The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-07-16
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
ACCORD 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 a Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAIN.

| merce commission into freight rates
from many localities to points in Ne
vada over Nevada railroads, was dis
cusst at Washington, with the an
nop-1cement that present rates are not
unreasonable.
Five stage coaches Of the Yellow
stone Western Stage company, occu-
pied by a party of New York and
Brooklyn school teachers, numbering
thirty or thirty-five, were held up in
Yellowstone park by three bandits,
who relieved the passengers Of their
money and jewelry
| Argument on the motion for new
trial for John R. Lawson, international
board member of the United Mine
Workers of America, convicted on
| May 3 Of the murder of John Nimmo,
a deputy sheriff, near Ludlow, on Oc-
tober rs, 1918, has begun at Trinidad,
| Colo.
Opium to the value of $4,000 was
confiscated in a raid made by federal
officers upon an alleged opium den at
Park City, Utah.
Thomas Morgan, pioneer resident
| of Poplar, Idaho, died July s at the
age of lot years. Mr.. Morgan was
/ born In Herefordshire, England, in
1907, and fought in the battle of Wat.
erloo. He came to America in 1856
and located in Utah in 1857.
! Mrs. Bessie Fowle, aged So, and her
daughter, Harriet Fowle, aged IL
| pleaded guilty in the circuit court at
| Portland to charges of manslaughter
in having killed the girls infant child
May IL last.
DR.. Livingston Farrand, president
of the University of Colorado at Boul
der, Colo, has given out statement
in which he denied that Professor
James H. Brewster of the law depart
ment had been dismissed because OF
his activities in connection with the
recent Colorado coal strike.
DOMESTIC.
The federal circuit court of appeals
at st. Louis perpetually enjoined the
Union Pacific Railway company, from
i selling to the st. Joseph & Grand
island railroad thirty-six miles OF
track between Hastings and Gibbon,
Neb.
Petitions were filed at Springfield
ILL.,, seeking to restrain expenditures
under appropriation bills passed by
the last legislature. The amounts ag.
gregate $2,000,O00, and include the de-
ficiency bill, legislators mileage bill
and several bills increasing the sal
aries of state officers and legislators
A passenger train was held up and
robbed by four masked men south OF
Greenville, Ala, sixty miles south OF
Montgomery. Conductor Phil. McRae
was killed by one of the bandits.
A bomb placed aboard the Atlantic
transport liner Minnehaha, probably
while she lay at her pier in New
York, caused the explosion and fire
at sea, in the opinion of the officers
of the steamer, which put in at Hall
fax for examination.
| Begging as little formality as pos
| sible, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ha;
just written President G. A. Dawson
of the San Diego exposition that he
will be a visitor to the exposition dur
ing the latter part of this month.
Uncut diamonds and other preciou:
stones valued at 100000 were stoler
from the jewelry store of E. ]. Hertz
located In the central shopping dis
trict of Philadelphia The theft tool
place during the rush hours and is be
lieyed to have been committed by {
7-year-old boy, VINO acted as tool fol
professional gem thieves.
The first bale of cotton of the 1911
season was ginned at Lyford, Texas
on July 8, and shipped to the Houston
cotton exchange. This is the thir6
successive year Lyford has shipped
the first bale of the seasons cotton ii
the United States.
Thirty-three persons are dead an,
fifteen or more missing and are be
| lieved to be buried in the ruins o
buildings wrecked during a heav,
rain and windstorm which passed
over Cincinnati and it's suburbs.
Positive Identification of Franz
Holt, the assailant of j. p. Morgan. a
Professor Erich Muenter, the missin,
Harvard professor, who was allege,
to have murdered his wife, is mad
by Professor Chester N. Gould of tn,
University of Chicago.
Seven persons lost their lives in
tornado that swept st. Charles coun
ty, Missouri. Property estimated a
more than $4,000 was destroyed.
Two hundred houses were destroy
ed, two lives lost, and property dam
aged to the extent of half a million
dollars when cyclone struck tn
little town of Lawrenceville, III.
d. K. Stewart, chief of police d
Wichita, Kans., was arrested on
warrant issued by County Attorne
Mccormick. charging illegal sale Q
whisky
Frank Holt, the Cornell uniyersit
professor, who shot j. P. Morgan i
his home near Glen Cove last Satul
day, committed suicide in the jail a
Mineola, N. Y.