The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-08-14
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 a Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAln.

INTERMouNTAiN.
Pete Catsoulas, striking coal min
err and leader of the Greeks at the
Trinidad, Colo. He is charged with
the death of nine employees of the
Rocky Mountain Fuel company killed
during the battle at Forbes in April.
Local labor disturbances cannot be
taken as an indication that there is
general dissatisfaction among organic
ed workingmen of the state. accord
ing to the testimony of Governor
Stewart before the federal industrial
relations commission at Butte.
Portland, Ore, was chosen as
the city for the 1916 convention of the
supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias,
at the business session of the Pythian
convention at Winnipeg, Man.
On the order of GOVERNOR Stewart
and Attorney General Kelly, the State
Savings bank of Butte was closed
August by State Bank Examiner H.
S. McGraw. 1t was reported the sus-
pension was only temporary and had
been caused by the failure of the in
stitution to obtain money from its
eastern correspondents.
Placing all of it's employees at the
Bingham mines, the Arthur and Magma
mills and the Bingham & Garfield rail
road on half time, the Utah Copper
company has issued orders to reduce
its output so per cent and ordered a
corresponding reduction in its pay
rolls.
Hamilton George, the 11-year-old son
of ]. M. George, a farmer living about
two miles from Provo, Utah, was
struck by bolt of lightning and In
stantly killed.
Two powerful submarine vessels
just completed at Seattle for the
Chilean navy have been sold to the
Canadian government. They proceed
ed to Victoria, B. c., under their own
steam. They are each $50 feet long
md of APO tons.
DOMESTIC.
| Preston Griffin and Charles Hail.
negroes, charged with killing a gro
ceryman were taken from the Mon
roe, La, city hall tower and hanged
| by a mob. Less than twentyIfour
hours before Henry Holmes was lynch
ed in connection with the same crime.
| Heavy advances in the prices Of
nearly all staple groceries are an
nounced by Los Angeles wholesale
hn
created strong demand and prevent
ed importation.
Mrs. E. H. yelling of Trenton, N.
! j., head of the finance and executive
| committee of the New Jersey Con
| gress of Mothers, has sent out call
to the national and state congresses
of mothers, asking them to take steps
for the holding of mass meetings to
urge peace in Europe and to indorse
| President Wilson's offer of mediation
DR.. Olaf LANCE, dentist of Chi
! cago, while insane, killed his wife and
| 3-year-old son and committed suicide.
| He stabbed Mrs. LANCE and the child
and then beat in their heads with a
| hammer.
Funeral of thirty unidentified vic
Tins of the wreck at Upton Ford, Mo-,
where forty persons are known to
have lost their lives, were held at
| Neosho The bodies were so badly
charred it was impossible to identi
! fly them and they were buried in
unmarked graves.
| Charley Whites cleverness and ex-
perience proved too much for Joe Aze-
yedo in their twenty-round boxing con-
test at Coffroth's arena at San Fran
Cisco, the decision being awarded to
White in the eighteenth round.
The Knights of Columbus annual
convention closed at st. Paul after
Seattle, Wash, had been selected as
the 1915 convention city.
The British steamer Craster Hall,
which sailed from New York, June 20,
for Valparaiso, is aground in the
Straits of Magellan.
The armored cruiser Tennessee, con-
verted for the time into treasure
ship, left New York, August 6, to carry
1
Americans who are in want in Europ-
| can countries.
The Japanese premier, Count
Okuma, in an interview expressed his
regret thai the United States had not
been able to mediate in the European
conflict, which, if 1t continues, he
said, means the destruction of west
ern civilization.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
tunnel through the Cascade mountains,
which is 10000 feet long and which
will reduce the altitude of the cross
ing 443 feet, was broken through by
blast on August 5, and men from
east and west clasped hands through
| the gap.
Condemnation of the European
| powers engaged in war and a de
mand that tha ITnifad Gfofas &C