The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-09-03
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
iNrERmouNTAIN.

bruised and shaken up when Colo
RADIO Midland excursion train crashed
headon into freight train at Idle
Wild. ifty miles west of Colorado
Springs, Colo.
A national boulevard, 100 feet wide
for the entire width OF the United
States, paved. electric lighted and UNI
der government control, TO cost $780,
100000. II being advocated by DR.. d.
IL Collins OF Kansas City, who has
arrived ia Denver. seeking support
for the project in Colorado.
Private l.. Dougherty OF Parma,
Idaho. who was previously reported
wounded and missing, is now men
toned as safe in casualty list OF the
Canadian contingent issued at ottawa
by the militia department.
At the point Of gun an automo-
bile containing two suspects in the
hoidup OF thirty men and women al
Butte was stopped by detectives and
Hiram Johnson, a bartender. claiming
six years residence in Salt Lake. was
held on charge OF highway robbery,
Mail pouch thieves, who rifed a
pouch supposed to contain currency
for railroad laborers, says a Butte dis
patch, opened letters and took 1920
and overlooked a $4,000 certified and
Endorsed check.
Max Hebgen, 46 years OF age, OF
Butte, Mont, vice-president and gen.
eral manager of the Montana Power
company. died In a hospital at MIL
waukee OF pneumonia.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. J. j. Pershing, wife Of Gener-
al Pershing. commanding troops on
the Mexican border, was burned to |
death. with three OF her four children
at her home at the Preside of San
Francisco.
The strike-riven industrial situation
at Bridgeport, Conn. was probably
cleared by the definite announcement
that nine plants. employing nearly
1000 persons. had expressed will
ingness to grant the eight-hour day
demanded by the employees and that
virtually all OF them had agreed to
recognize the union in the shop com
mittees.
Fred Fulton OF Rochester, MINI,
was awarded newspaper decision
over Arthur Pelky In ten-round bout
at Eau Claire, Wis Pelky was food
ed four time In the fourth round.
twice for the count OF nine. The
men are heavyweights.
Three hundred and ffty armed Ca.
madam guards are patrolling the inter-
national boundary along northern
Minnesota and North Dakota. as the
results of threats that attempts will
be made TO destroy the Canadian grain
crop by fire.
Proceedings on behalf OF General
Carranza were instituted in the Unit
ed States district court at Pensacola,
Fla, to secure possession OF the Mex.
lean schooner Isidoro, now in port
with war supplies.
Frank Creeks. convict was hang.
ed at Folsom. Cal. for the murder OF
Captain ]. p Drowry and Guard r.
Maher in prison break last Octo-
Der. He had been in state OF col
lapse for two days. Creeks came to
the penitentiary under sentence of
death.
The American Association OF Title
Men concluded its convention at San
Francisco with the election OF officers
and the selection OF Cincinnati as the
place OF the 1916 convention.
Reports received from Cadillac.
Petosky and Traverse City Indicate
that the bean, corn. potato and buck.
wheat crops In northern Michigan are
ruined as the result OF
heavy frost Friday night. Garden truck
also suffered extensively. IL was said
Seven American citizens were
among the 1914 passengers who sail.
ed Tor Liverpool from New York ON
board the Anchor liner Tuscania. q
Floodswept sections OF Arkansas
appealed for aid to care etr thousands 9
Of persons made homeless and des.
titute by the rising waters. Hundreds q
of families are camping on high :
ground, with only the barest necessi- I
ties of life, and many reported in &C ,
lual need of food.
The Eastman Kodak company OF Ro '
chester' n. H. is monopoly ia re- .
straint of trade, in violation OF the t
sherman antitrust law. according to Q
! decision handed down at Buffalo by 0
Judge John r. Hazel of the United v
states district court I
Five Mexicans were killed and two
american cavalry horses were slain I,
a battle between Mexicans and d
american soldiers near Santa Maria c
nd Progreso. Texas A
Lying unconscious in a swamp near
aidwell, N. j., several hours, Lewis s.
!. Reiss OF New York, camper at b
Inc Brook. was bitten nearly to A
cath by mosquitoes. n
Ankle watches are now the rage.
hey made their appearance Wednes- 81
~ at the clam outing Of the Amer r
an National Association OF Retail c
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