The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-04-28
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN HRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from An
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
INTERMouNTArN.

heip him rob forty-three passenger
and made his escape, jumping from
the moving train. This is the THIRD
holdup on the u. r. in three months
Peace was finally declared in tho
telephone toll fight In Salt Lake coun
y. Utah, when an agreement was
signed by representatives OF the Noun
tain States Telephone and Telegraph
company and representatives Of the
Affiliated Commercial clubs of Salt
Lake county
William Cabler, 65, Waterman, Is
IN a Denver hospital, probably fatally
wounded. and Fred Jones, cook. 81,
and Ralph Burton, salesman are in
Jail as the result OF chase by pc.
.--ssee Following the holdup OF the crew
OF a switch engine IN the stockyards.
The S-year-old daughter OF Mrs. Will
lard Harris, living near Ammon, Ida
no, has disappeared. 1t Is believed the
child was kidnapped.
Irene Reed, charged with the muir
der Of William Bailey on July 2, 1915,
was acquitted by a jury in the district
court at Ely, New, after two days
trial.
The name OF Charles e. Hughes will
DC printed on the Oregon Republican
primary ballot as a candidate for the
nomination for president of the Unit.
ed States. despite his request, twice
made, that II be omitted.
DOMESTIC.
John Harrison Surratt, last suryi-
por OF the corps OF alleged conspira-
tors tried for implication In the plot
TO assassinate Abraham lincoln, died
~ baltimore, April q, He was ~
years of age.
Mrs. betty s. Walker, proprietor of /
q grocery store In st. Louis, was
robbed In broad daylight OF $4,000
worth OF diamonds, and small
amount of money, after one of the
men had struck her on the head.
Timothy ]. Lyons, San Francisco
attorney. and Mrs. Ada Diamond, re-
Gently from Salt Lake city, were
found dead in hotel room In San
Francisco with the gas flowing from
an open jet The woman left three
notes. The police believe she wrote
them and turned on the gas after
Lyons fell asleep.
Princeton's varsity crew defeated
Harvard's eight on Lake Carnegie /
Thursday by about a half foot The
junior varsity race was won by Har-
ward by two lengths.
The German government has agreed
to permit expectation TO the United
States OF $4,000 tons OF dyestuffs, lack
Of which has seriously affected Amer
lean textile manufacturers,
No decision as to the withdrawal
Of American troops from Mexico is
expected for week or ten days, un-
less there are new outbreaks against
the forces in Mexico to compel i'm
mediate action.
The American government has sus-
pended the parcel post convention be-
.ween the United States and The
Netherlands, because the only steam
ship line between the two countries
mas refused TO carry parcel post pack
ages In the face of British seizures
9f American mail
Saloons have been voted out of four
teen towns in South Dakota in the re.
cent city elections on the license ques-
ton and eighteen OF the larger towns
voted TO remain dry. None of the
towns voted to change from no license
TO license
Ernest Schiller. alias Clarence r.
Hudson, who fercibly took possession
Of the British steamer Mateoppo Off
Sandy Hook on March 30, terrorized
the crew and compelled the captain
to change the ships course, was sent
enced to life Imprisonment in the
United States district court at Will
mington. Della.
The charge OF immortality contained
in the indictment against Thomas
Mott Osborn, former warden OF Sing
Sing prison, was stricken out by Su-
oreme Court Justice Plat.
John Philip Quinn, 65 years old,
Known all over the United States as
he reformed gambler" who for
more than twenty years devoted his
lime to exposing gambling apparatus,
was found dead in bed in a boarding
house in Philadelphia.
The United States Steel corporation
has announced another advance in
the wages of its employees, amount
ing to 10 per cent, effective May 1.
Driving through a thick fog, the
Gilt Edge Express, on the New York.
New Haven & Hartford railroad
smashed into the rear of a local pas
senger train that had come to a stop
at Bradford. R. l. Eight were killed 4
and thirty-five injured. i
Just before the church bells rang
for service at Bombay, Fla, Sunday I
a mob entered the Jail, took
John Dukes, white, from his cell, car z
ried him to the public square, hanged I
him to tree and then riddled his {
'ody With bullets. Dukes had killed |
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