The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14

James L. McNichofas OF Portland.
Ore, and Cleveland, held in the coun-
ty Jail Mt Cleveland, o., under $4,000
bond under Indictment for using the
malls to defraud, broke jail shortly
after midnight Friday and escaped
Hogs sold as high as SO at Chicago.
March Z. the topmost point 80 far this
year. Buyers were Hurried, as there
have been only $4,000 arrivals at
eleven markets In five days last week
against $4,000 a year ago.
Announcement is made by the fam
lily that Levi p. Morton, vice-presi-
dent In the Harrison administration
and former governor OF New York, is
seriously III at his residence in New
York. He Is SO years old
Revival OF the report that Pascuai
orozce Jr, the Mexican revolution
let, has been dead four months was
brought to San Antonio, Texas. by
IT, r. Beltran. prominent Mexican,
who has been In the north OF Mexico.
The defendants in the government
suit fled at New York against the So
called coal tar trust have consented
to decree OF dissolution being en-
tered against them in the United
States district court
WASHINGTON
Democratic house leaders have de-
cided to present the wool revision
tariff bill first at the extra session OF
congress-
A federal income tax probably of /
per cent and free sugar tariff SEIZED
ule practically were agreed upon by
the Democrats who are to compose
the majority Of the house ways and
means committee in the Sixty-third
congress
The last act of James Wilson as
secretary of agriculture was to rein
state G. @. Elliott as chief engineer
of drainage Investigations in the de-
partment OF agriculture. Mr. Elliott
was dismissed by Secretary Wilson
for his attitude in the department OF
agriculture's connection with the
Florida everglades investigation.
Mrs. Levi 2, Letter. widow of the
former Chicago merchant, and for
years prominent in Washington So
ciety, died at her home in Washing
ton on Thursday OF apoplexy. She
was stricken while at luncheon and
died in few minutes.
Almost the first act OF President
Wilson was to serve notice upon Of
ficeseekcrs that they will not be vel
come at the White House, unless they
have been invited.
Secretaries Bryan, Garrison, DAN
iels, Lane. Burlesoh and Wilson, took
the oath of office on Wednesday.
Secretary OF the Treasury McAdoo,
Secretary of Agriculture Houston, At
torney General McReynolds and Sec
rotary of Commerce Redfield, were in
Quoted into office on Thursday.
FOREIGN
Two hundred passengers and mem
bers of the crew of the small British
steamer Calvados were drowned March
/. when the steamer foundered in the
sea OF Marmora in blizzard.
Miss Joyce Locke" militant suf-
fraget whose real name is Olive
Wharry, has been sentenced to
eighteen months Imprisonment, She
was found guilty OF setting fire to
pavilion in the Kew botanical gardens
on February 20.
Woman's suffrage won notable vic
tory when the lower house of the Hun
garian parliament adopted the govern
tnanf,c arffrao 90 ,oPoro, hi1I hxy uhfah
q large number of women are enfran-
chised.
President Jose Miguel Gomez has
signed the amnesty bill in spite of an
energetic protest handed to the Cuban
government by United States Minister
Arthur M. Beaupre,
The second chamber of the Neither
lands parliament has adopted bill
providing compulsory old age and
sickness insurance for workingmen.
The peace question involves per-
ilous danger OF civil war;" says the cor
respondent at Constantinople of the
London Daily Mail There is a clear
split In the Young Turk party"
The Greek military authorities de-
clare that they have 7S,450 Turkish
prisoners including the troops who
surrendered at Janina, while 10000
others are surrounded at various
places.
Fifty mutinous Arab soldiers belong
ing to Turkish regiments guarding the
peninsula of Galltpoli and the Darda-
nelles straits we're shot as an exam
pie to the others
Japan requires $15o,000Oo0, the
finance minister informs the diet, for
the purpose of starting various neces-
sary undertakings. The money, he
added, will be raised abroad on short
term bonds to be replaced later by
long term securities
The municipal reformeIs for the
third time have secured a majority
in the London county council, al
though not so large as in 1907, when