The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-01-28
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAIN.

by the police following the arrest of |
arrest Of George Counts, Greek.
Through preyentable diseases the
United States last year lost $4,000
600 worth of hogs and 100000, 900
worth of other live stock, according to
a statement made by DR.. j. e. Gibson,
veterinarian for the United States de-
partment of agriculture, in an address
at Sandy, Utah.
Hearty approval was given the
plan for the establishment of a citi-
zens' military training camp at Fort
Douglas next summer by more than
400 citizens, among whom were a
number of women, who gathered at
the Commercial club at Salt Lake
While on his way to work at mine
near Salt Lake, Oswald Schwartz was
| frozen to death, his body being found
the following day.
One hundred selected elk from Vel
lowstone National park have been
sent to Colorado Springs, Colo, which
raised about $4,000 by public subscrip-
tion to obtain them. Fifty of the ami
mails will be turned loose on Pixies
peak and twenty-five each in the
mountains near Pueblo and Idaho
Springs.
Il am pacificist, but pacificist
who believes in some kind of prepared
ness in our country-not preparedness
for war, but preparedness against
| uyar T1,. Tab Gyio IJihhQD
president of Princeton university, in a
stirring appeal for Military Prepared
ness" to the members of the Bonnie
vile club at dinner at Salt Lake.
DOMESTIC.
Edward Lloyd Lomax, passenger
traffic manager of the Western Paci-
fc railway, died at San Francisco
from an affection of the heart, which
became acute during his convalescence
from a stroke of paralysis which ne
suffered a month ago.
Five negroes, charged with implica
ton in the murder of a sheriff, were
taken from Jail at Starksville, Ga, by
mob and hanged to the limb of 6
tree.
Unusually small stocks of potatoes
remained in the hands of growers II
the important producing states Janu
airy 1.
Fewer miles of railroad were bull
in the United States during 1915 thai
in any other year for over fifty years
or since 1864 and more miles of rail
road were in receivers hands during
the year than ever before.
The new church being erected b,
the congregation of the church of tn
Latter-day Saints at Buck valley, Flu
| ton county, Pa, was blown up by dy
I Mantle. Bloodhounds were put O.
j the trail of the men believed to hav
committed the crime.
Thousands are homeless, millions Q
!, dallars' worth of property has bee
destroyed and damaged, and tn
health of every resident of Chfcag
and its environs has been endangered
the result of the most disastrous foo
in the history of northern Illinois.
!, A few minutes after he had bee
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). robbers and robbed Of $2.1O and
!, gold watch, Joe Hing, Chinese re
!. tauranteur of st. Louis, regaine
consciousness and killed one of I'll
robbers.
! The half-yearly statement of IL
American Locomotive company show
. an increase in gross earnings OF SSs
OS0. $50 for the six months ended D
cember 81, 1915, as compared with II
!. corresponding period in 1914.
= Two men were killed by strikers,
: policeman was shot and dangerous
: wounded and the whole east Chicae
!, police force fought for hours with
: mob which attacked strike-breakers
= the Edwards Valve company's plant
! East Chicago, Ind
). Mrs. Irene Davis, widow and a
ministratrix of the estate of Robe
Davis, killed in the East Young
town, Ohio riots, filed suit for $l0,O'
damages against Mahoning count
. for her husbands death, under 9
: Ohio law that holds counties lab
for damages caused by riots With
q the county.
Twenty-Five families of the Arp ado
ton. suburb of Bakersfield, ga
were driven from their homes by II
food waters Of the Kern river, whie
. broke through levee built year az
X by the city.
:. The German cruiser Cormorant, i
" termed at Guam, and the Geier, /
O. termed at Honolulu, have been ordert
lg conveyed to San Francisco
81 Frederick T. Price of Minneapoii
convicted last Saturday OF murderlr
his third wife, Mary Fridley Price, 4
IS her fortune. was sentenced to life il
10 prisonment at hard labor.
Alfred Weller, who claimed to
the Oldest telegraph operator in u
country, is dead at Laporte, lnd'
the age of so. He had been sixty yea
continuously in the service OF q
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