The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-01-02
nEcoRp or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFGsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Asppsnlnss That Ara Making tiistery
Information Gathered from Al
Quarters " the Globe ea&
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father lost his life III attempting TO
save the child
Jack Graham, escaped prisoner from
the Utah state prison, was captured
while he was eating dinner In Rifle,
Colo, cafe.
Three poolhnIis, grocery store and
shoe repair shop at Helper, Utah,
were destroyed by FIRE on Christmas.
h IL reported that iightlng has brok.
en- out between union and nonunlon
miners III the company's mine at Wllke.
son. Wash
The governors Of Utah, Idaho, Colo
RADIO, Arizona, New Mexico and Wy
oluing VIII meet In Denver january
70, 20 formulate course OF action 10
DC taken By the states In the move TO
have turned over 10 the common
wealths the public lands and to make
recommendation Tor constructive
irrigation program.
Two men were seriously wounded
and more than 100 persons, mostly
Christmas choppers were held at bay
ut Seattle. when lone htndlt be-
lieyed TO be the man who, az Olympia,
WASH. shot and Killed II. II. Schultz,
attempted 20 hold up stationery
store In The First avenue business
district.
Through luck. Mrs, Fred Flncke,
cattle, opened u package In the
rong way and thereby saved the
tes OF herself, her husband and
rec children, The package contained
~ Internal machine.
DOMESTIC.
Thiriy-fiye deaths have resulted
from the drinking of liquor bought IN
Hartford Conn, and drunk In Chic !
npee, Hoiyoke and Hartford, Mass.
Seventeen men and one woman died
IN chieopee, ten men In Hartford and
four IN Holyoke,
Brig Gen William Ruffm Cox. one
the ranking officers Of the Confed-
ate army, died December 20, at Rich.
Iond, Wa aged rs years. General
OK was credited as having been the
st Confederate officer TO cease
Thting az Appomattox courthouse,
Qlonging the fighting for some time
ter General Lee had surrendered,
Inhaling the dust arising from Sl0.-
900 worth Of ephlm and heroin which
he was dumping into bag from dry
Ing pans III the plant Of the New York
Qulnlne u Chemical company, Brook
Ign. after he had broken into the place,
John schuntdkl collapsed on the bag
and died.
Organized railway maChlnists,
through their president served notice
on congress on December 20 that they
would not submit TO enactment Of the
Gummins railroad bill. with It's drastic
nnti.strike provision.
A compromise has been reached at
San Francisco In the Fair win case.
All parties 10 the controversy. nclud-
ing the attorneys. refused 10 state the
amount of the settlement. but Il Is
understood 10 lie somewhere between
SJ00at0 and St,O00,OOO.
etht dhAiii - Atiiifhk WI iitteilntf
"a became n member OF the American
legion, uniting with Lincoln, Neb.,
post and being honored by the issu-
nnee to him of card No.
The United States army transport
Chateau-rhierry, numed after that fa-
NOUS battlefield on wnlcn the army
and Htarine corps achieved undying
faIue, has just beel launched at Hog
Island
Four men with police records all
over the country escaped from Jail
II Toledo on Christmas by an attack
by six men upon deputy sherlffs, one
NJ whom was shot,
scores were hurt on Christmas day
when fully one thousand reds" parch-
Ing ~ Fifth avenue New York, as II
protest against the activities OF the
InIted states 10 deportlHg extreme
radicals were scattered again and
again as squads OF mounted police
charged the paradrrs who would seat
Ter only TO reform their line and
n:arch on.
'ien, John J. Pershlng came back
u his boyhood home at Laelede, Mo-.
on Tuesday, ate turkey dinner. was
presented with gold medal aud a
silver loving cup, visited relatives and
eronies Of long ago. explored anew
the old re-shlng house and made sey.
eraf speeches
Several hundred disIllusloned ItaI.
lans who returned to their nutive land
after the signing Of the armistice.
with the idea OF living ON their say.
ings. arrived al New York on the liner
patrle, They reported thar the high
cost Of living was worse problem In
Italy than IN the United States and
that they came back to stay.
yellow fever win be wiped off the
earth within five years, II was assert.
81 BY DR. r c. Lyster. the chair
man Of the yellow fever commission.
which went 10 Peru and Ecuador In
1913. upon his arrival al New York.