The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-28
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BHIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happerlnss That Are Making History
Information Gathered from Ak
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few LInes.
iNrERmouNTatN.

into . drainage ditch near Magma
Utah.
After celebrating seventeen hours
jurors tn conspiracy case reported "a
Judge Neterer In The United States
district court At Seattle they they
were unable % agree upon verdict as
20 Huiet NJ Wells. former president
Of the Seattle Central Labor council.
and Samuel Sndler Aaron Fisherman,
the third defendant, was found not
guilty.
A strike OF Portland street oar plat
form men October was forecast when
the carmen's union notified the Port
land Railway, Light 4 Power com
nany that the mems recent demands
Tor Increased wages and the eight.
hour day must be met hy that time.
senator w. III King OF Utah has nc.
cepted an invitation 10 join con.
gressional party which WIN visit lila.
wall during November as guests Of the
territorial legislature. The party will
number about fifteen senators and
thlrty-flye representatives
h1fty-onc persons were Injured near
brigham city, Utah. when north.
bound passenger tTnin on the Ogden,
Logan 4 IdahO electric Inferurban line
coliided head-on with southhound
special.
Large quantities Of old steel rails
used originally on logging railroads IA
Washington and on sldetracks ana |
minor divisions Of the Northern Pa.
cific raiirpnd. have been purchased
BY japanese brokers ana shipped 10
japan. Il was learned few days
ago.
DOMESTIC.
negro cook working FOR On OH con
tractor was taken from the iali at
Goose Creek, Texas, aud lynched by a
mob of 500 uilftcld workers, The
negro wns charged with attacking the |
wife Of un OH drIiler,
The American steamship susanna
previously reported sunk by d German
submarine Ia the Mediterranean, has
arrived safely at foreign port ne
eoriing 20 cable adyices received by
her agents az an Atlantic port.
A protest against drafting Of farm
laborers for the army has been laid
before prcsldept Wilson BY delega.
ii0n Of farmers aud repfesentatives
organized by the federal board Of farm
organizations,
Twenty leading flag makers Ia diff
ferent parts Of the country have been
formally charged by the federal trade
commission with making exorbItnnt
profits out Of American patriotism by
concerted Illegal action to raise flag
pFiees
A mob of several hundred men at
tackled the Jail Ut Raleigh, n. c. In
an attempt 20 lynch negro named
Neville. accused Of attacking the wife
Of a street car conductor, hut before
an entrance was effected the governor
persuaded the members IL the mob 10
dispense.
Sixty.elEht women were engaged MS
window washers for the Pullman Car
compaay nc Oakland. Cal. displacing
men VINO struck Tor an increase in pay
The men demanded - cents an hour
instead of the established rate OF IL
10 20 cents an hour
Twenty-Five coal mines In Clarks-
burg, VI, Va. have been compelled to
close withia a week. because the OPP
orators were unable 20 mine and mar
ket eoal for s. ton. the price fixed
by the government. according 10 a
statement ISSUED Thursday by Daniel !
Howard lending operator.
Tile president has pardcned James (,
y. Smith Ond Frederick MlIlS. former !
president and dock superintendent, re-
spectiyely. OF the Western Fuel com +,
pany, who are serving sentences OF
eighteen months each in san Quentin.
Cal, penitentiary for defraudlng the
government.
crowd Of soldiers, variously esti- /
mated at from 200 to 400 wrecked ,
the headquarters of the Industrial I,
Workers Of the World at Los Angeles.
Typewriters and furniture were bror.
en-, windows smashed and movables I
demolished. There were no reported
casualties and no arrests. Il
George Sheffield. telegraph oper-
ator at the Great Northern station at
Aoorhead MIMI, was shot and
killed by two robbers when he snapped
an unloaded revolver Mt them instead
of obeying their command to hold up
his hands. The robbers escaped
with $45.
Mayor William Hale Thompson, OF
Chicago, whose opposition to sending
troops abroad aroused comment all L
over the country, apparently climbed
into the patriotic bandwagon Wednes-
day with proclamation occasioned by
the departure of selected men from
Chicago to the Rockford cantonment.
The government has opened way
Tor possible settlement of strikes in
Pacific coast shipyards by offering to /
pay half of any wage increases for
companies making not more than 10 |
per cent profits on Communicated |