The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-08-28
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Llnes.
lNrERmouNTAlN.

ago. Burlington q Quincy railroad
has been stricken with abdominal
trouble in Glacier national park In
Montana.
Oregons minimum wage law for
women, which went into effect last
fall, was strongly indorHed by wit
nesses for all elements Affected by II
before the federal Industrial rela,
lions commission at Portland
Mrs. Victor II. Innes, who with her
husband. was arrested at their home
near Deer Horn, Ore, on a charge OF
murder IN connection with the disap-
pearance OF Mrs Elois Nelms Dennis
and Miss Beatrice Nelms OF Atlanta,
Ga. has been taken To the Eugene jail.
Advertisers who seek to divert Inn
migrants Into the northwest were held
responsible by several Witnesses be
fore the federal industrial relations
commission at Portland for the unrest
that exists there. II is utterly impos-
sIhle, II was disclosed. 70 keep all the
unskilled labor employed throughout
the year.
steve Kaski, an Austrian, shot and
killed his wife at Kemmerer. Wye
After shooting his wife he dropped the
weapon, which was discharged. the
bullet passing through his neck, In.
dieting a serious wound,
That two days after her marriage
she discovered she had welded biga-
mist and that her husband Is now with
his first wife in Pocatello. Idaho, was
the allegation made by Ruth Monroe,
bride OF a month. in police court at
Butte.
DOMESTIC.
Ralph De Palma. hard pressed by
On Anderson, won the Cobe cup auto
mobile race at Elgln, Ills, finishing
the sos miles in 5.05:i0 ITO, an aver
age of 1876 miles an hour.
Eugene scales. the cotton operator,
filed voluntary petition in bankruptcy
at New York City, giving liabilities OF
sz2S,sS5 and assets OF s200,250
Charles Foyli shot his wife in a
crowded dining room at Bartlesyille,
Okla, where she was employed and
then killed himself at Boston.
Washington was selected as the
1915 meeting place by the National
Postmasters' association at the clos
ing session Of three days conyen
tion at ST. Paul.
Alfred Filux OF New York City fell
1000 feet In HIS monoplane 70 the
Hampstead IN. W aviation held Fri
day while looping the loop and eacap
ed with his life, He was badl!
bruised and lacerated, but will live.
Five persons were killed. seven Sc
riously injured and forty others les
painfully hurt in wilkesharre, Pa
when severe electrical storm, az
preaching a cyclone In force. swep
the southern section known as tn
Heights and part Of Wilkesbarre towr
ship.
shipments Of copper metals to III
rope have been resumed, and Will
the amounts SO far are not large. th
lantic augurs well for an improve
ment In the American Industry ovr
60 per cent OF whose product is mar
keted ordinarily in belligcrent III
rope.
Byron Nail. 16 years old. studeI
Of the Lincoln tIll) high school an
member OF a prominent family
that city. committed suicide at Sprln
field, Ills He had been accused
forging check for SIG
Departing from a rigid precedent
many years standing the Nation
League OF Professional Baseball clul
has decided to designate day in /
regular championship schedule for Il
benefit of the war relief fund OF Il
American Red Cross society.
Four Americans and ten Mexican
were reported killed in series
clashes in and near Ray, Arizona.
Although Pope Plus X did not d
until 1920 O'Clock Thursday morniT
Rome time, premature announi
ment of his death was sent throul
out the country by news agen
Wednesday afternoon.
The first warship TO pass throu
the Panama canal was the Peruv
destroyer Teniente Rodriguez. VIII
made the trip August is, when
steamship Admiral Dewey also w
through.
Matt /. Sullivan of San Franci
has been appointed chief justice OF
state supreme court by Governor
ram Johnson, to fill the vacancy eau
by the death of Justice Beatty.
mo compromise" was the sic
with which Colonel Theodore Re
welt opened the political campaign
Massachusetts on Monday. He de
ed there should be no compromise
reactionaries in any form, while OF
other hand the party would welC
those of the rank and file Of othe
CARNATIONS wbo refused to follow
old leaders.