The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-06-25
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.
lNTERMouNTAIN.

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Portland, has issued a proclamation
naming June "a as Wilson day" He
urges citizens to decorate their homes
and places of business and wear flags
on that day, to indicate their support
of the president "inwhateyer course
he may deem it wise to take in the
international situation.
Charged with the embezzlement of
$55955 from the insurance department
of Idaho while he held the position
of insurance commissioner, E. F. Van
.Valkenburk has been placed on trial
in the district court at Boise.
An unknown man was killed in a
wreck of a freight train between High
bridge and Dubois, Idaho, when the
freight, hauling twelve cars of pota-
toes, sugar, ETC., went into ditch.
Telegraph messages were sent be-
tween Chicago and Denver on June Is
over wires disconnected from their
batteries. The electric current was
supplied it was said by officials of the
telegraph companies, by the appear
anee of the aurora borealis.
Tse-Na-Gat, Piute Indian, pleaded
not guilty in the federal district court
at Denver to the charge of numbering
Juan Chacon, Mexican sheepherder, a
year ago in southwestern Colorado.
Trial was set for July 6.
Action for title to funds and prop
erty estimated to be worth 100000
will be the neyt move of the Butte
Miners union, which voted few days
ago its withdrawal from the Western
Federation of Miners, Peter Breen,
counsel for the union, announced.
DOMESTIC.
Fred Shaver of jamestown, N. r..
shot and killed his father, his step
mother and policeman and was him
self killed by other officers. The
weapons used were rifles and Shaver's
act is attributed to drink and quar-
rel with his father.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has announced hearings to begin
in Chicago July 19 and run for at least
two weeks on one phase of the pro-
posed general increase in freight rates
throughout western territoy.
What is intended as a nationwide
movement for the amelioration OF con-
ditions OF the Jews all over the world,
particularly those in the belligerent
European nations, was inaugurated on
June Is with the formal organization
at New York of the international
Jewish emancipation committee.
A mild earth tremor was felt at Los
Angeles on June IS. 1t occurred about
1880 a. m, shook windows and cleo
troliers and in one or two reported in
stances made building beams and
joists crack.
The court of appeals has upheld
the order of Supreme Court Justice
Peter A. Hendrick directing jury
trial to test the sanity of Harry X.
Thaw.
Former Representative Whitfield
Tuck of Winchester, Mass has an
nounced that he would run for gov
ernor as the candidate of a Bryan
Peace-Democratic party"
The court of appeals has denied the
application of counsel for Charles
Becker, the former New York police
lieutenant, for a reargument on its
decisian affirming sentence of death
Mrs. Jessie Holiday Dana, the per
feet BRIDE of Edmund Trowbridge
Dana. grandson of the Poet Longfel
low. was a suicide and not the victim
of accidental drowning, according &c
Medical Examiner John S. Grouard OF
Nantucket.
Another issue of New York City
bonds, s71,000,000 in all, bearing inter
est at the rate of Az per cent is &c
he placed on sale on June 20. The
sale is to fund approximately $65,Ooo,
600 in outstanding short-term notes
sold last September.
c. NJ. Schwab announced at Soutf
Bethlehem, Pa, that he had ISSUED
orders for the erection of another
sheIlloading plant at cost of 100000
The demand for shrapnel shells iron
England is so pressing that Mr.
Schwab found it necessary to put III
the third plant of this kind.
The few Bulgarians residing in san
Francisco have received orders to re
turn to their native country prepare'
for service in the field, is learned.
The Masonic War Relief ASSOCIATION
of the United States, in report is
sued at Cincinnati, announces that 800
$50 has been collected from gran'
lodges, Communicates, chapters, ten
pies and Scottish Rite bodies for tn
relief of Masons in the European wal
Attorney General Barker has hle'
an information in the Missouri su
preme court against twenty-elgn
companies alleged to be interested
the purchase of zinc ore in the MIS-
souri, district, stating he had reason
for believing they were in an unlaN
full combination to control prices.
This years sugar beet crop in tn
United States promises to be larg
one. The department of agriculture
in its forecast, based on June l como
ton figures, places the yield at o,2sV
600 tens. assuming an average aDai