The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-04-02
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRIEFEsr
MANNER POSSIBLE,
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe ans
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMOUNTAIN.

EnOs NJ. Parr, his wife and their
two children were swept into eternity
when their home was wrecked by an
immense snowsIide in the Highland
Boy district, two and a half miles
above Bingham, Utah.
Fred Fulton, Minnesota heavy
weight, knocked out Young Hector,
Bremerton, Wash, in the first round
of a scheduled four-round bout at
Seattle.
Charges that Industrial Workers of
the World are tampering with jury
venires are being investigated at
Seattle
Justin Bauer, aged II, was shot and
instantly killed by his 10-year-old
brother at Wapato, Wash. The lads
were playing with a rifle given them
by a Japanese playmate when it was
accidentally discharged.
Gertrude Baker, aged II, of Ogden,
is charged with shooting Herbert
Hessler, aged q. The girl claims she
shot to save her father, who was be-
ing beaten by Hessler as the result
of Il prolonged dispute over water
rights. Hessler will recover.
Tom Morgan, arrested in the l. w.
w. hall at Centralia, Wash, following
the armistice day shOotings, has been
released from custody, it being ad-
mitted by the counsel for the state that
ie, to
yiCt him.
The body of Fred EggersglusS, a
farmer near Twin Falls, Idaho, was
found in Rock Greek canyon. Inves-
tigation indicates that the man did
not fab from the top of the cliff, but
met death where the body was found.
Foul play is suspected.
DOMESTIC.
Paul Little, twelYe-year-old son of
E. Il. Little, Lexington, Ky, capitalist,
who had been held for ransom by kid
napers, was found by police locked in
room at a local hotel, and returned
to his home after an absence of two
days.
There will undoubtedly be suspen-
sion of work in the coal mines of Illtn-
OILS April l. Frank Harrington, presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers OF
Illinois, has announced.
Adam Jackson, a negro, was hanged
in the Butler county Jail at Poplar
Bluffs, Mo, on March %. for assault
1Nrhit
last month. He was the first person
to be executed in Missouri since cap
ital punishment was restored last July.
Although their terms had been car
ried out, and $4,000 in currency,
wrapped In a bundle placed in pub
lie garbage can in the business us
trict at Lexington, Ky, kidnapers OF
Paul Little, 12-year-old son OF +. Il.
Little. capitalist, failed to put i'll an
appearance, and the boy is still i'll the
hands of his captors.
Recent advances in the price OF SUI
gar by California refiners are to De
investigated by the United States at
torney's office at San Francisco, WIN
n view to action by the federal grand
jury.
Stabbed in the neck by an unknown
assailant and lying beside the body OF
man strangled to death, the deau
hodv of DR.. Simpson Campisi, sue
cessful Williamsburg physician, was
discovered Thursday in furnished
room in Brooklyn.
The submarine HI, which was
wrecked on the shoals off Santa Mar
garita island, Lower California, was
DuIled off the rocks by the U. ). D.
Vestal, repair ship, only to sink forty
five minutes later in fifty feet OF
water.
Twenty-nine warships headed by the
cruiser Brooklyn, flagship OF Rear AL
miral Henry Riley, have sailed from
San Diego for Honolulu to partlcl-
nate In the Hawaiian mission celeora-
tion centennial. Seven destroyers
from San Francisco will join the war
ships en- route.
Earnings of the United States steer
corporation IOE 1910 ass -.
900, $50, a decrease of $55,S9o,4oo' from
1918, according to the detailed report
issued at New York.
A signed statement that ne mas eFl-
dence that Ambrose Bierce, noted sat
irist, who disappeared in 1919, was put
TO death by Villista firing SQUAD
near the village of Icamoli on the trall
to Monterey, has been made IN tne
San Francisco Bulletin by James IL
wilkins, a special writer.
Frank Pinano, II years old, is In a
Chicago hospital seriously wounded
while his father, who shot him TO
save his SOUL" awaits anxiously the
outcome Of the boys struggle for me
The father used his revolver to keep
his hayward son from crime.
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