The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-03-16
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
NTERMouNTAIN.

charged with the first degree murder
Of. Deputy Sheriff Jefferson Beard at
Everett, Wash, last November.
A jury to heal evidence in the case
of Mayor Hiram ]. Gill, Charles L.
Rockingham, Seattle's chief of police,
and five others under indictment for
conspiracy to violate federal liquor
laws, has been selected at Seattle.
United States Senators Cummins
and Kenyon of Iowa and La Toilette
of Wisconsin were hanged in efigy
in the town of Caldwell, Idaho, by
former Iowans who resented their fill
clustering tactics in the United States
senate.
The house of representatives of the
Utah legislature adopted a resolution
condemning the minority member
ship of the United States senate for
its action in filibustering and defeat
ing the armed neutrality bill.
Brought to the state penitentiary at
Canon City, Colo, by a journey of
several thousand miles from Alska, an
Eskimo girl murderess is already
planning to go back to her people on
the shores of Behring sea at the end
of her long term and teach them mod
ern customs.
DOMESTIC.
Declaring that he is hampered in
his work by an element clamoring for
war between the United States and
Germany, Scott Nearing, professor of
economics in Toledo university, has
rendered his resignation.
Three men are lead and four 9TH
ers are in a serious condition as a re-
suit of inhaling chloride gas fumes in
the factory of the Deerfield Pulp COM
pany at Mountain Mills, VT.
A Northwest police expedition has
arrived at Dawson, Y. t., from Fort
MCPHERSON by dog team with news
that Vilhjalmar ~Stefansson, the Arc
tic explorer, discoverer of new land
in the Arctic north of Prince Patrick
island, is wintering with the gasoline
schooner Polar Bear at Prince OF
Wales strait.
Cold storage holdings of eggs in the
United States March l showed a de-
crease of 97.2 per cent compared with
February l holdings.
American marines and bluejackets
occupying Santiago, recently the
stronghold of the Cuban revolution
lists, appear from latest navy depart
ment dispatches to be facing the pos
sibility of an attack by the rebel
bands waging guerilla warfare in the
city's suburbs.
A spectacular fire, caused, it is be-
lieved, by spontaneous combustion,
destroyed the grain elevator of the
Dertoit Railroad Elevator company at
Detroit. Adjoining buildings and valu-
able railroad property also were de-
stroyed.
Relatives of ]. A. Swartz, killed in
the cyclone at REQ, Ga, several
weeks ago, recently received from Des
Arc, Ala, a quantity of letters and pa
pers, which were blown away when
the Swartz home was destroyed. They
had been carried more thar sixty
miles by the wind.
The central committe at New York
City for the relief of Jews suffering
through the war announced March 5
that it had collected and distributed
$1,667.S06 between October s, 1914,
and February 10, 1917.
A wife whose husband withholds a
sufficient allowance on payday has a
perfect right, according to a decision
by Magistrate Cornell of the New
York court of domestic relations, to
go through his trousers pockets when
he is asleep.
Four hundred men from American
warships have landed and taken
charge in Santiago.
Amos H. Pauhl, 20 years old, was
held to the federal grand jury at Bal
timore by United States Commission
er Supple on the charge of having
made threats against the president
The Minnesota house has indefinite
ly postponed action on the Anderson
statutory prohibition law. This &C
ton killed any chance for further leg
islation at this session to abolish the
liquor traffic.
Fritz Kolb and Hans Schwartz, ar
rested at Hoboken, N. j., in connec
ton with an alleged plot to destro!
war munitions for the entente allies
were held for the grand jury withou
bail.
Thousands who gathered in Colum
bus circle, New York City, to watch
fire in a chemical factory were scat
tered quickly by the fumes of chlorin,
gas, one of the poison gases" of Euro
pean ~battlefields. Twenty iremen wer,
overcome and two are reported in
critical condition.
A ruse by the sheriff probabl,
averted the lynching of William Beck
err, whose arrest was ordered by
grand jury investigating the murde
of his aged father and mother at thei
home near Mason City, ILL.,, on tn
asnlt &c nacnmher II last