The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-03-24
Chief REVIEW Of
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM
Home and Foreign News Gathered
From All Quarters Of the World,
and Prepared for Busy Men
lNTERMouNTAiN.

Jesse knight, one Of the leading
capitalists Of the west. affectionately
known as ''Uncls Jesse" by thousands
in Utah, died at his home in Provo,
Utah, March IA, following a paralytic
stroke.
After being rescued from her burn
Ing home In Denver by passersby, Mrs.
Hannah Joseph, aged SO, went back
into the house to get 81 bill she
had left on the table and was burned
to death.
A mob of more than 200 men at
tempted to lynch a Mexican who MUIR
dered G. S. Alderman, travelling
man, at Twin Falls, Idaho, but was
prevented by prompt action of the
sheriff. The mob then warned all
Mexicans to leave town.
The Utah legislature adjourned
March Il after being in session sixty
two days. All freak legislation, except
the cigarette measure, was defeated.
Mrs. Helen A. Pittman, wife of a
wealthy retired business man, is un-
der conviction in the municipal court
at Portland for the theft of 80 cents
worth Of groceries from a suburban
grocery. She has served notice OF
appeal from the fine Of $50.
The Nevada state assembly has
adopted concurrent resolution pro-
viding for the removal of District
Judge Frank P. Langan for alleged
failure to render decisions within the
legally specified time and to demand
periodical returns in banking receiv-
srship case. 'r1
The engineer, fireman and head
brakeman were overcome by smoke
while a train passed through Hernosa
tunnel, forty miles east of Cheyenne.
The conductor discovered their plight
and ran, the train to the nearest sta
zion, where the three were revived.
DOMESTIC
Richard James, negro, charged with
the murder of B. T. Rogers and Ho.
mer Nave, at Midway, KY, October s.
was taken from the Woodford county
Jail by mob and hanged from tree
two miles from Versailles
The malgled body of q woman, clad
in a bathrObe, underwear and stock
ings, was found lying beside a street
car track in San Francisco, the indi
cations being that the woman haC
been run over by street car, al
though no such accident had been re
ported. 2'~3
Three persons are dead, about thirt!
others are injured, several OF then
seriously and property damage est
mated at between $500, 1000 and 1000,
900 is reported as the result OF ter
rifle windstorm which swept over
northwestern Louisiana, especially II
Claiborne and Caddo parishes late Sat
urday. 49,.
Several persons were burned t
death in fire which destroyed
the Grace hotel, four-story bricl
building at Clinton. Okla. @A III
The national conference Of STATE
Manufacturers associations, In session
1T Chicago, sent a questionaire' to lit
members in eleven states urging sup
port Tor the railways in their effort t
sbrosate the wartime agreements ant
declaring that this was essential to Oh
tain lower freight rates. E4%h a'
After an absence Of nearly tw'
wesks,, A. d. Pollock, alleged abscond
tng Vice president of the Bank Of Han
Ven, Idaho, strolled ineo the office o
the county sheriff at Twin Falls
March II. 95eYH nJ 4
Two men battled for eight hour
with a giant ray. or devil fish tina
towed two boats forty miles from Pair
Beach and seventeen miles to sea an
then escaped when the cables broke
although it's body bore four harpoon:
sight rifle bullets and fifteen wound
from lances.
FRITZ Scheff, light opera singer, l
private life Mrs. George Anderson, wa
granted a divorce in superior court 9
Waterbury, Conn. She charged into
cradle cruelty.
With his hands tied tightly togethe
with wire and sack of cement faster
ed about his neck, the body of Set
Stanley, a local business man, wa
found at the bottom Of a well in tn
rear OF his place of business 6
Bethany, Mo.
The eight-hour day and arbitratio
agreements on wages of packing nous
employees are expected to be the pril
cipal recommendations drafted by ii
executive committee of the Amalg
mated Meat Cutters and Butcht
Workers of North America, in sessic
at Omaha.
John Berg, aged "a, farmer, livir
near Omaha, was shot and instant
killed when he walked into gun tra
set in his hen coop, forgetting tn
he had set the trap for chicken thieve
An annual tax of $40 Oh bachelo
over rs years of age, to be applied
the general school fund is provided
bill introduced in the Missouri legi
lature.