The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-05

Mrs. Win Harris and her son, Nc
Kinley Charney. are under arrest at
Somerset, KY. charged with the muir
der OF the woman's half brother, j..
w. Whitaker, wealthy farmer, whose
body, pierced with bullets, was found
near town March 2.
Colonel Roosevelt In speech at st.
Louis, denied in vigorous terms that
he would bolt the Chicago convention
in case he should not be nominated
and declared that he would support
the nominee of the convention.
The body of William Mothers, aged
10, who had disappeared from his
home at Providence, r. l., has been
found. The boys throat had been cut
and his head badly battered.
Colonel Rooseyelt's most singing
campaign speech thus far was deliv-
cred in Chicago Wednesday. He lash.
ed his opponents with sharp, biting
sentences and charged some of them
with using fraud and trickery to de.
feat him.
Word has reached Norfolk, Va, that
life savers Of the COBB island station
rescued seven men composing the
crews Of the barges CASTOR and 8. d.
Carleton, and Mrs. Flick, wife of Cap
tain Flick Of the Castor, just before
the two vessels sank In the quick
sand
WASHINGTON
The senate, by a vote of 81 to 46,
rejected the Sherwood dollar.a-day
pension bill, and then adopted, Sc to
16, the Smoot general age and ser.
vice measure, under which the pension
roll would be increased by $4,000 900
annually during the next Ave years.
An unwise, short-sighted and un-
statesman-llke policy" Is Secretary
Meyers comment on the action of the
house Democratic causus which stood
on its decision to make no provision
for battleships this year
Senator Lorimer of Illinois has
been INDICATED by the special com.
mittee, by q vote OF to 3. Edward
Hines, the millionaire lumberman
who was referred to in the investi-
cation as the man who put Lorimer
over" was also indicated.
Senator Taylor, who has been Ill
for some time, underwent an operation
at Washington last week for gall.
stones, the operation being pro-
nounced success, and hopes are en-
tertained for his speedy recovery.
Literally worn out with the load of
grief that he has borne since his
beautiful wife deserted him, Philip s.
Hichborn, son OF the late admiral,
committed suicide at Washington, by
shooting himself in the right temple.
After an all-day debate the senate,
by vote of 40 to "a, decided in favor
of the legality of the election Of Sen
ator Isaac Stephenson OF Wisconsin.
FOREIGN ea.
The rumor that General Trucy Au-
bert was killed in a battle near Jimi-
nez, Mexico, with forces under GEN
erals Salazar and Fernandez, has
been denied.
American residents of Mexico are
to be supplied with rifles and ammu-
milton by the United States, in order
that they may protect themselves
from rioting Mexicans. One thousand
rifles have been dispatched from
New York City to arm the American
colony in Mexico City.
BY vote of 222 to 22S, the British
house of commons rejected the concil-
iation bill, which aimed at comforting
the right to vote upon every woman
possessed of the household qualifica-
ton, which would have enfranchised
one million women,
Jose Maria Villadarez, the Indian
leader of the Honduran rebels, suf-
fered an annihilating defeat at Ell
Homo and has fed the country, leav.
ing Honduras at peace.
More suffragettes were on Wednes-
day sent to prison at the resumption
of the trial of women accused of
window smashing in London March
l and 4. Most of the women were
sentenced to four months imprison.
ment.
The Turkish army in Tripoli has
achieved a great victory over the
Italian army, whose losses were
twenty.seven officers and $500 men
killed and wounded, according to the
report of the Turkish commander at
Benghazi.
Eight persons were killed and thirty
injured at Buenos Ayres in cyclone
which caused the collapse of several
residences. Ten were killed and
twenty injured in the district of Ju-
min ahout 1bO miles tn the vast of