The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-18
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
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.

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The Ogden, Logan & Idaho Interur
ban railway, which now has line ex-
tending as far north as Prestoni Idaho,
will, it is stated, continue this line on
north through Pocatello, Blackfoot,
Idaho Falls and on into Yellowstone
park.
While playing in game of basket
ball at Murray, Utah, George Malloy,
16 years of age, fell to the floor and
died before professional aid could be
summoned.
The decision OF the United States
district court at Denver denying a
petition to have the $S,000,000 bond is
sue for municipal waterworks de-
clared void has been sustained by the
United States circuit court of appeals.
Union Pacific train No. Is was held
UP by lone robber two miles west
Of Rock Springs, Wyo. After robbing
The passengers, the highwayman made
his escape.
One million two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars or more from the fed
eral government for good roads and
reclamation work in Utah is promised
In the favorable recommendation by
the interior department of the Myers
bill granting 100000 acres of public
land each to this and other western
states.
DOMESTIC.
All of the eighty-two midshipmen at
Annapolis who were recommended for
dismissal because they failed on their
mid-session examination will be per-
mitted to resign, instead of having the
blot of expulsion from the service
against their record
Three men and three women, al
legged to have blown open the vault of
the United States collector at st. Pau
on January 6 and to have escaped with
$4,000 in money and revenue stamps
valued at $577,357, were arrested at
Chicago.
DIR. James Lloyd Wellington, who
was the oldest living graduate of Har,
ward university, died at his home in
Swansea, Mass. He was SO years of
age and was member of the class
of 1888.
sentence of ten days in Jail for
failure to declare dutiable merchan-
disc brought into this country as per-
sonal baggage, was imposed by Fed
eral Judge Clayton, at New York,
upon Mrs. Emile Swiggette, a San
Francisco milliner.
Sam Langford knocked out Harry
Wills in the nineteenth round of a
scheduled twenty-round bout at New
Orleans arena February IL. Until the
knockout blow neither fighter seemed
to have the advantage.
Miss Mollie Fancher, who celebrat.
ed her golden jubilee" as an invalid
eight days previous, died February IL
at her home in Brooklyn. Miss Fan
cher was know to thousands of neo.
pie all over the world through the ex.
traordinary correspondence she built
up during the half century of her in.
validism.
Locked in a room on the sixth floor
OF a hotel in st. Louis, four men
fought with knives, dentists instru-
ments and pistols until all were too
badly wounded to continue. The hat. |
tie was the sequel to business differ |
ences between two dentists
Cowboy costumes and long black
pistols were part of the stage settings
two youthful robbers provided when
they held up the cashier in the bank
OF Red Fork, three miles from Tulsa
Okla, and escaped with s1S435
scooped off the counter. They were
captured an hour later.
A tong war in which four men were
shot, one Chinese fatally, broke out
in the Chinese quarter at San Fran. |
cisco when a gang of young members
OF the Suey Ong tong entered a Chi.
nese theatre and forcibly took tho
seats in which number of Suev SINGS
were enjoying the show.
A total of sixty-one indictments
were returned at San Francisco on
February 10 in the alleged German
bomb and shipping plot cases. Franz
Bopp, German consul general. BARON
y. II. Won Setback, vice-consul. Raron
George Wilhelm Won Bricken and tbir.
ty other individuals and firms were
accused.
Former President Taft. now a law
professor at Yale, on February IN
practically announced his yoluntary
elimination from politics and his do
termination never again to seek puh.
Tic preferment, when he said. u am
now In . respectable profession
nope to live and die professor"
The new head of the Roman Cath
olic archdiocese of Chicago. Arch /
bishop George w. Mundelein was in
stalled Wednesday with solemn cara
monies in the Holy Name cathedral
More than thousand em,,lovaes 90
the cleveland Worsted Mills comnan,
In cleveland and in Philadelnhia
PROVINCE, jamestown and Ravenna
wiu receive an increase in wages 80
Is per cent. VI