The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-11-02
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 5RlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Al!
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INrERMouNrAIN.

INTERN oUNTAiN
I'm glad / shot him If I can't
have him, neither can his wifep' by
ISLANDERS declare Mrs. Bessie Fisher
/ cried, after killing Lawrence Barrett
In Casper, Wyo., restaurant, while
his family looked on. Barrett former
/ ly lived in Anchorage, Alaska, and
Mrs. Fisher is understood to have fol-
lowed him from there.
Charged with blgamy and forgery,
Frank w. Konold, alias Frank Q.
Keith, aged n years, was arrested at
Portland and Is held at the city jail.
The mammoth plant Of the Mineral
Products corporation which burned
near Marysville Utah, causing loss
Of $250000, will be rebuilt immediate
ly and will be in operation within
sixty days.
The S250,000 potash manufacturing
plant of the Mineral Products com.
pany, six miles southwest of Marys-
vale, Utah, was destroyed by fire
which followed an explosion in coal
drler.
Frank Halloran, an official of the
Farmers and Merchants State bank at
edison, WASH, was killed in defend
Ing the bank from a hold-up by Earl
and Ray Sturgeon, brothers. Citizens
| opened fire on the bandits and Earl
was killed and Ray was captured.
CDR" NJ Gordon and a Russian
! woman Mrs. Leshelm, were arrested at
Seattle, charged with violating the Sc
lectiye service act by plotting to per-
| form throat operations upon registered
men which would render them unfit for
service in the national army Author
tiles say they suspect the plot is of
| German origin.
DOMESTIC.
Lord Northcllffe, head of the British
war mission in the United States, in
an address before the st. Louis cham
Der of commerce, said the Austro-Ger-
man offensive against Italy is a des-
| perate attempt to KNOCK Italy out Of
the war;" and that disturbances in
Italy are being fomented by Germany
Judge Lands, sitting in the case of
Gustave Jacobsen and others, recent.
ly convicted ut Chicago OF f0mentlng
n revolt in India, told counsel for the
defendants that he would overrule
any motion they might make for new
trial.
! Sugar refineries in the United States
which were forced to shut down be
cause of a shortage of raw materials
will be enabled to resume business on
q reduced basis by the terms of an
agreement reached at conference OF
the American retiners' committee al
New York.
Byron Nelson, son of Congressman
Nelson, voluntarily returned to Madl.
son, Wis, from Canada, registered un-
der the draft law Mt once and then, ap.
| pearing in the federal court, entered
plea Of not guilty for alleged viola.
ton of that law.
Champ Clark, speaker of the house
Of representatives, has withdrawn his
charge that "ring Of New York men
had been hampering the sale of the
bonds Of the second Liberty loan IL
order TO force a higher rate of inter
est ON the next issue of bonds.
After fighting battle with posse
from Il farmhouse in which they ha,
barricaded themselves and where the!
had kept two women as hostages t
prevent the posse returning their fire
two robbers who held up the bank o
Mouee, ILL.,, and obtained $500, wer,
captured.
Government mediation or arbitration
is expected to avert strike of $1,000
stock yards employees at Chicago. De
mands for higher wages and extra pa,
for overtime will be presented.
Capt. Bartlett james Of the Unite,
States infantry, stationed at Columbus
N. NJ, was found dead in his quarters
ut El Puso, Texas, death having beer
caused BY gunshot wound, accordin!
to report made to the Military au
thorities,
Lieut. Hans Berg. who brought til,
British liner Appam to Hampton
Roads, as prize, after its capture of
the Azores by the German raide
Moewe nearly two years ago, was on
OF ten prisoners who escaped iron
the alien enemy detention camp a
Fort Mcpherson, Ga.
Silas Stepp, a farmer living nea
Birdstown. Tenn, has been bound owe
TO the federal grand jury as priucipa
in the plot to take the life of presi
dent Wilson, federal agents have lie
It become known.
Robert Fftzsimmons, who died q
Chicago after weeks illness, Of loha
pneumonia. was buried, October -, Il
Graceland cesaetary Funeral service
for the former heavyweight pugilis
We're held in the Moody tahernacl,
conducted by the Rev. Paul Rider
himself an athlete in his college day
on the Pacific coast
Col. Theodore Roosevelt's desire I
raise division OF volunteer soldier
10 fight in France. under his leader
: I Ill .