
British warsbips which have been
lying OF the New York and New
England coasts will be temporarily
withdrawn SO they may not interfere
with the success of the maneuvers OF
the Atlantic feet, which begin May Is.