The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-07-06
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAlN.


miners.
Four men, including superintendent /
J. b. Jeandell, were killed and ten in !
jured as the result of an explosion |
which wrecked two buildings of the f. !
!. Du POnt De Nemours Powder com
pany at Augusta. Colo.
Miners in the southern Colorado |
coal fields of the Colorado Fuel & Iron |
company will be called out on strike !
August /, unless there is satisfactory |
settlement of their differences with
the company according to labor lead |
ers.
international unions affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor,
have begun an effort to settle a part
of the labor troubles of Butte, caused
by strikes of the recently organized
Metal Mine Workers union and of
electricians of the Montana Power
company.
The proposed bond issue of $500
600 for public improvements was de-
feated by Salt Lake voters by lit
tie more than four TO one.
Serious damage is being threatened
by flood waters of the Duchesne river
and its tributaries in the Duchesne
| district in Utah.
Corporal Clarence Shaw. + company,
Second Montana National Guard. was
shot through the heart and killed at
Aissoula by acting Corporal Arthur
Kline of the same company. The
shooting was accidental.
DOMESTIC.
Dick Carter, arrested at Hutchin-
son, Kan, last week on charge of
murder in connection with the kidnap-
ing and death of Baby Lloyd Keet, has
confessed implication in the alleged
plot to kidnap c. A. Clement. a
wealthy Springfield, Mo-. ieweler.
Appealing to Governor Capper to
give him chance to "show his colors, "
Arthur b. Cutler of Kansas City, Kan.
a cripple, in a letter TO the governor
asked that he be permitted TO serve his
Fbrother's prison sentence so that the
brother may be freed TO join the army
or navy.
The murder of Miss Thecia- Gerken
% years old. of Woonsocket, =. ID.
who was shot at night by an unknown
person while going to the home of a
friend whom she was visiting at Sioux
City, Iowa, remains Il deep mystery.
In closing its fourteenth annual con
vention at Buffalo. y. Y, the Catholic
Educational association adopted the
slogan, Every Catholic child in a
Catholic school," as special program
of parish work for the year.
Lord Northcliffe. British high COM
missioner to the United States, in an
address to magazine editors and writ
pressed the hope that the United
States would not muddle the censor
ship as England did the first three
years of the war.
Francisco Villa was at villa Ahuma-
da, eighty-five miles south of Juarez,
ON June ~, with force of 1900 men,
and was moving toward Juarez ac-
cording TO information received by
government agents at El Paso.
The destroyer Shaw has completed a
record run from a Pacific coast port to
an Atlantic port-approximately 5S5S
miles-in II days, 10 hours and 20 min
utes.
i The strike of 5000 coal miners in
western Canada, which has been in
progress since April /, ended June ~
when Commissioner w. H. Armstrong,
appointed by the government to inves-
tigate and take any action deemed
necessary. ordered immediate resump-
ton of operations in all mines affected.
The first day of the strike called in
the copper mines in the Bisbee, Ariz.
district by the Metal Mine Workers
Industrial union ended with so per
cent of the men out.
An allegation that excess profits Of
the United States steel corporation in
the last year were S250,O00,000 and
those of the big meat packers mot less
than S25,000000 in 1916" were made
In an address at the City club, Chi
cago, by DIR. Charles r. Van Hise,
president of the University of Wiscon-
4 sin.
Stanley Jryga must stand trial
i
! death of friend who fell from the
antomobile Jryga was driving and was
killed Jryga was indicted at Chicago,
charged with manslaughter.
Feaera Judge Morton at Boston
sentences Werner Horn, German re-
servist. 10 tsle Atlanta penitentiary for
eighteen months for illegally trans
porting dynamite on passenger train
from New YORK 30 vanceboro, Me-. to
be used IN an attempt TO destroy the
International bridge across the st.
Croix river.
The defense in the murder trial of
Mrs. Rena Mooney charged in court
at San Francisco that witness for
the prosecution had been threatened
with Indictment IL he did not change
! his testimony.