The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-01-21
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRlEFEsT
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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Lake, Grunan sustaining a broken jaw.
While playing near the kitchen
stove, Ruby, the 18-months-old daugh- .
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Bohn of !
North ogden, Utah, upset a kettle of |,
boiling water, terribly scalding her |
head. face and shoulders to such an /
extent that she is not expected to re-
cover.
Frederick Bjolin, miner at Park
City, Utah, picked into missed hole
and is at the miners hospital. 1t is
feared he may lose his eyesight.
A tabulation of police arrests in
Denver for the first ten days of 1915,
when statewide prohibition became
effective, shows a total of 149 for
various offenses, as compared with
total of 401 for the same period of
last year.
Four Austrian miners were killed in
snowslide in Carbeno gult, near the
ceiyed at Telluride, Colo. A fifth mem
Der of the party escaped and brought
the news to the Ophir mine.
Peter Peterson, so years old, who
was employed as detective in run
ming down a coterie of bank robbers
in 1914-15. is believed to have been
murdered at Seattle by surviving
members of the gang
Bitter attacks upon the Democratic
party for removing the tariff on wool
and declarations-that the Underwood
tariff act was unfair and sectional,
characterized the closing session of
the Utah Woolgrowers' association
annual convention at Salt Lake.
DOMESTIC.
A verdict for the plaintiff awarding
$1,000 damages was returned by a
jury at Santa Fe, n. NJ. in the $4,000
breach OF promise suit of Miss Mar
garet Waddell of Los Angeles against
A. R. Mandy, a business man of Taos,
n. NJ.
Resentment over the massacre in
western Chihuahua by Mexican ban
dts of eighteen foreigners, mostly
Americans, hared up in Ell Paso
Thursday night when scores of street
fights with Mexicans broke out. From
every quarter came reports Of fight
ing, in which knives were used.
General Victoriano Huerta, who sue
ceeded General Francisco l. Maderc
in executive power at Mexico City
and later left Mexico, died 1t Ell Paso
Texas, January 10.
An octogenarian known as Grand
pa" Muslin wandered from his home
near Everest, Kan, and succumbed &c
the cold before he was found.
Affdavits supporting contention
that James NJ. Hopper a California
novelist, now in Paris, is not subject
to military service in France, have
been sent to Hopper from San Fran
cisco to aid him in resisting the de
mands OF the French authorities thai
he join the army.
Thwarted in an attempt at suicide
George Smith, "a years of age, former
ly proprietor of store in Salt Lake
City. broke from his guards at Los
Angeles. ran to the roof of three
/, story rooming house and hurled him
self to the street below, being fatal
ly injured.
The mutilated bodies of the eigh
teen Americans killed on January l
by Villa bandits near Santa Ysabel
Chihuahua, arrived in Juarez on Wed
nesday.
Carving a passenger, Floyd Smith
pilot for an aeroplane company at Sal
Diego Cal. established what is be
lieved to be a new American and pei
haps a worlds, altitude record for ny
dro-aeroplanes when he assembled u
362 feet
General Victoriano Huerta, hi
former purchasing agent, Jose RAJ
ner. and ten others, were indicte
Wednesday at San Antonio, Texas, b
a federal grand jury for conspirac
to violate the neutrality laws.
Four persons were injured and
number of houses were destroyed b
a cyclone which swept Madison ST.
ton, Tenn.
Jess Willard, worlds champio
heavyweight, and Frank Moran, hav
been offered purse of $4,000 for
ten-round, no-decision bout in Ne
York City on Friday, March 3.
A special session of the californi
legislature adjourned Tuesday, afte
amending the primary laws, principa
ly to provide for declaration of part
utilization at the polls. Registratio
remains non-partisan.
Fred Croxton, state mediator. al
nounced Tuesday night that the striS
of tube workers at the plant of tn
youngstown (ohiol Sheet & Tub
company has been declared on.
Mathew A. Schmidt. recently CO.
yicted of murder in connection wit
the dynamiting of the Los Angelo
Times building in 1910, has been Sc
fenced to life Imprisonment.
Two are dead. one dangerously an
one slightly injured as q result of II
derailing of the engine, tender al
zen freight ears on a fast train OF