The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-04-02
RECORD 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 a Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAIN.

poisoned Daniel Winders, wealthy
sheepman, at Mackay Idaho. Four
others are implicated with the Con-
way woman.
Baptiste Ravizza, bartender, in a
fit of jealousy, walked into the din
ing roon of a Helper, Utah, hotel,
where his wife, Abbie, was setting
table, and fired six shots at her, three
taking effect in her throat, arm and
chest. Rayizza was arrested and
locked up. The woman died in an
hour
sudden slump in the nursery bust
ness in Utah has caused a Brigham
City nursery to destroy more than
$4,000 apple trees. This same condi-
tion is said to exist all over the state
John Cheeseman, 35 years of age,
hanged himself in an old building in
the rear of his home at Brigham City,
Utah.
The coroner's jury which has been
investigating the death at Price, Utah,
of Matthew Bradley, returned YER
dict that the youth had died as the
result of injuries inflicted by Arthur
BrownrBradley, his half-brother. The
verdict declared the wounds to have
been accidentally inflicted.
DOMESTIC.
The passenger traffic of the entire
Union Pacific system is to be centered
in Chicago, according to an order is
sued at Omaha from Union Pacific
headquarters.
Mrs. Robertson Marshall of West
port, N. Y, is dead at Savannah, Ga,
and her husband, a retired stock
broker, is suffering from injuries as a
result of an accident to the automo
mile in which they were riding.
Ell Paso, Texas, was selected as the
next meeting place of the American
National Live Stock association in
session at San Francisco. The mem
bers will convene in Ell Paso in Janu-
airy next.
The new Alabama law prohibiting
publication of liquor advertisements in
newspapers printed or sold in the
state has been upheld by Chancellor
W. r. Chapman.
Peter Xrakas, who was convicted at
Wilmington, Della, of killing police
man en- March and who is implicat-
ed in the murder of a priest and his
housekeeper at New Britain, Conn,
has been sentenced to be hanged on
May IA.
American indigo prints have been
advanced "a cent yard on account of
the acute scarcity of dyestuff and the
goods will be sold hereafter without
protection.
Charlie White of Chicago defeated
Leach Cross in a rafting ten-round
bout at Madison Square Garden, New
York, Thursday night
A plan to raise a $1,000,000 fund
in 1917 in celebration of the 400th
anniversary OF the beginning of the
reformation Of Martin Luther was
formulated at New York at a confer
ence of clergymen and laymen of the
Lutheran church.
The removal of Werner Horn from
Portland, Me-, to Boston for trial in
the federal district court on indict'
ments alleging that he illegally trans
ported nitro-glycerine from New York
City to Vanceboro, Me-, has been
ordered.
Heroism of American Red Cross
doctors and nurses in the plague
stricken districts of Serbia are graph
ically described in reports to head
quarters of the American Red Cross
Charles B. Oldfeld, railway mai
clerk, arrested at Kansas City in con
nection with the disappearance o.
$4,000 in currency from mail cal
bound from Kansas City to La Junta
Colo, in April 1912, has been helt
for trial.
vice-President Thomas R. Marshall
representing the president of thu
United states, formally dedicated tn
Panama-Pacific international exposi
ton at San Francisco on March "a
Bernard Montvid was helu by tn
police court at New Britain, Conn, 10
trial for murder in connection wit
the killing last month of the Rev
Father Zeebria and his housekeepei
Miss Iva Gilmanaitis.
American breadstuffs worth 1857
O91,S23 were shipped abroad durin
the eight months period ending Eel
ruary 20 last, as compared with Sll5
S15,Ss1 for the same period of tn
preceding year.
Further pleas for higher freigh
rates ON soft coal in certain territor
west of Indiana, amounting general
to 7.95 cents a ton, were made by tn
railroads in the interstate commerce
commission hearing of the wester
freight rate case at Chicago.
Ramsay Peugnet, secretary of tn
Silk Association of America, said a
the annual meeting of that associi
ton at New York that in spite OF tn
extraordinary conditions resultin
from the war the condition OF IN
trade in America is much better tina