The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-09-25
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAIN.


Jacob Timperella, aged So, the ia
ther of five children, has been res
cued alive from the Centennial Eureka
mine at Eureka, Utah, following a
cavern which imprisoned twelve men.
Sinking OF the big steam schooner
Francis H. Leggett, with her crew of
fifteen to twenty men and thirty-seven
passengers, sixty miles south of the
Columbia river, has been reported at
Portland.
Weldon B. Cooke, aviator, was
killed in plunge o. 2,00C feet in bis
aeroplane while giving an exhibition
fight over the state fair grounds al
Pueblo. Colo. An air pocket was be-
lieve responsible for the accident.
Colorado union coal miners in con-
vention at Trinidad, voted to accept
the peace plan recommended by Pres
ident Wilson. The vote, which came
after two days Of vigorous debate. was
83 to s.
The United States government and
the international organization of the
United Mine Workers of America has
united in plea to the striking coal
miners of Colorado to accept the
peace plan drawn up by board OF
federal mediators and Endorsed by
| President Wilson.
Mrs. Jennie Flynn, aged %, wife
of street car conductor, committed
suicide in her home in Seattle, with
her two small children in her arms
by closing the windows of her bed
room and turning on the gas. Mrs
Flynn quarreled with her husband.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Frank Leslie (the Baroness dc
Bazeus) died at her home in New
York, September 1S. She was the
widow of Frank Leslie, the publisher
who died in 1880, and had herself
since been prominent in the publish
ing world.
Nine. Vandervelde, wife of the Bel
gian minister of state, has reached
New York with an appeal to the meI
and women of America for aid TO
the people of Belgium whose homes
have been laid waste by war.
Officials investigating the mysteri
GUS disappearance of Mrs Elois Nelm
Dennis and her sister, Miss Beatric,
helms of Atlanta, Ga, announce,
that city chemists had reported tina
bones found in a cesspool in the rea
of a cottage at San Antonio, Texas
were parts of human skull
Mrs. P. D. Calvin of Rumley, Ark
died at the Frisco hospital at Spring
field, Mo-, bringing the list of dead il
the st. Louis & San Francisco raj
road wreck at Lebanon, Mo-, fey
days ago, to twenty-eight Mrs. Ca
win lost two children in the accident
Stock brokers who have proteste
against a proposed special tax of S.
year will not escape assessment
Democrats of the ways and mean
committee have determined to includ
them in the war revenue bill which
now being perfected.
The United States government ha
sent a formal note to Great Britain, il
quiring if the recent interview attr
buted to Sir Lionel Garden, BIRTHS
minister to Mexico, criticising Pres
dent Wilson for withdrawing Amer
can forces from Vera Cruz, was al
thentic in any part.
The threatened strike of trainme
on the st. Louis Southwestern railwa
Cotton Belt) has been averted, fc
the present at least, by the acceptanc
: on the part of the union officials {
the intervention of the federal medi
tion board.
) Future demand for American good
in France will be enormous, accor
ing to an opinion expressed in a G.
blegram received from frankie
Johnston, publisher of the America
Expositor.
Music will be feature of the "
rious sessions of the international
rigation congress in Calgary, Octobt
to 8.
Governor Colquitt of Texas has SUI
mitted plan for Bank of Texas
capitalized at $2O,0OO,O00 to the lie
islature in a special message. Accor
! ing to the plan, state banks are r
| CURED to subscribe s2,500,000 Of Il
| stock of the proposed central bar
and the state board of education
subscribe $17,500,000 for the scho
| fund.
| Veterans of the foreign wars of IL
] United states in annual session
Pittsburg, decided to hold next year
/ meeting in Detroit, and rejected
. proposition for amalgamation with Il
United States War Veterans.
Eleven persons are known to ha'
been killed and more than fifteen
iured when an Illinois Central freig
train crashed into street car co
tanning about thirty-five passenge
near Binghampton, suburb of Mel
. phis.
: Word has been received at Il
: headquarters in New York of the N
! tional Railways of Mexico that Il
q | constitutionalist government had e