The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-11-10
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRIEFEsr
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAlN.

1~NSJ OhC d WullS man and
the other negro, attempted to hold
up the cashier of the Union Park
bank at Spokane Frank Magart q
groceryman, who entered the bank
was shot by the robbers, who then
fed
Seattle, Wash, was named at the
concluding session of the fifteenth fri
enniel assembly of the general grand
chapter of the Order of the Eastern
star at Louisville, KY, as the place
Tor holding the next convention OF
that body in 1919
Rollo c. Evans, 21, was shot and in.
stantly killed on Swauk prairie. fiji
teen miles northeast of Ellensburg,
Wash, by Walter Hansen, son of
John Hansen of Seattle. The two men
mad previously engaged in a fist fight
In which Evans was the victor.
thousands of citizens gathered in
Salt Lake on Monday and accorded a
genuine welcome home to the officers
and men of the First squadron, Utah
cavalry upon its return from four
months duty on the Mexican border.
Fatally wounding one of his assail-
ants and wounding the other, Charles
A. Wood, street car conductor at
Ogden, Utah, won a gun fight single
handed Monday night when two ban
dts attempted street car holdup.
Woods was slightly wounded.
DOMESTIC.
Plots to dynamite two stations on
the marlborough Rapid Transit com
panys subway system in New York
were thwarted, according to the DO
lice, by the arrest Friday of six men.
Homer Heard and W. w. Dunn were
found guilty at Little Rock, Ark, OF
robbing an express car on Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific train. Heard
son of well-known Little Rock attnr-
ney, and Dunn, formerly a railroad
and convicted twice.
Another alleged member of the gang
OF blackmailers, whose operations
against wealthy men and women in
many cities attracted considerable at
tention in recent months, was arrest
ed in New York on Friday. George
Bush, an actor, was taken into Gus
tody.
Announcement is made that the do
mestics, women cooks, mattresses,
scrub girls, chambermaids, and, in
fact, all female servants of Duluth are
being organized into a union under the
standard of the Industrial Workers OF
the World
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Housewives league has decided
to urge its membership throughout the
country, said to number 100000, to
stop buying cold storage eggs until
the price had been reduced from 60
to 70 cents to 35 cents a dozen.
The women of San Antonio are to
be asked to bake sufficient cakes, pies
and cookies for the Thanksgiving din
ner of the $4,000 troops stationed at
Camp Wilson.
Mrs. Sarah Lierly, 81 years of age,
near Quincy, Ills, will cast her first
vote next week, and she has total
of fifty-seven direct descendants who
will also vote.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
company has placed an order for 1000
box cars, supplementing a contract for
1000 box cars placed short time ago.
Orders issued by the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad at Charleston, w. Va,
announced the creation of two special
trains on which persons carrying le-
gally labelled liquor will be permitted
to travel.
Three persons were killed and a
fourth injured. probably fatally, when
an automobile driven by E. c. Nelson
of St Paul, plunged down an embank-
ment on the West River drive at Min
neapolis.
Fire swept the business section OF
Donnelly, Mimi. causing damage estl-
mated at 100000 before being sub
dued by firemen from Morris and
Herman. who were rushed there in
automobiles.
The European war is held respon-
sible for the increase in the cost OF the
burial supplies and consequent ad-
vance announced by New York under
takers for funeral services.
Four automobile bandltS, operating
so quietly that the village Waterman
was not disturbed in his sleep, enter
ed the private bank of WI H. odell &
Co. at Braidwood, Ills, after cutting
all telegraph and telephone wires
blew open the safe and fled with
$4,000.
Arms and ammunition are being
shipped in large quantities into south
ern Mexico from the United States,
through Guatemala, ACCORDING TO au-
thoritative information reaching Eagle
Pass, Texas.
When the German undersea trelgh-
ter Deutschland approached New Lon
don harbor about midnight TUESDAY
the United states government dredger
Atlantic narrowly escaped running her
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