The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-10


a former mayor OF the town, follow
ing BLACK Hand letters demanding
$4,000. ?
Louise Arbogast, who was indicted
with her mother. Mrs. Nina Arbogast'
for the murder OF her father, LOUIS
Arbogast. a wealthy butcher, viii not
be tried. County Prosecutor o'Brien
az st. Paul has entered a motion 70
nolIe prosequI, and Judge Orr granted
the motion.
The bodies OF Earl Gonyea and his
brother. Roy, OF Reese Mills, drowned
while skating on Lake Saranac, n. r.
were discovered after twentyfour-
hour search by their friends.
More than 150,O0O.0O0 pounds OF ci-
gar tobacco and nearly four times
that quantity OF the other types OF
tobacco was grown in the United
States In 1908, according to a bulis-
tin issued BY the department OF agri-
culture.
Mrs. Nellie Moore, the second cou-
sin of Abraham Lincoln, and one OF
the best known woman in Aver, Mass,
is dead at that place. Mrs. Moore
was born in Missouri July 20, 1886
WASHINGTON.
Attracted by crowd in the street
In front of the house, Mrs. Lucia
Basha, a Syrian, who came TO this
country only a week ago, went to the
door Of her Washington home to ma
that her five-year-old son had fallen
from third-story window Of the house
and that he was dead.
Attorney General WGckersham has
refuIed to comment on published
report that. he had submitted find
ing to the president in the Ballinger-
Pinchot case, generating Secretary
BalIinger Mr. Wickersham said II
such a report had been submitted he
would not be at liberty to discuss It.
It Is being urged by the postoffice
department, in an official circular,
that people who contemplate the mail
ing of Christmas packages for de-
livery in rural communities post them
as early as possible, in order TO avoid
congestion and consequent delay.
Property in Washington owned by
John G. Carlisle, former secretary Of
the TREASURY, has been attached to sat
lsfy claim of S2,3S5, made against
MIR. Carlisle by New York jeweTy
firm.
1t is estimated that there will have
tod hl unanial
poraltion excise tax by July l, 1910,
SIS, 100000, and that an additional
$4,000 900 collectible for the calen-
dar year from January l, 1909, to De-
cemher 81, 1909, will be collected
subsequently to July /, 1910.
Representative Shirley of Kentucky
has declared his purpose of urging
upon congress the necessity for build
lid Notifications on both ends Of the
Panama canal while other work Ia
progressing on the canal.
FOREIGN.
Because her first born was not a
boy Marie Hernandez OF Mexico City,
aided by two other women, buried her
baby alive in the walls of an adobe
house. The three women are under
arrest.
The Zeit of Vienna states that an
Austrian engineer named Bertuch, liv-
ing at Gratz, has invented a projectile,
to be discharged from a rifle, that
will be capable of bringing down
even the largest airship from the
height of more than 5000 feet. The
projectile is described as a diminu-
tive aerial torpedo.
Lieutenant Governor Villarino OF
Lower California has been removed
from office by Governor Vegas. The
removal grows out of the escape from
San Diego and later from Lower Cali
fornia, of Earl Lynch, son of q promi-
nent furniture dealer Of San Diego,
wanted to answer charge of killing
Earl Davis In a quarrel over a girl.
The captain. mate aud seaman
of the British steamer Congress were
washed overheard during severe
gale on Friday. Eight vessels were
driven ashore by the storm.
Former Queen Lilliuokalani of the
Hawaiian islands has executed a deed
OF trust to w. o. Smith, A. S. Cleg.
ron and A. p A. Iukia, whereby a
great part of her estate, which is
valued at $4,000 after her death will
go toward the endowment of an or
phan asylum for Hawaiian and part
Hawaiian children.
The government of the German col
ony of Togo has decreed that in pub.
lie buildings where natives congregate
(such as schools, hospitals or pris
ons), cats are to be kept officially
The idea Is that the cats will kill
any rats which may introduce plague
infections from the British Gold coast
Mile. Ernestine Orsint Spadoni, the
sole surviving daughter of the man
who tried TO murder Napoleon Ill
with bomb at the Paris Opera in
January, 1858. has put in a claim
against the French government for
| repayment, with interest, of a sum ol
Gao pounds which her father had i'm
his possession when he was arrested.
Gossip In Paris now mentions a
Russian nobleman. who subsequently
sutcided, as the murderer of Jacques
Steinheil, whose wife was recently &C,
quilted of the crime,
The recent storm which swept
Eover central Europe did a great deal
/ of damage throughout Austria. and
some lives are reputed lost. In Wien