The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-12-30

| mis- belief that he reached the north
| pole, and says he has come back to
America for the purpose Of rehabili.
tating himself by setting matters right
with his eountrymen.
twenty-five fremen met death az
the result of fire at a packing house
In Chicago, the dead men all being
hremen, falling walls causing their
death. James Koran, fire chief, and a
personal friend of Mayor Busse, was
among those killed.
The passing year has been an I'm,
favorable one for wool growers and
wool manufacturers alike throughout
the country, due to agitation over the
tariff, natural conditions that affected
| sheep raising and high prices that re.
strlcted the market according to the
tWenty-second annual wool review Is.
sued by the National Association OF
Wool Manufacturers
Pontiac Clio hide de Kelii, a Hol.
stein-Friesian cow owned by Stevens
brothers, of Liverpool, n. Y, has
broken the worlds seven-day butter
record, producing 3728 pounds. Since
1908 the record has been 1856 pounda,
held by Grace Fayne II, Homestead.
WASHINGTON
The Democrats who have been adj
yocating the pro-oleomargarine legis,
lation expect to secure passage of some
general measure along that line at the
next congress.
completed statistics show that more
than thirty-two per cent of the nation.
al banking power of the United States
now is represented in emergency cur.
rency associations.
In committing to life Imprisonment
the sentence of death passed on John
Wynne at Honolulu. Hawaii, Presi.
dent Taft takes the view that intoxi.
cation may be urged in extenuation
of a crime.
George T. Buckingham, attorney for
John R. Walsh, the Chicago banker
now in Leayenworth penitentiary, is
in Washington trying to have Walsh's
application for pardon expedited.
Formal orders were announced by
the interstate commerce commission
On December 81, reducing the price
heretofore exacted by the Pullman
company for upper berths in sleeping
cars.
A fight will be made by Representa-
tive Rainey of Illinois to bring the
question Of former President Roose-
yelt's travelling expenses squarely be-
fore congress-
FOREIGN
After stormy all night session the
Spanish chamber or deputies has
passed the governments paddock bill"
by vote of 108 to twenty. This is
notable victory for Premier Cauale-
jas, obtained after a bitter fight in
volving not only the opposition of
Spain, but the vatican, whose seal of
disapproval was set upon the legisla-
ton even before it had been submit
ted to the cortes.
The people affected by the famine
in China are in the Huahi river valley.
The number of sufferers continues to
grow, and, according to advices, be-
tween two and three million are in
distress.
For the relief of the famine stricken
people of China, Acting Secretary of
State Huntington Wilson has cabIed
$4,000 to Mr.. Calhoun at Pekin as the
initial contribution of the American
National Red Cross society.
An official communication announc-
es that the Russian government has
decided to expeI all students incit-
ing disorder at the universities.
A group of insurgents attacked
train near San Mateo, Peru, and
robbed it of $500.
An explosion of hydrogen gas at the
Izlar armor works, says a
St. Petersburg dispatch, killed four
MORALLY wounding nine and
seriously wounding twenty-five.
The French steamer Savona, own
ed by Sloman & Co., of Hamberg, is |
believed to have been lost with her |
crew of twenty-one, while bound from
for Naples. The Savona is |
a sister ship of the Palermo, which |
was recently lost.
The trial of the self-styled Count" |
and Countess" de Gatigny, who are
charged with having swindled the |
Duchess de Choiseul out of $4,000 |
in the sale of spurious paintings has
begun at Tours, France.
The trial of the British officers. |
Captain Trench of the Royal marines, |
and Lieutenant Brandon of the Royal |
navy, who are charged by the German |
with espionage upon the
at Borkum, has begun in
the imperial court at Letpstc.
Major General Pine Guerra has pub
ished a manifesto in which, by impli-
cation, he charges the Cuban admins /
ration with responsibility for his re-
cent attempted assassination. He
says his own conduct since he was
placed in command of the army was
lctuated by high sense of duty.
Charges of gross frauds in elections
n the several cantons in Martinique
ire made. After the polls were closed
he ballot boxes were brought here by
he government officials and placed
Under protection. In the night the Of
ice in which they were locked up
was entered and the boxes were
flied.
The ravages of the bubonic plague
n Mongolia are unchecked. Corpses