The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-10-02
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAIN.

machine plunged through fence and
| timber struck Swanbrough on the
head.
Unless the farmers east of Sandy,
around Midvale, Crescent and River
| ton, Utah, take drastic measures in
| fighting the hog cholera epidemic in
| those sections, the plague will spread
| throughout the state and become a
| serious menace, it is believed
Utah banks are not affected by the
statement of the secretary of the
treasury that he would withdraw fed
| eral deposits and federal emergency
issued to banks which have high re-
serves and are charging high rates
of interest, 1t was learned. None of
the national banks in Utah made a
request for emergency currency.
Following checking in by the
| United States bank examiner and the
state bank examiner, the United
| States National bank at Centralia and
the Union Loan G Trust company Of
Centralia, Wash, were forbidden to
open their doors.
| The Twentieth infantry, which is
now encamped at Fort Bliss, Texas,
and at Fort Wingate, N. NJ, will re-
turn to Fort Douglas, Utah, when the
troops are ordered away from the
Mexican border.
DOMESTIC.
i New rates filed by practically all the
railways west of the Mississippi river
and east of the Rocky mountains,
withdrawing the privilege of shippers
to concentrate into carload shipments
at certain points less than carload
shipments of butter, eggs, cheese and
poultry, have been suspended by the
interstate commerce commission un.
til January 81, 1915.
Theodore Roosevelt's youngest
daughter, Ethel, wife of Dr. Richard
Derby, will nurse the wounded in the
hospitals of Paris and her husband
will be q surgeon in the French city
William S. Evans, Philadelphia
was elected president and San Fran
cisco was chosen as the 1915 meeting
place by the American Institute OF
Banking at the closing session of its
twelfth ANIMAL convention at Dallas
Texas.
Thousands of customers attended
the opening of Chicagos first munich
pal market on Thursday. Cabbage
sold at 2 cents, loose grapes,
cents, tomatoes, 2 cents, and noodle:
at cents pound. Radishes brought
cents and lettuce 5 cents bunch
Belated reports from missions es
tablished throughout the world by
the Presbyterian church made public
at New York tell of worldwide con
ditions unparalleled in the history O
the church. There is no spot under
the sun, according to these reports
where the European war has failed
to strike a blow at commerce.
The illness of Mrs. Helen Schulel
at New Orleans was diagnosed as bu
bonic plague. This is the twenty
eighth case reported since the malad,
was discovered June 81.
The sovereign grand lodge of thu
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, il
session at Atlantic City, N. j., re
, fused to reduce the age limit of ad
mission into the order.
Edward Teesdale, chief of staff o
General Charles Kelley, who led al
army of 1,400 unemployed men t,
Sacramento last winter, en- route t,
, Washington, D. c., has been release,
from the county jail at Sacrament,
after serving six months.
Two new cases of bubonic plagu
have been discovered at New Orleans
Henry A. Kobe, high constable o
Doylestown, Pa, was shot through
the heart and killed by William Mil
! Ter, Is years old, as he was taking tn,
young man to jail on charge of hav
ing forged check
Three men robbed the Baxte,
Springs, Kans., National bank o
$4,000 and escaped.
Hope that the United States woult
aid in bringing about the indepen
dence of their native land at the emf
of the great war was expressed in
telegram sent by the convention o
Lithuanians at Chicago to Presiden
Wilson. The message also espresso,
a desire for a worldwide movemen
4 loF general peace.
Six persons were injured when
Rock Island passenger train was dt
rallied near Yale. Mo-, twenty-fiv
miles east of Kansas City.
An unusually light vote was cast il
the primaries held Tuesday through
| out the state of Massachusetts by tn,
| Democratic, Progressive and Repui
| lican parties. The lack of interes
| was apparently due to the absence o
| contest for the head of the tire,
| tickets.
The United Irish League of An
erica, through it's treasurer, ha
cabled $4,000 to John E. Redmond
the Irish nationalist leader in pal
lament, with message of congratt
: lation on the victory for the hom