The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-07-28
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 Llnes.
INTERMouNTAlN.

Lake when he criticised a meal pre- |
pared by Mrs. Critics.
A new agreement, providing an in
crease in pay for approximately 5000
men. is expected to be presented to
the operators of Wyoming as a result
of the deliberations of the scale com
mitee of the United Mine Workers of
America for district %, in session at
Cheyenne.
No trace has been found of the per-
petrators of the bomb explosion which
wrecked the home of Charles O'Neill,
superintendent of the Starkville
aColo) mine of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company.
Governor William Spry of Utah has
announced his candidacy for a third
term as Utah's chief executive.
Within few days Secretary Lane
win select location for mine ex-
pertinent station in the northwest,
and delegations from several mining
centers are urging their respective
states for selection.
Following the suggestion of President
Charles H. Meyer in his annual report
TO the biennial convention at Great
Falls, Mont, of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners, the committee of the
convention on constitutional changes
unanimously recommended that the
name of the organization be changed
TO the International Union of Mine,
Mil and Smelter Workers.
DOMESTIC.
The special grand jury called at
Red Oak, Iowa, to investigate the al
legged connection of William Mansfield
with the Villisca ak murders finished
its work Friday and refused to
fndict Mansfield.
In a cavein on the sixteenth level
of the Curry mine of the Penn Iron
Mining company near Norway, Mich,
three men were killed.
Major NJ. G. Butler of the Sixth
United States cavalry and Mrs. H. j.
SPANIEL, with whom he was out rid
ing in an automobile, were shot and
killed at Alpine, Texas. by H. j.
SPANIEL, husband of the woman.
Although convinced that the diplo-
matte negotiations now in progress
viii terminate in a settlement of the
differences between Mexico and the
United States, and that orders soon
will be received for the gradual with
drawal of General Pershing's forces
staff officers at Ell Paso are continu
ing the work of shaping the big Dor
der army into an efficient body.
Joseph de Marcio, owner of res
taurant in a section of New York
known as the upper tenderloin, and
Charles Lombard, clerk, were muir
dered in an unoccupied fiat of tene
ment house on James street by g
band of gunner.
Four thousand San Francisco union
songshoremen, who struck June l fol
higher wages and closed shop, re
turned to work July 20, under the ole
wage scale and without a closed shoI
agreement pending future negotia
tions with their employers.
Gold coin of the central powers
amounting to more than $4,000, 900
may be taken back to Germany on the
Deutschland.
Additional bodies found in widely
separated districts of North CarolinS
has brought the number of death:
from the recent floods up to approx
mately seventy, with six persons
missing and believed to be dead.
The st. Louis & San Francisco
FRISCO system was sold to repre-
sentatives Of the roads bondholder:
at St. Louis on Wednesday for $45,
200, 200, 5000 more than the minimum
price fixed March 81 by United States
Judge Sanborn.
Suit for $2.5OO,OOO against John t
Milliken, St. Louis oil man, ant
eight Oklahoma oil corporations wal
brought in the circuit court at st
Louis by NJ S. sherwood and E. c
Mathews, brokers, of Kansas City
The suit is for commissions the brok
ers allege are due.
One guardsman was killed and an
other badly injured by lightning a
the state mobilization camp at Macon
Ga, during severe electrical storm
Frank Gotch, worlds champion
wrestler, is in the hospital, suffering
from a bad fracture of the left lei
Just above the ankle. The fibula wa
splintered while Gotch was taking par
in an exhibition bout at Kenosha
Wis, with Bob Managoff of Chicago.
A report has reached Columbus, N
N, that Villa is heading large part,
of bandits toward Minaca, eighty-fiv'
miles west of Chihuahua City, on thu
line of the Kansas City, Mexico
Orient railway. The rumor state
shat the bandit leader has discarde,
his crutches and is riding horse.
Fifteen persons dead, at least tel
missing, and property damage est
mated at around $15,000,000 is tn,
known toll of food waters in. fiv'
southern states-North Carolina
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