The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-10-27

DR.. ]. Grant Lyman, the Los Ange-
les promoter accused OF having used
the mails to the financial detriment
of the public, now occupies cell In
the top floor of the county jail at
Oakland.
After he was discovered by one OF
his parishioners IN Prospect park at 3
O'Clock in the morning in the company
Of young girl, the Rev. e. B. Shaw,
pastor OF the Memorial Baptist cnurcn
of Brooklyn, handed in his resignation
and 1t has been accepted. The pastor
denies any wrong doing.
]. Pierpont Morgan is highly dis
pleased with an increase of between
So, 900 and $5,O0O,00O IN MS taxes
for next year.
Vera Dean, a Denver girl, visiting
Los Angeles with her mother and
brother, saved the latter's life when
the undertow was about to take him
out to sea.
Lillian Robertson, the captivating
''bathing GIRL" who is held respon-
sfble for the troubles of Marshall r.
Bradley, is languishing in Jail at
Pittsburg pending the suit for $4,000
damages brought by Mrs. Bradley for
the alienation of her husbands affec-
tons
Eugene Ely, aviator, met death at
the state fair grounds at Macon, Ca,
Thursday, when his machine failed
to rise from a sensational dip and
plunged with him fifty feet to the
ground.
WASHINGTON
The United States circuit court
will be asked to exercise its alterna-
tive in the tobacco trust case, order
complete dissolution Of the Ameri-
can Tobacco company and appoint a
receiver therefor.
Sixty leading officials of the indie
pendent tobacco association on
Thursday decided upon unanimity of
action in opposing the American To
bacco company's plan of disintegra-
ton. Representatives OF labor in
the tobacco industry were also pres
ent.
The itinerary of President Taft's
supplemental tour" was completed
Thursday and the date of his return
to Washington was fixed for Novem-
Der ~.
Former Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island has submitted to the national
monetary commission, of which he
is chairman, a revision of his plan
for monetary legislation The COM
mission may use it as a basis of its
recommendations to congress.
The government has abandoned its
legal fight to recover penalty from
the St. Louis National stockyards, for
alleged violation of the twenty-eight
hour law regulating the feeding and
watering of livestock in interstate
transportation.
FOREIGN
The German battleship Hessen
was rammed near Kiel by the Nor
wegian steamer Argo. The damage
to the battleship was very slight.
The steamers bow was crushed in,
but she returned to Kiel unaided.
The foreign banks continue large
shipments of silver, including British
dollars, to North China, owing to the
fact that Chinese paper currency is
being discredited. The market is
practically depleted of specie.
American warships have been or
dered to Marking, Shanghai and Tien
Tsin. The Abarenda, which is pro-
ceeding to Tien Tsin, is carrying a
detachment to reinforce the Ameri-
can legation at Pekin.
The prince regent has yielded to
the demands of Yuan Shi Kai, who,
1t Is said, will raise his own division
of troops, numbering 10000, for the
purpose of controlling the situation
in the provinces of Hupeh and HUI
nan. In addition, the new viceroy
has been permitted to cash a personal
grant of 100000.
Nose McCon and Fred Smith. In
dams, murdered Robert Forbes, an
aged lighthouse keeper at Pie island.
Man. The murderers were found
dead in cabin. They had died from
wood alcohol poisoning. The alco-
hol, it is believed, was taken from
the lighthouse, where it was kept
to clean the lamps.
The American consulate at Hankow
is believed to be fully protected
against mob attack, for half of the 800
men aboard the three American gun
boats, Helena, Ell Cano and Villalobos,
now at that port, could be landed in
any emergency.
CONSERVATION was caused at Win
nipeg by an order issued on Monday
by the Canadian minister of railways
at Ottawa stopping all construction
work on the National Transcontinen.
tai railway. This is a government
road running from Winnipeg to Mono.
ton, N. B., to be leased by the Grand
Trunk Pacific railway when com.
pleted.
Advices from Cuernavaca say that
the Zapatistas were cut to pieces in
battle at Tepextlan, but Zapata him.