The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-03

Mrs. Nellie Moore, the second cou
sin OF Abraham Lincoln, and one o.
the best known woman in Aver Mass.
Is dead at TINT place. Mrs. Moore
was born in Missouri July 20, 1S46
r. A.. Wadwards. president Of q
Savings bank. Is dead as a result Of
the accidental discharge Of a revolver
al his bank III Webster City. Ia He
was busting on counter when a
/ feather caught Ia the firearm, dls-
charging It.
James p. Scott and his 1s-yearold
son we're smothered to death near
l1ynchbnrg, va, under wagonload Of
leaf tobacco. Scott and the boy were
driving 10 the city 10 deliver the 10
baceo whsn the wagon overturned
George Crocker. youngest son Of the
late California millionaire, Charles G.
cirOeker, u slowly dying AZ hts home
10 New York city from a nalady said
10 b. cancer.
ttTe buildings were demolished,
causing a loss 81 $4,000. when dyna,
mite Was exploded under the wine
house Of Joseph Mascau IN Danville.
III. The Black Hand society Ii charg
"a with the crime
WAsHINeToN.
Richard g. Kerens 81 Missouri 40
.eordlng TO current report. viii DO
appfdnted ambassador 10 Vienna upon
the assembling Of congress.
Rear Admiral John X. Barton, for.
mer chief of the bureau Of steam en-.
cheering Of the navy department, was
stricken at his desk IN Washington.
Surgeons declared his trouble was due
70 . rush 81 blood TO the head, which
constituted a mild form Of apopIexy.
hia recovery II said 10 be assured.
The senate committee, after an ex.
haastlye investigation. has decided
that the present reclamation laws
should stand, there being no reasons
for radical changes.
After appointing a subcommittee to
supervise the publication OF tia docu.
ments, the monetary commission has
adjourned for an Indefinite period. The
subcommittee, OK which Senator
Aidrleh Ii chairman, Will enter i'm.
upon the work assigned to
II.
FOREIGN.
No tldlnga have reached Havana OF
The missing steamer Mario Herrera,
which left Havana October 20 for
Porto Rican ports.
The Russian government intends |
closing contract with an American
syndicate 70 develop the Transsiber
ian railroad. which viii be double |
tracked throughout It's length. The
project involves hundreds OF millions,
Tho report comes from Africa that
Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit Roose-
zeit, m company with the Chicagoan,
-iarl =. Akeiy, have killed four Gle. |
5hants for the American Museum OF |
Natural History IN New York,
Had II not been for the recent
roubles In spain, King Alfonso would |
layO been challenger next year for
BIO Americas cup. It Is said. The
troubles at home prevent.
q the issuance Of a challenge
The revolution In Nicaragua Is
in the opinion OF Captain
shipley. commander OF the United
states cruiser Dea Molnes, which IL
~ the east coast OF Nicaragua
Smallpox Ii epidemic IN the Santa
barbara tMexicul mining camp, near
y every family having one or more
ictima Several Americans are In
he number.
Steps have been taken to form a
ranch Of the B'nai Birth In England.
Iany Well knows English Jews are In.
crested,
Frank A. Ferret, the American vol.
anoiat, has loft Naples for the island
{ Teaerlte, where he will study the
rtlptions which are taking place and
onpare the phsnomerA with those Of
ionnt Fesuylus and Mount Etna
widespread allegations of deplor,
Bile conditions In Portuguese East
Erica, particularly In the islands OF
an Thome aud Principe, credited
Y recent English and American wrls,
rs TO the existence OF cruel slave
gade IA African negroes among the
lanIers, are denounced as fabrlca.
lens BY Colonel J, A. Wyllie. after
va months Investigation.
The invitation from the United
tates for Great Britain TO participate
4 an International conference with a
lew ~ regulating the killing OF seals
a the waters OF North America has
en- referred through the colonial of.
Co to Canada.
Admiral de Ia Typere. minister OF
tarlue or France. has recommended
be construction IN 1910 OF an Improy,
q nreadnWught OF $4,000 tons and
pecd Of ~ knots, aud the building
Z two b9ttleshlps annually until the
umher shalt total nineteen. OF these
Ia will he OF the Dreaduaught type.
The great volume OF American mer
handlss now being carried by rail
srOss the lsthmus OF Panama and the
lthmus nf Tehuantopec Is shown by
he fact that for the tlscat year 1909
be goods transported amounted In
aluo To- more than s6Q,o00o0O, Il
The statement has been issued from
te foreign office OF Berlin that there
no truth 10 the report published
I London that Count BernstorfT. anu
assader Il. tae United States, would !
e transferred To the court Of st
anres In order that he might ASSUME
"a cola al nEar-u,al.s,n h.,4,.,-.,. "a. ,