The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-03-02
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD in BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAiN.

a director of the Security State bank,
was drowned in the Ogden river at
Ogden, Utah, when he fell from a log
while crossing the stream.
Governor Lister of Washington
signed the '~bonedry'' prohibition bill
in the presence of officers of the w.
G.. T. U. and other advocates of the
measure.
In a plea to meet the situation with
sober thought and to be prepared for
a call to arms in defense of American
rights upon the high seas, United
States Se%nator-eIect William Fl. King,
in a speech at Ogden, Utah, declared
that in his opinion war between Ger
many and the United States cannot
be averted.
G. M. Sutherland, aged 50, dropped
dead while dancing a ~quadrille at a
dance in Salida. Colo. his home for
many years.
Is Three negroes, Leslie Fahley, Har-
rison Gibson and Henry Hall. were
hanged at White Sulphur Springs,
Mont. There was but one scaffold, and
the men were taken out inc at a time,
The men were convicted of killing
and robbing Michael Freeman, a white
farm hand, on a freight train near
Judith Gap, October 6 last.
DOMESTIC.
The state ~'bone-dry" law was sign
ed at Topeka, Kans., on February %
by Governor Capper and Immediately
became effective. 1t is considered
n of the most drastic prohibition
measures ever enacted into law. :
Application of the Illinois Contra
and twenty-seven other railroads tt
enjoin enforcement of the Illinois 2
cent passenger rate was denied OIL
February % by Associate Justic'
Clarke of the supreme court.
The Missouri Pacific lines in Kan
sas, formerly known as the Kansa
and Colorado Pacific, were sold a
public auction on February 20 for 50
100000 to r. H. Nelson and D. A
Holmes, representing the r%eorganizs
ton committee, and Kuhn, oLeb I
Co., New York.
Thirteen persons are known t
have lost their lives and more tina.
100 have been reported injured in
series of tornadoes that swept POI
tions of Alabama, Georgia and Mi:
sissippi.
Eleanor Combs, 107 years of age
said to be the oldest women in In
dana, died February % at Sullivan
Ind. She was born October 10, 1916
at Salem, Washington county, Ind
and in all her life had never been be
yond the borders of the counties o
Greene, Sullivan and Washington.
Three negro highwaymen nelo UP
southbound Illinois Central passenge
train. known as the Cuban Special, a
East Junction, Tenn, but failed to Sc
cure any loot.
A 4-months-old Berkshire boar sire'
by Epochal, an English hog, sold TO
$1,000 at the annual sale in connection
with the American Berkshire congress
convention at Lafayette, Ind.
John Craig, 70 years of age, an eS
pressman, who lives alone in a hut o.
the outskirts of Omaha, was foun,
murdered in a field ear his hut.
A food disturbance occurred in tn,
West End district of Boston when
large crowd of men, women and Chi
dren invaded a grocery and provision
store and carried away some of it
stock.
An Anthems dispatch to Reuter-
says that food riots among workmel
at Piraeus have led to the closing o
all shops and the custom-house.
The women's suffrage bill passe'
in the lower branch of the Indians
legislature February %. 1t previous
ly had passed by the senate and nov
goes to Governor Goodrich
Many empty freight cars are roll
ing west at passenger train spec
from c~ongested railroad yards OF thu
east. according to interstate com
merce commission advices from it
investigators.
When a refrigerator a was open
ed al Fender, Neb., D. F. Faulkner o
La Plata, Mo-, IA found dead ant
Will Gilmore of Kansas City wa:
found unconscious. Both had inhaled
charcoal fumes from a heater.
The governor has signed a bill
passed by both houses of the legisla
ture giving Ohio women the privilege
of voting for president. Anti-suffra
Eists have announced they will call 6
referendum on the law this fall in az
effort to nulify it.
crocheted Straw Hats.
-ono tha nonuIar hats for the