The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-06-26
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTERMouNrAIN.

tNt EnHOON FlNs
v. v. Bower. a former member OF
the legislature. and James May. town
marshal Of shoahone. Idaho. were
shot by a negro who resisted arrest.
Bower u IN critical condition
Lemuei Marvin Nichols, IS years
old. was struck and instantly killed
by lightning while working on hi.
fathers new farmhouse about one
and half milea north OF Kayssiile,
Utah.
Beaten and choked into unconscious.
ness BY burglars. Mira. u. D. Lesher.
an elderly wealthy widow Of Spokane.
was left TO perish In the flames OF her
home, which the thieves set on IRE,
Firemen arrived JUST IN time to save
her life. The residence was de-
stroyed
The s.year.old daughter Of Mrs.
Fred searles Was instantly killed and
the mother and two other children
we're seriously injured Ia runaway
accident ON the outskirts OF Payson.
Utah.
Motions 70 quash the charges
against nine strikers accused Of the
killing Of four mine guards and the
charges against -four mine guards
charged with shooting strikers. made
At the opening Of court at Walsen-
burg. Colo, have beeen withdrawn.
The jury at abe second trial at
Denver Of Robert owen, charged with
nine others with the abduction and
robbery Of the Rev Otis l.. Sturgeon
Of Des Moines. Iowa, reported dis.
agreement and was discharged. Trial
Of the case was set for July 6.
The general conference OF the
Church Of the brethren tDunkardsl
convened ON the campus at the Uni.
yersiiy OF Washington at Seattle on
June II. and viii continue ten days,
The city council OF Denver has
adopted resolutions threatening
threegh it's police power TO take
such steps as are necessary for AIDE.
quatc water service" unless by June
steps are taken to relieve threat.
ened water famine and controversy
over water rentals adjusted.
DOMESTIC.
One hour after putting ashore near
W 1000 telephone girls at Alton, III.
she excursion steamer Majestic Of
Peoria, III. carrying crew OF thirty.
seven, sank In the Mississippi river.
few minutes after running into the
new intake tower Of the ST. Louis
waterworks now under construction.
Mrs, Martha Medley was crushed to
death by the engine Of Chesapeake
& Ohio passenger train near Ceredo.
w. Va, after she had thrown herself
IN the trains path and pushed her 1.
yearold daughter to safety.
Two bodies were recovered by div
ers on Friday from the sunken wreck
Of the Empress of Ireland. the first
20 be taken from the steamer
The FIRST cash return 10 the United
States for the hundreds OF millions
Epent on the Panama canal was re.
corded June is from collections on
barge traffic begun ON May is trans
porting cargoes because OF the con.
iestion OF freight traffic on the Pan
ANA railroad.
Harry Baseier. former paying teller
OF the Third National bank at St
Louis, who was sentenced June Ii.
1918. 70 i've years Imprisonment for
embedding sia.0oO from the bank. has
obtained his freedom
The Huerta delegation 10 the me
diation conference have issued 1
statement charging that the insist
ence by the United States on a con
stitutIonalist for the provisional pres
idency as opposed to neutral" was
"tantamount To abetting and even sx
acting fraud and violence at the cleo
tions"
The presence Of Miss Margare
Wilson, daughter OF President VIII
son, as one OF the speakers at tn,
closing session OF the biennial con
yention of the Federation of Woment
clubs. at Chicago. drew crowd tina
packed the huge auditorium wher'
she spoke.
Ralph S. Cornell, the 'poultr,
king" owner OF $4,000 chickens u
Tularosa, n NJ, was shot from am
bush and killed as he was riding b,
the hohS VI !. -. torlSr IN luidFOS
canyon.
A light fall. of sulphur dust at Sc
ward, Alaska, has caused the belle
that Mount Katmai, the great volcan
on the Alaska peninsula, 800 mile
west of Seward, is again in eruption
The liquor question can be settle
only by the three branches of go
eminent, legislative, judicial and 81
ecutive, combining for its sol,
tion, declared James H. Woertel
dyke of Los Angeles, in an addres
at the national conference of leadei
and workers of the prohibition part
at Clinton, Iowa.
Governor McCreary has signed Il
commission of Johnson N Camden
Versailles as United States senat