The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-06-07

Captain Henry Rostron and Surgeon
Frank g. MCGEE of the Carpathia were
entertained at luncheon Friday night
In New York by Mrs. John Jacob AS
tor, the young widow whom they saved
from the sea after her husband went
down in the Titanic disaster.
Infatuated because pretty I3.year-
old Annie Lynch refused to marry him
and Jealous because she went to a
circus with rival, Fred J. Brown,
aged %. OF Easton, Pa, shot and
killed the girl and then turned the
pistol on himself. with perhaps fatal
results.
The city council OF San Diego unan.
imously passed resolution asking
Governor Johnson to call an extra
session OF the Legislature to consider
the Industrial Workers of the World
situation there and to confer as TO
the advisability of the establishment
OF a state constabulary.
A red flag floating above the stars
and Stripes from the Socialist head
quarters at Muscatine, Iowa, caused a
stir on Memorial day. Henry Bodman,
a crippled veteran, climbed a stairway
and pulled down the red flag. His
act was cheered by the crowd which
had gathered.
WASHINGTON
Senator Borah, backed by Senator
Hepburn, made a successful assault
upon the conference report on the
agricultural appropriation bill Friday,
because the senate conferees had
agreed to eliminate the senate amend.
ment providing for classification and
segregation of all lands In forest re-
serves suitable for agriculture and
opening such lands Immediately to
settlement.
In the Uncovered amphitheater in
Arlington national cemetery on
Memorial day, President Taft, speak. !
Ing at Memorial exercises. referred to |
The civil war as strife to maintain |
The limitations of the constitution of
he United States and referred to sug. |
sestions OF its change.
The house steel and iron tariff re.
iision bill passed the senate, 35 to %,
the Canadian reciprocity
aw, putting a universal duty of SO a
on on print paper and cutting the
iuty on pig iron and ferro-silicon. The
I'LL now goes to the conference with
he house.
The activities OF Colonel Roosevelt
we're denounced in the house In a
peech bristling with sarcasm deliy-
red by Representative Fitzgerald,
Democrat, of New York, chairman of
be house appropriations committee.
The senate unanimously passed the
ill approprlating $4,000 for the gov
participation In the peace
jubilee at Gettysburg In 1918 on the
ccasion of the fiftleth anniversary of
he battle.
FOREIGN
President Gomez on Friday teIe-
raphed General Monteagudo, the
ommander-ln-chief of the Cuban
rmy, who is at the scene of the hos
Titles In the province of oriente.
tating that the general might permit
american marines to land on Cuban
Oil to guard foreign property.
Seyenty-five German and fifty Amer.
IAN refugees, the former mostly won.
n and children, arrived at Juarez,
riday night on special train from
hihuahua, the first in nearly three !
avs. :
All steamships flying the German
ag Will be compelled to carry wire
'ss apparatus with radius of at
'ast 100 miles after October /.
That General William Booth, the
cad of the Salvation Army, who re-
entity underwent an operation in Lon. I
On for the removal of cataract from 7
q eye, henceforth will be totally a
ind, Is the opinion reached by the S
'ctors after a. consultation on Thurs. I
n.y. G
A statement from President Yuan a
III kai, just received from Picking, c
ltlines the Chinese leaders plans for 4
hiding up an army which will be +
Iual to that of Germany. His plan a
based on universal CONSUMPTION. Ii
The general council of the Interna- Il
'nal Transport Workers federation,
hose headquarters are in Berlin, Is
eparing to act on the appeal of the
'itish lockers to proclaim world II
de boycott of British shipping. On
Private kilograms received at u
arez indicate the situation about .
lihuahua is critical and that appre. s
nsion for the safety of Americans p'
the rebel zone is not unfounded. Il
Americans are being robbed and a
icted from their properties in south. c
n Sinaloa. Mexico. o.
Desultory and destructive guerilla IL
Irfare Is expected to follow the mob &c
sation OF Cuban government troops 81
Guantanamo, where the negro re- C
1t is strongest. II
Eight workmen were killed by a pre- /
ature explosion near the shops of the
nth Coast railway Mt wollnngnnv