The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-09-19

| One negro was killed and another
Is believed to have been fatally
wounded By posse Of citizens near
Tammas. ILL.,. In a fight resulting
from an attempt by the negroes to
force q merchant OF Tammas to &C
cept bill which had been raised from
81 to 81.
It y feared George Williams. vel
known business and club man OF
Minneapolis. has been the victim Of
either q fatal accident or foul play.
He has been missing since August %.
AS a result Of wild demonstra
tion Friday by copper mine strikers
and women aympathizers, who pour
ed into Calumet, Mich, from all parts
0f the district, fifteen women and
three men are under arrest. iaclud
Ing Yanko Terich, a member OF the
executive board Of the Weatern Fed
Grafton OF Miners.
Omar Davis wac hanged at Fayette-
Vile. Ark, for the murder OF Miss
Mary Moneyhun. his schoolteacher. He
went TO the scaffold protesting his In
nocence,
The rains OF the past week have
added 20 per cent 10 the value Of the
crops and livestock 10 Kansas, accord
Ing TO statement by r. d. Coburn,
secretary Of the state board OF agri-
culture.
WASHINGTON
In response to an urgent demand
from the state department. the house
adopted Friday night a joint resolu.
ton making an emergency appropria-
ton OF 100000 to be used for the
relief OF destitute Americans in Mex
leo and for their transportation to
tn5 United States.
Postmaster General Burleson has
under consideration the abandonment
of the present practice or forwarding
magazines by fast freight.
Administration officials at Washing
ton are convinced the Mexico City
authorities have no effective plan of
their own to bring about peace in
Mexico and that the situation there Is
drifting.
Charles J. vopicka OF Chicago has
been confirmed by the senate as min
lister to the Balkan states. A strong
fight had been made on his nominal
tion.
With the tariff bill practically out
OF the way, President Wilson took
up the currency situation early We'd
nesday with the senate steering com
mittee. Senators Kern, Hoke Smith,
Clarke, Lea. O'Gorman, owen, Cham
berlain, Martin, Thomas and Bacon
were present.
The department OF agriculture es.
Inmates the number OF stock hogs
In the country September about
the same as year ago, and their
condition as 91.s per cent OF the ten
year average.
FOREIGN
Aviator Hans Lorens was killed
at Mlnester, Germany, as he was
completing a two-hour flight He
steered the machine downward too
sharply and the wing buckled. the
aeroplane falling to the ground. Tho
gasoline tank exploded and the pilots
body was partly burned.
Dr. sala, part OF whose duties con-
slsts OF visit to the prisoners in the
Como, Italy jail, every two weeks, on
Friday examined Porter Charlton, the
young American charged with the
murder OF his wife at Lake Como
He said Charlton seemed perfectly
well.
That postal employees connived at
the theft OF the S625,0OO pearl neck
lace which mysteriously disappeared
on July 16, between Paris and Lon
don, was established by evidence pre-
scented at hearing in London.
Monks, guided by the barkings OF
their st. Bernard dogs, rescued a
young American named @. Dawson
from precarious position In ravine
into which he had fallen while on an
Alpine climb.
Orders issued Friday by Provision.
al President Yuan Shl Kai signify,
1t Is believed by foreign observers In
PekIn, that China has complied with
the demands OF the Japanese govern
ment.
One hundred Americans. including
a score OF women and children. &C
cording TO consular dispatches Just
received at Mexico City, are making
their way overland from Torrean, In
pursuance OF the warning issued by
President Wilson. They are bound
for Saltillo. $50 miles TO the east,
The career OF the Hamburg automo-
bile bandits who looted the Commu-
nal Savings bank at Williamsburg.
Germany. after killing the cashier.
was checked at 0sterode One Of the
robbers was killed and the other was
captured in a revolver battle with POI
lice and gerdarmes,
The governments OF France and
Haiti have signed an agreement to
submit for arbitration the claims made