The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-08-29
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Ali
Quarters Of tho Globe asS
Given IN a Few Lines.
INTERmouNTAIn.

INTERmoUNTAIN.
The Amalgamated Sugar company
will operate all Of its factories in
Utah and Idaho during the coming
campaign on a straight eight-hOur day,
according 10 AN announcement made
last week.
Uncontrolled fires in every forest
in central and western Montana and
northern Idaho threaten ranchers and
stockmen. Small hope exists of stop
ping the flames unless rain falls heay-
lily
Miss Bessie Marold of Callicoon, y.
Y, % years old, formerly an army
nurse in Camp Mills. was shot and
killed at Denver by Isadore Victor. %
years old whose offers of marriage the
girl had rejected
Governors of the several states III
the Union in session in their eleventh
annual conference, held at Salt Lake
on August 10, discussed three prob
lens which are now paramount in the
mind Of the people of the country.
First, high cost Of living; second, state
budgets; third, growth and consolida-
ton OF administrative boards.
East Helena, Mont, a town of 200
inhabitants, was swept by fire Tues
day. The loss is estimated at S50O.0OO.
The business section and eighteen res
licences were destroyed.
Mrs. Anna Richey of Fossil, Wyo.,
cattlewoman 30 years of age. is suf-
fering from a shattered left arm, the
result of a shot fired at her by a
masked highwayman.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the
Ryan fruit company warehouse at
Butte causing a loss OF 100000. The
building and large quantities of stored
food We're destroyed.
DOMESTIC.
Eight persons received Injuries
which physicians said would probably
prove fatal, and nineteen others were
hurt in less degrees, in series of au-
tomobile car and bicycle accidents at
Los Angeles. Traffic officers said
the unusual occurrences We're due 10
the crowded road conditions caused by
the 1ransportatiOns strikes there.
]. r ShiIlady, white man, seere-
tary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
was severely beaten and placed on
board an outbound train at Austin,
Texas Shillady had been ''inciting
negroes against the whites" and had
previously been warned to leave Aus
tin.
A score of strikers at the Crane
company's plant in Chicago wrecked
street ear with missiles and beat
unconscious two workmen who had re
fused to join the strike. A dozen pas
sengers, including several women, We're
injured
American forces which will remain
in Germany after September 30 are the
Eighth infantry. Seventh machine gun
battalion. Second battalion Of the
Sixth field artillery, Thirty-fifth field
signal battalion, First supply train
First mobile ordnance repair shop. A
company of the First engineers, field
hospital No. 13 and ambulance COM
pany No. &c.
Mike o'DOwd Of st Paul, worlds
middIweight champion, outfought
Jack Britton. worlds welterweight
champion, in nO-deeisiOn eight-round
hmm NJ Newark. y. j.
Walter Elliott, negro, who il al
legged To have assaulted Il farmer
wife. was shot to death by mob AT
Louisberg. n. c., which later carried
the body to the scene Of the crime and
swung it to tree in Il country church
yard.
one of the two American soldiers
sentenced to death for sleeping on
outpost duty in France and suhse-
nuently pardoned by President VIII
son was killed in the great Aisne Of
fensive in July, 1918, and the other
was twice wounded and finally hon
orably discharged
The Pacific fleet will be reviewed
i'm San Francisco bay at ~ 4. H.
September /, Labor day.
Five persons, all members of train
crews. were killed and sixteen pasSen-
gers injured when a Pere Marquette
freight train ploughed head-on into
south-bound passenger train at Grawn
Mich.
Unless enlistmentS in the navy are
speeded up the Pacific fleet when I'm
ally formed will have a complement
of only 90 per cent according TO Adj
niral Hugh Rodman.
Initial step in the organization Of
national labor party were taken ut
conference of Representatives OF iaoor
organizations of several states held at
Chicago on August Is
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