The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-09-29
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
INTERMoUNTAIN.


session at Fort WORTH Texas.
Colorado & Southern Railway di-
rectors have declared a dividend of
per cent on the first preferred stock
OF surplus earnings for the year end
ing July 80 last.
Hans Browning, a farmer near ,Og-
den, Utah, was killed by lightning, and
a companion rendered unconscious,
but will recover
The Wyoming national guard, com
prlsing two infantry divisions, has
been ordered to the border
Three men were wounded in rife
and pistol fight between citizens of
Judith Gap, forty-five miles southwest
OF Lewiston, Mont, and a band of
thirty men who had been elected from
a Great Northern train.
Dave Brichoux, the taxicab driver
OF Ontario who claimed to have shot
X. z. Goodwin, prominent and
wealthy sheepman of Boise, by acct
dent, has been indicted by the grand
jury for murder in the first degree
and will be tried in Malheur county,
Oregon.
Suspected of having drugged man
who has not regained consciousness,
Frank Davis, % years of age, and G.
Read, 81, are under arrest at Ogden,
| Utah
Nearly one hundred stores and
places of business at Pocatello, Idaho,
were closed Wednesday noon while an
impressive dedication service, lasting
about an hour, took place at the big
tabernacle, where the revival meetings
are being held.
William Jennings Bryan, speaking
at Ogden, Utah, for the first time in
four years, exhorted his hearers to do
all in their power to bring about the
reelection Of Woodrow Wilson.
DOMESTIC.
Charles Bunworth, an alleged auto
mobile bandit, was found guilty by a
jury of the murder of John Slomski,
private banker, who was shot to
death in an attempted hold up in Chi
cago eighteen months ago.
Among officers elected at the clos
ing session at indianapolis of the Ma
tional Association of Retail Druggists
were Robert j, Prick, Louisville, KY,
president, and w. B. Cheatham, San
Francisco, vice-president.
More than 100000 workers in New
York City have been called out in
the general sympathetic strike set for
September 27.
The representatives of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, who have
been negotiating with the railroad Of
ficials Of western Canada, but who
have been unable to agree with them
ON a schedule. are returning to their
homes. A vote then will be taken
by the order on the ACCESSIBILITY of a
strike.
Labor leaders have been given for
NAL warning by Mayor Mitchell that
he would employ the full civil and
military powers" conferred upon him
by law to prevent disorders if the
threatened general strike of trade
unionists is called in New York City
Railroad financial results for the ifs
cal year ended June 30, 1916, made
public through the Railway Age Ga
zette, show that net revenues for the
year crossed the billion mark for the
first time.
Bert Dudley, charged with the muir
der Of Henry Muller, an aged German
and his wife, was taken from the jail
at Olathe, Kans., by masked moi
and hanged to a telephone pole.
Thirty thousand national guards
men and regulars marched in review
t FL Paso on Thursday before Major
General Charles NJ Clements, Penn
syIyania, and Brigadier General
George Bell, Jr.
The price of bread has been raised
from ) to cents a loaf by one OF
the largest baking firms in Chicago
Other bakers are expected to follow
The grand lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, in session al
Chattanooga, Tenn, selected Louis
Vile as the meeting place in 1917 over
Omaha and Fort Worth. An amend
ment to admit minors to membership
was defeated
The United Hebrew trades. repre-
senting membership of 100000 organ
lied workmen, last week voted to &C
on a sympathetic strike as an ale
In the striking carmen of New forA
City.
Paratyphoid. an epidemic OF which
threatened Mission. Texas. and Other
noints at which New York natlona
rnardsmen were encamped. practical
" has been wiped out.
Longer and less faring skirts are IN
d,csted by the fall fashions, says the
semi.annual report of the Silk Asso
citation of America. :.
The cost of living this winter will
reach an unprecedented scale and VIII
afrect every person, no matter wna'
object may be purchased, according
.ah,o NJ comparative prices com