The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-07-05

The United States transport Sheri.
dan, with four companies of troops
for st. Michael and Fort Davis, is
still imprisoned in the ice. which Is
drifting toward the Arctic ocean, ac-
cording to a dispatch from Nome,
Alaska.
The freight handlers strike, affect
ing twenty-three Chicago railroads
and nearly 1000 men, was settled
Thursday, the strikers returning to
work.
WASHINGTON
Secretary of the Navy Meyer is le-
covering so rapidly from his mild at
tack of typhoid fever that arrange
ments have been made to remove him
to his sleeping porch.
Every common carrier, railroad and
steamship line in the United States
was affected by the suspension by the
interstate commerce commission on
Friday of the new proposed regula.
tons restricting the dimensions OF
pieces of personal baggage.
LoaIuuSI anu RANK MUTT
son of the American Federation of La.
Dor, recently sentenced to one year
and nine months in jail, respectively,
for contempt of court, have filed an
appeal from Justice Wright's decision
and gave bail Execution OF their
sentence was stayed.
1t became definitely known at the
White House on Thursday that
Charles D. Hilles, President Tafts
secretary, can be chairman of the Re.
publican national committee if he
cares to take the place.
Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison
and John Mitchell, the labor leaders,
On Monday were held guilty Of con.
tempt OF court by the supreme court
of the District of Columbia in cOnnec.
ton with a courts injunction IN me
Buck Stove and Range boycott case,
and sentenced to jail.
FOREIGN
A general campaign OF destruction
in the postoffices throughout the
country was begun in England by suf.
fragists. They smashed the windows
Of the central postoffice and of th4
Reform club at Manchester. Some Of
the London branch offices and thoso
at Hitchin and Letchworth were
raided.
General Evaristo Estenoz, the rebel
leader, and 100 insurgents were killed
in a battle at Vega Bellaco, six miles
from Micara, in the vicinity of Son.
go, by government troops under com
mand of Lieutenant De La Tore.
The naval council has asked the
Chilean government to arm the new
coast Notifications with American
guns The German cannon were re.
jected by the council. The fortified.
ti0ns were carried out under the su.
pervision of an American artillery Of
ficer.
Baron Vincenzo Palermo, a former
cavalry lieutenant of the Italian
army, has been sentenced TO life i'm.
prisonment for the murder of Prin.
cess Giulia Trigona di SAINT Fila,
lady-in-waiting to Queen Heelna.
T. R. Anderson, United States con.
sui at Hamburg, Germany, under
President Lincoln, died at his home
in Columbus, O., aged 70 years.
Two Of the twenty-three seamen in,
tured on board the French armored
cruiser Jules Michelet off Hyeres by
the premature explosion of siX-inch
gun, are dead at the naval hospital al
Toulon, and three others are dying
Capt A. H. Rostron of the CaTpa.
thia has been presented with a gold
medal and an Illuminated address oil
thanks by the city of Liverpool for
his work in rescuing the survivors OF
the Titanic disaster.
The three suffragettes who smashed
the glass door panels in St. Stephens
hall while trying to gain admission tc
the house OF. commons, have been
sentenced to two months imprison.
ment.
During practice aboard the French
armored cruiser Jules Michelet Oh
Hyeres Islands, prematuer explosion
of q sixteen centimeter gun occurred.
Three officers and twenty seamen
were injured.
General Booth, the head of the Sal
walton Army, in the course of an in,
terview in London, said: Il am still
hoping to go to America and Canada,
as | hargained for" General Booth