The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-08
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 9RlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAIN.

| yard since the movement OF warships
to Mexico began. has left Seattle for
Mazatlan
Peter Steinhoff, miner, shot in the
head in the battle at the Hecla mins
near Louisville, Colo, died at the hos
/ pital
Charles w. Tidball OF the Good
Samaritan hospital, Portland. Ore,
was among those rewarded with
bronze medals for an act of heroism
by the Carnegie hero fund commits
sion which held it's spring meeting at
Pittsburg, May /.
1866 to the national house of repre-
sentatives from Oregon, is dead at the
age c1 SO years.
| Orders to quadruple the force of fed
eral cayalrymen In the Colorado coal
strike region went from the war de-
partment on Friday.
Nineteen coal mines operating com
panies of practically all
within the state--have positively re-
fused to consider suggestion made
| by Chairman NJ ID. Foster Of the
house mine committee. that negotia-
tions for settlement of the Colorado
coal strike be entered into upon the
basis that recognition Of unions had
been formally waived by the United
Mine Workers of America.
Four bodies were recovered from
the ruins of a block OF old frame
dwelling houses on the east side,
which were burned at Portland.
DOMESTIC.
William ]. Burns, the detective,
was the center of an angry demon
stration at Atlanta, Ca, presumably
in connection with an investigation
of the case of Leo NJ Frank, the At
lanta factory superintendent, under
sentence of death for the murder OF
14-year-old Mary Phagan
| Driven from their homes by an anti
American outbreak, the result of the
landing of American marines at Vera
Cruz, 259 refugees from Mexico
reached San Diego on board the Ger
man steamer Marie.
Ten thousand miners in the Kama.
wha, W. Va, coal field quit work, in
the face of an order forbidding
strike from John p. White. president
of the United Mine Workers OF
| America.
| In a statement just issued showing
the death rate from cancer in 1918,
the American Society for the Pre-
vention of Cancer calls attention to
the need of the national movement
to check the death rate from this
source. For New York City the rate
was eighty-two in each 100000 of the
| population against an average of sew.
enty-nine for the last five years.
Work of removing the bodies of the
172 men who lost their lives in an
explosion in mine No 5 of the New
River Galleries company at Eccles,
w. Va, has begun. Several days must
| elapse before majority of the vic
| tins are recovered
After hiding from the Mexican
federals in Monterey for several
months, Benjamin Madero, brother of
the late Francisco Madero, came out
of seclusion when the constitutional
lists captured the city and with party
of thirty-five American refugees ar
rived in Brownsville, Texas, few
days ago.
George ]. Gould of New York was
retired as president of the Kansas &
Arkansas Valley and the Fort Smith
& Little Rock railroads at meetings
of the newly elected boards of direc.
tors at Little Rock.
A chance arrest of negro rousta-
bout of travelling circus in Berke-
ley. CAL, led to the recovery of a
rope of diamonds valued at $4,000
for which the police of the Pacific
coast have been making secret
search the past week.
While conditions are nominally
quiet on the Pacific coast of Mexico
and Americans seem In no danger.
any attempt to mediate the differ
ences between the United States and
Huerta will fail eventually, in the
opinion of thirty-four refugees from
Mazatlan, who have reached San
Francisco.
Sailors and marines who were
killed at the occupation of Vera Cruz
will be honored with funeral services
of national character on the arrival
of their bodies aboard the Unites
States cruiser Montana at New York.
Unless President Wilson takes inn
mediate steps to investigate the strike
situation in the Trinidad. Colo, strike
district the district convention of the
United Mine Workers in session at
Pittsburg, Kan, will ask that gen
eral strike of mine workers through
out the country be called,
The board of bishops OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, holding it's
semiannual conference at Philadel
phia, approved the plan of the church
throughout the world tc raise s5,00O,-
ae support Of superannuated
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