The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-06-02
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE,
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAIN.

Hidn II. PATERSON, cigar 5poTe
owner, shot and killed his wife and
baby daughter at Salem, Ore, and
then turned revolver upon himself.
He died soon afterwards. Neighbors
said Paterson had become mentally
unbalanced over worrying about his
wife, who had been i'll.
Improvement work to cost approx
mately 100000, has been begun
by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad. according to an announce
ment at the office of the chief engi-
neer, at Denver. Most of the work is
spin Wyoming.
lust a-Qes c. Bulger. under sentence
10 y w hanged at Denver for the kill
fir~s of L. F. Nieodemus, was granted
thirty-day reprieve by. Governor
George Carlson to the seek begin
ming June Is.
When the home of Erick Dahl, a
farmer near Sandy, Utah. was de-
stroyed by fire, his three-year-old
daughter was burned to death and Mr..
and Mrs. Dahl severely burned.
Four are dead and heavy damage
has been done to the old Belcher work
ings of the Yellow Jacket mine at Gold
Hill, adjoining Virginia City, Nevada,
by fire that broke out at the com
pressor station on the 1,400-foot level
With industrial preparedness, the
United States, with fair-sized army
and respectable navy, can be effec
lively safeguarded against the world
declared William L. Saunders, well
known engineer and member of the
naval consulting board, in an address
before the Bonneville club at Salt
Lake
DOMESTIC.
Barricaded in a houseboat on the
edge of San Francisco bay, lone
desperate fought half-hour gun and
revolver battle Friday with fifty pc
Iicemen who surrounded his lair after
he had killed Police Sergeant JohI
Moriarity. The bandit was finall!
killed.
Dallas. Texas, has been selected a!
the place Of meeting of the 1917 gen
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States.
]. P. Morgan & Co. have requested
the police to search for William Nc
Manus, an eighteen-year-old offic,
boy, on complaint that he disappear
ed Friday, taking with him s10,515
representing the firms weekly pa,
roll.
A man giving the name of Adolpl
De Leeuw, "a years old, native o
Holland, was arrested in New York
charged with revealing the content
of government documents and Offer
ing them for sale in violation of tn
penal law.
One hundred and sixteen Texas ns
tional guardsmen who have failed t
respond to the call for service on tn
Mexican border will be tried by cour
martial, by order of President Wilson
Major Motion, negro of unmixe
blood, has been installed at Tuskeget
Ala, as principal of Tuskegee inst
tute, founded by the late Booker ]
Washington for the uplift of the n,
gro race.
Mrs. Dolly Ledgerwood Matter
and her two co-defendants, charge
with conspiracy to foist a spuriou
heir on the probate court of Coo
county. were found not guilty by
jury at Chicago.
The American steamship Ventur;
which has Just arrived at Sydney.
S. W., from San Francisco, report
that she picked up a wireless me
sage from the station at Tuckertol
NJ j., when 5000 miles distant frol
that point. This is said to be
worlds record.
President and Mrs. Wilson were I'll
chief guests on Wednesday at the we
ding of DIR. Cary T. Grayson. the Whit
house physician, and Miss Alice Ger
rude Gordon of Washington and Ne
York in the chapel of st. George
church, New York City.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was married
Ellicott City, Md. May "a, to JaS
Clifford, her dancing partner.
More than 1000 garment worke
employed in 200 shops in Boston gu
work Tuesday in an effort to obta
an eight-hour day and wage advance
The divorce question was the su
ject of sharp debate at Tuesdays Sc
sion of the northern Baptist conye
ton at Minneapolis, but finally WI
disposed of by the adoption OF res
tuition disappearing the action of mi
listers who officiate at the marriag
of divorced persons.
II he will consent to make the rae
William ]. Bryan may be selected
the candidate for president of the Pl
hibition party.
a masked robber entered the Far
ers & Merchants bank at Sioux Gil
Iowa, at noon. forced the cashier
the point of a gun to turn over fro
$500 to $1,000 and then made his I
cape.
Three persons, two white and o