The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from, All
Quarters or the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
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Denver Is experiencing Il bread shOr
ap4 with the strike of bakers Ia tire
81 The largest local shops. Small shop
were worked 10 capacity but could no
supply The demand from groceries mn
restaurants. The men nsl recognition
~ their union.
general strike IL tie mnchlnist
employed H. the shops Of the Denver
Il lilo Ernude may ~ cnsIed unless ~,
management agrees ~ i ~ per cent ~
crease Ia wRges before June 10 ac
eoFtng 20 union lenders ~ Denver.
The equitable Trust company has
been awarded verdict of S32 II. "a
against The Denver 4 Rio Grnnde Rail-
way company VA the United States dis
trici court at New York, uplioldng Il
contract % float S50UsOoO bond
issue 10 finance the Western Pacific
Hallway company aud The Denver 4
lilo Granle system, nude IN 1905.
Petitions for the recall OF Michael
Toner, mayor Of wnlla Walia, are In
preparation, The mayor refused to
dismiss the Iloman Catholic members
~ tile police aud lire departments as Il
depututIon called upon him 10 do, after
A. u. Buuan Of Boston. an anti.
Catholic lecturer, was beaten M two
days previous.
Il, u. Rice u laundry worker, and
Aaron Fisherman. secretary OF the local
organization Of Socialists, were arrest
ed ~ Seattle, Charged with circulating
handhiils pufporting 10 be issued by
the No-Conscrlptlon league The
bills urged citizens 10 resist conscrlp.
tion, which was denounced as rslay-
cry
pomEsTlc.
An Indictment IN which eleven Of
the principal wholesale baking cor
porntlons ~ Los Angeles and sixteen
individuals were chnrgsd with ylola'
ton Of Il state antitrust law through
an alleged conspiracy 10 fix the retail
price of bread III Los Angeles county
WINS returned Mny Is.
rhe government Is Ia the market for
25u,O0u horses aud mules for army use
which probably WIN cost $i0n000,OOo
They win be used Ia addition 70 10000
sa5ior trucks and automobiles.
Curl Miller, proprietor OF the res
fnufant al Port Perry, Pa, from which
was served the food which was eaten
s,y soldiers Of the Third Pennsylvania
Infantry Just before the death q Lieu
tenant Corcoran and the Illness q
many OF his men. has been arrested
iire from explosions of unknowr
ea,ise M the chiOroshenzUl mauutactur
tng plant Of the Eiectro.G hemtenl com
pnny at Niagara Fails y. y. cause'
500 900 damage and endangered III
entire milling district.
Al forestry regiment composed
foresters. woodgmen and others -
perieneed III numbering operations. W
go to France as unit IN the exped
fton u army engineers now being y
crmlted. II viii be organized as
volunteer military force and VIII assi'
the engineers In preparing timber e
construction work.
All railroads operating In Caliterm
have fiied with the state railroad con
mission am application for a gener'
is per cent Increase In all intrasta'
freight rates.
Registration dny for service und'
the war army bill will be maue y
occasion for patriotic demonstrators
AN over the country.
Different business but better ooS
ness for America during the war W.
nredictesl by Frank A. yanderlip, ban
.r ANA member OF the labor eoniinl
tee of tho council of national deteh
advisors committee. in statelne
issued from New York.
George Pope of Hartford, Conn, W
reelected president of the Nation
Association of Manufacturers at
meeting of the board OF directors
the association at New York.
Frederic c. Penfield, American a
bassador to Austria up to.the time gu
Iomatic relations were severed, arrsv
at New York City, May ~, on
French steamship
on May i6 the United States II
Russia 500, 100000. The money y
lent to be spent as needed, withs
stipulation or understanding OF =
sort further than Russia stands OF
of the obligation, viii make II good
win spend the money in this country
Several thousand men students
Ohio's state educational institute
We're forced out of school on May
and urged to assist in the preparedn
movement by working on farms.
Pete Herman, claimant of the b
tamweight championship, knocked
Johnny Coulon, former titleholder
the third round of their bout at Rae
Wis. Coulon was attempting to 81
a comeback.
Fifty landowners, patrons of
Gridley Land & Water company,
taken forcible possession of the sy
to save their crops of two tho,,