The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-26
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
iNTERMoUNTAIN.


wife and seriously wounded her sister
nine miles north of Pocatello, Idaho.
Perry fled and when surrounded by
indian police four miles south of Fort
Hall, sent rifle bullet through his
own brain, killing himself instantly.
Paul H. Haffer, young man of Ia
coma who wrote letters to the newspa-
pers now and then, was sentenced to
serve four months in the county Jail
for libeling the memory of George
Washington.
Peace, prosperity and prepared
ness" are the three paramount issues
before the people, declared Henry F.
avery, temporary chairman, address
ing delegates to the Democratic state
convention at Colorado Springs
Two colored women have been ar
rested at Salt Lake on charges of
highway robbery. One of the women
slashed the face of one of her victims
who objected to turning his purse
over to her.
Heber Burch, who shot and killed
DR.. G. F. Osgood at Ogden, Utah, will
race trial for murder. There was talk
OF sending Burch to the asylum, many
believing he was insane.
DOMESTIC.
Preparations to ship food and sup
plies across the border to the Sibley-
Langhorne expedition and the send
ing of a sub-base quartermaster to
Join the same force have led to the
belief here that reports of the with
drawal of the expedition from Mexico
are at least premature.
Representatives sent to the Lake
Mohonk conference on international
arbitration by business organizations
IN score or more of large cities of
the United States presented resolu-
lions commencing the league to en-
force peace.
Francisco Rodriguez was hanged at
the state penitentiary at Florence
Arizona, Friday afternoon for the muir
der of his wife January II, 1911.
Rodriguez had been reprieved nine
times
Three hundred marines at Norfolk
and between 400 and 500 in Haiti have
been ordered to Santo Domingo to re.
lnforee the American force policing the
little republic.
Delegates from all but three states
have been chosen to attend the Repub.
ilcan national convention at Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt urged thorough
military preparedness for the United
States and pleaded for true American
ism in two addresses at Detroit on
May 10.
Two Mexicans, Antonio Chapa and
Melquindas Burrostro, will be hanged
at Brownsville, Texas, for completely
IN the bandit raids last summer, un-
less some extraordinary legal move OBJ
tains respite for the condemned men.
The second punitive expedition, un-
der the command of Col. F. w. Sibley
is to be withdrawn from Mexico after
penetrating 125 miles in search of the
Glenn Springs bandits.
Fred 7. Dubois, ex-United States
senator from Idaho, underwent a Sc.
rious operation at Rochester, MINI.
Confederate veterans brought their
annual reunion at Birmingham to a
close with grand parade The en-
campment, which meets in Washing.
ton next year-the first time out OF
the south-has been marked by few
cases of accident or illness among the
old soldiers.
Mrs Sophia Gertrude Chellew, who
is suing in the county court to estab.
fish her claim as a widow of the late
Winfield Scott Stratton, millionaire
mining man, to one-half of the $6,O00,-
goo Stratton estate, was declared an
interested party and an incompetent
witness in the trial of the case at
Colorado Springs.
Delegates to the convention of the
National Gamers association, in SEES.
sion at Chicago, predicted that the
price of canned goods throughout the
country would have to be raised as a
result of the European war.
David Captains trial for murder in
connection with the destruction of the
Los Angeles Times building ended
when the jury reported hopeless dis
agreement and was discharged. The
jury had been out seventy-two hours
At least fourteen men were killed
and about thirty injured in a terrific
explosion at the Repauno plant of the
Du Pont Powder company near Gibbs
town, N. ]. The cause of the explo-
sion is unknown.
The coast guard cutter Thetis, built
in Dundee. Scotland. in 1888, now OBJ
solete in type and useless for coast
guard purposes, has been sold to a
New York firm for $25,100
Justice Hughes of the supreme
court had a lead of about two to one
over Theodore Roosevelt in the Re
publican presidential primaries in Yer.
mont.
The emergency tax law of 1914 was
held to be constitutional in a decision
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