The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-02

placing the blame for the death of ]
7. Harahan and three others upor
Henry Schneiderjohn, operator a
Edgewood, and Harry ]. Broecker
fagman on train No. 25.
Buffeted about by terrific south
easter for thirty-six hours, the steam
ers Beaver and Admiral Sampson ar
rived at San Francisco from the
north coast. During the fury of the
storm passengers were forced 10 lock
themselves In their state rooms and
several were injured, none seriously.
Joseph M. Brown was inaugurated
governor Of Georgia Thursday. This
Ii Browns second term, the brief ten
ure Of Hoke Smith, who resigned TO
become United States senator, inter
yening between the two Brown ad
ministrations.
WASHINGTON
The fight of the Southern Pacific
Railroad company for several million
dollars worth of land in California
came to climax when test cases
were presented In oral arguments to
the supreme court or the United
States on Friday.
President Taft on Wednesday init.
mated to Congressman Payne, DaIzelI
and Mccall, minority members of the
house ways and means committee
that he would veto the Democratic
revision OF the steel schedule unless
the tariff board reports in favor of IL.
Judge Julian w. Mack of Chicago,
junior member of the court of com.
meree, has been designated by the
chief justice of the supreme court to
serve for five years more on the COM
merce bench.
President Taft Is taking a hand In
the efforts of the Red Cross society |
to raise funds in the United States
for the relief of famine sufferers In
China.
While the national banks of the
country as a whole possess an enor-
nous surplus. there are number of
institutions whose surplus is So low
that comparatively slight reverses
would impair their capital, according
10 statement issued by Comptroller
of the Currency Murray.
Pensions for confederate veterans
IRE proposed in bill introduced by
representative Brantley of Georgia. ;
FOREIGN
Two unmasked men, armed with re- |
divers. entered the Hillcrest branch /
[ the Royal Bank of Canada at Van I
ouver b. c., in broad daylight, drove n
lanager Steaves and one of his n
Jerks into the vaults, knocked the b
Their clerk unconscious with a blow c
ON revolver butt, and escaped v
18th Si,999, all the money that was il
the till
The timely arrival OF the police at
odz, Russian Poland, Just prevented q
band of fanatical women from cru,
flying man whom they had adopted
s their Savior
The new cathedral at Khartoum, :
hich has been erected as a memorial r
} General Charles Gordon, who was c
He'd when the city was captured by .
10 Mahdists, was consecrated on
riday. "
The earthquake in the Ionian u
lands was more disastrous than at Il
st reported. At Cephalonia several b
lildings were destroyed and eight
'rsons were killed. a
The small French passenger steam o
Tavignano, which takes the u
ails from Tunis to Sfax, Suea, N
arzis and Biban, on the east coast L
Tunis, was arrested ten miles off &c
ban by Italian torpedo boats on NJ
riday, and taken to Tripoli, where NJ
le Is being held. Y
The report of the joint legislative W
shows that half of the rice O
op in the Philippines has been fail, ID
g, Recommendations intended to
iert serious crisis are to be pre-.
'nted both to the assembly and to =.
10 commission whose sessions close y
l February 5.
Winston Spencer Churchill, first =,
I'd Of the admiralty. has sent a let ~
# TO Lord Londonderry, ex-viceroy "
Ireland and one of the Unionist ~
aders, who are opposing the pro- =
osed home rule meeting, stating he -
Ill advise the Ulster Liberal asso- y
alton not to insist upon holding the y, "
eeting in Ulster hall, Belfast, as y
February s, but that he "
ltends to deliver speech some. =
here in Belfast on that day. u
The distribution of the United
tates troops along the section of the
ekin railroad from Tang Shau to
anchow has now been completed. 3
Emile Pougnet was arrested at Re. )
ma, Sask, charged with the murder u
Mrs. Guissienne Legrand near y
arts, France. The crime was com.
fitted January 8. 1910. )
Maurice Tabuteau, the French avi-
or, flying in his monoplane, made
orld's records Wednesday for the
stances of 200, $50 and 1854 Il
lies respectively. c
Another edict has been issued CIV L
g, in effect the Manchu conclusion S
} await the decision of the national Ii
invention before adbdicating, says
10 pakin CORRESPONDENT 0f tho Tow |