The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-08-02
NEWS Of 4 WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given IN = Few Llnea
INTERMouNTAla

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Fire that started in rooming house
at Bingham, Utah, ragged for three
hours before II could be controlled,
doing damage estimated at not less
than $4,000.
r g. Bonfils, part owner Of Den
yer newspaper, was found guilty OF
contempt OF court In proceedings
growing out OF suits for libel filed by
William q. Evans and former Mayor
Robert w. Speer, and aggregatlng
more than $1.OOO,OO0.
The fiWe-year-old daughter OF M.
Walsh, a rancher living near Sheri.
dan, was killed by heavy hailstone,
The hail damaged crops in northern
Wyoming valued at 100000.
After selecting Hancock, Mich, as
the next meeting place, the twentieth
annual convention OF the Western
Federation OF Miners adjourned at Vic
tor, Colo, late Friday, Hancock won
over Denver by the close vote OF III
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Relief work for the victims OF a
cloudburst at Mazuma, New, is pro.
crossing more satisfactorily. A large
! corps OF trained nurses from Reno
and other Nevada cities has been sent
To the stricken mine town.
One man was drowned, II Is believ-
ed, and 100000 damage was done IN
the worst food in the history of Mer-
rill, Wash, which struck the city fol-
lowing a rainfall OF twenty-four hours.
Because personal enemies had made
charges OF insanity against him, Emil
Siren, aged AS years, attempted 10
commit suicide at Boise, Idaho, by cut
ting his throat with a razor. Siren
denied the insanity charges and aneg-
cd that enemies only sought to isolate
him. He 10 not expected to live
stephen Batemen, 22 years of age,
OF Murray, Utah, was dangerously II
not fatally injured when he fell from
a speeding car OF the scenic railway
at Lagoon and hung suspended in the
trestle work twenty-five feet above the
ground
Senator Borah has appealed to the
president TO release the injunction
against the Salt Lake & Idaho Railroad
company, which delayed construction
OF that railroad across the Mlnidoka
irrigation project because the company
secured right OF way from the settlers
instead OF from the government,
DOMESTIC
Many persons were injured when
200 Masons and their families, seated
on a wooden platform covering a
small rayine in front of an open air
theatre at a park In Wheeling. Va,
were precipitated to the ground by
the collapse OF the structure,
Forest fires are still raging near
Skagway, Alaska, and high wind
spreading the flames. The loss. of
wood and timber is very large. Fern
castle, famous tourist resort burn
ed
Spangle, charged with having rob
Der bank in Newata. Okla, was
arrested at susanville, Cal, by oper-
atives OF private detective agency,
after he had eluded the police for
months
Eight aldermen OF Detroit and the
secretary OF the comon council com.
mittees were placed under arrest Fri
day on charges of accepting brides
aud conspiracy TO accept a bride for
their votes and Influence in the pas
sage of a measure affecting city prop.
erty recently transferred to the Wa
bash railroad.
That James II, Mcnamara, serving
life sentence in San Quentin peni.
Tertiary for murder committed in the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
building. is held In solitary confine-
ment in an effort to make him con
tess further details OF that conspir.
acy, Is charged by prominent labor
officials and Indignantly denied by the
warden.
Away from the heat and noises Of
the city, free from the callers who
come at all seasons, and left absolute
ly to himself and his books, James.
Cardinal Gibbons. on July rs cetebrat-
ed his seventy-eighth birthday ami
versary at the home OF T. Herbert
Shriver. seven miles from Westmin-
Ster, Md
The announcement of a sweeping
advance in transcontinental freight
rates, in some instances amounting TO
as much as 100 per cent, was made
Thursday at the general offices in San
Francisco of the Southern Pacific and
Santa Fe Railway companies.
The killing of DIR. James w. Wal
den, leading Democrat, by Perry
Wallin, a Republican leader, has
famed to a threatening outbreak the
smouldering political feud in the BLACK
Water district, near Jonesyille, Va
All through the district the clans are
lining up.
Colonel Frank NJ. Joyce, first vice
: president of the American Automobile
association and chairman of the com
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