The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-03
RECORD or 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.

congress to support President Will
sons program for national prepared
ness, and pledging the undivided sup
port OF the organization for adequate
measures of defense.
James McCloskey, Waterman, is
being held at Butte in connection with
an investigation into the murder of
Miss Josie Leary, 20 years old, who
was found shot to death on the Ana
conda road. She had been attacked.
Two bandits, heavily armed, held up
the Northern Pacifc's eastbound
North Coast Limited train near Gov
ington, twenty-five miles east Of Seat
tie, Thursday night, taking the regis
tered mail after dynamiting a safe in
the mail car.
Dock owners and operators were
warned by city authorities at Seattle
against a reported plot to destroy the
Blue Funnel liner TaIthybius, en-
route there with a cargo of rubber
silk and other staples valued at 49,
100000
Miss Adele NJ Fielde, author, lee
turer and missionary of note, died at
Seattle. She was II years old.
More modern methods in marketing
and closer relations between retail
lumber dealers and consumers was ad-
vocated by speakers at the opening
at Portland Of the thirteenth annual
conference Of the Western Retail
Lumber Dealers association.
Mahlon D. Thatcher, Pueblo, Colo,
millionaire banker. died February %
He was 76 years old. Death was due
to general breakdown.
DOMESTIC.
Jess McCorkle, a negro, was taken
from jail at Gainesville, Ga, by half
a hundred men and boys, hanged to
tree in front of the city hall and
his body riddled with bullets. Nc
Corkle was arrested for breaking into
the home of A. T. Heath and attack
ing Mrs Heath, whose husband was
away.
A Chicago dispatch says petty Of
ficer and an apprentice seaman at the
naval training station at Lake Bluff
were drowned when heavy seas
dashed boatload of the reserves
against the breakwater.
An attempt by three Mexicans to
lasso Miss Gertrude McClelland, a
young school teacher, on the border
road in Hidalgo county, fifty miles
west of Brownsville, Texas, nearly led
to lynching American soldiers ar
rested one of the party before a posse
of citizens could reach him.
The salaries of 100 employees will
be increased Dy tx per cent begin
ming March /, it was announced at
Houghton, Mich. by the Quincy Min
ing company.
Urging econoric as well as mill
tary preparedness ), Edmund ]. James,
president of the University of Illinois.
speaking before the Economic club,
at New York, asserted the power of
the nation should be directed toward
developing the strength of the people,
individually and collectively.
The first formal conference at
Sioux City, Iowa, between strikers
and officials of the Cudahy Packing
company over wage increases result
ed in a deadlock and the announce
ment from the officials that unless an
agreement is reached soon the plants
will be closed indefinitely.
4 man answering the description
Of ]. Grant Lyman. wanted in New
York for alleged defalcation of more
than 100000, was arrested on a
yacht at st. Petersburg. Fla.
During a friendly sparring bout be-
tween William Hildebrandt and Aug
ust Naizel, both II years of age, at
Cincinnati, Hildebrandt was struck on
the jaw. He died few minutes later.
Judge Dickinson, in the United
States court at Philadelphia, upheld
the constitutionality of the act of con-
gress OF October %, 1914. known as
the war emergency act.
United States Senator Albert B.
Cummins of Iowa has filed affidavit
with the secretary of state as a can
didate for the presidency of the Unit
ed States on the Republican ticket
Letters threatening them with the
fate of Leo NJ. Frank have been re-
ceived at San Antonio, Texas. by Mr..
and Mrs. Victor Innes of Eugene, Ore,
whose appeal to the supreme court of
the United States against extradition
to Georgia, on indictments charging
larceny after trust. recently was de-
cided against them
Four men and a woman lost their
lives in fire which destroyed the,
atrlcal bearing house above a rest
aurant in the theater section of New
York City.
Twelve hundred coal miners struck
at Lykens, Pa, in the anthracite field
because OF the refusal of officials of
the Susquehanna Coal company TO
reinstate foreman.
An appeal for relief received at
Natchez, Miss. from fifty heads of
families in Acme. La, said that $50