The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-08-25


Oscar A. Brindiey scared higher
from the ground at Chicago on Fri
day than an aeropIane has ever been
and set new worlds record at 11.726
feet.
Three men, one of whom the author
files assert was a leader OF the mob,
have been arrested at Coatesville, Pa,
charged with murder in connection
with the burning TO death OF Zach.
ariah $. Walker. Sunday night.
II is persistently reported that the
wedding OF Colonel Aston and Miss
Force VIII take place On the colorels
yacht at an early date.
Asking for lunacy commission for
Harry X. Thaw, now confined in the
Mattewan hospital, New York, a pc
tition was filed in common pleas
court at Pittsburg on Wednesday In
behalf OF Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, his
wife.
WASHINGTON
The house failed 20 override the
presidents veto Of the wool measure.
On motion to pass the wool measure
over the veto. there were 227 affirma.
tive votes, twenty-five OF them insur-
gent Republicans and one independ-
| ent Republican, while the negative
votes were 1923
Attorney Genearl Wickersham, for
iner Speaker Cannon, Representative
Mann Of Illinois, Republican leader of
the house, and several other Repub-
lican members OF congress had a mar
row escape while on train Friday
night when their special car. travel.
ing at high speed, ran down COW.
Republican applause which greeted
President Taft's veto OF the wool tar
tx bill, as 1t was read in the house on
Thursday. was followed by an out
burst of Democratic cheers when Ma.
iority Leader Underwood announced
that he would again call up the bill
and move its passage over the veto.
A shrewd move by the regular Re.
publlcans, as unexpected as 1t was ef-
fectiye, on Thursday suddenly threw
the Democrats into complete control
OF the senate In their own right and
forced them absolutely to abandon
their coalition with the progressive
Republicans.
The Panama canal work is now pro-
posed for investigation by Chairman
Wilson OF the house committee on la
Dor. He has introduced resolution
calling for an investigation OF reports
that American workmen are being dis
eliminated against by canal officials
employing discharged employees fron
South American railways.
DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, chief OF the
bureau of chemistry, created excite
ment before the house investigating
committee when he charged that three
cabinet officers, sitting as a board OF
review, had reversed the govern
ment's ruling In a corporation case
after the corporation had offered
money TO chemists to endorse It's food
product
FOREIGN
Prosecution for violation of the
hours OF service act faces officials of
the st. Paul. Minneapolis & Sault Ste.
Marie railroad as a result of an acct
ednt near Superior, Wis.,. on July 5,
1911, in which four employees were
killed and two injured. The crew had
been on duty eighteen hours and fifty
minutes.
Julia Marlowe and II. Fl. Sothern,
the most prominent co stars in the
theatrical world. were married in
London last week.
Thirty army officers were poisoned
at their mess dinner at Torres Novas,
Spain, apparently from arsenic.
Prompt use of stomach pumps saved
the lives of all. II is thought re-
yenge was the motive FOR the act.
Hawaiis Chinese population fell off
during the last decade, but this de-
crease was met by the great increase
In the number of Japanese, according
TO preliminary figures made public by
the census Office,
MOhammed Ali Mira, the ex-shah, is !
reported to be in full fight after a
crushing defeat OF his forces by gov
eminent troops north of Firusekun.
Edmond Rostand, poet and drama.
fist, was the victim of a serious aut. |
omobile accident near Diarritz. France.
1t is feared he will not recover.
President-elect Cincinnatus Leconte
on Thursday at Port au Prince, took
the oath OF office before congress and
a great assembly that included all the
high officials OF the new government.
In government circles at Mexico
City 1t is no longer denied that the
government he's on its hands another
revolution The movement begun by J.
Emihano Zapata's men has gained ;
such Roadway that it can be stopped I
apparently only by the use OF the
army.
Much interest has been aroused at
Paris by the announcement of the
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