The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-23

A conference committee OF twelve.
representing forty-eight eastern rail-.
roads, will meet union representatives
In New York soon to discuss the re.
cent demand OF the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers for increased
pay. The meeting probably win be
held next month.
Three children, one an infant six
months old, were burned to death
when the farm house of Thomas
Fruend was destroyed by fire near
Alexander, Okla. The parents were
away.
In a head-on collision between an
eastbound freight and westbound
passenger train on the Baltimore e
Ohio railroad near lockwood, Pa.
twenty-four persons were reported in. |
iured, three seriously.
Henry X. Whitford, one of the foun. |
ders Of the National Electric society
and widely known In medical circles |
throughout the United States, died at
his home at Elgin. Ills, Thursday,
aged "a years.
The nomination OF former Governor |
Myron T. Herrick of Ohio as ambas.
sador OF the United States to France.
to succeed Robert Bacon, resigned,
was confirmed by the senate Thurs.
day.
WASHINGTON
Norman e. Mack has resigned as
chairman of the Democratic state
committee and George M. Palmer. for.
mer minority leader OF the assembly,
has been chosen his successor.
TO end alleged wholesale frauds
In interstate commerce, shippers,
consignees and bankers have an.
pealed to the senate Interstate com.
merce committee to recommend leg.
isation making railroads liable for all
statements in bills of lading.
The bath tub trust case brought by
the government against fifty defend.
ants and decided in favor of the gov.
eminent at Baltimore, has been ap.
pealed to the supreme court.
Charles Straus OF New York, repre-.
senting interests which manufacture ,
machines, told the senate
nnance committee that the typewriter
makers would be obliged to close up
shop and do business abroad If their Q
were placed upon the tariff Z
tree list as is proposed In the Demo !
cratic steel bill. b
Major General Fred C. Ainsworth,
ldJutant general of the army, was >
stripped of his office Thursday by
rider of President Taft and will an. j
'ear before coutr-martial on charges e.
aid to embrace conduct prejudicial II
o good order and discipline and in. +
Is
President Taft on Wednesday sign. d
d the proclamation admitting Ari.
ona to the Union. He used gold
ZEN, which is to be given to Postmas. 0
er General Hitchcock. s.a
FOREIGN
German Aviator Schmidt died al
Berlin from the effects of a fall of 100 !.
feet while he was flying In his BIZ
plane. The cause of the accident
vas the breaking of the elevating rud. :,
Ter. ~
Various miners unions throughout =
treat Britain are sending formal no. =
ices to the coal mine owners notify. "
ng them that the men will quit work !.
March /, when nearly 100000 men
Ind boys will go out on strike.
The trustees Of the Irish parliamen.
airy fund have issued an appeal for =,
money with which to combat the b
Jnionist campaign in England against Ii
lone rule. The appeal is signed by F
Iohn Redmond and John Fitzgibbons, n
p, and the bishop of Raphoe. b.
The bitterness of Germans against g
treat Britain evoked by last sum is
ner's events has not yet passed ts
way. References in the reichstag b
Thursday to the mission of the Brit, ii
sh secretary of war Enthusiastically pl
we're cool, except on the part of the
Socialists, who warmly favor better
citations between Germany and Great
Britain. q;
Suffering among the hungry mil, s.
Ions in ADMINISTRATION provinces of N
Ihina Is graphically described in Ii
eport to the American Red Cross K
rom Amos p. Wilder, consul general pi
t Shanghai and a member of the L.
relief committee. Condi d.
ions are worse than ever before in NJ
even provinces. TO
. According to a Shanghai dispatch tn
D a London news agency, DIR. Sun II
AT Sen has resigned the presidency
a favor OF Yuan Shi Kali
The grand maenuvers on war =,
Gale OF troops in the Philippines has y,
egun. Nearly 5000 men of all arms "
re taking part, the troops being di- ~
ided into two armies. 90 90
The British miners federation has ~,
sc!ded to appeal to the miners of ~
urope and America to boycott all at -
'mpts to export coal to the United -
.ingdom in the event of a national ~ y,
rike. TIC
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