The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-18
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
ACCORD 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.
INTERMouNTAIN.

member of the McClintock expedition
sent to find Sir John Franklin's party
In the Arctic in 1857, died in Portland,
at the home of his daughter, aged 81.
Heart trouble was the cause of death.
Being chased by farmer, whose
home he had entered, Glenn Hoffman,
aged IL, is reported to have jumped in
the Snake river near Jerome, Idaho,
and was drowned.
Major General Thomas M. Ander-
son, U. s. A., retired, died suddenly at
Portland as he was preparing to at
tend banquet of the Loyal Legion, at
which he was to be POSTMASTER.
Howard De Weese was convicted of
murder at Salt Lake. De Weese was
charged with killing his wife, who was
beaten to death with fiat iron.
John 2. Vollmer, president of the
First National bank of Lewiston,
Idaho. pioneer merchant and banker
of the northwest died May 7.
Fritz Somehow, German resident
of Seattle, was arrested and interned
May 8 by federal officers. He had
been under surveillance for some time,
the officers said, on account Of fire.
quent incendiary utterances.
Thomas FL. Tracy, an Industrial
Worker of the World, accused of the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Jefferson
Beard at Everett, WASH, November 8,
was acquitted by jury In the superior
court at Seattle.
DOMESTIC.
A tentative basis of agreement for
averting a threatened strike of coal
miners in the central Pennsylvania dis
trict was reached at a conference of
representatives of both sides with Sec
rotary Wilson of the labor department.
Frank Millen, young farmer, near
Elkton, KY, killed his father, Charles
Millen; his mother, Mrs. Betty Millen ;
his brother, Gilmore, and his brothers
wife, Amy, with an axe, and hanged
himself. Continued illness had I'M
balanced his mind.
Complete agreement was reached at
Kansas City by conferees considering
the increased wage demands for the
10000 coal miners of Missouri, Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Ad-
vanceS of 10 cents per ton for mining
and 20 per cent on day wages were In
corporated in the agreement.
The untitled orders of the United
States Steel corporation on April 30
last, We're 12,1S3,0S3 tons, as announced
by the corporation, an increase of All
45S tons over the previous month and
again breaking all previous records.
Henry Dreyer of Evansville, Ind,
who was the treasurer of the Repub-
lican central committee in Vanderburg
county in the last campaign, pleaded
guilty on May to conspiring to cor
rupt the last election in Evansville by
vote buying.
The fight against tuberculosis has
become one of the leading problems
of the national council of defense, DR..
George I. Palmer, president of the
Illinois tuberculosis association, said
IN a speech at Cincinnati before the
convention of the National Association
Tor the Study and Prevention of Tub
erculosis.
Victor Carlstrom, aviator-instructor
OF the Atlantic coast aeronautical sta
ton at Newport News, Va, and Carey
e. Eppes of Newport News, an army
student aviator, We're almost instantly
Killed when their machine collapsed at
an altitude of about $500 feet.
ffANnrnnt. D.,s No, h RI
extradite Harry X. Thaw to New York
city. where he is wanted on an indict-
ment for assaulting a Kansas City
schoolboy. Thaw is still in a Philadel-
phla hospital where he was taken after
an attempt at suicide.
Announcement that Liberia has sew
cred diplomatic relations with Ger
many was received at Baltimore by
Ernest Lyon, consul general of the
negro republic.
More than 100000 men, five times as
many as can be accommodated, have
applied for admission to the sixteen
officers training camps which opened
May to begin developing the men
who will lead new American armies
to be raised within the next four
months.
Persistent rumors of German sub
marines in the South Atlantic were
given additional color when it was dis
closed that government investigating
agencies are running down a story that
freighters of the American Trans-At-
lantic company, flying the American
nag, have carried supplies to sea for
U-boats.
Rain and snow fell Saturday night
and Sunday over the greater portion
OF north and west Texas, and, accord
ing to agriculturists, was of great bene-
mt to growing wheat. Amarillo report
ed eight and one-half inches of snow.
Two student aviaters who had never
plotted an airplane before and who
We're said to have begun flight with
out permission at the government avla-
uon school at Mineola, N. Y, were
killed oftar foII of 1D0n fo1t