The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-07-15

yard.
While Pittsburg firemen poure'
powerful streams OF water on him, w
A. Weaver, superintendent OF the All
lsntic Refining plant Istandard OF
company dashed daringly through
Games and smoke and shut a valve
which prevented IRE spreading from
burning still Of benzine to great
tanks Of oil nearby.
Arch Hoxsey. in a Wright bi-plare
diyed almost straight downward fro !
IA height OF 100 feet, at Pittsburg
Kans.. after his engine had gone dead
me machine was demolished. bu
Hoxsey crawied out from mass d
planes, wires and stays nnhuFt.
WASHINGTON.
Lightning rods are being raised
over the White House, during the
presidents absence from the capital
Secretary Meyer has undertaken q
personal inquiry into the work Of en-
larging the dry docks under the re
cent appropriations, which have just
become available.
BY proclamation Of President Taft
I0,67e acres Of land near ri Reno
Oklahoma, which were formerly with
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe indian
reservations, have been opened for
settIement These lands are said to
be the most valuable ever offered for
sale by the government
Secretary Nagel OF the department
OF the commerce and labor and At.
torney. General Wichegsham viii spend
part 81 the summer IN Alaska The
former VIII look into interest coming
under the juridiction OF his depart
mont and the latter has accepted an
to accompanying him.
Since the passage Of the new postal
savings bank law, bankers and post,
throughout the country have
been slow to demonstrate interest In
L. So far only nifty banks have made
application for designation as deposl.
tories Of postal funds, and only fifty
postmasters have asked that they be
to accept postal savings.
Ship building In the United States
turing the fiscal year just ended
show marked increase over that Of
he previous year.
The government has won Its case
against the Lexington Mill g. Elevator
company Of Lexington, Neb., the jury
hiding that the -four seized was adult.
rated aud mlsbranded
FOREIGN.
Baroness De La Roche, driving a
yolsin biplane at Rheims, France. lost
ler nerve at height Of fifty meters,
.ut on the power and fell with her
TO the ground. Her legs and
rms were broken and she suffered
severe COMMISSIONS, but hopes are en-
ertalned for her recovery.
The profits OF the Belfast corpora
ion electricity department last year
amounted to sos 900, $4,000 Of which
vas handed over in relief of rates.
The greatest interest has been
lroused IN scientific circles by the
discovery by a British expedition OF
/ new pigmy race in New Guinea.
A repetition of General Weyler's
system is being at.
.emped In Nicaragua, at the instiga-
ion OF the government, t is charged,
bully 5000 people having been or
Tered to concentrate at Granada.
A tablet to the memory of Benja.
min Franklin, In the Ecton church,
Northamptonshire, England, was un.
yelled on July 7. Ecton was the an
,estral home OF the Franklin family.
Smugglers with diamonds worth
I400. 900 from the southwest African
ields, have succeeded in evading the
colonial officials at Luderitz bay and
escaped for Europe. 1t Is believed
hey are aboard German liner.
The American German trade war, of
which we have heard so much, Is as,
iuming definite and acute shape in and
tut OF the empire. So far the Germans
ieem to be the aggressurs. The Am.
,rlcans are Winding their own bust.
less going after the trade on merit,
The fact that the supreme court of
Sweden has acquitted former Prime
Christensen of all knowledge
II the $4,000 ,OO0 populations of former
Minister of Justice Albert causes no
NJ, Christensen's friends all
along have cunteuded that he was as
much a victim OF Albert as any one
'lse
About four hundred habitual criml.
lals attempted to storm the main
gate OF the Latohgart central gaol,
-ahore, Ignoring the warnings of
he authorities. they showered brick.
bats ON the guards, who fired vol
ey, checking the rioters, Seven riot.
FRS were killed and nifty wounded.
The American invasion of ireland is
low at It's height and there have
never before been so many Americans
N ireland, Every ship which lands
At Queenstown drops three or four
hundred homecoming lrish-Ameri.
sans.
The formal demand OF the Italian
government Tor the oxtradition Of
Porter Charlton has been forwarded
" tho foreign office to the Italian en-.
lassy at Washington, Charlton is the
fOung American who murdered his
slfe In Italy and was arrested a fort.
hight age in Hoboken,
Queen Mary of England is an artist
II no small merit Among the many
OF her travels are some
executed water colors of
Ter own painting Encouraged by
Queen Alexandra. her majesty has
Ilso become a deyetee to photography,