The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-01-13

son the boy bandits VINO nSiu
,,,obt clerk at hotel In Duiuth
MINI and later shot and killed 70
lieeman Harry Chesmore, VINO nau
them under arrest, have Deen e@p
t,.rad atobteen miles north OF Duluth
at logging camp.
The tariff board expects 70 hnisp
,ts raw wool investigation IN Tue
states east Of the Mississippi rive,
nv .he middle of this month ana WIZ
be ready to proceed with WORK on 'ne
western states soon
When the sixty-seVenth session u
the Indian general assembly conVeh-
ed ON Thursday the Democrats hau
good working majority In Dotn houses
for the first time in sixteen years
WASHINGTON
Congressional reappointment under
the new census figures SO as 70 III
crease the membership OF the mouse
to 4s3 was the plan tentatively Ia,
yored by the house committee on cen
sus at a meeting on Friday ms
feature will protect each state from
diminished numerical representation.
Utah. Idaho and Montana will have
two congressman, instead OF one.
Refusal of the interstate commerce
commission to assume jurisdiction
over the railways of Alaska has been
seustained by the supreme court OF
the District of Columbia.
| .,annafoa Whn nave
figured conspicuously in the charges
Affecting the administration OF the
Philippine lands, have been asked TO
testify in the investigation before
the committee on insular affairs. the
investigation will probably be wound
up at this session of congress.
In order to avoid any possibility OF
the interven Ion of European powers
in the affairs of Honduras, In con-
trayention Of the Monroe doctrine the
United States government is endeay-
oring to straighten out the tangled
financial affairs Of that country.
Secretary MacVeagn's plan to stop
coinage of gold and permit the trea-
sury to issue gold certificates against
gold bullion and foreign gold promis-
es to become law at this session
of congress.
. ... FOREIGN
Because of his failure to enjoy the
confidence and support of the grand
council of China, Tang shao-Yi has
resigned from the presidency of the
ministry of posts and communications
on the plea of i'll health.
The Archbishop of Lyons, France,
has issued a Diocesan decree forbid
ding Catholics reading four Republic
can newspapers published in the di-
Geese and declaring the reading Of
the papers a sin.
Jean Candida, the leader of the
recent revolt in the Brazilian navy,
and forty-four other mutineers, have
met sudden deaths. Candida sue
cumbed to grangrene while pris-
oner; twenty-six of his associates
died from sunstroke while engaged in
repairing the fortress on Cobras is
land and eighteen others were suffo-
Gated in their cells in the prison on
Villegainon island.
A London paper publishes what it
claims is the text of an agreement
between Russia and Germany on Per.
sian affairs. According to the text
printed, Germany disclaims any poll
tical interest in Persia and recognize.
es Russia's interests in northern Per
STA. Russia on her part agrees to CO
to give Germany commerce in Persia
operate in building the long proposed
Bagdad railway and its branches anG
equality of treatment. 81.
Negotiations by the commissions
appointed by the Honduran govern
ment and New York bankers for re
funding the Honduran Indebtedness
are still pending and the mail
features of these negotiations is
loan to be secured by the custom
receipts of Honduras, which are t
be collected under treaty to be al
ranged with the United States.
Fire and panic which occurre
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progress in church on a ranch
near San Luis Potosi, Mexico, cost tn
lives of seventeen and serious injur
to more than eighty, chiefly wome
and children.
Citizens of Honolulu held a mas
meeting to protest against the en-
ployment in the central gramms
school there of Miss Tolei Miamot
a Japanese.
Andrew Carnegie has declined
, contribute toward project to co
| vert Yasnia Poliana, the estate of La
Tolstoi, into an international pr
, serve.
!. In battle in London between ?
Z lice and anarchists, two of tne latt
; were burned to death in the buildil
|, in which they had barricaded thel
. selves and fought all day,
v Edmund Thery, the French ecoI
mist, figures that the maintenance
q Europe on peace footing in the Ia
n twenty-five years cost 145,0O0,00O,O
Il francs, approximately s29, 100000, Oh
q which involved an increase in the pl
o lie debt of the European states of Is
l. 600, 200 900 to ISL 100000
francs.