The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-08


school football Saturday He tell on
the field and died from brain hemorr
hage
The New York state boxing com
mission is considering the advisable
ity OF enacting rule that white pug.
lists shall not put on the gloves with
negroes in public bouts at clubs oper'
ating under the new law
At Avoca, Iowa, thirty.fve wild deer,
which have been destroying the crops
and otherwise annoying the farmers.
were captured in drive Thanksgiv-
ing day.
After hemorrhages In the last two
years and after having been declared
consumptiye with little chance Of re-
coyery Caleb Wombie, miner Of Cal
aperas, Cal, coughed up rusty screw
that had been lodged in his lungs for
years
Walking beside their father and
helping to trundle barrow loaded
with wood for the Thanksgiving day
fireplace, Harry Rouff, aged fourteen,
and his brother, John, seven, were
struck and killed by an automobile
near Cambridge, Mass.
WASHINGTON
Rudolph Forster, who has been
connected with the White House In
an executive capacity for more than
ten years, has been appointed execu-
tive clerk to the president at $4,000
year
Charles 8. Francis, proprietor Of
the Troy IN. VI Times and formerly
ambassador TO Austria-Hungary, died
December /. Charles Spencer Fran.
els was equally well known as a dip
lomat, a newspaper man and an ath,
lete.
The much discussed report Of the
tariff board on the wool schedule OF
the Payne-Aldrich tariff and on the
wool industry will be in the hands of
president Taft not later than Decem-
Der II.
| Secretary Meyer has created the
new office of director of the navy
yards and announced the appoint
ment of Rear Admiarl A. B. Willis
as director.
Illicit distilling is steadily increas-
ing in the United States, especially in
those states In which prohibition laws
. have been enacted, reports Commits
sioner Cabell of the internal revenue
bureau.
American railroads lose s50,OO0,0Oo
worth OF fuel year and consume
5000, 900 900 worth of coal to secure
$4,000 900 worth of efficiency--a fur.
, Their waste III $120,O00,0O0 worth of
/ fuel, according to figures prepared by
, Chief Engineer L. G. Fitch of the Chi.
. cago Great Western railroad.
! Representative Lindbergh of Min
i nesota, author of a resolution intro
. duced in the house last summer di
Q recting an Investigation into the
I money trust" has made public hif
\. brief, which he win, submit to the
J. house committee ohg rules early il
|. the coming session.
@ FOREIGN
( The national council of Persia has
d rejected the Russian ultimatum by
big majority. The foreign minister
n has resigned. The vote of the nationa
n council was cast in open session A
d subsequent secret sitting of the mem
d bers was practically unanimous
d against compliance.
. Njegus,, the Dalmanian who fire.
1, four shots at Herr Hochenburger
d minister Justice. during the session
;, OF the Austrian reichsrath, 0ctobe
g 5, has been sentenced to seven year
Is at hard labor.
Stories of almost incredible barbara
II ties practiced by Arabs and Turks arr
10 contained in dispatches received a
n the Italian embassy in Washington. Ii
;" dispatch received Sunday iron
" Rome, the Italian minister of foreigl
he affairs describes alleged atrocitie
II practiced on the Italian Wounds
g. which include erucifixion and buria
alive. Women, 1t is said, take part i
re the preparation of the cruelties.
al Russia's ultimatum has been deli'
o. cred to Persia. Russia demands tn
I'd instant dismissal of w. Morgan Shu
ut ter. the American treasurer generi
n OF Persia, whose administration
ID the department has resulted in th
he present complications, and indemnit
70 for the expense incurred in sendin
Il. Russian troops to Persia
Han Yang has been occupied b
", the imperial forces, which crosse
Ill the Han river twenty miles aboy
Is. that place. WI Chang has made
1t provisional capitulation and 1t Is ey
TO dent that the government Is gettin
a strong hand in that part of Hu,Pe
&c province, where few weeks ag
at the rebels seemed to have suprem
m. control.
as The foreign legations at Pekin hay
es received printed circulars purportin
to come from the revolutionary o
M ganization. threatening to boycott th
m merchandise of any nation making
an loan 10 the government,