The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-25


A search Is being made In Calilor-
mia for Anna l.. Hodge, school
teacher, who disappeared a few years
ago, after receiving legacy OF SSa.'
900. 1t is believed she was either
4 robbed and murdered or placed IN
some asylum
/ The New Mexico Constitutional con-
vention has rejected the prohibition
amendment.
Another trunk murder mystery has
been unearthed In New York City, a
trunk which had been stored for SIX
years being found to contain a skele-
ton. The trunk belonged to a man
named Lewis, who has disappeared.
In pistol fight in rooming house
lin Dallas, Texas, Joseph D. Bullock
was killed and M. w. Van Dusen
wounded. The shooting was the re-
suit OF domestic quarrel
-Four men, comprising the crew OF
the sea5oing tug Sea Prince. were
drowned in the bay off Angel island,
when the British steamer, Greystoke
Castle, rammed and sank the tug.
The first cabin passengers on the
steamship George Washington, which
arrived lit New York on the 18th, paid
$500 duty on articles purchased
abroad. This Is said to be record
in passenger baggage.
WASHINGTON.
4 President Taft, at the close OF his
visit to the Panama canal, expressed
himself as pleased with the progress
/ being made on the canal.
The so-called reduction in the price
Of meats Is deliberate manipulation
Of the market, according to DR.. HaW-
i ley w. Wiley, chief Of the bureau OF
chemistry of the department OF agri-
culture.
Interest on deposits In postal saw
ings banks will be paid only once a
year. The board of trustees decided
upon that Interpretation of the law
at conference at Washington on
Wednesday.
President Taft has granted the re-
quest of Clifford Pinchot, former CHIEF
forester of the United States, and his
brother, Amos Pinchot, for permission
to submit a brief on the question of
issuing patents in the Cunningham Al
askan coal land claims.
FOREIGN.
General Yin Chang, the new Chinese
minister Of war and the viceroy OF
Manchuria, have prepared report to
the prince regent stating that ener-
getic measures must be taken by
China unless the nation wishes to
lose Manchuria to Russia and Japan.
One hundred persons, including the
chief of police, were killed in riots at
Puebla, Mexico, on Friday. The trou-
BILE began when policemen attempted
to break up meeting of anti-re-elec-
tionists, woman firing the first shot,
killing the chief of police.
The Japanese press does not seem
pleased at the announcement that an
American syndicate has loaned fifty
million dollars to China.
| According to Francisco I. Madero,
Ianti-re-electionist candidate for presi-
dent of Mexico, now in exile in San
Antonio, a revolution in Mexico is in
|evitable. He says foreigners will not
be molested, as the revolt will be only
against the present government.
There has been a recrudesence of
cholera on an ominous scale in Con-
stantinople. There were eighteen
deaths on Friday.
The discussion of the paddock" bill
has begun in the Spanish chamber of
deputies. The Carlists opposed the
measure. This bill as originally
drawn forbade the entrance of new
orders until revision of the concor-
dat had been accomplished or def
mite law on the subject passed.
There is a serious strike of 5000
coopers at Gaia, Portugal. The disaf'
lection began among the employees
of the firms of Portuguese shippers to
Brazil, and is spreading to all The
English firms at Gaia and at Oporto
Morocco has agreed to pay Spain
$13,000,O00 indemnity as demanded by
the latter government following the
successful Spanish campaign against
the Riff trfbesmen in the summer OF
1909.
At the jubilee dinner of the Rife
association at Melbourne Lord Dudley
warmly commended the Australian
defense scheme and declared that il
the territorial scheme in Great Brit
ain failed many believed that the onls
alternative for this country would be
to follow Australia's example.
The third session of the eleventh
parliament of Canada opened al
Ottawa on Thursday with the
usual picturesque ceremonies. The
speech from the throne, delivered
by Earl Grey. expressed qualifications
over the settlement of the fisheries
dispute and confidence in a satisfac
tory outcome of the tariff negotiations
between the United States and Can
ada.
Three children were burned to death
in a fire that destroyed a roadhouse
crowded with travellers at Tolovano
eighty miles down the river IRON
Fairbanks, Alaska. Andrew Vachon
proprietor of the pace, was fatally
burned.
The first division of the American
fleet of sixteen battleships, that will
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