The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-10-27
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD I'M 5RlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Ara Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAlN.

the bank by Mrs. Edwin G. Sobel, aged
30. who then shot and killed herself.
A, Franklin Work. aged AZ years, a
horse buyer of Ogden. Utah. was
killed seven miles south OF Ogden
when the large touring car he was
driving left the highway. plunged
through a wire fence and turned over
edgewise in an alfalfa field.
Don G. Bassett OF Salt Lake was
instantly killed at the wheel of his
automobile when his car was struck
by two Union Pacific trains near the
Riverdale crossing, five miles south
west Of Ogden, Utah.
Plans are being worked out by the
Great Northern Railroad company for
the electrification of more than 800
miles of main line between Spokane
and Seattle and other mountain di-
visions In the west.
George Albert Smith of Salt Lake
City, Utah. was elected president OF
the international irrigation congress
at the closing business session OF the
twenty-third congress at HI Paso,
Texas
An attempt to blackmail David G..
Eccles OF Ogden, Utah. for $4,000 I'M
der penalty that two of his children
would be kidnapped failed when posse
OF officers engaged In pitched bat
lie with supposed kidnapers at the
Riyerdale bridge. five miles southwest
OF the city.
DOMESTIC.
The National American Suffrage as
ISOLATION announces that $40 candi-
dates for congress have declared for
a federal suffrage amendment in their
response to a query addressed to the
nominees OF all parties in the 435 con-
gressional districts.
Peter Boyagsky. pioneer OF the Jew.
ish journalists in Chicago. Is dead
after short illness due TO bronchitis.
He was 81 years old and known
throughout the country in Jewish cir
cles by his pen name OF 'Ikekellar
Mazik."
Hugo Muensterberg, professor OF
psychology at Harvard university, in
an address before the International
Policy club OF the university. assert
ed that he had been reliably informed
that Russia and Germany would sign
terms OF separate peace before
spring.
The presidential election will be
the occasion for thousands OF dollars
exchanging hands in Indiana, rec
ord amount OF money being wagered
on the result.
A platform calling for radical
changes in the administration OF In
dian affairs and expressing doubt as
TO the wisdom OF the present Philip.
pine policy was adopted almost unani,
mously after warm debate at the
closing session of the Lake Mohonk
conference on the Indian and other
dependent peoples.
The Elephant Butte dam, completed
recently az cost of $4,000, 900, and
intended to impound the largest artl-
ficlally retained body Of water in the
world. was dedicated October 10 at
Elephant Butte, N. M.
Iowa troops ON the Mexican border
win be allowed to vote under de-
cision handed down by the attorney
general
The Cooke works of the American
Locomotive company of Paterson, N.
j., have just received an order for 100
small type locomotives for the British
government.
The south was rocked by earthquake
and swept by storm at the same time
on Wednesday, while tropical hurri-
cane was fiaying the gulf coast. earth
tremors overturned chimneys and
frightened many people from their
homes in Georgia, Alabama and Ten
nessee. One life was lost.
Robbers held up passenger train
near Bliss. Okla. and an express clerk
named Norman was shot to death
The safe in the express car was blown
open and rified Of its contents.
Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, 80 years Of
age, guest at Detroit hotel, shot and
killed her 5-year-old son Harold and
then committed suicide She was
found in her room with the child ly
ing at her side.
William Thaw, a former Yale stu
dent, who has been with the aviation
corps of the French army since tn,
outbreak of the war, has been killed
in action, according to word received
at New Haven, Conn.
Almost $4,000 worth of antitoxin
mostly for tetanus. has been sold Il
the allies by the New York City healtl
department since the outbreak of tn
war, while only an inconsequentia
amount has been sent to the centra
powers.
A double murder was discovered a
Baltimore, when the mutilated bodie
of Andrew Frey, 60 years of age, an
his sister, Marie Frey, 30, were foun
near their home at Rosedale, Bait
more county Apparently they ha
been lying In an out-of-the-Way plac