The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-06-13
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tive OF san Francisco, was iounu
guilty of grand larceny in completely
with the operations OF the notorious
-forty thieves" bunko gang, WHICH
operated there for many months.
Jere Knode Cooke. the former pas
tor OF st Grace's church, Hampstead
L. l., and Fioretta Whaley. the IL
year-old girl with whom he elopeo
six years ago, has been divorced by
his former wife.
A. s. French, former cashier OF the
Farmers National bank of Eilendale'
N. b., has been sentenced to iiye
years in the federal prison for misap.
propriating funds of the bank.
Lucius Harwood Foote. former
United States minister TO Korea ana
one time adjutant general OF Cali
fornia, died at his home in San Fran
cisco at the age OF 81. Two years
ago he was stricken with apoplexy,
Mrs. Julia F. v. Harris, attorney
and owner OF barber shop in Kansas
city, Kan, who last April attacked
her head barber, Cornwall Ellis, with
a Ratchet, committed suicide Wednes-
day by taking poison.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson has refused to in
terfere with the death sentence OF Ma,
thaniel Green, a negro, who last
Christmas assaulted a white woman
almost in the shadow of the dome oil
the capitol Green will hang.
Senator Townsend OF Michigan, Re.
publican, declared on the stand on
Friday that the influence welded by
President Wilson and the Democratic
secret caucus upon the making OF the
tariff bill constituted the nearest ap'
preach to undue influence upon mem
bers of congress- that the investigat
ing committee would be able to find
In executive session Friday night
the senate again failed to ratify re
newals OF the arbitration agreements
with Great Britain, Italy, Spain, which
recently expired.
Plans for an investigation of the so
called baseball trust have beer
made by Representative Gallagher o
Illinois, who will have hearing with
in week before the house rules com
mittee on his resolution.
After reading Japan's latest note Oh
the California anti-alien land law ant
just before conference with Ambas
sador Chinda, President Wilson ez
pressed the view that the new CON
munication opened the way for ever
interesting and friendly negotiations.
The senate lobby" investigator
committee has decided to extend it
present inquiry into sweeping inveI
tigation of all organized efforts tina
have been made to influence actio
upon. legislation of any kind now penc
ing before congress or under consit
Grafton in the recent past
FOREIGN
The Belgian steamer Kurland froi
Antwerp struck mine near tn
Island of Phleva in the Gulf OF Att
ems. She was seriously damaged an
had to be towed to Phalerum an
beached.
Disdaining a ransom of $4,000 O
fered by the friends of Colonel Pa
cual Orozco, Sr., father of the formt
rebel chief. Emilio Zapata has cause
the old man to be put to death as
spy.
A society organized for the purpo'
OF waging war on British rule in Ind
has been discovered, with widespres
qualifications. The police of Calcut
have arrested forty-four Bengalls
good family, charged with conspiriI
to carry out a wholesale massacre,
A battle between police and stri
ers. in which seventy persons we
severely wounded, was fought in Il
! suburb of Frauendorf. Germany,
the sequel to the killing OF strik
by non-striker.
/ The Belgian government Is carryi
!. on negotiations with a group of bar
! ers in Paris for loan of about $12
100000 at per cent interest.
: The British government has decid
|. to lay down three battleships of t
! present years naval program INN
$ diately, instead or next March, as or
/. inally intended.
Japan is finding new outlet
S her surplus population in South Am
s lea. Fifteen hundred Japanese We
S landed at Santos. Brazil. May Is.
d be the first members of a permans
9 Japanese colony under an agreeme
Q between Brazil and Japan.
o Auguste Bernard, French arm,
and passenger. Nine. Amicet, wi
l. killed Thursday near Buc, Fran
e When the aeroplane was at cons
4, cradle altitude Nine. Amicet's SIX
q became entangled In the lever c,
nections. Instantly the pilot lost c,
o troll and the machine plunged to |
!. earth.
I. The British government has no
5 tention OF building a big naval S
d ton at Kingston. Jamaica, as a c,
n sequence of the completion OF
d Panama canal. according to an
e nouncement by Winston spen,