The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-03-26
NEWS OF 4 WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS ToLD I'm BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
quarters Of the Globe ana
Given In . Few Lines.
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campaign Of United States Senator
Miles G. roIndexter Iii Oregon have
been opened at Portland,
Three persons were killed and prop.
erty damage, amounting 70 many thou
sands Of dollars, was wrought by a
windstorm which attained velocity
Of forty-segen miles an hour In north
etn Colorado.
Ted KHykendall, aged Iii was
beaten 10 death by five schoolmates
at Pueblo, Colo, the lads being Jeal-
Gus because young Kuykendall excelled
In his classes
A 20 per cent wage increase for 800
employees Of the Denver Trnrnway
company was agreed upon by il board
Of arbitration which has been consid-
ering wages Of trainway employees
Or. Kenneth Al B Mackenzie, dean
.ef the medical department of the Uni
sersity Or Oregon and Il surgeon OF
national reputation, died at Portland
of heart disease superIndueed by in
fluenza. He was 60 years old.
j. a. Eddlefsen, postmaster at
briggs. Idaho, has been sentenced to
serve twelve months III the Bannock
county jail for enbezzlement Of
S3583,SS from tile postoffiee.
Two masked men held up the In
ternai revenue office at Seattle and
escaped with $4,000.
DOMESTIC.
William Jennings Bryan celebrated
his Goth birthday In New York on
March 49, He arrived IN the morn
Ing from Washington to speak at a
banquet given lii his honor by friends
at the AliIne club at night.
Five German surrendered warshlps
aIlocated " tile United States under
the armlstice terms, bal tleship, d
cruiser and three destroyers, VIII be
brought TO this country next month
Steps TO prevent possible suspension
OF work IN tile hard coal fields on
April ] IRE being taken by the SUBJ
committee Of miners and operators
appointed to arrange new wage
agreement for the anthracite coal
miners. n
The average annual salary of ST.
pT250 Of each of the University Of
NebnslSa's teaching staff Of 211 pro-
fessors is TO be increased to S2,S43.50,
or approximately 26 per cent, as re-
sult Of passage By the board Of re-
gents Of Il salary budget to raise the
pay Of all university employees,
Continuation of the present scale Of
lower railroad rates on export traffic
than on domestic traffic was demand
ed In resolution adopted at the clos
Ing session ut st, Louis of the spring
OF the National Industrial
Traffic league,
Sixteen hundred coastwise long
shoremen employed by the Morgan 4
Mallory lines are ON strike at Calves
ton, Texas, apparently In sympathy
with the strike of New York dock
David ana John Goretzen, cousins,
of Henderson, Neb,, are held at Fort
Omaha Us deserters. Ii Is alleged they
obtained permission TO visit Canada in
1918, before being called in the draft,
and did not return Until two weeks
ago They are members of Il Men.
nomite colony.
Partial lifting of the embargo ON
express shipments, imposed as the re.
suit OF 4 strike of Chicago express
Is announced
Seven motor truck loads OF whisky,
valued ut 100000, were seized by pro-
hlbltion agents on their arrival ut New
York City from RoSlyn, Md,
rae body u beautiful Mrs. Anna
Evans, not yet 20 years old. was found
In u trunk In her apartment IN New
Britain, Conn, She had been stranEled
with the relns OF toy harness be-
longing TO her 3-year-old son. Teddy.
Her husband, dying in hospital. con-
fessed that he had killed her.
Chlcago's labor war, dormant since
the murder Of Niaurle "Moseyn Enright
on February 3, broke out again March
IL, with the finding ot the body OF
Joe Hurley, labor leader and Enrlght
lieutenant lying in the street In the
south side ''bad lands Hurley had
been shot In the back, dying Instantly.
Local committees which are to con-
duct organized mbor's campaign for
''the defeat Of its enemies and the elec-
ton of Its friends" viii he organized
over the country March %, ii Is am
nnounced