The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-08-11

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notified the Connecticut Fair associa.
ton that IL cannot participate in the
reception TO be rendered President
/ Taft when he comes to the fair in
| Hartford in September as guest OF
the Connecticut Fair association The
attitude OF the grange is attributed to
the presidents advocacy Of reciprocity
with Canada.
Frantic appeals for troops to com
bat the forest fire in the mountains
north OF San Bernardino, Cal, have
been sent to the war department. Be
tween fifty and seventy-fiye square
miles OF forest already have been de-
| stroyed
Lieutenant Charles Il. Brilliant of
the United States navy was found
dead from bullet wound In his room
In New York He had suicided.
Eight lives were lost and many per.
sons injured in fire which partly de-
stroyed one OF the main buildings OF
the insane asylum on the side OF the
mountain southwest of Hamilton, Ont.
WASHINGTON
Tho Anglo-American general arbi.
tration treaty, the first practical step
toward the lasting peace of the world
was signed at the White House, on
Thursday.
Senator Smoot has accepted an invi.
tation to visit Hawaii with congress.
sionai party which proposes sailing
from San Francisco on the Sierra"
September and remaining in the isl.
ands until October s.
Representative Underwood of Ala.
bama, in speech in the house on
Wednesday, attacked William J. Bryan
for criticising his position on exten.
sion of the tariff revision program.
Underwood denounced Bryan's state.
ments as false, defended his own atti.
tude as to revision of the iron and
steel schedules and said Bryan had
placed upon every member of the Dem.
ocratic party implications unfounded
in fact.
Bearing an initiative and referen-
DUN feature to safeguard against
gerrymandering in a number of
states, the congressional reapportion-
ment bill passed the senate on Thurs
day. 1t fixes the future house men,
bership at 433--with two more when
Arizona and New Mexico attain state
hood-instead of the present 391.
Following an investigation into the
steel industry, Secretary Nable re.
ports that "out of over 10000 EN-.
ployes covered in the report the Gus
tomary working week of one-third of
them was a seven-day week, Sunday
not differing from other days, and ap-
proximately one-fourth of the 10000
worked eighty-four hours or over per
week, which in effect means twelve
hour day every day in the week, in.
GLIDING Sunday"
FOREIGN
The italian government states that
from July 81 to July 26, inclusive, 4S6
cases of cholera were recorded and
223 deaths In the provinces of Italy.
The bones found Wednesday in the
ward room of the battleship Maine
were identified as those of Assistant
Engineer Merritt, The Identification
was based ON the configuration of the
skull
The officers at Odessa, Russia, of the
Iternational Harvester company was
entered by armed men, who seized
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der. The robbers shot a policeman
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The revolution in Hayti has tri.
umphed. President Antoine Simon fed
the capital on Wednesday and took
refuge on board the Haytien cruiser
Seventeenth OF December, formerly
the yacht American. With him are
his wife and children and a number
of his followers.
General Acevado, who endeavored
to start n revolution at Reglia, Cuba,
surrendered Thursday afternoon at
Santa Maria del Rosario, a short dis.
lance south Of Havana.
AS the result of protests from many
citizens, Alderman Mitchell, chairman
of the decoration committee of the
London Old Boys association, at Lon
don, Ont, ordered down all Ameri-
can flags in street decorations.
Head counting in the house of lords
on the veto bill has now ueen trans
ferred to the Liberal side of the cham
her. Viscount Morley has written to
all the Liberal peers, intimating that
the veto bill sill be submitted to the
lords again, probably August 9.
Mine managers at Ell Orc, Mexico,
have learned that 5000 pesos have
been offered to anyone who will as.
sasinate Frank jenkins, assistant man
ager of FL Orc mines, and $1,000 each
for the life Of his brother, William
Jenkins and James Dunn, mine ex.
perts. These men are Englishmen
and have remained there in the inter
ests Of their company.
The trial OF the Camorrists for the