The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-02-12
NEWS or 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 tho Globe and
Given IN q Few LInes.



Governor George A. Carlson OF Colo
RADIO has invited tho governors OF
Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico To
send committees TO Denver to confer
with the house and senate committee
OF the Colorado general assembly
charged with the task OF drafting a
bin creating an Industrial relations
commission.
BY an almost unanimous vote the
Oregon house Of representatives de-
teated resolution providing that
fhere be submitted to vote OF the
people a constitutional amendment
making Il unlawful for aliens 10 own
land In the state.
Snowstorms in Salt Lake and the
inteFmountain region on February 2
came as boon TO farmers. From mid
night, Tuesday, until late Wednesday
afternoon a fall OF four and half
inches was recorded at the weather
bureau office.
Ben Miller, young man who made
sensational escape while awaiting
sentence In Butte court room year
ago. was captured upon his return
there few days ago and sentenced
10 sixty days in Jail His alleged con
nection with the theft OF government
mail sacks will now be investigated
The Oregon senate has passed SEN
ator william Wrays bill legalizing
len-round boxing bouts under super
vision OF a state athletic commission,
by vote Of 20 10 is. The bill, It is
expected, win meet serious opposition
in the house,
DOMESTIC.
Fred Al Hines OF Los Angeles. Cal.
past imperial potentafe OF the A. A.
o. N. Of Mystic Shriners OF North
America, died at Scranton, Pa, after
an illness Of three weeks from com
plication OF diseases. He was SIS years
old.
Frank Amadeo. an Italian employee
at the Wabash railway roundhouse in
Des Moines, Iowa, shot and killed his
wife. his syear-old daughter and
wounded HIS l-year-old son. Then he
turned his pistol on himself He is
expected TO die.
Werner Horn. who says he ,iynamit.
ed the international bridge at Vance
boro as an act Of war against Great
Britain, has begun a sentence OF
thirty days at the county jail at Ma.
chias. Me-. for maiiciousiy damaging
property on the American side OF the
border.
John ID. Rockefeller, ST., and An.
drew Carnegie testified last week be.
fore the federal commission ON In.
dustriai relations. They defended the
foundations which they have endowed
with their wealth. and neither would
say he believed that the institutions
constituted menace to the religious.
political or educational liberty Of the
people OF the United States.
Thirtytwo indictments charging
murder were returned in the Middle.
sex county grand jury against TWEEN. |
fy.six deputies in connection with the
shooting OF nineteen strikers ri |
Roosevelt. N. j., January 10.
Ice noes caught the pasaengar |
steamship Iowa three miles OF chi.
eago and split her In two. She sank
"a thirty feet OF water and her crew
OF forty-iye. including the steward.
ess, Elizabeth Schmidt, with the one
passenger. made their way 70 shore
over the pack ice.
The Rev. John J. Mullen. forme,
pastor OF the Holy Rosary church.
was insane when he killed Thomas
W. Patterson, postmaster at Hin.
side, H.. according TO the verdict Of
a jury. The jurors found that Mullen
mad since regained this sanity.
An federal inquiry into the strike al
the Chrome and Roosevelt. N. J..
plants OF the American Agricultural
Chemical company. which resulted an
the recent shooting and killing OF
strikers. has begun
prolonged controversy over the !
earnings OF the promoted engineers
enlivened Wednesdays session at Chi
cago OF the board OF arbitration in the
western railway wage case.
Eugene CORR, official referee OF the
Sporting club OF London. England. has .
been agreed upon as referee for the
tight between Jack Johnson and less
Willard at Juarez, Mexico. ON March
S.
Frank Loveland, clerk OF the Unit.
d States circuit court OF appeals at
cincinnati, committed suicide by cut. l
ing his throat and wrists Ill health {
believed to be the cause. X
Alban Jasper Conant, distinguished
rs portrait painter, poet, author and
lecturer, died at New York at the age I
Of SO. He painted the portrait Of
Abraham Lincoln during the civil war
which is known as the Smiling Lin
soln.'
Three members OF the crew of the
steam suction dredge Eastern were
lrowned, fourth drifted away on a
aft and seven others fioated for six
hours in the ley waters of Long ,
sland sound after the dredge had /
'een overturned by the gale and blown
o pieces by a boiler exnlosion