The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-14

MRS. Lige Gilmore OF Webb City
Mo, has confessed that she and
James Lynn Of Galena, Kan, muir
dered her husband there last Thurs.
Iday night Both are under arrest
charged with firBt-degree murder
! Frederick o. Beach, the New York
millionaire. was acquitted at Aiker,
IS. c., OF the charge OF attempting
to murder his wife.
AS result OF gasoline explosion
which destroyed their motor car in
the desert near Quenanada, N. NJ, w
II. Hansen, a Denver restaurateur,
was seriously and his wife fatally
burned
BY a vote of 22 TO 4, the Wiscon-
sin state senate declared the action
Of Governor r. e. McGovern In remov.
ing Insurance Commissioner Herman
L. Elkern on the grounds of political
activity. "unwarranted and arbitrary"
Edward Stewart, . trusty in the Pc
oria, Ills, Jail. prevented a jail deliv-
cry by driving forty prisoners from
the outer jail door at the point OF re-
volver snatched from one OF the turn
keys who had been attacked by four
prisoners and was being oyerpow.
cred.
/ WASHINGTON
Joseph r. Tumulty, chosen by Presi-
dent-elect Wilson as his secretary in
the White House. was the guest OF
! houor AZ a ,rAcautiox, tanda.ad H.. ~.
the National Press club at Washing
ton on Friday.
Fire broke out in one OF the new
building of the department OF agri-
culture. Tho flames we~q confined
to a room in the basement In which
were stored records and supplies be-
longing to the bureau of plant indus
try. Many of the records were de
stroyed.
! President Taft will attend the fare
well dinner to Uncle Joe" Cannon
here February Is. Friends of the vet
eran of forty years in congress, who
was retired to private life in last
falls Democratic landslide, are plan
ming to send him home with rous-
ing farewell celebration.
Senators Lafollette, Root, Smoot
and Cummins have been designated as
the Legislative steering committee
authorized by Republican caucus.
I Oppositioe of Democratic senators
to the confirmation of President
Taft's 1900 pending nominations has
brought some Republican senators
into the position of threatening re-
taliation after the Democrats como
into power on March 4.
Former Senator Joseph w Bailey's
farewell address to the senate win not
be printed as public document. When
Senator Martin proposed 1t, objection
was made.
FOREIGN
! American Consul Stewart ]. Fuller
ut Iquitos, Peru, reports that many
South American Indians in the Putu-
may district OF Peru are in slavery,
being logged. mutilated and other
wise tortured at the whim of their
masters.
The combined Servian and Monte
negrin attack on Scutari employs co.
900 men. Two important positions,
Rushau and Berdenjolt, already have
been captured by the allies.
A Constantinople dispatch to the
London Daily Mail says there are ru-
mors there OF heavy Turkish loss in
Gallipoli, but Mahmond Schefket
Pasha has given assurances that only
unimportant skirmishes have oc-
CURED.
Martial law has been proclaimed
throughout Salvador. President Arau.
10 lies in dangerous condition as the
result of an attack by FIVE would-be
assassins.
An attempt was made Wednesday
night to assassinate the president or
Salvador, Dr. Manuel e. Araujo. He
was wounded in several places. but
none of the wounds is considered seri-
GUS. The leader of the presidents as
sailants is under arrest
The Balkan war has been resumed.
The bombardment of Adrianople began
at O'Clock Monday night, and small
skirmish occurred at the TchatalJa
lines. The armistice had lasted exact
ly two months.
Sylvia Pankhurst. the militant SUI.
fragette leader, was sentenced to two
weeks Imprisonment or fine OF $40
in the London police court. The same
punishment was melted out to nine
teen other women who participated in
the raid on the House OF Commons.
The London Express says that the
whole cabinet was set sneezing Tues
day by the simultaneous receipt by
each minister at the house OF commons
of suffraget letters containing red pep
4 per,
The British government has entered
into negotiations with the principal
north Atlantic steamship lines with a
view 10 eQuipplng vessel with a
powerful wireless installation TO pa