The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-11-06
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.
INTERMouNTAIN.

Five carloads of western horses
were shipped few days ago from
Dillon, Mont, with the ultimate destt
nation of the battle line of the allies
that is facing the Germans in France.
Mewa Singh, Hindu, was found
guilty by a jury at Vancouver, B. c.,
OF the murder of William Hopkinsons
Canadian immigration inspector, and
sentenced to be hanged January II
next.
A nationwide campaign having
| for its purpose the settlement of the
Colorado coal strike has been started
by the federated labor unions organ
izations of the state of Colorado.
| G. e. Thornton, secretary OF the
| Transfers union at Salt Lake, who
has been striving to defeat the city's
ordinance imposing tax on team
sters of $6.25 year, lost out again
when the district court found him
guilty of violating the ordinance.
Gust Zaharopoulos, who is alleged
to have shot and killed his wife, Con-
stamina Zaharopoulos in a Greek COM
fee house at Salt Lake on the night
of May /, has been arrested in Spo
!. kane, Wash.
: President Wilson has been asked
! by Mother" Jones, the mine strike
] leader, and James Lord of the mining
/ department of the American Fedora
, ton of Labor, to close down the Col
orado coal mines, IL the operators
| Tod nj n
! mediation already accepted by the
3 miners.
a DOMESTIC.
J, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt told thu
8 students at Princeton, in an al
: dress on October 80, that he had seel
s the plans of two empires now involves
J. in the European war to capture grea
r American seaports and hold them TO
7 ransom.
Q The steamboat John Quill struck
. rock and sank in the Tombigbe
river near Demopolis, Ala. Passer
It gers, the crew and most of the carg
!, were saved.
d The value of foodstuffs sold abroa
d last month was sos, 490,Ss9, nearl
Q. double that of September year ag'
when the total was $38,7S6,6Z4
Increase in railroad mileage book
Ar rates from to pa cents per mile,
become effective November 1, wei
II approved by the public service con
n mission.
Kansas City's Union station VIZ
formally opened to the public on 0
tober 80, when President Wilson
n. the White House touched butte
90 and swung wide the doors of the tie
M minal structure.
The loan of $10,000,000 arranged
the French government with the n
tional City bank and other New Yol
he banking institutions, it is learned,
to be used in the purchase of war su
ed plies in this country.
Mrs. Nettie Prov, herself motht
was found guilty in the superior cou
is at Los Angeles on charge OF puttil
nd poison in apples with intent to pois
al. the three children of neighbor.
A. H. Bibler of Pittsburgh was ele
ed president of the American Hal
a ware Manufacturers association at
to closing session of its convention
Atlantic City, N. ]. The NatloI
. Hardware association. comprise
NJ iobbers, elected w. H. Matthai, Ba
more, president.
O. Supt. ] M. H. Frederick OF
! Cleveland public schools has been $
fenced to serve ten days in jail a
Nh nav a fine of $500 for violating
courts order which restrained sen
Ia officials from refusing to reappo
g teachers because OF their activities
the teachers union.
rom The house in which Henry Wa
Soc. worth Longfellow was born at r.
NL land. Me-. was dedicated on Thurs'
under the auspices of the lnternati
al Longfellow society, as a memol
"a. 10 the poet. The building, for ye
used as a tenement house, has b.
restored as nearly as possible to
original condition.
W Seven of the nine Mexicans on t
"a n the United States district court
- Phoenix. Ariz., for conspiracy to
@2 the banks and state military stores
MI Phoenix last August, were found
w ~ by jury.
Alderman Thomas E. Gilman,
mer councilmanic leader of bet
81 and one of several Detroit alder
arrested In a sensational alleged
exposure in July. 1912, has been
quilted.
The will of Hugo Reisinger,
chant and art collector, and Sol
law of the late Adolphus Busch,
st Louis brewer, bequeaths ain
- his entire estate, valued at more
$500, 900. to to charitable and pu
u Institutions.
Three Germans were arrested
AND 80 a. ualifax. N. s., where
Cola, police say they were operating '
ailine Iass annaratus, The wires were
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