The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-04


citation was formed in Chicago on Fri
day. All breeders of dairy cattle are
eligible to membership. The charter
membership represented nearly every
dairying section in the United States
and Canada.
Bert M. Taylor of Minden, Neb., was
hanged at Lincoln on Friday. The
crime for which he was executed was
the murder of his sister-in-laW, Pearl
| Taylor, IS years of age, sister of his
dead wife, in the town of Minden.
1 Many shots were exchanged be-
tween the police and the striking driv
ers of the United States Express com
pany and their sympathizers at Jersey
City, on Tuesday, but no one was in
jured. nj
Forty proprietors Of soft drinks
stands at Knoxville, Tenn, have
given up their government liquor IL
eenses following the decision of the
state supreme court chat the holding
of federal liquor license was prima
facie evidence of illegal sale of liquor.
WASHINGTON.
| Figures compiled at the postoffice
department show that the exact re
duction of the postal deficit for the ifs
cal year ended June 80, last, was SILL
100000. The deficit of the previous
fiscal year was $17,6OO,OOO.
Heart disease ranked second only
| to tuberculosis of the lungs as the
principal cause of death in 1909 among
the gainfully employed male persons
in the United States death registra-
ton area, which comprises over half
OF the estimated population of the
country
With the national currency asso.
Citations already formed and those in
process of formation, officials of the
treasury department believe the fin
ancial centers of the country are
amply protected against financial
5tringency.
Many unmarried women, who have
lost government positions through the
introduction of recent economies in
making applications for reinstate
ment, have suggested that they be
given places now held by married
women whose husbands are able tc
support them.
FOREIGN.
Austria has her high cost of living
problem in common with the rest OF
the world, and the government has
gone to work to find out if solution
cannot be found.
The fourth session of the Russian
duma opened on Friday. AS had been
expected, there was trouble at once
over proposal to honor the memory
of Prof. Serhe Mouromtzeff, who died |
recently.
Rumors of impending uprisings in
Pinar Del Rio and Guantanamo, Cuba.
are current, and troops are being sent
to both points.
The Lisbon press generally favors
the Inauguration of a system of gov.
eminent with a president and cabinet
similar to that in the United States in
preference to the system of parlia.
mentary government generally in
vogue on the continent of Europe.
The belief is growing that the gov
eminent will present a measure pro.
viding for remodeling of the British
empire at the coming session of par
lament. 1t is agreed that something
must be done to meet the demand for
the abolition of the house of lords.
The final and organic absorption of
Finland into the Russian empire is 7
now regarded as a matter of only a
short time.
The Russian girl terrorist, Tattiana
sentenced to Thun to four years i'm
less six months, and
twenty years Punishment from the
canton of Berne, has just finished
her sentence.
The vulnerable ports along the
Irish coast are to be provided with
modern guns by the English govern.
nent.
Eight thousand freight and express
wagon drivers went on strike at LIS
bon, on Tuesday. Soldiers and fire.
men are being utilized in the transpor
alton of the necessities of life.
A number of persons are dead and
are seriously i'll as a re-
suit of ptomaine poisoning following
| barbecue participated in by mem
)ers of the German colony of Toluca,
n Mexico.
A tornado, a tidal wave and violent
,ruptions from Mt. Vesuvius have
.aused terrible havoc along the coast
If the bay of Naples and the gulf OF
Salermo, and the islands of Ischia and
'rocidia Two hundred and fifty per
ons are said to have been killed. The
monetary loss is great.
Prince Tsai Hsun, uncle of the Chi
lese emperor, was received in audi
nee on Monday, by the emperor OF
[apan. He bad luncheon at the pal
ice and later received a high decora-
ion from his majesty.
The Norwegian steamer Bluefeld..
which has been reported missing, is
shore in the vicinity of Cape san An.
onio. The BluefeIds ran into the
Vest Indian hurricane on a voyage
rom Ceiba, Spanish-Honduras, and
vas driven on a reef October 10.
Captain John Carter, the skipper
Who commanded King Edwards yacht
died on Wednesday.
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