The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-04-16
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe ara
oiysn In a Few Lines.
INTERMoUNTAlN.

Ihefe are III the nelgnDOrHOOu Oh
ATS men out of work at Salt Lake as
result Of the switchmens strike.
Resolutions urging the United
States government to protect Ameri-
can miners in Mexico and asking con-
gress to repeal excess profits and cor
poratiOn taxes were adopted by the In
ternatiOnal Mining convention at Sc
(ttle. Among other resolutions passed
vas one asking the government to
foster production of minerals.
The body of George r. Herman,
sheepherder for Shoshone company,
was found near Kimama, Idaho, with a
bullet hole through his heart. At the
inquest it was decided that death had
either been caused by suicide, or &C.
| cident as the powder marks were on
his clothing.
A plot to extort $500 from Carl A.
Valentine, president of the First Ma
tiOnal bank at Pocatello, Idaho, was
foiled by officers, and Charles Soldiers
! has been arrested, charged with at
| tempted extortion.
| AS the result of collision between
| two automobiles near Logan, Utah,
| two were killed and two injured.
| Four persons are dead and many in
! jured as the result of a fire which de-
gtroyed the Hotel Lincoln in the down.
town district of Seattle, with a prop
erty loss estimated at approximately
100000.
| A man and a woman met death and
a number of guests were injured when
the Hotel Lincoln, at Seattle, was de-
stroyed by fire.
DOMESTIC.
Two thousand men in all walks of
life have joined the Birmingham, Ala,
Overall club in campaign against the
high cost of clothing. Started in q
spirit of jest, the idea rapidly gained
converts and the headquarters of the
club has been thronged with volun-
teers anxious to sign the roster.
A girl clerk routed six bank robbers
at st. Louis by sounding a big siren
while they were at work, but before
they had completed their job. The
bandits got away with $4,000, but tie
girls prompt action saved the bank
$4,000.
| Several persons were injured and
mine and office buildings badly dam
aged when a powder magazine at the
United Verde mine at Jerome, Ariz.
/ exploded.
Bringing from Southampton, Eng
land, bodies of eighty-seven American
soldiers who died in the service OF
their country on foreign soil, the army
transport Nansemond locked at New
York, April s, her flag at half mast.
Captain Lewis P. Schilling, aged SO
last survivor of the Alamo massacre
is dead at the soldiers home at Saw
telle, Cal.
Four women We're drowned at Por
Arthur, Texas, when an automobile IL
which they were riding plunged
through an open bridge and fell int
the ship canal.
The number of American ships nov
passing through the Panama canal ex
ceeds by a third those of any ethel
nation, Governor Harding of the cana
zone announced in a cable message tt
the officers in charge of National Ma
rine Week celebration.
Thirty-two persons sleeping in
rooming house over cafe at Ponce
City, Okla, were killed Wednesda,
; night, when an explosion wrecked tn
cafe.
Two sets of Georgia delegates wer
elected Wednesday to the Republican
; national convention and will make
contest there for recognition.
Maj. A. v. Dalrymple. central state
; prohibition commissioner of Iron Rive
"whisky rebellion" fame, declared Il
I a speech before the Electric club q
> Chicago that he had "two enemies t
fight-the liquor interests and tn
newspapers"
2 Damage to the Oklahoma fruit GRO
= resulting from the freezing tempera
t lures of the unprecedented blizzard 0
Saturday and Sunday will be in ez
; cess of $5,OO0,0o0. ..s~
), Mercury" horse entered in tn
|, horse show at Santa Barbara, Cal
!. arrived by airplane from Los Angeles
The trip was delayed day until o.
: ficers of the humane society had bee
e convinced no cruelty was involved !
the trip. which was made in an espe'
S tally equipped airplane.
paris, Millinery.