The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-02-10

A bank burglary law has been
passed by the Kansas legislature
which provides that anyone who shall
break into building and attempt to
open safe or vault by the use OF ex-
plosives shall be, on conviction, sent
to the penitentiary for not less than
ten nor more than thirty years.
The striking garment workers Of
Chicago, who have been on strike
since September %, have given up
the struggle and sought terms. Sup
plies have been nearly exhausted for
some time and for the last two weeks
relief has been furnished by the com
missary stores only by cutting down
the supplies furnished the strikers.
Merritt T. Cover. half century ago
a missionary to Hawaii ana suDse-
quently twice Prohibition candidate
for governor Of Connecticut, died
February at his home in New Haven,
Conn. He was 70 years old.
Robert NJ Newton, As years old,
banker and prominent horseman, com
mitted suicide at Ottawa, ILL.,, by leap
ing into the Illinois RIVER. Financial
losses, it is believed, led Newton to
kill himself.
Population statistics of the thir-
teenth census announced on Wednes-
day include: Nome, Alaska, 1900 for
1910, as against 12,48S for 1900, taken
during the rush to the gold fields.
WASHINGTON
The HUMPHREYS bill, giving the gov
eminent power to exclude from Amer.
lean ports any foreign ships that en-.
ter into POOLS or agreement to control
freight or passenger rates or to shut
out competition has been favorably
reported to the house.
The printing invesa' CATION comm's,
sion has presented to the senate
new printing law which, if passed by
congress, will result in a saving to
the government OF a million and
half yearly.
Consideration of the senate bill
promoting Capt Robert E. Peary to
| be rear admiral in the navy has
Eeen indefinitely postponed in the
/ house because of the illness OF Repre-
sentative Bates of Pennsylvania. who
has the measure in charge.
For the first time in the history OF
the government, the vice-president of
the United States on Thursday exer
c.sed his constitutional prerogative OF
casting a vote to break ties in connec-
tiCn with three successive rolls in the
/ senate. By the first he saved from
. impending defeat the ship subsidy
bill.
A house membership OF 391, as at
present, was the congressional reap
portionment plan agreed u7on by the
Republican caucus of the house.
FOREIGN
The revolution in the northern part
of the republic OF Hayti is said to be
spreading.
The collier Titan;a, 5000 tons, heav-
lily laden with British Columbia coal
for San francisco, was wrecked on
/ February 3 on Turnpoint. San Juan
island in American waters. at the
{ southern end of the gulf of Georgia.
( The crew of twenty-six were saved.
! Word was received at Berlin on
! Saturday that the plague had appeared
along the Shantung railroad, the Ger
man line which extends from the east
ern seaport of Tsintau, west 247 miles
to Tsinan-Fu. Second and third-class
( traffic between these points has been
! suspended.
The fisheries industry of Canada,
especially in the maritime provinces.
would be greatly benefited by the rati-
fication of the proposed reciprocity
/ agreement between the United States
and Canada, in the opinion of J. F.
Calder, one of the dominion inspectors
; of fisheries.
Revolutionary forces have become
suddenly active and are advancing on
Fort Liberte, a seaport on the north
coast, a short distance from Cape
Haytien. The rising has caused great
excitement and all the stores have
been closed.
The derailing of a passenger train
at Valencia, Spain, was caused by a
washout of the roadbed. Thirty per,
sons were killed.
A special dispatch from CONSTANT,
nople says that two Arab tribes,
friendly to the Turks, have been mas.
sacred by Yemen rebels. All the
adults were killed and the children S
legs cut off.
Detectives from Scotland Yard
caused the arrest at Naples of a man
suspected of being Peter the Pair
ter" the Russian anarchist for whom
the British authorities have been
looking since the battle of Sidney
street." when it was at first thought
Peter was one of the two outlaws
killed.
Seventy-five revoiutionists and
twelve government soldiers were
killed in a battle at Sierra Monija,
Mexico. on January 29, but word of
the battle has just reached Mexico
City.
Edward F. Myths, London agent of
a Paris newspaper, has teen convict
ed OF libeling King George, and sen
fenced to a years Imprisonment. The