The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-12-27

In the presence OF Governor Doneen
OF Illinois, hts stan, large party Of
Illinois veterans and representatives oil
the government. the monument erect
ed 10 the memory OF Illinois soldiers
buried III ADdersonville, Ga. was I'm
yelled on Friday
John s. IIuylor. aged 10, the young.
est son OF the late John s. Huyfer,
millionaire candy manufacturer, fell
beneath a train at MorrIstown, N. j.,
and was killed.
Martin Panko, 20 years old, who
confessed to having attacked more
than twenty women in the past year,
died At Chicago OF q bullet wound in.
lflicted by Detective Frank wuIff
when he attempted to arrest the man
latter Panko had attacked Mrs. Grace
Relchert.
/ According TO the official returns by
the state board OF canyassers the equal
suffrage amendment lost In Michigan
by 1850
Forty mIsmated men and women
have asked the supreme court at New
York to make them Christmas pres
ents Of divorce DEGREES, All.the cases
are on the calendar OF undefendcd
cases,
WASHINGTON
President Taft's uitImatum to Mex
leo was teltEraphed Friday to Mont.
gomery Schuyler. Jr, American
charge d'affaires at the Mexican can.
'"el n the absence OF Embassador
Henry Lane Wilson.
Cigarette smoking by women has
come under the ban OF censureship by
wealthy and important society women
lin Washington.
Congress adjourned for the Christ
mas holidays Thursday after some
lively lnaneuvers to get hesident
Taft's message into the record, secure
action on the presidents recent ap.
lpointments and bring proceedings In
the Archibald impeachment TO point
where they may be disposed of early
| in January
Robert @. Valentine, who recently
resigned as commissioner OF Indian
affairs, was censured in a report by
the committee on expenditures in the
Interior department after an investiga-
ton Of charges against MIR. Valentine.
The committees report said that he
deliberately violated the civil service
laws.
President Taft got away from Wash
lington at 1890 Thursday night on his
fifth aud final trip to Panama, after
putting in a hard days work in anti
cipation OF his absence from the exc
cntive office for eleven days.
FOREIGN
The Mexican government is about to
undertake revision of its customs
tariff about the same time that the
American congress will turn its atten-
ton TO that subject. Little informa-
ton as to the anlmating purpose has
developed, though 1t IL gathered there
win be a number OF increases on vari.
Gus items OF imports.
The only definite achievement on
Friday was an agreement by the am.
bassadors of the six great European
powers that their governments would
accept in principle autonomy for AL
bania and guarantee to Servia of a
commercial port on the Adriatic sea.
II II said that Queen Olga OF Greece
Intends to visit the u monasteries on
Mount .Athos. eighty miles southeast
OF Saloniki, thus breaking the rule pro-
hiblting women from visiting the sac.
red mountain which had been strictly
observed for 1900 years.
Horatio vasquez. leader OF the Do
Imlnican revolution. whose attitude
lately has been antagonistic to the
provisional government headed by
Archbishop Nouel, has retired from
politics
Much hard language was uttered
and yenomous feeling aroused in the
British house OF commons Friday aft.
ernoon over the retirement OF Vice
Admiral Sir Francis G. Bridgeman
from the position of first sea lord of
the British admiralty.
While the agreement of the ambas-
sadors OF the powers ON autonomy for
Albania Is an important step, the
working out of details of the scheme
will be one of the most difficult prob
lens a European conference ever has
grappled with.
Prince Ludwig, the new prince re-
lgent OF Bavaria, will become king and
he mad king Otto. who has never
known that he was royal parsonage.
win be dethroned, in all probability
next year
A hiplane plotted by German. be-
lieyed 10 be military pilot. landed at
Marnay. France, on Thursday. He had
come from Mulhausen, Alsace-Lor.
faine, and was Immediately seized by
Feendarmea IN tnatrueti0nq from, tha