The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-01-22
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
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Rejecting petition from the Won.
ans Study league of Helena that
chaperon be appointed for women en-
ployees at the state capitol during
the session of the legislature, joint
committee of the senate and house
administered rebuke to the petition
ers. The committee declared the pc
tition was a reflection upon the law
making body of the state.
Ike Cohen, heavyweight pugilist of
San Francisco, and Lonnie Austin and
Dan Salt, who promoted the boxing
match between Cohen and Ludwig An
derson, which resulted in the death of
Anderson, formally were charged at
Seattle on Friday with manslaughter
Otto White of Kansas City appealed
to the police at Denver to help him
recover $4,000 which he said he lost
in a fake overlapping swindle.
Joseph A. Sorenson, aged q, son of
prosperous stockman Of Rigby,
Idaho, and Miss Genevieve Ellsworth,
aged 10, daughter of Edward Ellis
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by, who had recently been secretly
married, were found dead in room
ing house in Ogden, having been acct
dentally asphyxiated.
!, The deadlock in the lower house of
the Utah legislature has been broken
and l.. r. Anderson, Republican,
chosen as speaker.
Elizabeth Jensen, aged 10, was
killed and three other children were
seriously injured, one of them per-
haps fatally, in coasting accident in
| Salt Lake.
| Establishment of a municipal the
! atre in Salt Lake, where people Of
average means would be enabled to
see classic and popular plays at mod
crate cost, is being urged upon the
city commission.
Castigating the trading stamp plan
as menace to legitimate business, Of
| ficers, directors and executive COM
mittee of the state retail merchants
association at the quarterly meeting
| held at Ogden, Utah, went on record
as being opposed to the trading stamp
in all forms.
DOMESTIC.
The American Red Cross has decid-
| ed to cable $4,000 Immediately to the
Italian Red Cross and to ask Presi-
| dent Wilson, as head of the organiza-
ton. to issue an appeal to the people
of the United States for funds to aid
the earthquake sufferers.
The United States government has
sent warning to General Venustiano
Carranza. pointing out that serious
consequences may follow his threat,
ened confiscation of foreign-owned oil
plants in Tampico
Ralph Fariss, who while holding up
Southern Pacific train near Los An
geles in. December, 1918, shot and
killed Horace E. Montague, travelling
passenger agent of the railroad, was
hanged Friday in San Quentin prison.
I. The Copper Range Consolidated
Mines at Houghton, Mich, which have
been operating on half time since the
beginning of the European war, re-
sumed full time on Thursday. The or
der affects $500 men.
Relaxation of the censorship exer-
cised over the cables between terri
/ tory of the allied nations and between
those nations and neutral countries
outside of Europe, including the Unit
| ed States, is announced at New York
by the cable companies.
Treasury agents have seized from
| A. Anpikadiitan, a resident of Con-
| stantinople, now in New York City,
two egg-shaped diamonds weighing
more than eighteen carats each and
said to have been worn centuries ago
by queen of Egypt.
One million dollars worth of dye
stuffs from Germany was the cargo
of the steamer Matanzas, which ar
rived at New Yor from Rotterdam.
Governor Cole L. Blease of South
Carolina, whose term expires January
10, on Thursday filed his resignation
with the Secretary of state. The res
ignation, transmitted to the senate,
was Immediately accepted. Lieuten-
ant Governor Smith took the oath for
the unexpired term.
Henry Harris better known as
Hank" Harris. for many years owner
of the San Francisco baseball team
and we'll known to the game along the
Pacific coast, as well as in eastern
points. was found dead from heart
failure at his residence in San Fran
| cisco.
The Csrranza government will CD
nose the entry into Mexico OF JACK
Johnson, the American negro prize
fighter. who is booked to meet Jess
! Willard in Juarez on March .. accord
ing to predictions made by Andres
Garcia. the Carranza consul at FL
| Paso.
Charles E. T. Oman, 17-year-old
burglar. was convicted at Los Angeles
of murder in the first degree. He shot
! and killed William Alexander, re-
| -. ...t,;nnoira otfOrnPy of Dallas,