The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-09-05

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phur toklahoma) Democrat, was shot
and killed Friday. and John Lindsay,
former treasurer OF Murray county
charged with the killing. was hurried
from the sulphur Jail to the more SCI
cure prison az the nearby town of Nor
man, when mob violence was threat
ened.
James Comeaux, negro, was
lynched by mob al Jennings. In. lie
was taken from his cell In the jail
some time after midnight. shot TO
death and his body left lying at the
jail door
The nomination OF Thomas Fox as
postmaster at Sacramento, Cal, the
subject OF bitter fight since 1t was
sent TO the senate by President WI
son, Will be disposed of on septem-
Der 10.
Fifty thousand rounds OF rifle cart
ridges. consigned TO Mexican federals
in Juarez, have been held up at FL
Paso. Texas, by government officials.
WASHINGTON
Representative ]. T. McDermott OF
Illinois. before the house lobby COM
mittee. made categorical denial Of
the charges againsts him by NJ. NJ.
Mulhall. former lobbyist.
Secretary OF Commerce w. c. Red
field is given the family Bible and
the stand upon which IL rests as his
legacy In the will Of his mother. Mrs.
Mary A. Redneld, which was filed
Friday.
-Four billion postal cards will be re-
anlred by the postoffice department
during the next four years and Post
master General Burleson has asked
for sealed proposals for furnishing
that number.
The Republican congressional COM
mittee organized and outlined It's gem
raj plans for the coming campaigns.
Representative Frank p. Woods or
Iowa was elected chairman. He an
nounced that the committees work
from now on would not be in the line
OF direct aid to individual candidates.
An insurgent movement among
Democratic senators that threatened
70 break party lines on the income tax
was headed OFF by the leaders by an
agreement 10 revise the tariff bill SO
as to levy heavier tax on the incomes
from large fortunes.
FOREIGN
A band OF $50 gypsies attacked the
inhabitants of the town OF Lunel,
France, with guns and revolvers. Gen.
darmes engaged the gypsies and a
pitched battle ensued in which one
gendarme was killed and three were
badly wounded
/ Both houses of the Chinese parlia-
ment passed resolutions requiring the
government to try the members of
parliament who had been placed un-
der arrest, before the supreme court
In Pekin.
Americans in Mexico are needing
President Wilson's warning to get out
and state department officials believe
that two weeks hence there hardly will
be thousand OF them left in the
troubled southern republic.
Thirty-ive hundred men persisted in
the seven constitutlonalists attacks on
Torreon between July II and July 2S,
and since that time fever has become
an epidemic, food is scarce and no aid
has been able to reach the city.
The Mexican government is very
silent on the message which President
/ Wilson read before congress Wednes.
day. outlining the situation In this re-
public and the attitude of the United
States government
/ The grand cross OF the Order of
orange-Nassau has been conferred on
Andrew Carnegie by Queen wilhelm
ina OF the Netherlands in commemor.
alton of the inauguration of the Pal.
ace OF Peace.
Germany has no intention OF chang.
ing her recent decision not to exhibit
officially at the Panama-Paeiiic ex.
position in San Francisco in 1915.
Hundreds OF army pensioners in
Chelsea hospital, the old soldiers
home OF London. went hungry Tues
| day. owing 20 the strike of electric.
/ AoA9 VI RuO pubiiC WNTkS department
declared because of the employment
OF non.union painters at the admir-
atty.
Henry r. Sullivan OF Lowell, Mass.
failed in his attempt to swim the
English channel Tuesday sHe entered
the water near the South Foreland al
Gas a. m. and left the water at 4.oS
| p. m.
The murder of Arthur Iawton, a
British subject, and Eric Won Thaden,
German, on Senator Edurado
lturbe's ranch in western Michoachan,
Is officially reported.
Advices from China tell OF the death
oil Father Francisco Bernat. a Fran.
ciscan missionary. at the hands OF
Chinese fanatics In a remote region
OF north Shenss
A dispatch from Constantinople
/ gives details OF negotiations between
Turkey and Bulgaria by which. IL is
said. the latter has rellnquished claim
10 AdrianopIe in return for compen.