The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
!, Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAIN.

Hlchel was instantly Killed and Nor
rison MORALLY wounded.
e. G. Peterson, A. NJ, Phi D.. direc-
tor of the extension division of the
Utah Agricultural college, at Logan,
Titan, will succeed DR. John A. Widtsoe
as president of the college
G. H. Edmund, wanted in Colorado
on charge of having murdered
national guard officer there during the
coal miners strike, must return to
that state and face trial, according to
decision of the supreme court.
Having been affected with a sui
cidal mania since he had diphtheria
three months ago, George Tuphaldt,
aged "a years, of Lark, Utah, blew
himself to pieces with a stick of dyna-
miate. Parts of his body were found
almost 100 yards from where he stood.
Four minutes after he had held up
and robbed E. A. Henderson at Los
Angeles, Gerhard Kisters, drug user
and for several years resident of
Salt Lake, was shot dead by a police
officer.
DOMESTIC.
The new plant of the Federal Dye
stuffs & Chemical company at King
port, Tenn, was destroyed by fire late
Friday. The plant was used for the
manufacture of munitions of war, and
was erected at a cost of many mil
lions of dollars.
Arthur Mckenzie, aged 20, was ac-
quilted on arraignment of the charge
of numbering his father at Cleveland,
o. Mckenzie said his father came
home intoxicated and struck Mrs. Nc
Kenzie. whereupon the son knocked
him down. Physicians found the
father dead with broken neck.
Hans Schmidt was electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison on February Is for
the murder of Anna Aumuller, Septem-
Der 2, 1912 Schmidt went quietly to
the death chamber.
The Rev. Morton Culver Hartzell,
widely known as a crusader against
the old-time tenderloin districts in
Chicago, died at Pasadena, Cal.
Arthur K. Stearns, attorney and
member of the Illinois state senate,
and thirteen other relatives, who
joined him in a second attack on the
will of the late John E. Beale, retired
oil man of New York and Chicago, lost
their contest in the superior court at
Santa Barbara, Cal.
Information regarding an alleged
plot to dynamite the American Car &
Foundry company's plant at Detroit
has resulted in the detention by the
police of two men who were formerly
employed by that company
The government of Greece has been
transferring millions of dollars of its
funds from London to New York with
in a few months, according to New
York bankers, who estimate that $751;
100000 of Greek funds are now on de-
post in a large number of banks in
New York.
Paper mills in the United States
are operating to capacity and many
of them are turning away orders, but
the increase in the price of raw ma
terial and the high price of labor has
reduced the profits of the business,
according to members of the Ameri-
can Paper & Pulp association attend
ing the annual convention at New
York
Mrs. Rose Wood young married
woman, was shot and instantly killed
on a crowded street car at Hunting
ton, w. Va, by Mrs, Leonard Defoe,
who claimed that Mrs. Wood had alien
ated her husbands affections.
Women of Illinois were denied the
al ola
mates to national nominating conven-
lions, state central and precinct COM
mitteemen in decision of the state
supreme court.
David r. Francis, former secretary
of the interior and former governor
of Missouri, is understood to be I'M
der serious consideration for the ap-
pointment as ambassador to Russia
to succeed GeorgeeT. Marye, who has
resigned because of ill health.
The Republican national campaign
will be waged as fight for adequate
military preparedness and tariff re-
form, opposition to granting early in
dependence to the Philippines and in
sistence on vigorous stand for
American rights, both in Mexico and
in relation to the European war ac-
cording to the Keynote" platform
adopted by the New York Republican
state convention.
Charles Hitchcock, Jr., formerly in
tercoHegiate golf champion, died of
pneumonia at his home in New York
at the age of "a years.
Six hundred teams have been enter
ed in the American bowling congress
tournament, which begins at Toledo,
o., March a.
A strike of dyeworkers which man
ufaeturers say may tie up the entire
textile trade of Philadelphia, was in
augurated Wednesday when hundreds
of workmen walked out on refusal Of
the employers to grant an advance OF
amnroximately 30 per cent in wages.