The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-04-21
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
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 Few Lines.
lNTERmouNrAIn.

AFTER three hours and fOrtysthree
minutes OF gruelling wrestling, Pet
Brown, champion and Mike YolSel, for
mer champion, were prevented from
continuing their bout at Salt Lake,
both men being exhausted and the DO.
lice interfering.
Employers OF two bakeries at Salt
Lake have gone on strike. following
refusal OF the proprietors to sign a
contract with the Bakers union.
After approximately four days OF
buying, an Italian army board has pur-
chased 400 horses at the Ogden stock
yards
Plans for the immediate raising OF
$4,000 or more, as 20 per cent of a
subscription of not to exceed 100000
FOR the establishment OF an independ-
ent telephone system In the county
or Salt Lake, were approved at q
mass meeting held at Murray.
A call for conference TO be held in
Salt Lake April 20 and q to consider
the problem presented by the alfalfa
weevil has been issued by Governor
Spry. II Is expected that eleven states
VIII participate In the conference.
A. u, Peterson and Glen Killian were
seriously injured in an ammonium gas
explosion at Pocatelo, Idaho The |
men were installing new ice manu-.
featuring plant when the accident oc-
Cured
DOMESTIC.
inspectors at the South Omaha
and Chicago stockyards have in the
past year saved the Wyoming Stock.
mems association members over ST.
100000 through the recovery of more
than 5000 estrays.
Negotiations for new credit opera.
tion for France are well under way in
this country, according to statement
made by Octave Homberg. financial
representative OF the French govern
ment In the United States
Governor Stuart OF Virginia, who
raises cattle when not engaged with
executive duties, told house sub
committee that stock raisers had lost
money in the last year, largely be.
cause OF lack OF competition among
beef packers.
Federal steamboat inspectors have
reported that the result of investig-
alton OF the explosion on board the
Ohio river boat Sam Brown at Hunt
ington. w. Va. several weeks ago, in
which eleven men lost their lives, K
showed that the steamers safety 4
valve was weighted down, causing ex.
cessive steam pressure to burst Ave
boilers. (
Many Mexicans along the American
line OF march in Mexico have been
disarmed by the United States forces.
according TO arrivals at Columbus,
N M. {
Defense OF war ships from subma- !
rtne attacks by smoke curtains. I
made by fast protecting torpedo boat s
destroyers, win be one of the features
OF a weeks maneuyers which began B
OF San Pedro. April 13 I
Richard Harding Davis, author and ?
war correspondent, died at his home .
in Mount Kisco, n. Y. from heart Q
roubie. His body was found early
mis- morning and he had apparently e
oeen stricken while at his telephone. i
Financial prosperity and strength {
Is greater in the United States today !
than ever before and is rising rapidly c
to new levels, according to the inter. {
probation placed by the comptroller of {
the currency on figures made public
April IL, showing conditions of banks v
on March 7, 1916. d
Three persons were killed, a work a
man and two children, when the plant Z
of the Du Pont Powder company at q
Nemours, w. Va, was blown to pieces c
by four explosions.
Six wounded Mexicans. members of n
the Villista band that raided Column. I
bus. are now in the field hospital at a
Columbus, N. NJ, under guard They n
were captured at FL Vale, when the 5
American column reached there. 5
More enlisted men are in active ser.
vice in the navy now than ever be I
fore In the country's history Secre- I
tary Daniels announced April IL that g
the personnel. for the first time, had i
reached the $4,000 mark. a
DR.. Arthur Warren Waite, who has i
confessed TO poisoning his father-in- $
law, John f. Peck. millionaire drug
manufacturer of Grand Rapids, Mich. I
through his counsel entered plea of 7
not guilty when arraigned at New 4
York City on the indictment charging q
him with murder in the first degree. I
William Barnes, formerly chairman
of the Republican state committee, in $
a statement issued at New York, at !
tackled former President Roosevelt '
and denied published report that he i
would not oppose the nomination by n
the Republican party of Mr.. Roosevelt S
for the presidency. F
Bob Burman Of Detroit, noted auto
mobile racer; his meehanician, Eric
Schroeder Of Chicago, and a track 4
guard are dead. as result of the v
oYerturning of Burmans car in the | r