The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-18
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.
INTERMouNTAiN.

ecutive conference at Colorado
Springs pledged itself to use its best
efforts in the twelve equal suffrage
states to defeat the Democratic can
didate for President.
Wilmer Palmer was hanged August
II at the state penitentiary at Raw
Inns, Wyo., for the murder of his wife.
He was pronounced dead eight min
utes later. His neck was unbroken.
On Wednesday, in fear Of the gallows
Palmer attempted suicide, cutting his
wrist with a metal button from his
prison uniform.
After a session marked by heated |
debate, the Progressive state assem-
bly, at Denver adopted resolutions de-
claring against the placing of ticket
in the field at this time.
Charles E. Hughes, addressing a
| Chautauqua audience in a big tent on
| the village square at Billings, Mont, |
prefaced his advocacy of a protective
| tariff with the declaration that if he
should be elected president, nothing
would be pulled off" for private bene-
fit at the public expense If he could
| prevent it.
| Posses of officers of Huerfano coun-
| ty and Las Animas county, Colorado,
with 'bloodhounds, are securing the
country, seeking to effect the capture
of three men who robbed a rancher
of $4,000 in gold and currency.
Timothy c. Hoyt from the First dis
trict and C. R. Mabey from the Sec
ond district, were nominated for con-
gress at the Republican state conven-
ton at Ogden, Utah, Congressman
Howell failing to secure re-nomina-
ton.
DOMESTIC.
A farmer named Palmer plowed up
silver bars on his farm near Nacona,
Texas, variously estimated to be worth
$3.50, 900 1t is believed the silver
bars were left here by Spaniards in
the sixteenth or seventeenth centur-
les when they retreated owing to the
activity of Indians against them.
The mill of the Ozark Mining and
Milling company at Kelly, N. NJ, one
of the largest in the southwest, was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $175,-
600.
Theodore Roosevelt may invade the
middle west in the interest of the Re-
publican campaign.
DIR. John B. Murphy Of Chicago, one
of the worlds most renowned sur
geons, died suddenly at a hotel at
Mackinac Island while on an outing.
An attack of heart disease was the
immediate cause of death
From the tower Of the Singer build
ing, New York City, one of the tallest
in the world, a man plunged to death
into the midst of a Broadway lunch
hour crowd. He was identified as AL
bert Goldman, so years of age.
Carriers, shippers and consignees
are warned by the interstate com
MERGE commission of threatened car
shortage.
Forty-six barrels of whisky and los
barrels of beer, confiscated recently
in raid on places of prohibition Law
violators, were destroyed Thursday
) on orders issued by Judge Aston a
} Scale, Ala.
unlllOn tldnuldSLulNo bAOh6hh 1AAN
American Locomotive company FOL
the fiscal year ending June 30, ne
profit of $40, 1853 900, compared with ;
S1,5OO,000 deficit the previous year
according to the company's annua
statement.
The Democratic national COMMITTEES
has selected the entire sixth floor 0
the Karpen building, a Michigan ave
nue. skyscraper, in Chicago, as it
western headquarters during the cam
paign for the reelection of Presiden
Wilson.
o. NJ. Lane, register of the fedora
land office at Rapid City, S. D., ha
been arrested on a warrant charging
him with having, as city auditor o
Waterfowl, S. D., embeZzled NOR
than $4,000 of municipal funds.
Armed guards have been statione
in the railroad yards at Anamooss,
{ D., to prevent Industrial Workers Q
E the World from assembling there wit
the announced purpose of liberatin
? three of their number held in the k
, cal jail, charged with assaulting
? laborer who refused to join their OF
der.
j Seventy-one bodies will go to tn
. potter's field from the county morgut
3 at Chicago, all victims of the recen
heat wave that has enveloped Chicag
for the past few days.
Two cases of yellow fever were di
- covered among the crew of the War
line steamer Berglum, which arrive
at the federal quarantine station nea
n the mouth of the Mississippi rive
+. from Progreso, Mexico.
Charles E. Hughes, speaking at S
rs Paul, assailed the administration fc
n it's preparedness policy, which he d
N clared inadequate.
re Robert Wacker, third baseman (