The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-07-12

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comedians on the American stage
died Friday in New York of cerebro
spinal meningitis. How he contracted
the disease rs mystery. He had been
III only short time and died sud
denly.
Announcement that Miss Lucy
Goode White, newspaper reporter
has been nominated by the Socialist
party of San Francisco for superior
Judge is made
Jim Flynn is still at his camp at
East Las Vegas, NJ M, nursing a nose
that was smashed almost fiat by
Johnson. He has made no plans for
the future, but insists emphatically
he would have whipped Johnson If
the fight had gone on.
II Is the plan of the progressive Re-
publicans Of Michigan to put full state
and county tickets In the field this
fall and to vote for Wilson on the
presidential ticket This is Cover.
nor's osborn's scheme.
WASHINGTON
The working agreement between
the Democratic and "insurgent" Re.
publican senators is at an end. It
has been abrogated as the result OF
conferences ever since the metal bill
was passed In the senate by the
Democrats in the absence of regular
Republicans and without the aid OF
the insurgents"
The senate has passed the naval
appropriation bill, carrying an expen.
diture Of approximately 1888, 1000, GOO,
the largest sum ever allowed the ma.
val establishment
The house committee on public
lands has fayorably reported the bill
granting a ninety-day preferential
right OF entry to lands adjoining their
original entry designated as subjected
to entry under the enlarged home
stead law.
The senate, In passing the Indian
appropriation BILL adopted an amend
ment to pay the confederated bands
Of Ute Indians of Colorado and Utah
$3,S05s257, being the net amount OF
a judgment rendered In their favor
by the United States court OF claims.
President Taft will receive the for
NAL notification that he is the nomi,
nee Of the Republican party for pres
ident at the White house in Wash
ington about August /.
A congressional investigation of
Secretary MacVeagh's administration
in the treasury department is impend-
Ing as one of the results of row OF
long standing between the secretary
and one Of his assistant secretaries,
A. Plat Andrew, which eliminated
Wednesday in Andrews resignation.
A row in the United States treas.
ury of more than years standing
between Secretary Macyeagh and As
sistant Secretary A. Plat Andrew has
eliminated in Andrews resignation
and a proposal for congressional in
vestigation OF Secretary Macveagh's
administration.
FOREIGN
Many soldiers and police were in.
jured by missiles hurled from win
dows during serious riots begun by
striking seamen and dock laborers at
Hayre, France.
The German aviator, Schirrmeister,
on Friday at Leipsig established
new worlds record for duration of
time In the air with four passengers.
His machine remained aloft 80 min.
yates and AZ seconds.
Federal cavalry took possession Of
the city. of Chihuahua Friday after
noon, No resistance was offered by
the rebels, who moved north along the
Mexican Central toward Juarez. No
disorder occurred,
The strike of the lockers at Dor.
deaux, France, in sympathy with the
seamen of other ports has been only
partly effective.
II Is reported that Pekin finaneiers
purpose to advance TO President Yuan
Shi Kai loan of $4,000, 900 without
any conditions concerning foreign sup
ervision.
Miss Hiyo Miyohara, Japanese,
read the Declaration of Independence
to vast throng gathered about the
capitol steps in Honolulu on the
Fourth. Because of her nationality,
the local lodges OF the Grand Army
of the Republic and the Order of Red
Men took umbrage and refused to
participate in the days observances.
Prince Ludovic Pignateln di ARA.
gon, a distant cousin of the king of
Spain, and well known in. the United
States. shot himself in his apartment
in Paris, supposedly because he had
failed to win the hand of Mary Duke,
daughter of BENJAMIN ]. Duke of New
York. head of the tobacco trust, to
whom he was recently reported en-.
gagged.
An attempt was made to assassin
ate Sir Francis Henry May, governor
of Hong Kong. Chinese rushed at
the governor near the postofTice and
fired revolver. but the bullet mere
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