The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-08-02

law, SLlll Is insane ana must remain
in the asylum where he was placed on
February l, 1908, according to the
courts decision.
The body OF man floating IN the
East river under the Brooklyn bridge,
| by seamen from the Brooklyn navy
yard. Friday night, was identified later
as that of Abraham ID. Harris, a
theatrical man.
The Confession OF faith" of Col
onel Roosevelt is now down in black
and white, the finishing touches hay-
ing been made Friday. When he has
completed the recital of his doctrines
in Chicago on the night of August 5,
he probably will be called socialistic
or anarchistic and may be both, he
! said
William A. Hutson, president Of the.
| Society of Aeronautic Engineers, was
arrested at Philadelphia on the charge
OF using the mails to defraud in con.
Quoting school of aviation.
WASHINGTON
| Democrats and progressives united
again in the senate and by vote Of
36 to Is. passed the Democratic ex-
else tax bill, extending the present tax
on corporation to the business OF in
divlduals, private firms and co-part-
nerships.
| Ten progressive Republicans over
threw the regular Republicans in the
session of the senate on Thursday and
Joined with the Democrats In passing
the La Toilette wool tariff revision
bill as substitute for the Democratic
measure framed by the house OF rep
resentatives.
Representative Mondell OF Wyoming
has been selected for a place on the
house appropriations committee, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Representative Malby Of New York
Before deciding whether the i'm
parchment proceedings against Judge
Hanford shall go on, the house Judi.
ciary committee will await the return
OF the subcommittee which heard ties.
timony at Seattle
Mrs. Florence Massey, wife of James
G. Massey of the interior department,
| leaning out of window and losing
her balance, plunged from the seventh
floor of her apartments to an areaway
eighty feet below. turning three somer-
salts in her descent and lives to- tell
her experience,
The senate has passed Senator War
ren's bill to establish mine expert
ment station at Lander, Wyo. The sta.
ton will be under the direction of the
| bureau of mines.
/ The house public lands committee
has reported favorably the bill previ.
ously passed in the senate which pro.
vides that public lands withdrawn
/ from entry may be subject at all times
to exploration, discovery, occupation
and purchase under the mining laws
so far as they apply to mineral, rather
than coal. oil, gas, phosphates, potash
and nitrates.
FOREIGN
The coroner's inquest in London on
the body of c., NJ Coen, or Cone, who
was found dead in a room in board.
ing house in the Bloomsbury district,
resulted in verdict OF death from
heart disease.
The business session of the first In.
lternational Eugenics congress opened
In London Thursday. -Four hundred
delegates from twelve countries and
a thousand students filed the hall.
The military commanders in Pekin
held a meeting Thursday at which
they resolved to urge President Yuan
Shi Kai to insist that the assembly
improve his selection of members OF
the cabinet. Otherwise the command.
ers declare they will assume control
Iof affairs personally.
Amity and good will for all, with
Germany singled out, formed the key,
note of a statement made by Premier
AsQuith in the house of commons in
connection with the estimates for the
committees of imperial defense.
Ex-Governor Richards of Wyoming,
who was a member of land seek.
ers' party, died suddenly at Mel.
bourne, Australia, from heart disease.
The heaviest earthquake shock felt
for many years occurred II Guayquil,
Ecuador, II caused a great panic
among the inhabitants, most of whom
left their homes and rushed to the
open spaces No material damage has
been reported,
| Several members Of the American
Olympic team took part in the games
at Rheims, France, on Tuesday In com.
petition with the best of the French
athletes, and carried off the honors.
Forty engineering crews. consisting
of 500 men with teams and pack
horses, will be sent into the field at
once to make preliminary surveys for
the Northern Territorial Railway
company's line from Edmonton to tide
water at Fort Churchill on Hudson's
bay,
Two thousand men. members of the