The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-31
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 8RlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAlN.

Huoy WnlCn broke from lis mornings
during high gale at Astoria, Ores
one OF the boats from the, United
States lighthouse tender ManEanita
was swamped by a breaker and three
seamen were drowned
The steamer Honolulu is loading at
Tacoma the most valuable cargo ever
taken from Puget sound IT consists
OF war supplies for yladivostock, and
is worth s7,000,000. The docks have
been fenced in and are under heavy
guard.
A state ''Roosevelt-for president"
league was formally launched at Hele
ma, after an all-day conference at
tended by 100 Montana Republicans
and Progressives.
Peter Caicadacis. Greek laborer.
was drowned while working with a
force to clear debris from the Oregon
Short Line bridge across ogden river,
al Ogden, Utah
Two contemplated railroad projects,
one by which the Hin lines might en-
ter California and the Western Pacific
extend a feeder into Reno. New. were
disclosed In an argument before the
states railroad commission at San
Francisco
Two men have been arrested in
Seattle and two in San Francisco,
charged with flooding the coast towns
with spurious S. federal reserve bank
bills.
DOMESTIC.
The American campaign to capture
Francisco villa has reached the point
in the foothills of Chihuahua where II
has been found necessary To dispense
with heavy motor trucks as transport
facilities and TO depend entirely upon
the army pack mule.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt returned
March "a on the steamship Matura
from the West Indies. silent on poll
tics and the Mexican situation, but
announcing the discovery in Trinidad
of what was to him new variety OF
bird in which he was much interested.
On March "A. in New York City, two
worlds champions successful defend
ed their titles. Freddie Welsh. light
weight titleholder. scored a technical
knockout over Frank Whitney OF
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, while Johnny Kill
bane. featherweight champion, defeat
ed Harry Donohue OF Peoria. Ill.
Sheriff Peyton James Edwards of
El Paso has telegraphed Gov. James
f. Ferguson that he believed the state
militia should be sent to the frontier.
Three American women and one
man were killed near Gibson's Line
ranch on the New Mexico.Mexico
boundary. eight miles west OF colum-
bus N. NJ. on Friday. Mexicans are
charged with the crime.
Melchor Herrera, brother of Gen
Luis Herrera. was released at FL Paso
by the United States authorities. He
was taken into custody when reports
became current there that General
Herrera had revolted from the defac-
20 government.
Lieutenant Edgar S. Gorrell OF the
United States aero corps, who had
been missing since Sunday. was found
Thursday three miles south of Ascen-
cion by a motor truck train under
Lieutenant ]. L. Parkinson, Twentieth
infantry
Franz Bopp. German consul gem
eral at San Francisco, and others in
dicted in the so-called bomb plots
must go TO trial. according to de-
cision rendered in the United States
district court
Patersons $4,000 silk operatives
have unanimously rejected the silk
manufacturers compromise offer
granting a nine-and-a,half-hour day. be
ginning May !. and nine-hour day.
commencing November /.
Religious, charitable and educa-
tionAi institutions in New York and
other cities viii eventually receive
more than 1890. 900 under the viii OF
Mrs. May Leask, who was the wife OF
George Leask. wholesale commercial
paper dealer.
The Hall antigambling bill, which.
II passed by both houses Of the legis.
lature. win close every miie-race track
In Maryland. has passed TO its third
reading in the house Of delegates.
This practically assures its final pas
sage in that branch.
Three persons are known dead and
one is missing and is believed to have
persisted in the fire which destroyed
all the business district and a greater
part of the residential district Of
Paris, Texas.
The state supreme court Of Texas
has held unconstitutional law passed
by the last legislature providing for
the holding of Democratic presiden-
tial preferential election.
Fire caused damage estimated at
from 100000 TO sS,0UO.O00 in the
heart Of the business district and the
adjoining resident district at Augusta,
Ca,
A prairie fire started by burning
waste oil and which burned over four
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