The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-11-19
NEWS OF 4 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 Llnea.
lNTERMouNrAiN.


knocked down. bound, gagged and
chloroformed his wife, Mrs. Maude
Hatcher, 3s years of age. and then
proceeded to deliberately ransack the
house.
Three persons were instantly killed
and two others probably fatally in
jured at Twin Falls, Idaho, when a
freight train crashed into an automo-
bile driven by Henry p. Larson at a
crossing at the south edge OF the
city.
Eight indictments were returned by
: the federal grand jury at Cheyenne,
Wyo., against Edward r. Trafton,
charged with holding up fifteen stage
coaches in the Yellowstone National
Park July 29, 1914.
Informations charging counsel for
the United Mine Workers of America
with subornation OF perjury were
quashed in the district court at Trini-
dad, Colo.
Beachcombers. pillaging the
wrecked steamship Santa Clara, near
Marshfleld, Ore. set the hulk afire.
PAC bt0NSo w AiOAh btCli w clCiA anu
fell to pieces with the explosion Of
her oil tanks.
After suffering agonies from burns
accidentally received over seven weeks
ago, while building fire in the kitch-
EN- stove, Mrs. Domantile Adamson
Oakley died at American Fork, Utah.
Aside from a score or more of min
ers who have left town or secured EN-
ployment elsewhere in the district, 1t
is estimated that all of the striking
employees of the Silver King Coalition
properties at Park City, Utah, who
walked out are back at work.
DOMESTIC.
The boundary line between Mexico
and the United States has been chalk
ed and marked at fifty-yard intervals
by American flags at Naco, Ariz. This
action was taken after Villa soldier.
escaping from Naco, Sonora, had been
pursued by villa cavalry across the
boundary.
Socialists of Texas in session at
Waco. Texas. adopted platform
which contains the recommendation
that the manufacture or sale of liquor
in Texas be made felony.
A hydroplane is to be shipped from
New York to Bogota, Colombia. where
she will be used to carry the mails
and government officials down the
Magdalena river, between the capital
and the coast, 900 miles.
Four Chicagoans were killed when q
passenger train struck their automo
bile at grade crossing near Elgin
Ills.
On allegations that they defrauded
the government by shipping whisky
concealed in coffins, four Chattanooga
Tenn, men we're indicted by the fed
eral grand jury.
1t is officially announced that Win
ston Spencer Churchill, chancellor OF
the duchy of Lancaster, has resigned
from the cabinet and will join the
army in France.
American railroads are confronted
with one of the most serious car
shortages of recent years. owing to
the huge grain crop of this country
and Canada and the heavy tonnage
from steel and munitions plants, cou
pied with the Inability Of the railroads
TO get new cars fast enough.
Refusal to indorse President viii
sons proposal for a continental army
OF 100000 men marked the closing
session at San Francisco of the sew
enteenth annual convention of the
National Guard association of the
United States.
That the United States is the only
civilized nation which has not already
in operation system of rural credits
and that this nation must capitalize,
its settlers before it's own sons car
return to the farms. was the declara
ton of Professor Elwood Mead of tn,
University of California, speaking
Thursday before the National Grange
Patrons of Husbandry, in session a
Oakland
Twelve persons were killed and NOR
than one hundred injured. many o
them seriously. in tornado whicl
swept through the residence section
of Great Bend, Kansas. The propert,
loss is estimated at half million do
Oars
The superdreadnought Nevada con
pleted another OF her official trial
Tuesday by running twenty-four hour
at a ten-knot speed and consuming 81
pounds less oil per knot than her col
tract required.
The Merchants and Farmers N;
fional bank Of Cisco, Texas, has close
dts doors upon the disappearance {
the cashier, whose loans with the inst
tuition were excessive.
AS part of plan to equip polio
men for warfare, all members OF II
New York police force have been n
tilted that they will be offered 1
structions In the handling of rides.
In an address at Chicago at ba
quet OF the National Security leagu
william II. Taft, former president
the United States, declared himself
favor OF military preparedness