The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-08-23

Confessing that he had poisoned his
mother, father and neighbor. fifteen
year-old Adam Clark, OF Windsor.
broke down In his cell In the county
jail at Santa Rosa, Cal
Seven hundred farmers of San
Joaquin county. California, are now
being supplied with electric current
with which their homes are lighted
and their farm machinery operated.
Each Of the farmers has installed a
5-horsepower motor.
An appeal for leadership from New
England In the movement of the third
party was made at Providence, r. l.,
by Colonel Roosevelt In his first speech
since his nomination In Chicago
Nat Goodwin, the actor, who was
injured while rescuing a woman com.
panion In a boating accident near Los
Angeles. will recover.
To prevent, II possible, a spread
there of infantile paralysis, now preva.
lent In Los Angeles and other north.
ern points, the board Of health OF San
Diego has declared d quarantine, re-
stricting children from attending pub
lie places.
WASHINGTON
In picturesque, spontaneous out
break during the debate OF the presi.
dents wool veto In the senate on Fri
day, Senator Lafollette attacked the
new Progressive party and swore new
allegiance TO progressive Republican,.
ism.
The senate on Friday agreed to the
conference report on the Panama
canal bin by a vote of As to 18 and
refused to pass the steel and wool
bills over the presidents vetoes.
After hurried trip from Montana
to Washington to seek treatment for
the Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Or,
IT, b. McClintic of the public health
and marine hospital service died in
Washington, Tuesday, martyr to sci
ence.
The senate has yielded to the de-
mands OF the house for the abolition
OF the pensions agencies throughout
the United States and passed the $780,
100000 pension appropriation bill with
a provision for the adjustment OF the
agencies January 81, 1913.
An agreement on the Panama canal
administration bill was reached by the
committee of the house
and senate on Wednesday by which
free passage is denied to American
owned ships engaged in foreign trade.
Repeating its action OF Tuesday
when 1t passed the wool tariff bill
over President Taft's veto, the house
on Wednesday repassed the vetoed
steel and iron tariff bill, within two,
hours after 1t had been returned from
the White House with the presidents
veto message.
After fight extending over weeks,
Democrats OF the house agreed in
caucus to recede from their mo bat.
tleship" program in this session and
to permit the battleship champions to
vote In the house for one such vessel.
FOREIGN
Terrible reports are circulating of
another massacre of Christians by
Mohammedans in Albania. A band of
Mohammedans supported by Turkish
troops attacked a section of the
Christian population in the Berna dis.
trict of Albania, which lies close to
the Montenegro frontier. Many wo-
men and children were killed and
many girls made captive.
The several hundred Mexican rebels
who were encamped opposite Column
bus. N. NJ, expecting to seize $4,000
rounds of ammunition off American
soil, left for the interior Friday
Beheaded by rebels after they had
carried him away as captive from
Il point near MoreIia, capital of Mich
icosa, is the fate of Rowan Ayers, an
American civil engineer, according to
official reports received in Mexico
City.
Mulai Hatid, who abdlcated the sui
tanate of Morocco in favor of his
brother. Mulai Youssef, has arrived az
Gibraltar with large harem and suite
on his way to France.
Upless conditions in Nicaragua ma
terlally improve within few days, the
United States win order Minister
Wetzel to take charge of the govern.
ment and with the aid of the $50 ma.
rines and 100 bluelackets already in
proclaim martial law.
Francisco Galena. u prisoner IN the
city jail at Cananea, Mexico, after
cutting all telephone wires leading in
10 the building, stabbed seven of the |
ten guards, four of whom died. and |
was subdued by the remaining officers
with difficulty,
The Portuguese authorities continue |
10 discover fresh anarchist plots
against the government thousands
Of persons have been arrested and |
the converts and monaSterieS have |