The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-04-16
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAiN.

PioleSsloHdl, IN ForLland. The regu-
lation will remain in effect until a
new city ordinance governing anna
teur bouts has been acted upon by
the city commissioners.
A. P. Ardourel, member Of the
Colorado house of representatives has
been fined $40 and costs in justice
OF the peace court for assault and bat
terry, upon complaint of G. H. Newell,
editor OF the Denver Express.
DR.. s. d. Treble was arrested at
Spokane by postoffice inspectors and
Is being held in default of $4,000
bonds to answer charge of fraud for
misuse of the mails preferred at Phil.
adelphia
Employment agents in many cities
between Chicago and Denver have
been asked to supply 10000 unskilled
iaborers for railroad work, it is an
nounced
Ex-Gov. T. L. eddie brought word
TO Reno that after the miners in a
new camp near Lovelock heard or
the result at Havana Monday they
NAASe 0AA hoLAACO luO CAMP w llldTu.
Wilson 7. Hume, an attorney widely
known in the west and in Alaska, was
shot in the back at his office in Port
land and seriously wounded. +. A
Consentino, a barber, was arrested
The campaign for a city manager
won out in Boise, Idaho, jeremiah w.
Robinson being elected mayor and
city manager by clear majority over
ais opponent, Arthur Hodges, present
mayor, of 600.
DOMESTIC.
The ]. R. Greenhut company, a New
York corporation with $12 000000 out
standing securities, operating two de-
partment stores on Sixth avenue,
New York City, went into receiver
ship Friday through friendly pro
ceedings.
With transactions aggregating al
most 100000 shares and gains ex-
tending from three to seven and one.
half points in leading issues, Fridays.
stock market was the most exciting
and noteworthy on the New York ex-
Shoh6O Va ohy 0ag July
1t is learned from an authoritative
source that Governor Hiram w. John
son has decided to oppose the plan
recently proposed for the purchase of
the Western Pacific railroad by the
state of California.
William Lorimer, former United
States senator and other officials of
the defunct La Sale Street Trust &
Savings bank, at Chicago, must stand
trial on state charges of conspirir$
to wreck the institution.
A cooperative plan by which the
Dennison Manufacturing company, a
S. 100000 corporation of Boston, will
be turned over to employees for man
agement and all employees will share
in its profits, it is announced
After seventeen hours work by po-
lice reserves. firemen and laborers,
the body of William Esser, supposed
German spy, for many years the man
of mystery" of Flatbush Brooklyn,
was found in the caved-in we'll where
he had been buried alive while ex-
eavating.
In a speech before the Maryland an
nual conference of the Methodist Pro
testant church in session at Washing
ton, President Wilson said it was his
belief that no man was wise enough
to pronounce Judgment on the Euro
pean war at this time.
After a long illness, Carl Busch, 90
years old, youngest son of the late
Adolphus Busch, the millionaire St.
Louis brewer, died at Pasadena, Cal
+. Hopkinson smith, author, artis;
and engineer, known in this country
and in Europe as many-sided man
of genius, died April at his home in
New York City. He was II years
of age.
James and Hood Baldwin. brothers
and wealthy cattlemen of Broken Bow,
Okla. were convicted of holding up
the bank at Gillham, Ark, on March 8.
The United States cruiser Chatta-
nooga has sailed from Panama under
rush orders for Corinto, Nicaragua.
The sailing of the cruiser is believed
to have been due to the reported out
break of revolution.
SUPERIOR. the second city in Wiscon-
sin. switched suddenly from the wet
to the dry column as result of Tues
DAYS election. One hundred and fifty
saloons are affected by the dry vic
tory
A proposed constitutional amend
ment giving women the right OF sun
rage was rejected by the Connecticut
house, 224 to loo. This action ends
the movement for equal suffrage SO
far as the general assembly is con.
cerned.
Six Spanish nuns, who said they
were driven from convent near
Vera Cruz by Carranza troops VINO pc
sieged the convent six days ana
threatened their lives. have reached
New york aboard the Spanish steam
err Manuel Calyo from Vera Cruz anu