The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-07-14
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
differentiation Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTERmouNrAIn.

has been cent to the border
Sheriff CorIess was knocked from
his chair and painfully shocked al
Salt Lake City when lightning STRUCK
the wire over which he was telephon
ing TO Bingham.
Frightened by elephants, team oil
horses attached to a lumber wagon
dashed wildly down the street at Og
den. Utah. with the result that the
driver. Malcolm A. Keeter, was
thrown TO the pavement. receiving In,
5uries which resulted in his death
two hours later
Charges OF distributing obscene lit.
erature filed against Mrs. Margaret
Sanger OF New York and three local
birth control advocates, were dis
missed in police court at Portland
Without knowing his son had met
death on the carrizal battlefield, Sam
uel Affair, father OF Lieutenant Henry
Rodney Adair, died at Portland. July
8, after a lingering illness. His last
words were for his son.
After a search OF more than four
&htAAHA SHtNuRH MNHAtAM btilEHt al
bert Metzner, wanted for the murder
OF Wilbur Breckenridge and Dan Ev-
ans. who were slain In clubhouse
two miles southwest of Idaho Falls,
idaho, March "a. has been captured
A forest fire, starting in the Rocky
Mountain national forest on Thomp-
son creek, In Colorado. has destroyed
timber valued at $250.000.
Chipeta aged squaw of Chief 0uray.
Is celebrating her one hundred and
first birthday this week at Ignacio.
Utah. together with about twenty
other Utes. The aged squaw is stili
hale and hearty and does her share OF
the Ute squaws' work.
Helen Bell. eight years old. died at
Helena, Mont. from burns sustained
while celebrating the Fourth. Her
clothing was ignited by fireworks.
DOMESTIC.
The danger OF war with Mexico is
not half so great as the danger Amer
lean peace and prosperity has to fear
from ''war vultures," said David Starr
Jordan. chancellor emeritus of Leland
Stanford university In an address a.
New York before the Peace League.
San Francisco is facing shortage
In salt, sugar and other necessities OF
life because OF closing freight chan
nels there and at other Pacific coast
ports. due to the general strike of
iongshoremen.
Delegations OF women suffragists
and anti-suffragists visited Charles 4.
Hughes on Thursday and each de-
clared the conference was entirely
satisfactory.
4 decree OF annulment OF marriage
was granted al Grand Rapids, Mich,
10 Mrs. Clara Louise Peck Waite, wife
Of DIR. Arthur Warren Waite. The lat
err Is In Sing Sing prison under SEN
tence OF death for the murder OF his
fathcr.in.law. John L. Peck of Grand
Rapids.
Striking garment workers paraded
New York streets and held a meeting
fin Madison Square Thursday as a.
demonstration In favor OF their cause
The leaders said they mustered more
than 10000 Twenty-Five bands, vol.
unteers from the musicians union,
were in the parade
Five stage loads OF tourists entering
the Yosemite valley were held up at
Wawona. Cal, by a highwayman who
operated single handed and took his
departure on a motorcycle. He collect
ed about $500.
Alvin r. Kenner, mining engineer
Of Chicago. was found drowned in a
swimming pool in Olympia park. near
Grass Valley. Cal.
The Southern Pacific company has
announced an increase OF wages of 20
cents a day for all section hands, ex.
cepting Mexicans and Chinese, en-
ployed on its railroad lines in Califor-
mia. Nevada. New Mexico and Ari-
zona.
After simple funeral service the
body OF Mrs. Hetty Green, richest wo-
man in the world. was buried at Bel
lows Falls, VT, in the family plot in
a grave beside that of her husband,
Edward H. Green. A plain granite
shaft, inscribed only with the family
name, marks the spot
Four states-New York, Pennsyl-
Eania, Illinois and Massachusetts,
paid more than $S5,0O0,OOO of the
$124,867, 429 in income taxes turned
in to the national treasury during the
fiscal year of 1916, which ended June
80.
The Rev. A. H. Burrows, widely
known throughout the south as the
marrying parson," died at Bristol,
va, aged SO years. He is said to have
married 5,142 couples during his life.
Proposed increases in the army and
navy of the United States were de-
pounced in the platform adopted by
Arkansas Socialists in state co.ven-
tion at Little Rock.
With much less than half the month
remaining for tha racruitinQ of the Gift