The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-10-20
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from Al
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
INTERMoUNTAIN.

III the heaviest iOg IN many years
on Puget sound and adjacent waters
two large trans-Pacific steamers and a
schooner went ashore and small
launch was wrecked In collision
near Seattle.
The last units Of the Colorado guard
20 leave for service on the Mexican
border entrained at the mobilization
camp near Golden. Colo, on Friday.
"All that is necessary to restore
peace in Mexico" declared Senator
A. d. Fall OF New Mexico I'm an adj
dress at Denver. lis to tell the Amer
in Mexico and then protect them"
OFFICERS and enlisted men OF the
First Utah cavalry who have been
on recruiting duty In the state since
July 20 we're mustered out of the fed.
eral service Friday morning at Fort
Douglas, Utah.
The annual report Of the Colorado
Fuel a. Iron company, made public at
Denver, shows gross earnings for the
year ended June 30 of $25,626 sos, an
increase OF nearly $9,050,0O0.
Two men we're killed at the yards
of the Oregon Short Line railroad at
Cache Junction, Utah, while a local
freight train was switching cars.
During a slight windstorm at Og-
den, Utah, a sign fell from the third
STORY OF a building and struck child,
snfiicting serious injuries.
Willard Tanner, serving term for
murder. and Hazel Erwin, his accom-
plice, made a sensational attempt to
escape from the Oregon penitentiary
at Salem, both being recaptured.
DOMESTIC.
Sidney @. Clay. former member of
'ehe state legislature and prominent
member of the noted Clay family of
Kentucky and the south, was shot
and killed at Pasis, Ky. Lee Beav-
ers has been arrested, charged with
the shooting.
An unidentified submarine off the
New England coast was reported by
the steamship Bowie on Friday, at a
rope was dotted with munition-laden
ships.
Fred Dato, brotherin-law OF Colonel
Estaban Cantu, military governor OF
Lower California, and three others
were indicted by federal grand jury
at Los Angeles on charges of con
epiracy to violate the neutrality laws
of the United States. in attempting to
ship machine guns into Mexico.
The engineer was killed, four men
riding in the baggage coach were In
1ured, none OF them fatally. and 100
passengers were badly shaken up
when the engine of passenger train
left the track near Minneapolis, the
accident being caused by broken
rail.
The Boston team Of the American
league won the worlds series from
Brooklyn of the National league, TAX
Ing four out of Ave games played
The attendance for the Ave games
amounted to 1925 and the receipts
1886, 59O.50 OF this sum the players
received $162. 927.45, each club S92,
052.02 and the national commission
sSS.559.05.
Ten machine guns consigned to the
William II. Hoegee company. sport
ing goods house at Los Angeles, were
seized by federal authorities and held
as evidence in an alleged conspiracy
TO violate neutrality in which -four
men are held.
Because friends say. he believed the
funny" sections OF Sunday newspa
pers were drawn for the purpose OF
making him a subject of ridicule
Charles Marila. employed in mine
at Chisholm. Mimi, committed sui
eide by blowing himself up with a
huge charge of dynamite.
An increase of approximately 81 per
cent in operating revenue for 1916
over that of 1915 is shown in the
annual report of the Great Northern
railroad issued October IL.
President Wilson. en- route to In.
dianapolis on Monday, announced the
appointment of members of the ad
yisory commission to be associated
with the council OF national defense
created by congress at the last SEES
sion.
-Four policemen were shot in a
battle at Bayonne, N j.. with strilI
ing employees OF the Tidewater OF
company, after they had been attack
ed by a mob. They returned the fire
and eight of the strikers were wound
ed.
Prices of farm products continue Il
rise Producers were being maid 81
per cent more on October l than I
year ago. the department OF agricul
ture announced in its monthly state
mert OF the level Of prices on princi
pal crops.
A woman was killed. two men prob
ably MORALLY wounded and hall
dozen other persons less seriousl.
nurt when the police fired yolle
into a crowd Of Standard Oil striker
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