The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-12-16

the rear end OF a freight train q
starms Slippery rails caused the az
J cident
The corn crop OF the United state
for 1910 OF 3.12iSS1 900 bushels eS
7 ceeds that OF the record year. 1906
and Is greater than the average erol
of the preceding Ave years by IA pc
cent. The value Of the present year,
crop Is sl.5oo.O0o
Emily Reich. a I5.year-old schoo
! girl. OF New York city. is dead.
victim, physicians believe, OF exces
siYe ropeskippins. she was suddenly
stricken AZ her desk in a publ,
school.
Four Democratic candidates fol
state offices In Missouri who we're de
feated In the November election
served their Republican opponents
with contest papers on Tuesday,
II WASHINGTON.
4 Secretary Dickinson comes out in
/ hls annual report with a strong ia.
4 dorsement Of the dying machine, and
with a recommendation TO congress
for an appropriation to provide the
signal corps with a reasonable mum.
Der Of the better type Of machines for
instruction purposes and field work.
The Hallinger-Pinchot investigating
committee after eleven months' work,
made It's final report to congress on
Tuesday The seven Republican com
mitteemen reported In Secretary Eal.
fingers favor, while the minority re-.
port suggested that he should be re-
qnested 10 resign.
The production OF spring and winter
wheat IL G91.767.O0O bushels, or sub.
stantially the average OF the proceed
ing FIVE years. whereas the value Is
about s62b.0O0000. or rs per cent
above the five.year average.
The antitrust campaign OF Attorney
General Wickersham shifted to De.
trolt this week with the result that in.
dietmenta were returned by the fed.
eral grand jury against sixteen firms
and thirty-two individuals In the bath.
tub trust" cases
The light for pork" In the river and
harbor appropriation bill is on In ear.
nest, and many improvements OF wat
erways are being urged on congress.
Several members already have intro
dueed bills on the subject.
FOREIGN.
John William Hays, a sailor on the
American cruiser New York, who
Killed a Japanese child and injured
another Japanese while he was run.
ming amuck In the lower quarter OF
Hongkong on September /, has been
sentenced to three years penal servl.
tude
Madame LeVlllain Of Paris has been
convicted OF manufacturing cigars
and cigarettes out of cocoa husks, in
contraYention OF the tobacco monop-
oily, and has been sentenced to four
separate fines OF cleo each.
II seems safe to announce that the
ancient absolute regime In China will
exist ony historically after the Chi
nese new year In January, 1911. II Is
stated that the throne has decided to
accede to the resolution of the i'm
perlal senate praying for the mme-
diate creation Of constitutional cab
met
Jose Sanchez Alvarez. former promf-
nent mine and land owner at Parral,
Mexico, now lieutenant colonel In
the insurrectionary army in Mexico,
says the revolutionlsts have about
5000 men under arms who are deter
mined to win or die.
During the performance OF Gar
men" at Bayonne, France, singer,
Mile Sternel, went out OF her mind
and hurled insults at the audience,
who retorted virogously. 1t became
necessary to lower the curtain and
dismiss the audience,
Bolivian forces surprised and at
tackled the Peruvian garrison at Guy
abal on the Bolivian frontier. Many
Peruyians were killed or wounded,
Peruvian troops have been rushed to
the scene,
II is now stated that there are at
least 1000 Mexican federal troops in
the state of chihuahua taking the
field against the instructors in the
A bill has been reported favorably
In the French chamber or deputies,
on women the right to vote
for city, communal and departmental
councillors, and making them eligible !
for election to these offices.
H. A. Franklin, the male sufrragette,
who attempted to attack Home Seere-
tary Churchill of England on Novem.
Der 26, has been sentenced to six
weeks In jail.
Some forty persons were seriously |
injured, n number OF them fatally, In
a collision on the London NortnW est. |
ern railroad at Willenstenden June |
ton, England The second section of |
a train from Watford ploughed into
tho first section, which was standing
at the junction.
The position of the parties after the
second days pollings in the general |
election in England was: Government
coalition; Liberals, 81; Labor, Ia: Ma.
Is. total. III. Opposition:
Unionists. i16.
The Duke of Charities, grandson
of King Louis Philippe of France.
died Monday, He was born in Paris in