The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-10

of agriculture in the United States,
died Friday morning on a train which
was bringing him to his home In st.
Louis. He suffered stroke Of apo
plexy In sleeping car berth near
Lexington Junction.
With the opening Of the great Am
erican Land and Irrigation exposition
at Madison Square Garden, New York
City, the Tabernacle choir of Salt
Lake sang before one of the largest
audiences which has ever gathered at
similar occasion.
The case OF Mrs. Zeerunge McRee,
Of opelcusas, La, accused of the
murder Of Allan Garland. the young
Tulane student. resulted In a mis-
trial, Mrs, McRee claimed that she
shot Garland In defense OF her honor,
Doubt that the state would attempt
to prove at the second trial OF DR.. b.
Clarke Hyde that Colonel Thomas H.
Swope came to his death by the ad.
ministration of cyanide was dispelled
by the prosecution in examining wit.
nesses on Wednesday.
Circumstances similar to those in
recent ak murders in Colorado
Springs, Colo, Monmouth, ILL.,, and
Ellsworth, Kansas, have led the
Mount Pleasant, Ia, police to believe
that the same person who committed
these crimes was the assailant OF
Mrs. J. 3. Jordan, found unconscious
In her home.
WASHINGTON
President Taft will be the guest OF
honor at a dinner given by John Hays
Hammond to the members of the ex
ecutive committee of the National Re
publican league at Washington on De
cember H.
The federal governments deficit
for the fiscal year exceeded $40, 1870 OOC
when the treasury opened its doors
November |. A year ago the deficit
was $l3,000,000, while a month ago it
was $16,050,00O.
President Taft on Wednesday drop
ped into Washington for the first
time since August %, when he left
for Beverly The special train pulled
into the Union depot at 1882 O'Clock
and the president remained aboard
while it was switched to another
track to be started at midnight to-
ward New York.
The yariscite deposits near Lucien
Utah, are made the subject of an in.
teresting chapter in the geological
surveys advance bulletin on the min.
eral resources of the United States.
FOREIGN
The contents of the Franco-Ge
man accord, officially given out Fri.
day, show that Germany recognizes
the right of France to establish
protectorate in Morocco, while both
nations engage to obtain adhesion to
this accord of the other signatories
to the Algeciras agreement. Ger.
many Is conceded territory in north.
ern Congo. !
The charge Is mada by the CORE.
spondent of London news agency
that Turks when they had driven
Italians from Arab houses at Tripoli {
discovered the bodies of some 100
women and children with their hands
ana feet bound, mutilated, pierced
and torn.
In recognition OF his efforts as pro, :
president of Mexico, Presi, r
dent Fallieres of France has notified
francisco de La Barra that he has :
been made member of the Legion
Of Honor.
Government troops defeated 200 r
'evolutionists under the leadership of ,
ocho Nelisquiz, member of the cab. o
net of Honduras, in desperate bat +
lie near Puerto Cortes, Honduras, The h
'enel losses are said to be heavy t
Vehsquiz escaped into Salvador.
The cyclone season being now safe.
y over careful and conservative est. =
mates of the sugar crop in Cuba indi.
'ate that 1t will reach between 1000.
100 and 100000 tons. =
Fire starting in the business sec. "
ion of London, Ont, caused a loss of d
100000 and deprived 500 persons of a
employment. b
Lieutenant Philip NJ. Schultz of the j.
Hussars, stationed at W
Main. was convicted t.
I the Devonshire assizes on the b
harge OF spying and sentenced to ia
wenty years Imprisonment. re
Unable to comply with the demands W
I band of zapatistas for money. II p;
= Hall. an American, owner of T
'rge hotel at Cuernavaca, and well Re
nown throughout the republic, has Ii
cen kidnapped. W
dispute over six cents deducted
taxicab owner from the wages of
driver was the direct cause of n
alkout of 5000 drivers and the par II II
Iysing of Londons taxicab service VI
thursday. 90
Twenty.four persons were drowned v
hen the French steamer Diolfbab Il
INK at sea. The Diolibah was TOWING =,
he French steamer Liberia for Mar, u
Niles, when the latter fouled her, 81
Miss Janet Price, the first woman "