The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-03-19
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making HIstery
--infcrmatIon Gathered from Az
Quarters Of the Globe saa
Given In q Few LInea.
lNTERMouNTAIN.


lie disaster the American Red Cross
has appropriated $4,000 for relief and
30 meet obligations incurred by local
chapters.
Federal Judge Wolyerton, at Port
land. imposed fine OF 5000 and six
months in Jail on Joseph Wilson, a
confessed inoonshlner Years ago the
Jnrlst and prisoner were schoolmates.
Jack Gideon, serving a life sentence
III the federal penitentlary at Leayon-
worth, Kans., escaped from the prison
farm, where he was trusty prison
officials announced. He was convicted
of robbing mali train Ut Moscow, Ida,
In 1904.
charles stevens, 19-year-old bank
I messenger, convicted Of the theft OF q
registered mail package containing
$4,000 last November 8, was sentene-
ed in district court nj Helena TO the
maximum penalty Of seven 10 fourteen
yenrs IN the state penitentiary
Because Butte high school students,
In an endeayor to reduce living costs,
are wearing overalls and Bingham
aprons, local merchants have advanced
prices Of those articles 90 per cent, 1t
was asserted alta meeting Of the school
board
Two men lost their lives In q fire
which destroyed the Monument, Colo,
postoffice and the general store.
DOMESTIC.
David Warfield, dean of American
actors, was seriously injured when hit
by light auto delivery wagon as he
was crossing ii street at Los Angeles.
A collection Of $4,000 Insects, rep
resenting slxty-elght years search in
the United States, Alaska and Mexico
BY the late Oliver S. Westcott Of Chi
engo, has been sold % the state college
u Washington at Pullman for $500.
The American Legion has received
from Tie Y Nj g, A, 100000 of the
ldft Of S500Dl0 promised, represent
ing surplus from operation OF y M
q A. canteens and post exchanges in
France during the war, II was an
nounced at New York on March IL.
Robbers smashed windows and stole
thousands Of dollars worth OF jewelry
from the windows Of jewelry stores II
New York City, In broad daylight anC
while hundreds Of people were pass
Ing.
Indictments charging consplrac,
were returned against 125 mine opera
tors and coal miners by special fed
eral grand Jury In United States dis
trict court at indianapolis on Marcel
IL. The charges allege the mine own
ers and miners consplred to enhances
the price OF necessaries by restricting
distribution, limiting manufacture ant
hy other means and conspiracy to com
NIT offenses against the United States
as defined In the criminal code.
Mrs. Stanley Blomsld was sentence,
at Rhinelander Wis, to serve twent!
years IN prison for the murder b,
beating of her 6-year-old son,
win Lockett, convicted slayer o
Geneva Hardman, and confessed Stay
or of four other women, died In TIL
electric chair ut Eddyville, KY, Thurs
day morning.
The loss TO the government as
result OF the supreme courts decision
declaring stock dividends not taxabl
us income win he nearly half hilliol
dollars,
Following exhumation of his father
body, Layton Deyault, lT-year-old so
of Span Devault, a Delphi Ohio, far
mer, confessed he murdered his paI
emit, according to officers.
Aerial bombs dropped from arm
planer are being used to break ic
jams that menace two Maryland town
on the Susquehanna river.
Camp kearny, CAL. has been select
Ell by the war department as the rt
serve officer training corps summe
camp for students from New Mexico
Arizona and Hawaii
With alt other questions at issue vi
derstood to be definitely agreed upoI
differences between members OF tn
coal strike settlement commission as /
fair wage level for the 100000 bitg
mlhous mine workers or the cOuntr,
stiii remain TO be ironed out.
Three men were killed and seven 5,
riousiy injured at St. Louis when
scaffoIding on which they were worl
ing at the plant Of the General Motor
corporation collapsed
The state Of New York will receiv
$s89I as an inheritance tax from III
estate Of the late Col Theodore Roos,
veit.
Continued embargo on coal export
has resulted in 127 wooden ships, a,
gregating 100000 tons, being tied up j
harbors along the Atlantic coast.
VIII Lockett, slayer Of Geneva Hare
man, 10 years old, and central figuI
in the riots at Lexington, KY, Febrl
airy 8, has confessed to the murder
two other persons, the probable mu