The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-10-13
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
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 Lines.
INTERMouNTAlN.

whites near Mill, Mont, seven ne
groes are said to have shot three white
men, killing two. Five negroes and
two whites have been arrested at
Cushman, on suspicion of being impli-
Gated
Two bands of youthful automobile
bandits, one OF them having a boy in
knee trousers as a member, held up
and robbed six saloons within an hour
in Chicago. Sums ranging from $40
to $25 were taken in each robbery.
The annual report of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad company for the year
ended June 80 last, just made public,
showed earnings of 1856 per cent for
the common stock, compared with
109S per cent the previous year.
Thirty persons were injured, three
of them seriously. when the Tacoma
Seattle limited on the Puget Sound
Electric company line ran into an open
switch and went into the ditch near
Tacoma.
The postoffice department has re-
Gently issued an order reducing the
number of crews in the railway mail
service between Butte, Mont, and Salt
Lake, Utah.
Experiment at the University of
Washington. at Seattle, by Lloyd D.
Davis of the department OF industrial
chemistry and DR.. J. G, Davidson OF
the University OF British Columbia
have resulted in the discovery of
process of distilling sawmill waste by
means of which tar light oil, acetate
of lime and charcoal are obtained.
The twenty-eighth annual state fair
opened at Salt Lake City on October
2. Record crowds were in attendance
in spite of downpour of rain.
DOMESTIC.
According to the newspaper Aero
plane. OryilIe Wright, the Dayton, o..
aeroplane inventor, has presented his
patents to the British government.
Miss Loula Long, nationally known
as horsewoman, the daughter of R.
A. Long, a millionaire lumberman
was seriously injured when she was
thrown from her horse during pota-
to race, an event of the American
Royal Live Stock show at Kansas
City.
James Couzens, Detroit's multimil-
lionaire police commissioner, has an
nounced the establishment of bonus
system for members of the Detroit po-
lice force. The bonus provided per-
sonally by Mr.. Couzens will amount
to about $4,000 annually
Five men and a woman were in
dicted at New York in the federal
grand jury investigation into the oper-
atoms of the white slave blackmail-
ing syndicate
Three powerful searchlights, which
have been installed at the football
field of the University of Minnesota,
at Minneapolis, will enable the team
to practice after dark for the balance
of the season.
An attempt to secure $4,000 by kid
naping R. NJ Perry. manager of the
Moffat coal mine at Oakereek, Colo
RADIO. was frustrated, when Perry. at
an opportune moment, seized revol-
yer from one of his captors and shot
him dead.
The New York Evening Post pub
fishes story saying that it has been
learned from a trustworthy source
that Ambassador James w. Gerard,
now on his way back from Germany,
will lay before President Wilson a re-
quest that the president use MS good
offices in suing for peace with the
allies.
Richard D. Kathrens, writer and lee
turer on sociological questions, who
recently propounded the theory that a
wife should have a divorce on de-
mand," has been sued for divorce in
the circuit court at Kansas City The
petition sets forth that Mr.. Kathrens
was Indifferent.
After coming to Ell Paso. Texas,
heavily veiled and with only few
knowing of her visit, Mrs. Victorianc
Huerta, widow of General Huerta.
once provisional president of Mexico,
placed wreath at the entrance TO
her husbands tomb in Concordia
cemetery.
Conspiracy to assassinate Theodore
p. Shonts and Frank Hedley, presi-
dent and general manager, respective
ly. of the Interborough Rapid Transit
and the New York Railways COM
panies. was unearthed at New York,
according to the police.
Nine men are known to have per-
ished as the result of a fire that de-
stroyed the central portion of the
main building of Christian Brothers
college at st. Louis. Two OF the
known dead were aged members Of
the Christian Brothers order,
Major William Warner, former Unit
ed States senator from Missouri. died
at his home in Kansas City.
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