The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-25
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE,
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Llnes.
INTERMouNTAiN.

Grove, a member of the Utah battery.
He was kicked in the head by horse.
A freight train was derailed near
Lund, Wash, and one man killed.
Resolutions condemning the state
industrial commission, and demanding
the repeal of the law by which it was
created were passed without dissent
ing vote by the Colorado federation
of labor in session at Colorado
Springs.
Ned Frost, a guide, and Ed Jones,
cook, were brought to Cody, Wyo.,
suffering from serious injuries re-
ceived in a battle with large fe-
male grizzly bear near the Lake ho-
tel in Yellowstone National park.
o. B. Trumbo, constable, while at
tempting to serve summons on an
unwilling witness at Grand Junction,
Colo, fell sixty feet, breaking both
legs and suffering internal injuries.
Trumbo had climbed to a roof of the
Union station to serve papers on a
| painter.
The graingrowers' division of the
OOSACIg VI EAulIyB dA SdhAAdtlOh VI
| farmers in several northwestern
states, has sent out an appeal to its
members to hold their wheat this
season until $1.60 bushel is offered.
Charles E. Hughes, before a large
audience in the ice rink at Portland,
assaulted the Democratic party for its
| policy toward the Philippines.
DOMESTIC.
Preliminary investigation in Chica-
go of the recent rise in wheat and
flour prices, and threatened rise in
price of bread, by Chairman Hurley
of the federal trade commission, is
understood to have disclosed no evil
dence of illegal manipulations.
United States soldiers and nation
al guardsmen stationed at Fort
Brown, Texas, were driven from their
quarters and have taken refuge in
the city hall and other public build
ings at Brownsville, on account OF
the gulf coast storm.
The governments Alaskan railroad
now is carrying coal from the Matan
uska fields to the harbor at Anchor
age.
One soldier was killed and thous
ands of others encamped in and neaI
Ell Paso suffered great discomfort as
a result of heavy rains, preceded by
an electrical storm.
Roy Petit, 80, was shot and killed
by his wife on downtown street al
Mount Clemens, Mich. Dozens of per
sons saw the tragedy. Petit was
night clerk at a hotel. Mrs. Petit
declared she killed her husband be
cause he sought the company Of
others too much"
By unanimous vote the convention
at Baltimore of the international
Typographical union selected Colorado
Springs, Colo, as the place of the 1911
convention.
Abraham /. Elkus, recently appoint
ed American ambassador to Turkey
sailed August IL aboard the Danish
steamship Oscar H. He will go Il
his post by way of Berlin, Vienna
and Sofia.
Judge Edward T. Wade, who, as
former judge of the speeders' cour
of Chicago, has fined thousands O.
violators of automobile speed laws
was himself found guilty Thursday OF
charges of speeding He was fineC
$40.
The New York Central railway ha
announced the perfection of a pro
cess for the elimination of the bidder
flaws in steel rails. one of the chic
causes of~train wrecks.
Helaire Carriere, who shot ant
killed the sheriff of St. Landry parish
on the night of July 16 and was the
object of sensational man-hun
through swamps and canebrakes TO
seven days, has been captured by ;
posse at the home of a relative neal
Elton, La.
Mine operators at Virginia, MINI.
where a strike is in progress, com
planned to the authorities against re
peated threats from representatives
of the Industrial Workers of the
World to destroy the operators anC
their property.
Mrs. Q. A. Gilmore. As years of age
wife of a Marysville, Mo-, livery pro
prietor, fired four shots at Mrs. Ella
Ships, also of that city. All the
bullets took effect. Mrs. Ships dice
few minutes later. Jealousy was
the cause.
Corporal James Clement, company
c, Second Virginia regiment, was shot
and instantly killed, and Sofia Valdez
a Mexican girl, was probably fatally
wounded by another corporal, neal
Brownsville, Texas, the man who was
killed meeting death in defense of the
girl.
A strike of paper box makers a
New York was called Monday by lead
ers of the Box Makers union, who
said that demands for higher wage.
and better sanitary conditions had