The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-04-14
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
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.
iNTERMoUNTAlN.

IN GhnOON AIN.
Walter Daley, aged q, is under ar
rest at Laramie, Wyo., in connection
with the robbery of a Oregon Short
Line train near Roy, Utah, March 25
According TO the chief OF police. Daley
mas confessed that he was one of three
men who participated in the holdup
The American steamer Rio Pasig,
which sailed from Puget sound late in
December with cotton and other mer-
chandise for the Russian government
has been given up for lost.
The body OF Miss Lulu F-rakes. a
nurse, aged "a, was found in a Sc
Guided spot in a canyon near Twin
Falls, Idaho. she having taken poison.
i is said she had been Tilted by her
fancee.
Alleging that ne feared he might
obey the impulse to take his own life
E. S. Brandeli, aged 80, is a prisoner
at Denver while the police are inves-
tigating his story that he was buncoed
out of $500 in Salt Lake City.
Mrs. Corinne Wheeler and her sister,
Mrs. Kate Swift, were found muir
deI-d in their home at Seattle. Wash.
James H. Moyle defeated W. R. Wal
lace for Democratic national commit
| teeman in the Democratic state con
yention at Salt Lake by vote of 370
to 189. The convention adopted reso-
lutions favoring national and state
prohibition.
A lone bandit held up the Pullman
| passengers on the Overland Limited
near Cheyenne, securing $500. and es-
capped.
DOMESTIC.
Motorcycle Patrolman John McKen-
ma was killed at ST. Louis, after he
had arrested four bandits. Patrolman
William A. Dillon followed the automo-
bile in which the bandits were riding
into an alley. He has not been seen
since
Existence of an international an
archistic plot to assassinate all rulers
OF Europe has been discovered at Chi
cago, according to a formal statement
issued by Maclay Hoyne, states attor
ney Of Cook county.
Champion lightweight boxer Fred
| die Welsh through superior ring gen
eralship and experience had slight
shade on points in a ten-round node
cision bout in Milwaukee with Richie
Mitchell
An eighty-foot naval observation
balloon, recently brought to Pensacola
Flo, for maneuvers, snapped its an
! Choir lines and took a hundred-mile
unguided cruise, finally coming tt
earth in a swamp near Argyle, Fla.
John Rule, farmer living on the
Red river, south of Drayton, y. D.. be
lieves that the present high water il
the Red river and other streams II
that section is a forerunner of {
food equal to that described in Gen
esis and has accordingly built an ari
in which he expects to save himsel
and family.
Two men robbed the First Nationa
bank of Houston. Pa, in midday o
SIS, 600 and escaped in an automobile
Vigorous denial that he had sent ;
letter from the United States TO Mex
leo predicting success for new plaI
for securing political and military 81
premacy for the Cientitico party, hai
been made by Ignacio Valdespino
bishop Of Aguas Calentes, now Twin!
in San Antonio. Texas.
Fifteen secret indictments agains
hooters who robbed victims at th'
scene OF the Amherst, Ohio, wreel
were returned by the Lorain count.
grand jury.
An American citizen. Jose Rodri
guez of Preside, Texas, has been ar
rested and is now in Jail at ojinaga
the Mexican town just across the Ri
Grande, on charges of killing Mayo
Alberto Rodriguez last week. Resi-
dents of Preside declare the Ameri
can is innocent.
Gen. ]. Franklin Bell assured cit,
officials at San Diego that California
border conditions, which he has jus
| inspected, do not necessitate or val
| rant border patrol.
Lafayette Chandler, negro farm
| hand. who Tuesday night shot and IA
tally wounded Sheriff John H. DierkeI
when Dierker and others attempted L
arrest him at St. Charles. Mo-. wa
shot and killed by a mob that ha,
been searching for him for thirteel
hours.
Charley White of Chicago won de
cision over Matt Wells Of England a
the close Of fifteen fast rounds 0
lighting at Kansas City.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ha
dung his hat into the ring. Withou
specifically declaring his candidac
for the Republican presidential nom
! nation. the Colonel in q sharp declara
ton of principles. announces the term
upon which he will accept that nom
nation.
The number OF universities. college
| and normal schools which have adopt
d simplified spelling now is IA,