The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-10-26
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
INrERMouNrAIN.

loaded cars was wrecked near Soldier
Summit, Utah. Fifty-seven freight
cars piled up in a gigantic heap be
fore the %onrushing passenger train,
which stopped just in time.
The engineer, fireman and brake
man were killed when the boiler of
the locomotive of a w~estbound freight
train on the Union Pacific railroad ex-
ploded a few miles west of Laramie,
Wyo.
-Four inc! ef snow which fell dur
ing the night in many parts of the
state gave Montana on Wednesday its
first touch of real winter weather.
Idaho Falls, Idaho, suffered a $780,
600 loss from fire on October II, a
large portion of the city being threat
ened for a time.
Labor representatives told the fed
eral labor adjustment board in session
at Portland in an effort to settle the
strike in the steel and wooden ship
yards that consumption of labor for the
yards was preferable to any action or
compromise which would not give the
union men the principles for which
they are out, in effect, ''closed shop"
The first day of Denver's weeks
drive, which began October 16, to. raise
$15,000,000 for the second Liberty
loan brought a total of ~$1,448,O50 in
subscriptions, committee reported at
night. The days subscriptions came
from 1713 individuals or firms.
Colorado Springs was darkened COM
pletely at Z o'clock Tuesday night and
dozens of bombs fred to impress the
people with the necessity of subscrib-
ing for Liberty bonds.
DOMESTIC.
Helaire Carriere, Louisiana bad
man. was hanged in the state peni-
Tertiary at Baton Rouge for the muir
der of Sheriff Swords last July. Run
down in the canebrakes tfter a sensa-
tional man hunt of weeks, Carriere re
sisted his execution to the last mo
ment, even to the extent OF attempting
suicide in his cell the night before
he was executed.
Secretary of Commerce Redfield, in
an address for the Liberty loan at st
Louis, said the war with Germany was
a spiritual war and that the United
States had entered the struggle with
full knowledge of it's responsibilities
in answer to the cry of mankind.
Representatives of 100000 organized
railroad workers in the northeastern
part of the United States and eastern
Canada decided at a meeting at 0tta
wa, Canada, to recommend to theil
unions that they demand from theil
employers wage increases of not less
than 20 per cent
Because of his alleged activity il
the pacifst movement, the pulpit oe
cupied by Rev. George Greenfield a
Santa Barbara, Cal, has been declared
vacant by the Congregational churcl
society.
Adolph Germer of Chicago, execu
tive secretary of the National Socialis
party, and ten other persons, nine o
them Socialists, were acquitted by
jury at Grand Rapids, Mich, of charg
es of conspiracy against the selectiv,
draft.
Two masked bandits entered tn,
Calhound state bank at Minneapolis
during the noon hour Thursday, droy,
the cashier and two bookkeepers int
a real room, gathered up $4,000 in casl
in the vaults and cages and escaped
in an automobile.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook, the Arcti,
explorer, and a crew of nineteen sail
ors were among those marked for as
s%assination by the leaders directini
the plot to foment d revolution in In
dia to embarrasS Great Britain dur
ing the war, according to testimon,
given at Chicago by Sukumar Chatter
il, a Hindu priest.
Dealers in waste materials, VIII,
handle annually m output of $1,000
100000, have pledged their co-opera
ton with the government in uttlizin
the c,.pntry's by-products for militar.
purposes, it was announced ut Ney
York.
Approximately 160 officers and me-
from seized German mercAantmer
who had been interned on Angel isl
and in San Francisco bay startet
Wednesday by special train for de
tention camps at Philadelphia and Ho
Springs, n. G. Eight guards accom-
panied the aliens.
In an address at New York befor
The convention OF the Southern Com
mercial congress, United States Sena
tor Thomas p. Gore of Oklahoma mad
u plea for taxation. as against bon
rowing, in financing the war.
Fritz Kuhn prior to the outbreak o
the war, Lon,ion representative of th.
Deutsche Bank of Berlin, and Georg,
snvssssn. Setback, also formerly cenneete,
German bank in London, wer,
saspstody at New York b.
1hnEn bureau of the nav.
T. ent to Ellis island TO