The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-29
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given IN Few Lines.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

tiufieH t}lDllft tIK5Hetf, Wis hllttii
and William Farmer. fireman, and j,
w. smith brnkemnn. We're bndly
sealded when Nh engine attached
20 work train Of the Denver 4 Rio
firande overturned az INN, Colo.
Advices from northern Idaho points
sny that strike conditions have virtual
~ tied up all logging ~ the Idnlio
panhandle, Industrial Workers Of tile
World shy there nre 100 men on
strike.
George $. Roach, ~ Salt Lake. ac,
cldentIy shot himself through the
temple while drawing d revolver from
8ts place 10 the tounean % his chr ~
llmhlo, Colo. dying almost immediate.
~ Roach and his wife were touring
10 Orleans. Ind.
Thousands 81 dollnrs IN property
niid twO lIves Is the toll exacted thus
FIR by The flood ~ the Grand alid
North Fork rivers III the GrlEd valley
with the Grand nt stage Of l3.2 feet,
the highest evere recorded, aud sin
rising. according 10 reports from
Grand Junction Colo.
Il Is reported Tint The mines %
Butte win work dny shifts only, mill
the strike 81 miners now III progress Is
settled
The Grand river was forced to
chlnge It's course near paIisil,lr. t'olo.,
when quantity Of earth aud rock
from mountain. which the streain
Ind undermined. fell Into Il. dnmming
Il al aud forcing Il through rcnSer
4 Rio Grande railroad tunnel
4 statement issued Monday BY the
Metal Mine Workers union, the new
organization of the miners 1T Butte,
claimed that 1000 Of the $4,000 min
rrh Ia the district had quit work The
employing companies refused to give
the number of men al work,
DOMESTIC.
Reunion Of The United synod Of the
South. the general council and general
synod ~ the Evangelical Lutheran
church III the Quilted States, was prac~
fically effected at il meeting Of the
general synod ~ Chicago,
kansns Clty has been awarded the
1915 convention Of International Ro-
,ary Clubs.
A detailed plnn for the destruction
OF the German heet Ia the kiel canal
and wilhelmshaven hy a uhghty squad-
ron Of torpedo planes and ulrplanes y
outlined ia a letter BY Rear Admiral
Bradley A. Fiske. Z. =. ~, retired,
made public at New York by the Aero
club Of America
Walter Nnhl. n years of age, Of san
Frgncisco, whose mother Informed the
authorities Of his failure 70 register
for the seIeetlye druf. was sentenced
10 ninety days IN The county Jail,
More than 22.000 bakers throughout
the country have agreed with the COM
nercial economy board 20 begin on
July 10 20 refuse returns of stale
bread from dealers
Travellers from southwestern Alaska
report that Mount Douglas and Mount
llialnma. volcanoes on the west shore
Of Cook inlet, are ,llschurging ire,
ashes and smoke. and that the activity
OF these peaks Is increasing.
Emma Goldman aud Alexander Berk.
man, called the two leading anarchists
OF this country, have been indicted at
New York by federal grand jury ON
charges Of cunSpirlng to induce young
men not 10 register for the selectlve
draft
Seventeen young men and women ar.
rested nj Philadelphia for distributing
literature. which the police declared 70
lic contrary to the governments well
fare, were held without bail June ~
on charges Of suspicion OF treason and
melting to riot.
Grace I.usk. school teacher at Wau
kesha, Wis, shot and killed Mrs. Rob
erts, wife OF doctor with whom Miss
Lusk was infatuated, and then shot
herself.
Tint n large number Of Germans
from ii sea raider. either sunk or cap
tured at sea. We're brought into nj
American port GA June 10 by n Brttisi
steamer, was the report brought ashore
by u government agent.
Rear Admiral William T. Potter, U
5. ". retired. daed suddenly ut hi
home in Whitehall, n. Y, from apop
lexy. He was 81 years old and wa
placed ON the retired list in May. 1917
Within three hours after they hat
held up the cashier of the bank o
Arcadia, Iowa, and obtained $1,000. tw'
men We're captured by a sheriff's poss
nenr Manila and the money recovered
The North German Lloyd liner Kror
prinzessin Cecilie. in port ut Bosto
ince early in the war, has been seize
for the United States shipping boart
The ship has been held two years penC
ing action brought against her Germa
owners for damages as result of fai
ure to deliver gold shipment abroa
at the outbreak of the war.
A meeting of members of the Yves
ern Railroad Passenger Managers al