The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-09-16

| saloa occurred early Friday when car
ferry Pere Marquette No. fs, flagship
Of fleet Of six steel car ferries own
ed and operated BY the Pere Mar
Guette Railroad company. sank 10 the
bottom Of Lake Michigan. twenty
miles on Port Washington. with 4
loss Of thirty lives.
announcement is made Of a $500.
600 gift to the Evanston uII.1 Hos
Dital association by George w, pat
ten, brother Of James A. Patten. The
money ts 70 be used by the hospital
as an endowment fund to be known
as the Agnes and Louisa Patten fund.
Three persons, two women and a
man, were burned to death in South
Chicago when the automobile in
which they we're riding crashed into
a car loaded with molten Stag from
the Wisconsin Steel company.
Duke Francis Josef of Bavaria is
visiting the United States incognito.
having registered at a San Francisco
hotel under the name Of Mr.. waIeD.
Of Hamburg
Condemnation Of Richard A. Bal
| iinger in the administration Of the
| department of the interior. Of which
he is secretary. and a declaration
! that he should no longer be retained
In that office. are contained in reso-
luton adopted BY five members Of
the congressional committee which
has been investigating the BalIinger-
| Pinchot controversy.
WASHINGTON.
Solicitor General Lloyd w. Bowers
died at Boston Friday, OF ConBlica-
tons arising from an attack of bron-
chitis- Mr. Bowers was appointed so
licitor general by President Taft on
March %. 1903 He was born at
Springfield Mass, March ., 1883.
Surgeon Carter has been detailed
by Surgeon General Weymaa to visit
the plague centers Of Russia. Ger
many and Italy. and report BY cable
to Washington the actual condition
OF the cholera situation
Failure to catch a baseball thrown
swiftly by his brother in practice re
suited in the death Of Edward Hodge.
aged II years, OF Washington. The
ball struck the boy in the righz TEN
pie.
The century old fisheries dispute.
the source of constant friction between
the United States. Great Britain
Canada and Newfoundland. wa
closed on Wednesday. with the award
of the interna tinnal court Of arbf-
traitors largely in favor of the United
States.
FOREIGN.
Peppete, the famous tOreador OF
Seville, Spain. was killed on Saturday
in bull fight
The British cruiser ScyIIa has ar
rived at Kingston. jamaica from
BIuefelds Nicaragua. the difficult
between the NicaTaguan government
and the Cayman islands turtle fisher
men having been settled
The Paris-bOund express from Cher
bourg was deraiIed near Bernay,
France. Seven persons were KILLED
and fifty injured. The express was
running at terrific speed
The decree issued on August - by
the acting president of Nicaragua al
lowing the importation free of duty
of corn, beans. sugar. oils, -four and
various other productions, has been
revoked. The schools through tine
country will reopen October /.
The imperial maneuyeFs in Prussia
ended with grand exhibition Of pow
der burning by the artillery, machine
guns and infantry that continued for
three hours along a sixteen-miIe
area.
Upon the invitation of the Ameri-
can section of the International Per
manent Committee of Social and In
tustrial Insurance, the conference of
which has just closed. it was voted TO
hold the next congress in 1913 in the
United States.
George B. Field. a laborer. who has
disappeared from Clayburn. B. C., is
charged with the murder Of his wife.
The woman had been killed with a
hammer and her throat cut,
In an interview at Panama, Richard
O. Marsh. charge d'affaires of the
American legation at Panama. intimar-
ed that if the Panaman government
should ignore the wishes of Washing
ton, the United States would be COM
PEELED to occupy or annex the repub-
lie OF Panama
\ Berlin newspaper states with
seeming authority that Brazil has
asked tha German government TO
deputize one stan officer and ten Of
ficers Of lower rank in the German
army to give military instruction in
the Brazilian army.
Homecoming American tourists
who return from Europe By way Of
Montreal and Quebec in the hope OF
escaping the vigilance of the customs
officers at New York will find some
of the New York inspectors who are
familiar with the faces Of frequen.
travellers on the ocean liners waiting
to inspect their baggage.
The uprising in Neuya Yidcaya. P /.
led by Simeon Mandae former gov
srnur of nocoa Morte. has collapsed.
having been seized by the peO
pie of the province and turned over to
the eonstabulary.
A serious rival to Monte Carlo is
about 10 be set up in Switzerland
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