The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-07-21
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 Few Lines.
INTgRMouNTAlN.

colorado, wyoming and New Mexico
coal operators have been invited by
the federal trade commission to meet
at Denver the latter part Of this
month for a discussion Of producing
and marketing conditions.
Two men were killed and two com
panions escaped with bruises when
their automobile missed small ce-
ment bridge and turned completely
over. near Eureka, Utah.
The Second Idaho infantry, 1900
strong, commanded by Col. w. II.
Edelblute, detrained and went into
camp at Nogales. Ariz., on July IL.
The body of Lieut.. Henry r. Adair
of the Tenth United States cavalry,
who was killed at Carrizal, Mexico,
several weeks ago, was buried at
Portland. Ore, July H.
Rates on lumber from the Pacific
coast to Missouri river points will be
reduced from so cents per thousand
lines II the railroad carries out a re-
Gently formed plan.
A growing impression at Camp
Kendrick that the two battallions of the
Wyoming national guard modified
there would not be sent to the Mexi.
can border was dispelled by an order
from the war department TO imme-
diately liven up the work OF recruiting
the battalions to full war strength.
DOMESTIC.
All the 142 men who abandoned the
largs naval collier Hector when she
grounded off Charleston, s. c., were
rescued by the tug Wilmington and
the lighthouse tender Cypress.
John M. Larimer. aged 90, who
foiled the plot in 1860 to strip the
Allegheny arsenal of ammunition and
cannon in order to arm ports in con-
federate territory, the exposure of
which led to the resignation of John
b. Floyd, secretary of war in the cab
met OF President James Buchanan, is
dead at Pittsburg.
The body of James G. Hurry, New
York banker missing since early in
June, has washed ashore at Albany
islann. near Chebogan. Mich Hur-
ty, with Charles Marcelle, also con-
nected with New York bank, sew
eral months ago began a 10,0OO-mile
canoe trip. No trace has ever been
found OF Marcelle.
Armed shark hunters in motor boats
are patrolling the New York and
New Jersey coasts, hunting for man
eating sharks, following the death OF
b man and boy and the serious in
jury Of another boy as result of be-
ing attacked by a shark.
The official notification ceremonies
of the nomination of Charles E.
Hughes viii be held in New York,
July 81, at p. M, at Carnegie hail.
Three laborers were killed and fve
seriously injured in the collapse OF
superstructure surrounding new
building at Buffalo, N. Y.
Four men were killed, one Is miss.
ing and more than a score of others
were more or less seriously injured by
an explosion of 500 pounds of nitro
glycerine in the mixing house of the
Du Pont Powder company plant at
Haskell, N. j.
Fourteen of seventeen labor leaders
tried in the circuit court at Chicago
on charges of conspiracy to extort and
TO destroy property were found guilty
in a verdict returned Thursday.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has
abandoned for the present his plan to
raise a division volunteer troops,
according TO an announcement by r.
II. Post former governor of Porto
Rico, who has had charge of recruit
ing. Mr. Post said the plan had been
dropped, as war now seems unlikely.
Strike trouble on the Mesaba iron
range has landed twenty-eight men in
Jail at Duluth. MINI. OF this number
twelve are held on charges of first de-
gree murder and the remainder for as.
sault, treaspassing and other minor
charges.
Lawrence Mangan. an employee OF
the quartermasters department for
forty-nine years, a survivor of the Sc
poy rebellion and the battle of Sebas-
topol, died at Omaha of arterio-scle-
rosis. He was 81 years of age.
Lassen peak is erupting again. A
6iCdt VI oAuOhG anu
eiecta to an estimated altitude of 10,
600 feet is lowering over the mountain,
according to reports received at Red
ding, CAL, on Wednesday.
A negro was killed and girl vas
Knocked unconscious by lightning dur
ing a severe electrical and rainstorm
IN East st. Louis.
Two thousand building laborers who
have been on strike at Kansas City
for increased pay for several weeks,
have resumed work.
There are q soc picture theaters in
the United States with daily attend
ance of 25,0O0,00O, according to Stats
tics issued at the first open session Of
the sixth annual convention of the Mo-
4ion Picture Exhibitors League of