The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-12-24
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Arc Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAIN.

!, of inspection OF that branch OF the
:, road, was wrecked one mile east Of
! Marshall pass. Several of the train
J, men were injured, althugh the pas
:. sengers were only shaken up.
b yaelntia Voronin, Russian girl. 20
years old, was shot and killed In q
8 row boat on the lake at Seattle, and
Anatole Vesileff, 30 years, also Rus
!. sian, shot himself through the head
4 at the same time
y The commission appointed by Pres.
ident Wilson to investigate conditions
in the coal fields Of Colorado will start
: for Denver December rs.
Myrtle s. Nelson aged 26, real es-
j tate broker Of Billings, Mont, was
found dead in bed at a Denver SAM.
q tarium with knife wound in his
{ throat, said to have been self-inficted.
: Giovanni Magaroli, aged 80, on his
4 way to New York to offer his services
J, to Italy, was arrested in Ogden, Utah,
d charged with the murder OF fellow
= countryman named Phuchetti In Flor
! iston, Nevada county. Cal. and the
y serious wounding OF the murdered
Y mans wife.
1 Elijah Horton, aged 65 years. a re-
I tired farmer, formerly of Summit
T county, now Of Salt Lake. has been
. missing for several days and his rela-
{ tiyes fear for his safety.
! DOMESTIC.
/ Four lives were lost and many per-
/ sons injured in windstorm that de
q molished scores of houses In east Mis-
sissippi and adjoining counteis of Ala
= bama.
= Five persons were killed and eleven
. injured. one probably fatally in a
rearend collision between an accom-.
mediation train bound from Whining
ii ton to Chester and train of empty
y express cars. near Chester, Pa.
y The White Star line has agreed to
pay 1864, 900 in settlement Of all claims
!, arising from the sinking OF the Titanic
on April Is. 1912, when more than
1900 persons We're drowned attorneys
for the line announced Friday.
Fire destroyed the Cleveland Eleva-
: tor company's elevator and wood stor-
age house at Sheldon, H., with an es-
!, timated loss of $250,000.
Next years winter wheat crop is
estimated by the department of agri-
-culture at about 54o.0O0OOO bushels.
, Physicians Of Green Lake county,
Wisconsin, which had the lowest death
slrate in the state last summer. attri-
butte the healthy condition of the com
immunity to the eating of limburger
tcheese.
: Nearly 500 horses, valued at an ay-
,s,,erage of 5000 each, consigned to Brest.
!, France, for the use OF allied armies,
were drowned in the North river. says
"a New York dispatch, when barge
rsprang leak and sank.
N The full strength of the II. s. army |
ION June 30 last was 105993 officers
i and men, 6S.25S of whom were In the
United States. 1880 OF this number
xbeing on duty on or near the Mexican
border
Three men entered car carrying
.sacehorses on freight train near
Bonner Springs, Kan. robbed the
caretaker and then shot him, infiict. 7
olng dangerous wouds. The robbers
nwere captured by the train crew.
" Franklin Newall, aged SO, the ZAP
,,a5le King" Of the middle west, died
= Friday at his home In Glencoe, a sub
-irb OF Chicago, He owned thousands
Of acres OF orchard land in Illinois
itnd Michigan.
/
n, George f. Herr, assistant cashier
OFF the Anglo and Londen-paris Nation
II bank Of San Francisco, Killed him
self by sending 4 bullet through his
head. Herr. who had ben confined to
,l,Alis apartments. suffering from nerv-
BUS breakdown, escaped from his
Inurse and shot himself
lie Sam Coleman, an American, arrived
At Douglas Ariz., with bullet wound
.rlcross his scalp as proof of his state
hilnent that soldier said to be con
!. aected with the forces of General
:, Jose Rodriguez, a Villa commander. at
a tempted to kill him last week as he
was leaving his ranch near Bacoachi,
hSonora-
o Jess Seligman, treasurer OF the Clio
hSersyille. IN. ~ Leather company,
Alnd Mrs. Seligman were found dead |
: n bed at their home In Seligman's I
bands was a revolver with which he
aad evidently Killed his wife and then
aghot himself.
o The assembling OF two New Years |
!, sh;ploads OF foodstuffs for Belgium is |
announced by the commission for re-
5.ief in Belgium. One cargo will CON
,,nsist principally Of -four bought
Through donations of the relief com
nnittees in Pittsburg and western Penn
.lpylvania.
v The nations harvests this year have
surpassed any ever before recorded.
sTrhe value OF the principal farm crops,
ieased on prices paid to farmers De-
cember /, was announced by the de-
Z partment Of agriculture in its final
asstimate as s5,56S,O73.00O.
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