The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-04
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
--information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
iNTERmounrAIN.

Nv ST " WI AFiFHs
a directed verdict OF not guilty wa,
returned in district court at Trinidad
Colo, in the case OF Walter BreIk 4
detective, charged with the murder oI
Luke Vaheernick. striking Goa
miner At Forbes. Colo. October ~
1913.
George Quinn was hanged at the
state penitentiary at Canon city
Colo, for the murder OF William II.
Herbertson IN Denver. October 24,
1914. following quarrel over Mrs.
Herbertson.
Merytn DANES. aged 20, and A.
Woolf, aged 2s. OF Hyde Park Utah.
met death In a snowslide In the noun,
tains about three miles east OF town.
Near The DalIes. Ore, freight
train ran into work train In a blind.
Ing anowstorm and killed six men.
At Butte street car slipped on Icy
tracks and twelve passengers were In.
iured.
snowslides at Bingham. Utah. have
seriously damaged dozen houses
and police officers have compelled Ave
families 20 move from houses threat.
ened With destruction.
Walter Beik detective during the
recent coal miner's strike, was found
guilty BY Jury at Trinidad. Colo, of
the murder Of Gerald Llppiatt, or
ganizer for the United Mine Workers
o. America. Lippiatt Was shot and
killed August rs. 1913.
Six persons lost their lives In flre
which destroyed the interior or the
hye'story Talbot Walker building at
Seattle
DOMESTIC.
When the lower dam OF the San |
Diego water system In the otay val /
Icy south of San Diego broke under
the heavy pressure Of the flood waters
AZ least iifty persons persisted. being
caught by wall OF water thirty feet
high. Houses on twenty-five ranches
We're swept away.
Warden Sale Of the North Carolina
penitentiary died OF apoplexy after SUI
pervisIng the electrocutIon OF two ne.
groes. The warden appeared agltated
40 he unstrapped the bodies OF the ne.
groes from the electric chair ana 1
shortly afterwards became uncon,
sGious.
The Italian liners America and We
roma VIII be permitted to sail from
New York II the Italian government
gives assurances as 1t did In the case
81 the Giuseppe Verdi. that their guns
VIII BIO used only FOR defensive pur
poses.
Francisco Perez, an alleged cattle
thief and associate OF the Duran
brothers who We're executed at Juarez
for the murder OF the American, Bert
Akers. was shot and killed at Yaleta.
Texas. Friday.
Louis y, Brandsis OF Boston has
been nominated BY President Wilson
for the place on the supreme court
bench made vacant by the death OF
Associate Justice Lamar.
Seven workmen were burned, three
seriously, In four ires that occurred
Al the Carneys Point. NJ j., plant OF
the Du Pont Powder company Friday
night. The cause has not been deter
pined.
President Wilson on Thursday night |
At New York opened his personal ap. ,
peal 10 the country for national de-
Tense. He gave warning that plans
for the readjustment OF the army
muat be formulated and carried out
without delay and solemnly declared
be eopld not predict that the outlook
TOR the United States would be as
bright tomorrow as today.
The two American soldiers cap
tured by Mexlcans while bathing IN
the Rio Grande near Progresso. Texas,
have been returned 10 American soil,
It being asserted that the act was h
violation OF orders BY two Mexican |
soldiers.
Dwight b. Heard Of Phoenix, Ariz.. /
was reelected president OF the Ameri- ,
can National Live Stock association
at the concluding session OF the nine ,
teenth annual convention At FL Paso.
Texas
More than 100000 members OF
six branches OF the Methodist church 1
viii be represented at a conference on
church unity 10 be held at Chicago /
February 1917.
Mrs. Nathan Pullman, wife OF a
wealthy retired real estate man of |
Chicago, and her daughter. Mrs. Ger. |
trude Bozella, were killed at their
home, an az being used Search is
being made for Pullman. who has dis
appeared
More than thirty persons were in.
tured. five seriously, when carload
Of black powder exploded in the rail-
road yards at BlueaeId, W Va
Mrs J. p McWilliams, aged %. was
shot and killed by Mrs. Jennie Thorn
burg a. St. Louis az she was burglar
fzfng Mrs. Thornburg's home
The policy 81 no suspension Of
mining IN any field after present
agTeemenfs have expired 80 long a.
fkere IL fcpe Of negotiating new con.
tracts, wzs given strong support in
the convention At Indianapolis Of the