The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-07-27
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMouNrAiN.

turing lne coming strike, we ufg-
enty request all workers to conduct
themselves in manner becoming law
abiding citizens" said statement is
sued today by the Leadville, Colo,
branch of the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
Colorado coal operators have adopt
ed a maximum price of So a ton for
mine run and $4.25 for lump and pre-
pared Goals to be effective from to-
day to September l. The decision
is in line with action by coal opera
tors and government officials in the
east.
All hope of preventing the strike of
metalliferous miners in the Leadyille,
Colo, district has been abandoned.
Two thousand men are affected
The Rev. William A. (Billyl Sunday
was arrested for exceeding the speed
limit in his automobile on tile Broad
way bridge across the Willamette riv
er at Portland. His chauffeur was
fined 50, which Mr. Sunday paid.
The supreme court of sthe state of
Washington in an opinion rendered
July II held that picketing is sin
timidation and contrary to American
institutions" The opinion reversed
the decision of the lower court in a
case brought by a bakery establish
ment against the bakers and confec
TONERS union and the cooks union and
directed that picketing of the place
be discontinued
Not street car was running for
Tacoma city traffic on Monday as the
result of the failure of the Tacoma
Railway & Power company and its
employees to settle their difficulties.
DOMESTIC.
Two million seven hundred thousand
rounds of ammunition, bought and
paid for in this country more than Il
year and half ago by the Mexican
government, has been released for
| shipment into Mexico.
| Several houses were destroyed and
1000 people were temporarily driven
| from their homes when a $4,000 bar
| rel oil tank on the outskirts of Drum
| right, Okla, was exploded by a stroke
| of lightning. The contents of the
tank rushed down through part of the
residence section in a flaming torrent.
Members of the Chicago board of
trade, recognizing national emery
ency, voted to delegate full powers
to the board of directors to take ac-
ton, at any time during the war,
which it may deem to the best inter-
ests of the board and of the country.
Although George G. Tompkins OF
Philadelphia has confessed that he
murdered his business associate, Ed
mund l. HUMPHREYS, Philadelphia coal
operator Mrs. HUMPHREYS and their
son Edmund /. Jr., on country road
near Carrolltown, Pa, there Is still
much mystery as to the motive for the
triple shooting.
Socialist delegates bolted the con-
vention of the Minnesota State Fedora
ton of Labor at Faribault because OF
the conventions refusal to permit re-
consideration of a resolution adopted
previously pledging support to the ma
tional administration.
One American soldier was killed and
five other soldiers injured, one serl-
ously, when four coaches of troop
train turned completely over and three
other cars were derailed at Shamrock,
Texas.
A plot to spread terror through Kan
sas by the means of disease inocula-
ton through court plaster was stated
by Fred Robertson, district attorney
of Kansas, at Kansas City, Kan, TO
have been broken up through the ar
rests of three men in different towns
of the state.
Roland S. Morris of Philadelphia has
been chosen for appointment as am
bassador to Japan to succeed the late
Ambassador Guthrie.
Twenty-seven pastors and heads OF
the nine branches of the Lutheran
church of America officially purged
the church of the Nebraska defense
councils charges of disloyalty at
meeting held at Omaha when resolu-
lions were adopted affirming the 10y
atty of the church in America.
In an effort to stimulate interest in
aviation and to afford men, women,
boys and girls throughout the country
an opportunity to take part in the
movement to make America first in
aeronautics, the Aero Club of America
has announced the organization OF the
Aerial League of America. Rear Ad-
miral Robert E. Peary is president.
Mobilization of the national guard
began Monday While no orders for
embarkation of state troops for France
will be given until after August 8,
when the entire force will be formally
drafted into the United States army,
there are indications that some di-
visions will be regarded as ready to
board transports soon after that date.
One hundred and thirty indictments
against men who failed to register
June ) We're returned by the federal
grand jury al Duluth, Mimi, on Mon
Ia,. u,b,cn ara now OAQ man nhorupI