The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-07-11
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFRsT
MANNER POSSIBLE
HappenIngs That Are Making History
--InformatIon Gathered from Al
Quarters Of the 0iobe and
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The report on the crop outlook for
Utah, as made annually by J. Edward
Taylor. state horticuIturist. Is com
pleted. and II Is said that except for
cherries. conditions are unusually IA.
vorabIe.
Twenty-elght men, women and
children we're injured, Ave probably
fatally, when two street cars collid.
ed in Ogden canyon, near Ogden.
Utah, on July 4. the accident being
caused by misunderstanding Of
signals.
Former yice.President Charles w.
Fairbanks was speaker at the
Fourth OF July celebration at Occur
d'Alene, Idaho. He urged the ne
cessity OF spiritual growth keeping
pace with the nations material devel
opment.
Jess Willard, the Kansas cowboy,
had walkoyer In his fight at Reno,
New, with AL Williams. The fight
was stopped in the eighth round when
II was seen that Williams was unable
to continue.
Don Helms, 20 years old, was killed
at Medford, Ore, when the car he
was driving In fve-mile automobile
race eollided with another car and
turned turtle, Helms was crushed
under the car.
DOMESTIC
With right swing to the jaw
Leach Cross, the New York light
weight. finished Bud Anderson OF
Oregon In the twelfth round of what
was carded to have been twenty
round battle at Los Angeles on July
l4th
President Wilson addressed the
old soldiers and regulars at Gettys-
burg, Pa. on July A.
The celebration OF the Fourth OF
July with fireworks this year resulted
In only eight deaths and 800 injuries
In the entire country.
Oscar Williams, a steeplejack by
trade, was instantly killed at May
Vile, N. Y, while performing slide
for life." hanging by his teeth to a
pulley on rope stretched from the
court house dome to tree about $50
feet distant
An automobile which had gotten
beyond control of the driver, crashed
into crowd OF school children In
Pittsburg. one child being killed and
twelve others injured.
Identification of the woman victim
OF the mysterious west side Chicago
murder as Mrs. Flossie Woodruff, the
50-year-old wife of Harvey Woodruff,
restaurant cashier was made com
plete when Woodruff viewed the
body. The body was found in an
alley with the throat cut,
Death and injury ended celebra-
ton at Quakertown near Philadelphia
when the Scranton flyer OF the Pnila-
delphia 4 Reading railroad crashed
into wagon, killing Ave persons
and severely injuring the other mem
bers of the party,
Grover Bell, an aviator. fell 100
plane capsized and his injuries are
believed to be fatal His skull was
fractured.
Two hundred street sweepers of
Chicago have gone on strike, demand
ing an increase from SO to $3.50 a
day
Clarence Crosby. rs, OF Toledo, was
instantly killed when he fell 500 feet
from his balloon while making an as
cension before 5000 people at Bow.
ling Green. Ky.
Governor Mann OF Virginia and
General Bennett IL, Young of Louis
vile, KY. commander in chief of the
Confederate Veterans. have started a
movement to have reunion OF the
armies OF the north and south at
Richmond in April. 1915. on the iftieth
anniversary OF the evacuation of the
capital OF the confederacy.
The American people drank more
whisky and beer. smoked more cigars
and cigarettes, and chewed more to,
bacco during the fiscal year 1913 than
In any other yearly period OF the ma
TONS history. according to estimates
based upon the record of internal
revenue receipts or the government
for the twelve months ended June 80.
William Beck, clerk employed BY
the New York jewelry firm OF udah
& Ballou. and who fed shortly after
the firm was robbed last week of
$9S.0o0 worth of gems. was arrested
Wednesday in New Jersey anG
brought back to New York.
The building material men in Chi
cago threaten to lock out their 30
600 employees within ten days II be
fore that time the building trades
unions do not settle the jurisdietional
strikes which resulted two weeks ago
IN the lockout Of 10000 men by the
contractors.
Mrs. Refine Drummer. alleged auto
! bandit charged with holding up a
small dry goods store and taking $50
from the cash register at Chicago
has been indicted. The woman's hus.