The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29

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w. C. A. at Boston, was held in $500
bonds on Friday as witness in the
trial of the Rev. Clarence v. 7. Rich
eson, charged with the murder OF
Miss Linnell
| Wright Lorimer, the well known
actor, committed suicide Friday by
linhaling gas at his home in New
York. Lorimer was 3S years old and
began bis stage career In Chicago
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several years ago.
| While sitting at supper in the grill
room OF hotel at Fort Worth,
Texas, with a party of friends, Homer
v. Trout, cattleman, rs years old, was
shot and probably fatally wounded by
his wife.
0rtie e. Mechanical, confessed per
petrator Of many dynamite outrages,
will not start from Los Angeles for
Indianapolis for at least week to tes-
tify there in the government dynamite
conspiracy probe.
| WASHINGTON
Reindeer meat from Alaska soon
may be food common to the Amer
lean table. This opinion is expressed
by William +. Lopp in charge Of the
governments reindeer service, who
has Just returned from a tour OF in
spection through Alaska on behalf
OF the United States bureau of edu-
cation.
| Elaborate general regulations for
the protection Of explosives and
other dangerous articles by freight
il the interstate commerce commits
sion.
4 President Taft sent another OF his
promised series of messages to con-
gress on Thursday. This time he
dealt with currency reform, Panama
canal tolls and various governmental
questions.
Typhoid innoculation is to be intro
duced by official order among the
field force Of the department Of agrt.
culture. This is the first time on rec,
ord that civilian department of the
government has taken such a step.
, The $500 limit on postal savings
banks deposits will be removed in the
near future, according to statements
. at the postoffice department Thurs.
day.
, There is a possibility that the bat
tleship Utah, with the Florida, will
be sent to Havana to bring back tt
/ the United States the remains oil
those found in the wreckage of the
!. Maine
AT the suggestion of Dr. Lyman Alb
bott and DIR. Mary Eddy, an Ameri
can woman who has spent many
years in Turkey President Taft hal
I taken under adyisement the tender
4 ing OF the good offices OF the United
/ States as mediator in the Turko-Ital
4 ian war.
FOREIGN
A Persia has yielded to the demand
!. of the Russian ultimatum that w
Morgan Shuster, an American who
!. holds the post of treasurer genera
J. in the Persian government, be dis
' missed from the service.
4 Although the reports of Japanese
t military intervention in China are
/. premature, 1t is understood that prep
arations have been completed Il
send an expedition to China If neces
+ sary. a
n A legislative proposal to provide
) for tariff war schedules applicable t
/. the United States at the expiration
of the Russo-American treaty of com
i. merce and navigation of 1882 hai
q been introduced in the Russian dunn
e by ex.President Guchkoff and other
n representing the octoborist and Ma
d tionalist parties. which control thu
4 majority of the duma,
Emile Estrada, president of tn
r republic of Ecuador, died suddenl!
it ut midnight Friday. President Es
5, trada was elected to office on Janu
airy II, 1911, and was inaugurated Of
d September l.
The prosecutions against the Goa
d combine in Australia, on which writ
If were served on August 26, 1910, TO
Ie breaches of the Australian anti-trus
1t law, resulted in each member of tn
y. trust being fined $4,000 by the fed
r, eral court.
* The French foreign office is unabl
IS to obtain replies to cablegrams ad
y, dressed to NJ. Belin, the French mir
Il. Ister at Asuncion, the capital of PaI
r aguay. 1t is thought at the foreigl
Office that Asuncion, which has
o, population of about $4,000, has bee
W surrounded by victorious Paraguayal
"a insurgents. H.t..
ig France is arranging another impos
lie ing testimonial of her friendship TO
the United States, A public subscriI
re ton has been opened to offer bronE,
Of bust of La France" by the illustrioul
80 French sculptor, Auguste RodiT
rs which win be placed at the base o
Or the monument to be dedicated mex
N June to Samuel de Champaign, tn
III French navigator, explorer and dis