The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
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Happenlngs That Are Making History
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died Friday at his home from heart
failure
An increase Of per cent for all
shop employees was made May II ut
the Cheyenne headquarters Of the
Union Pacific Railroad company. Eight
hundred men are affected.
Boise. Idaho on May IL, expert.
enced the most violent earthquake
shock In the history of the city The
tremor, which occurred at 1925 o'clock,
lasted about three seconds and was
more In the nature OF an upheayaI
than wave.
William l.. Carlisle was declared
guilty Of train robbery by jury In the
district court at Cheyenne. The jury
recommended life imprisonment. Car
Isle was on trial In connection with
the hold-up Of Union Pacific passen-
ger train at Corlett Junction April 81.
Fruit blossoms all Baker, Ore, were
covered with snow on Wednesday.
Nearly an inch fell during the early
morning, Growers believe, however,
there will be little damage to crops.
Denver. as result of Tuesdays
municipal election, will return to the
old mayoral form OF government after
four years trial of the commission
form.
DOMESTIC.
Theodore Marburg OF Baltimore, for
merly United States minister to Bel
GUM, at dinner given him at New
York by members OF the League to En-
force Peace. told of an interview he
had with Sir Edward Grey, in which
the British foreign minister said he
was wholly in favor Of the plan OF the
League TO Enforce Peace.
Complete returns Of the recent pres
idential delegate election In New Jer-
sey show that the Democrats cast
$4,000 votes and the Republicans A..
900.
Mrs. Luiz Corral villa, wife OF Pan.
cho Villa, has returned to El Paso
from Havana. according to a report
made by department OF justice agents
20 General Funston, Her address is
secret which the authorities refuse to
dlvulge.
The governments appeal from the
New Jersey federal court, which dis.
missed the antitrust suit against the
United States Steel corporation, was
filed formally on May ~ In the su.
preme court. The appeal has been
eight months In preparation,
Another lifeboat, which contained
body believed to be that OF John G.
Dennis. second officer Of the sunken
steamer Roanoke. has been picked up
by the Pacific Mail liner City of Paris.
Curtis Bayles. an American farmer,
was shot and killed short distance
from his home, near Mercedes, Texas,
by band Of four or five Mexicans, |
who succeeded in escaping.
In letter to Guy Emerson, national
secretary OF the Roosevelt Non.Parti-
san league given out at Oyster Bay,
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt indorsed
the work OF that organization and re-
ferred to his candidacy, which is one
Of the objects of the league.
As result Of riot and fatal shoot
ing at the plant Of the Webster Manu-.
featuring company at Tiffin, Ohio, the
remaining force Of 700 employees Join.
ed the 100 men already on strike
Mexican bandits fired on military
automobile conveying message from
Major Langhorne TO Colonel Sibley at !
q point eighteen miles north of Bo- |
quillas, on the Marathon. Boquillas
road.
The steamer Roanoke. which left
San Francisco at midnight May s for
Valparaiso. foundered at sea about 100
miles south OF San Francisco. accord.
ing to the story told by three surviv- /
ors who. in lifeboat, with the dead 7
bodies of five Of their shipmates. drift |
ed ashore at San Luis Obispo Cal
The Progressive party will not in.
sist upon the nomination OF Theodore /
Roosevelt for president if the Repub.
hcans will name a candidate at Chi /
cago who stands for Progressive prin.
ciples and Is able TO put them /
through according to a statement
made BY George W. Perkins al New |
York
Robert Fay. former lieutenant in the |
German army, convicted In the federal
court OF conspiracy 70 destroy ammu.
milton Ehips Of The allies through bomb
contriyances. Was sentenced 10 serve |
eight years il the federal penitentiary
at Atlanta.
Three factories AZ Vineland. n. j., |
and twelve at Stamford, Conn, have
suspended operations as a result of /
the garment workers strike.
All but two Of the twenty-five per
sons aboard were drowned when the T
steamer S. R. Kirby of the Northwest
ern Transportation company Of Detroit
and Cleveland broke In two during a
storm on Lake Superior and sank.
The Pacific coast has virtually been
depleted of mobile troops by the re-
cent orders TO move forces from Van
couyer. Spokane, San Diego and Fort