The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-10-20

The majority for woman suffrage
in California is growing as belated
returns come in. It is now assured
that the voters have decided in favor
of woman suffrage in that state.
Renewals OF two wharfage fran
chises for periods Of twenty years at
Los Angeles harbor Is asked in appli.
cations by the Salt Lake Route to the
Los Angeles city council.
Giuseppe Nicolosi and his brother,
Cameilo Nicolosi, were sentenced to
life Imprisonment from Chicago after
they had been found guilty OF kid
mapping fiy.year.old Angelo Marine
August 8.
Albert Leon, the alleged Russian
political refugee held in New York on
charges of counterfeiting American
ten-dollar bank and treasury notes,
probably win be tried in Chicago
Miss Eva Fotheringham, aged nine
teen. was strangled to death at San
Francisco by an automatic dumb
waiter. The young woman was re.
moving groceries from the lift when
1t shot upward, pinning her head
against the wall
WASHINGTON
President Gompers, Vice-President
Mitchell and Secretary Morrison of
the American Federation OF Labor
have petltioned the district supreme
court to dismiss the chart bs of con-
tempt preferred against them by
committee of lawyers appointed by
the court last May after the supreme
court Of the United States had decid-
ed Jail sentences for the labor leaders
were Illegal because they had been
criminally charged in a civil acse.
While the American public is re-
Taft that the Panama canal will be
open in July, 1918, great alarm has
been occasioned here by the fact
that earth around the Gatun locks
is sliding.
At least one fact has developed
beyond controversy in connection
with the excavation going an inside
the cofferdam inclosing the wreck of
the Maine in Havana harbor. This
is that the ship was not blown up
| by her boilers.
FOREIGN
Should the royalists win in Portu-
gal, it is possible that an American
girl may some day be queen of that
country. The eldest son of Dom Mig
| uel, Prince Miguel Of Braganza, mar
| ried Anita Stewart of New York
Prince Miguel may some day succeed
to the throne.
Chinese revolutionlsts declare that
the result OF the present revolt means
a republic or no China at ALL Thore
will be nothing left they claim, no
navy, no army, nothing on which the
| government can depend, if the revolu-
tionists lose.
Pedro Aguiler,. mining. engineer.
and part owner of the Spanish-Amer-
lean Iron company, of Santiago
Chile, has been seized by Chilean
bandits and Is being held for a ram
som of $4,000. W.
The Duke and Duchess of Con.
naught landed at Quebec on the 18th,
and were greeted with enthusiastic
cheers and a salute Gt twenty-one
guns.
Rene Thiron, French teacher who
was arrested at Leipsic. Germany,
charged with having obtained from a
| German army officer the secret mob
ilization plans Of the German govern
ment, has been convicted and SEN
| fenced to six months Imprisonment
The armistice between Italy and Tur-
key, for which German diplomacy
has been striving for some time, it
Is believed in Berlin, has practically
been concluded, although not yet an
nounced as official
Fighting Sate Monday afternoon for
! the possession of the little town of
! Chiapilla, held by insurrectos whose
strength was estimated at 900, vol
unteers numbering but 100 killed 1870
rebels and captured 1O6, eighteen of
whom were wounded.
The revolution that has been hang
! ing over China for months and of
which the rising in the province of
Sze-Chuen was only a small part, has
/ begun in earnest 1t is a concerted
movement tot axe the empire and de.
/ clare a republic.
News has been brought to Seattle
that the various tribes of natives on
I the Aleutian island are in danger of
being eXterminated by disease unless
| the government takes immediate &C.
ton and furnishes them with medical
attention and food.
Aviator Level was probably fatally
| injured in a fall at Rheims, France.
He was sweeping along in his biplane
about $50 feet from the earth when
something went wrong with his ma