The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-08
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERN oUNTAlN.


an undetermined cause. He was found
hanging out of second-story hospital
window from a rope around his neck
When attendants attempted to pull him
in the rope broke and he fell to the
ground. He was dead when help ar
rived.
Utah coal operators are preparing
to advance the wholesale price of coal
so cents ton within a few days, and
as a forerunner to the advance for
Salt Lake and other Utah points the
companies have advanced the rate to
ST ton for Idaho, Nevada California,
Oregon and Washington shipments.
Three people were injured when the
motor car in which they were riding
plunged over an embankment near
Green Mountain Falls, fourteen miles
west of Colorado Springs.
Charles LIMA McNary, who has
been practicing law in Salem, Ore,
for nearly twenty years past, has been
appointed by the governor of Oregon
to succeed the late Senator Lane.
Machinists and helpers on the Den
yer & Rio Grande system were
granted an increase of five cents an
hour, and apprentices an increase of
two cents an hour, after negotiations
with officials of the company had
been carried on for several weeks at
Denver.
DOMESTIC.
Somewhere in the Ozark hills the in
FAINT son of j. Holland Keet, former
banker of Springfield, Mo-, is being
held as hostage. Kidnapers stole the
baby from his bed, while maid slept
in an adjoining room and the parents
were attending ball at the Country
club, short distance away.
Twenty-one known deaths, injuries
to more than 100 persons and large
property damage resulted from q
series of tornadoes in southwestern
Kansas. north central Oklahoma anC
southern Missouri on June 1.
Seventy-eight persons were killed il
+he tornado that swept through sew
eraI counties in southeast Missouri ant
southern Illinois Wednesday. Hun
dreds were injured and the propert.
loss was enormous.
cago by private of the First Illinois
infantry was identified as Fred Will
liam Struder, formerly an inmate O.
the asylum for the insane at Elgin, Ill
An explosion at the Du Pont Powder
mills, near Moosic, Pa, killed Thomas
Thomas and seriously burned Thomas
johnson and George r. Brown, al
workmen. The cause of the explosion
is unknown.
Federal officials announced that ar
alleged plot to tie up great lakes com
merce through strikes was probably
broken up by the raid on the Detroit
headquarters of the Industrial Work
ers of the World.
Two men We're killed at Jerome
Ariz., another was wounded, probably
fatally, and a third was slightly
wounded when shots were fired into a
group of United Verde mine employees
as they rushed from the mine in re
Spouse to an alarm of fire.
Sherman E. Burroughs, Republican
candidate for congress from the First
New Hampshire district to succeed the
late Congressman Cyrus A. Sulloway,
Republican, was elected Wednesday
over Patrick HI. Sullivan, the Demo
cratic candidate.
American Slackers have been seen
on the streets at JuareZ, Mexico, and
have applied for places in stores and
offices, offering to work for their
board and room for several months TO
escape the selectiye draft, government
officials say.
Seven persons We're killed and TWEEN
ty-two or more injured in tornado
May 80 which almost demolished the
mining town of Mineral Point, Mo.
A formal request that troops be
sent to the Jerome, Ariz.. copper dis
trict, where about 1900 union miners
went on strike a week ago to enforce
demands for recognition of the union,
has been made by the mine officials.
Wage increases involving approXi-
mately S1,920O00 a year have been
granted to over 5000 shopmen in the
employ of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, whose nine-hour day was re-
duced to eight.
Two employees of the Giant Powder
company were killed when the nitro
glycerin house Mt the company's plant
near Richmond, Cal, blew up with an
explosion which was felt for radius
of twenty miles.
Differences between Chairman Den
man of the shipping board and Major
General Cocktails, manager OF the
boards emergency fleet corporation,
over the boards wooden ship building
campaign have been cleared away, it
is stated, and the corporation will pro-
coed with construction of both steel
and wooden ships.
AS the result of an attempt by three
bandits to rob the First State bank at
Tuskahoma, Okla. one of the robbers
was shot to death in the bank by the
cashier and two other bandits are uy-
ing faom wounds