The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-20

painter, of Los Angeles, stands today,
by court order, deposed from his po-
sition as head of his household
A young girl of Clarksfield, o.. was
the victim Of eight married women,
dressed as men, who on Sunday night
induced the girl to take walk and
then tarred and feathered her, and or.
dered her to leave town, She was
charged with flirting.
Mrs Amanda Stotts. 80 years, old,
! experienced her first ride aboard
railway train last week when she made
trip from her home at Stotts City
Mo, to Joplin, distance Of sixty
miles.
The proposed fight at Los Angeles
between Jim Flynn Of Pueblo and for
mer heavyweight champion Tommy
! Burns has been declared of. Manager
McCarey OF the Vernon club received
word from Burns that business inter
cts AT Calgary, Alberta province
would not permit OF his return to the
prize ring.
Complete unofficial legislative re-.
turns show there will be twenty-three
Republicans to eight Democrats in
the senate and seyenty.nine Repub,
licans and seyenty-two Democrats In
the house, in the Maine legislature,
giving the Republicans 102 on joint
ballot and the Democrats eighty.
WASHINGTON
The offers of the National Irriga.
ton congress have made application to
the secretary Of the treasury for the
$4,000 appropriated at the last ses.
sion of congress to assist in defraying
the expenses OF the twentieth session
In Salt Lake City
The government regulations con.
| trolling life-saving apparatus on
steamers, revised last April as re.
suit of the Titanic disaster, will be
modified by Secretary Nagel so as to
| Tighten the requirements for vessels
plying the bays, sounds and rivers
of the Pacific coast, Gulf OF Mexico
and the Atlantic coast south OF
Charleston. s. g.
A formal appeal for the protection
OF the lives OF its employees and prop.
erty interest in Mexico was made to
the department of state on Wednes,
day by the Southern Pacific railroad.
Advances proposed on freight rates
on whole barley between California,
Nevada, Utah and Minneapolis and
other western cities have been sus-
| pended until January to permit hear
ings before the Interstate commerce
commission.
FOREIGN
All the great European powers have
exercised their good offices in trying
TO arrange an understanding between
Italy and Turkey on a basis which
could be made the foundation for of.
fetal peace negotiations. Both Italy
and Turkey, however, have declared
! that they would welcome the good
offices of the United States rather
/ than those of any other nation, which
Is entirely disinterested.
The name OF Madero was Kissed in
| the Mexican chamber of deputies on
Friday and that of Dlaz was cheered
by crowd that packed the galleries.
In the streets later disapproval of the
president was loudly voiced by throngs
who watched the chief executive pass
in his carriage.
Under the protection OF Emperor
Francis Joseph, the twenty-third eu-
charlstio congress began its labors at
| Vienna on Tuesday. Delegates and
visitors numbering upwards of 150,.
900 are present.
Annie Doyen, an American who be.
came entangled In the capture Sep
TENDER 10 OF group of alleged swind'
| lers that had operated in Chile. Boz
livia, Peru and the Argentine, has
been set free
All but one of the teachers profess
sional unions of France have voted to
disband, The Paris union refused to
dlsintegrate and the cabinet decided
to prosecute 1t for violation of the
law OF 1884
Twenty-Five Zapatistas. captured in
| q battle with federal troops near San
| Mateo, state of Mexico. were executed
under the terms OF the proclamation
| suspendlng constitutional guarantees.
At a meeting of actors and actresses
In London, a resolution against the OPP
ening OF theatres and music halls on
Sundays was adopted.
Buigaria's appeal to the powers for
autonomy in Macedonia was coupled,
according to a dispatch received by
the Frankfurter zeitung from Sofia,
! with the declaration that this request
| was final. and that, the Macedonia
situation falling OF peaceful solu-
ton, Bulgaria must resort to arms.
The most imposing and most eN.
tensiye French army maneuyers in
years opened on Wednesday in Tour
aine and Peitou when 100000 soldiers
and fifty aeroplanes and two dirigi,
Bile balloons took the field Tor week
OF mimic warfare.
Philander C. Knox, Infante Alfonso
of Spain. and Prince Henry of Prus.