The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-22
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 6RlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAIN.

Isaac Jones of Logan is dead, Lee
land Whitehead is seriously, if not fa-
tally, hurt, and ten other miners are
more or less badly injured as the re-
suit of seventy-fve-foot drop of the
cage in the Eagle and Blue Bell mine
Eureka, Utah.
The Colorado house and senate has
agreed on the report of the third con-
ference committee on the military
bond issue bill, and the measure, as
amended by the conferences, was
finally adopted by both houses.
Prof. Jakob Bolin, head of the physi-
cal education department of the Uni
versity of Utah and one of the lead
Ing authorities in the world on physi-
cal education. died at his home in
Salt Lake City, May Is.
George Nelson, the Salt Lake
heavyweight wrestler, defeated Allen
Eustace, heavyweight champion of
Kansas, at Courtland, Kansas, in
straight falls.
A man registering under the name
of ]. J. Mayer of Cleveland, O., jump
ed from the seventh-story window of
fashionable hotel in Denver, and
was instantly killed
Firearms are outlawed in Las Ami
mas and Huerfano counties, Colo
RADIO. At o'clock "Wednesday after
noon the time limit set by military
authorities for the peaceable surren-
der of firearms expired
DOMESTIC.
Thomas E. Watson, Georgia editor,
historian and politician, has been in
dicted by the federal grand jury at
Augusta, Ca, on a charge of sending
obscene matter through the mail.
Mobs rioted at the furniture fac
tory of Haywood Brothers at Wake
field, Mass, where strike has been
in progress for three weeks. A
crowd, mostly foreigners, stoned
workmen and police.
Ten men, most of them chemists
were killed by an explosion of aciC
and chemicals in the mixing room Of
the Mexican Crude Rubber company
at Detroit
Fire destroyed warehouse of the
Merchants and Planters Compress:
company at Galveston, Texas, anC
damaged II 900 bales of cotton stored
in the building. The loss is estimat
ed at 100000.
Fred Fox and Maurice Pettingel
who were arrested at Monterey las
January while trying to smuggle Chi
nese from Mexico into the United
States, pleaded guilty at San Fran
cisco.
Mrs. Victor Hall, widow of younI
merchant, shot to death in his hom'
at Green Springs, Va, on April Il
has been indicted for murder by
special grand jury which has beef
investigating the crime.
Escorted by great throng of en-
ployes. men and women, the body O
Charles w. Post, millionaire mani
facturer, was carried to Oak Hi
cemetery, Battle Creek, Mich, O
Thursday and placed in a mausoleun
A great decrease in the buboni
plague infection among ground squil
port of the field inspectors.
! Joseph H. Young, formerly of Sal
Lake, until recently president of tn
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad
, is expected to be chosen president {
the Norfolk Southern railway.
> Chicago was chosen as the scene {
the 1915 convention of the Railwa
| nayaIonp,aD+ aScoaiatiop % ;fs ammo
meeting at st. Louis.
A campaign for the elimination {
the prison contractor and the ten
ment labor system was inaugurate
! by the National Association of Ga
ment Manufacturers assembled
convention at Detroit.
Forty Cleveland women were i
jured when car on the Clevelan
gainesville & Dayton electric lii
left the track near Willoughby, Obi
: They were members of Star Tempt
Pythian Sisters, returning from Pal
esville.
Judge Willis Sears in the distriC
court at Omaha, granted temporar
Injunction forbidding the enforceme1
/. by the city of Omaha of the ordinanc
adopted at a referendum election cor
polling the local street railway. cor
pany to give seven fares for twent
live cents.
William Marshall Keith, of Chicag
e was found not guilty of murderin
/ Wal Paul. his butcher, whom he sh
g to death after learning of Mrs. Keith
fondness for Paul.
g Two tanks containing approximate
10000 barrels of oil, the property
the Pierce Oiil corporation near Tuls
Okla, were fired by lightning. Loi
/ $4,000
: The first watermelons of the sc
I son were put on sale at St. Louis
May IS, at 81 each Only nine nj
ons were in the shipment, WIFI
came from Florida.