The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-05-30
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 Few Llnss.
gNTERMoJNTAIN.

port of the national committee OF lay
men providing for the creation Of a
| general planning board to coordinate
activities of the church under one
| governing body consisting of 40 mem
| bers.
Frederick Hansen, former first mate
of the schooner Edward II. West, was
indicted at Seattle by federal grand
| jury on charge of murder. The in
| dictment charged Hansen threw
| Charles Hannah, second mater, over
board during storm off Cape Horn,
May 81, 1918.
| "Day labor wages for Baptist cler-
| gymen is blot on the denomination
more than half the nations Baptist
ministers receive less than $500 a
year" This declaration was made to
| the Baptist convention at Denver.
George and Tom Bosko arrested In
Utah last week, charged with the muir
der of w L. Hunter and e. G. Parks,
a few miles west of Pueblo, April IL,
have made complete confession.
Rev. ]. Kronenberger, pastor of the
First Christian church at Corvallis,
| Ore, was drowned while attempting TO
swim across the Willamette river in
celebration of his forty-fifth birthday.
| A meeting of the Portland grade
school teachers association has been
called to consider the organization of
a teachers union affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
An increase of so cents day, from
$4.25 to $4.75, became effective in
mines of the Occur d'Alene district,
Idaho, on May 90 according to bull
letins posted in the principal mines.
DOMESTIC.
Uninterrupted production of "war
beer" in New York until the courts
have passed upon the claim of the
United States Brewers association
that the beverage, containing 2A per
cent alcohol, is notwithstanding, was
assured when Federal Judge Mayer
granted an injunction restraining gov
eminent interference with it's manu-
facture
On July 4, Black Hills pioneers will
honor the memory of the late Cononel
Roosevelt by naming the highest peak
Of the hills Mount Theodore Roosevelt.
Leslie Nunamaker, catcher with the
Cleveland Americans, was awarded a
verdict of $4,000 in circuit court at st.
Louis against motor car company for
personal injuries suffered in an auto
mobile accident December 10, last.
Nunamaker sued for $4,000.
Ebert II. Gary of the United States
Steel corporation, declared in speech
Mt New York that there was reason to
assume that the peace terms will be
agreed to and subscribed by at least
a majority of governments, and a
league of nations for the continued
preservation of peace will be estab-
lished
A score of persons were killed and
a hundred injured by an explosion at
the Douglas Starch Works at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Of the $50 men and boys
who had just gone to work in the
night shift, few escaped injury or
death.
AT the annual convention at Atlantic
City, N. j., of the National Electric
Light association, Charles b. Scott of
Chicago, said that uniform rules had
reduced accidents from 80 to so per
cent and had effected an even larger
decrease in fatalities.
German charts recently surrendered
disclosed the existence in the China
sea of a large mine field over which
American steamships, ignorant of it's
existence, passed safely many times.
Employment of an airplane as
means of transportation for physi-
clan who is called upon to make long
distance professional calls has been in
augurated by DR.. f. A. Brewster, of
Beaver City, Neb.
The Pacific Coast Metal Trades
council has decided to call general
strike unless satisfactory agreement
10 take place of the Macy agreement
between the shipbuilders of the Pacific
and the council has been reached nv
10 a. m. July n, it is announced ar
Oakland.
Final fluctuations showing San Fran
cisco's subscriptions to the Victory
Liberty loan had exceeded the citv,s |
quota of $79,31S,l5o gave the Twelfth
federal reserve district a clean slate
with every major division of the dis
trict over the top"
Messages written in invisible inn,
on the blank back pages of a bible was
one way in which the German spy sys
TEN IN this country endeayored dnr
ing the war TO communicates sacrat,,,
with the German imperial government
Three months after the 5O.vaaro,a
norwegian bark Superior becamo
mystery of the sea- by "disannoor
ing off the island of Bali in the Male
archipelago, on voyage from Manila
10 New Yorgk, the vessel arrival 80
New York on May 20, with her oo :
tain unaware that hit, -. 'P