The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-08-06
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN HRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
lNTERMounTAln.

on the gunman which stunned him
The highwayman Is now behind prison
bars.
In by far the fastest fight ever put
on In Boise, Frank Barrieu, the Cana
dian welterweight champion, won q
decision over Harry Brewer Of Kan
sas city. champion welterweight Of
the middle west.
Carl Johnson. 17-year-old Spokane
high school boy, equaled the worlds
i00-yard high hurdles record when he
went the distance against cracks from
the New York Irish-American A. O., In
1915.
Mike Kamneles shot and fatally
wounded John Kackis and also turned
his weapon on Charlie Hackes during
a quarrel over a compartment in which
they were working In coal mine at
Grass Creek. about seven miles east
OF Coalville, Utah.
a storm OF tropical intensity swept
through central Montana Tuesday.
The business district of Livingston
was flooded. Great Falls and Butte
also suffered.
One person was drowned, several
others more or less seriously injured
and 100000 worth of property was de-
stroyed at Rock Springs, Wyo., as the
result OF two cloudbursts occurring In
the mountains east OF town.
DOMESTIC.
VIII Stanley, the negro arrested or
charge of being the man who muir
dered the three Grimes children, was
taken from the Justice court rooms al
Temple. Texas. at midnight and was
burned on the public square in the
presence OF thousands OF men and
women.
Mrs James II. Martin, As years old
wife OF lawyer of Murphysboro. Ills.
was beaten and hacked to death with
Ratchet in her home. A colored
servant has been arrested.
There was double execution al
Eddyville. KY, on Friday. The first
to be executed was Turner Graham,
Jr.. "a years of age. a white man con
yicted OF killing II. ]. McMurtry. sher
In Of Hardin county. The second was
Will Lane. rs. negro convicted OF
killing his wife.
John Surgun, one of the men shot
during the oil strike riot at Bayonne
N. j., is dead from his wounds. Sur
gun was former Austrian soldier
and il was stated that he was plan
ming TO attack the plant when he was
shot through the abdomen.
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler for
whose murder Charles Becker was
shot to death by hired gunner in the
early morning of July 16, 1912. In
front OF the Hotel Metropole on Forty
third street, few steps from Broad
way.
Lyman Lehman. charged with hav-
ing killed his 7-yearold daughter by
throwing her down an airshaft, in
New York City, has been found guilty
Of murder in the first degree.
Fred westphal, son of pioneer
miller. has been banished from his
native town of Alameda. Cal. for the
remainder Of his life. with the alter
native OF three months in Jail. West
phal left town.
Lax morals and gambling prevail on
excursion boats plying out of Chicago,
according to a report of an investiga.
lion by the Juvenile Protective asso.
citation.
A. r. Pardington died at Detroit.
He was widely known as the first
chairman OF the American Automobile
association contest board, and his
work as yice-president and active
head OF the Lincoln Highway associa-
tion made him a national figure.
The eonstltutionality OF the Cali
fornia alien land ownership law was
upheld by Superior Judge Lewis X.
Works at Los Angeles In decision in
which he ruled that the state alone
could question the right of an alien
to hold land.
Picture postcards and other CORE
spondence between visitors and their
friends in the east has doubled the
normal number of pieces OF mail hand
led in the San Francisco postoffice.
Mrs. Florence Gates Judd, who was
formerly Mrs. Charles G. Gates. re-
ceived letter at Minneapolis signed
with black hand, which threatened
her life If $4,000 was not deposited
near certain lumber pile by mid.
night.
A coroner's jury at Chicago re.
turned verdict placing the blame
for the loss of hundreds of lives by
the capsizing of the steamer East
land In the Chicago river ON the eff
GERS and managers Of the capsized
vessel and two government inspe )
tors.
l.. NJ. Dean was bound over to the
district court at Idaho Falls, Idaho. on
charge of abducting K. A. Empey,
a wealthy ranchman east of there. lie
signed full confession after he had
changed a part of the statement made
by detectives.