The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-01-24

Wells Lounsberry OF Medford, Ore,
who last August robbed mail car on
Union Pacific overland train be-
tween Kansas City and Lawrence,
Kansas. has been sentenced to seven
years imprisonment.
Governor Sulzer Of New York has
pardoned Folke Il. Brandt, former
valet OF Mortimer L. Schiff, the New
York banker, ON the ground that
Brandt's sentence Of thirty years for
burglary was excessive.
One thousand members OF the Boy
Scouts and scores OF other persons at
Kansas City have volunteered to give
a square inch OF skin to save the life
Of Reba Hands. 10 years old, who was
badly burned.
Joseph ColIch, an Austrian, who par.
ticipated in riot in Los Angeles
January !, when the American flag
was torn to shreds by number OF
his countrymen, has been sentenced
TO serve 100 days in the city Jail.
WASHINGTON
The compromise Burnett-Dillingham
immigration bill, including a literacy
test for aliens, was passed by the
house on Friday, after opponents OF
the measure had kept the house in a
parliamentary turmoil for six hours.
State department officials express
disturbance over the possibility OF
disastrous commercial war between
Argentina and the United States.
An appropriation of 100000 to pay
the French spoilation claim was de-
feated In the senate by a vote OF
Al TO 81.
President-elect Wilson favors the
adjustment OF the inaugural ball
This became known Thursday when
ne sent a letter to William Corcoran
Eustis at Washington, chairman OF |
The inauguration committee, asking
him to consider the feasibility of omit
ing it.
j. s. McCabe Of Rhode Island won
he quadrennial race to Washington
With the electoral vote OF his state
IN Tuesday. At 8 a, m. when the OF.
Ices OF the vice president opened Mr..
McCabe was waiting
Six million packages were handled
~ parcel post in the first five days
u the operation of the system, ac
'ording TO figures prepared by ex.
'erts of the postoffice department.
FOREIGN
Raymond Poincare, for the last
welve months premier of the French
abinet, was on Friday elecetd presi.
lent Of the republic of France by the
lational assembly, composed of the
MEMBERS of both chambers OF parlia.
nent, In succession to President Ar.
land Fallieres, whose seven-year term
xpires February IS.
Women were excluded from practic.
ng law at the British bar by an over.
rhelming vote OF the labor association
its annual meeting held in London.
While the children in a little coun-
ry school house near Honolulu were
uietly coming their lessons, Manuel
'ernandez entered the school room
nd killed his wife, johanna Fernandez,
he teacher, with shotgun, and then
illed himself. Scattering buckshot
'ounded several children.
A delegation from the Jewish com.
lunities from Great Britain, France
nd Germany arrived at Sofia on Fri. {
ay with quantities of provisions and
othing for distribution among the
ews of Adrianople when that city
irrenders or the siege is raised,
Twenty-Five thousand Albanians
ave been more or less wantonly"
illed In the Turkish province of Kos
ovo by the Seryian regulars and ir-
egulars since the invasion by them of
uropean Turkey, according to the
Jenna Reichpost,
The second division OF the United
tates Atlantic feet, which has been !
Colon since January -, sailed. for
uantanamo on Friday. All the off
BIS and men visited the canal during
leir stay
The Earl of Ashburnham, who
wned vast estates in England, is dead /,
Paris. He was born in 1910.
Old Canton must go. This is the !
ecree OF young China. Instead OF :
10 evil smelling, unsanltary, cramped
'ngeries of novels and one-story
buses, there will rise on Ho-Nan
land, opposite the "old town" a
odern city. built with wide streets, Q
military sewage systems and NUM-, {
pal bund or water front I
After long battle the Irish home q
lie bin passed the British house OF Z
'mmons Thursday night by a major
Y of ITO and was formally passed
! for first reading in the house OF
rds.
Mexican rebel activity has increased |,
nth and east of Durango. San Lucas
Id Las Jas, sixty miles north of the
", have been sacked and partially
lrned.
The Turkish cruiser Midjidieh an.
jared at noon Wednesday of the .