The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-04-29

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question only had begun, criticised
the stand.patters and urged q tight for
conservation.
BY her GOODNESS in an emergency,
Maud Adams, the actress, prevented
what might have been panic In
Kansas City theater, following the
blowing out Of fuse in the footlights.
She appeared before the footlights aud
assured the frightened patrons there
was no danger.
Warren S. Stone, head Of the Broth
erhood OF Locomotive Engineers, an
nounces that 500 Big -Four engineers
have been given substantial increase
in pay.
Albert Waiter, the 19-year-old New
York youth. has been convicted OF
numbering Ruth Wheeler, aged is,
pretty stenographer, and burning her
body. He vii be electrocuted.
WASHINGTON.
Plans for deeper probing into the
alleged cotton pools will, 1t is said, be
made within few days at Washing
| ton
Senator Aldrich had half an hours
conference with President Taft on
Friday regarding the executive ses.
sion In the senate, and 1t Is reported
pledged himself anew to devote the
remaining days OF his term to fur
therance OF administration measures.
In his maiden speech in the senate,
Senator Purcell of North Dakota
sharply criticized the president and
the attorney general He practically
charged a purpose of so transforming
the supreme court as to insure such
construction Of the proposed law as
to supplant and nulIify antagonistic
state laws and state constitutions.
A decision to allow Representatives
TO retain their seats In the house was
announced by elections committee on
Wednesday. Both seats had been con-
tested.
Nearly 100000 was raised for the
work of the African Methodist Epis-
copal church in the fiscal year just
ended, according to report made to
The financial board in session in
Washington.
National banks of the United States
held 219O per cent of legal reserve
to deposits at the close of business on
Tuesday, March 30, as shown by re-
ports made to the comptroller of the
currency on that date.
Because of opposition to certain pol
icies of Rev. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw,
president of the National Suffrage as
ISOLATION, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery,
first vice.president, and Mrs. Harriet
Taylor Upton, treasurer, have resign
ed their position.
Positive announcement of the early
retirement Of Eugene Hale from the
United States senate is made. Sena-
tor Hale declares Maine has honored
him with five full terms in the senate
without contest of any character, and
he does not relish the prospect of en-
tering into scramble for the office.
Senator Hale has served continuously
in the senate since 1881.
Senator Aldrich has authorized the
announcement that he would not be a
candidate for reelection to the senate,
and that he would positively retire at
the expiration of his present term on
March 3, 1911. Ill health alone dictated
his decision.
With banners afioat. finery a-futter
and occupying procession of taxi
cabs nearly mile long the suffragists
In convention at Washington moved on
Capitol hill on Monday and preSeted
to congress 100000 individual de-
mands for votes for women.
FOREIGN.
The government of Ecuador has
called into the service the first re-
serves. About 1000 reservists paraded
the streets of Guayquil, shouting for
Ecuador and demanding war with
Peru.
Senator Abarzuza, who once held
the portfolio of minister of foreign af-
fairs, died at Madrid, Spain, on Sum
day.
The situation In Human province.
China, is reported as critical Wo-
men and children are fleeing for their
lives from Changsha. A number of
villages near that city have been
burned by native mobs. The country
Is placarded with threats to kill all
foreigners.
The Atlantic transport liner Mime
haha has gone on the rocks off St..
Mary's, Scilly Islands, and has been
abandoned by the passengers and
crew.
A Budapest dispatch announces that
a boat containing seventeen women.
who were on their way to the Ma
tional fair at Satoralia- Ujhety, was
capsi5ed crossing the river Bodrog.
Fourteen of the party were drowned.
Bert Hunter, farmer from Alberta.
Canada, shot man named Schofield
and his wife in London, and then COM |
mitted suicide. 1t is supposed Hunter
was insane.
Hungary received Theodore Roose-
welt with open arms after he crossed
the frontier Sunday, popular enthu. i
siasm, according TO the newspaper re-
porters, exceeding anything since the \
days of Louis Kossuth.
The missionaries who lost their
lives when the junk in which they +
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