The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-01-23

coaches Of several hundred dollars
and. after engaging In pistol due
with a deputy sheriff who was on
board, jumped from the train at Boil.
ton, Ga.
Naaman Spe-cer, 80 years old, who
claimed to be the inventor OF the
gang pIow, committed suicide at his
home in Eagle Point Ills, by shoot
ing himself with rife.
An amendment to the marriage laws
which would require the publishing
OF engagements two weeks before the
Issuance of licenses will be sought by
Chicagoans prominent In Juvenile pro
lection work.
While fighting a fire in Youngs-
town, o., firemen broke open a locked
door and found the body OF man
lying on bed. The skull had been
crushed. An ak was lying nearby
and from the condition Of the body
the man Is believed to have been
murdered several weeks ago.
Joseph Al. Hackett, fireman, was
killed by falling wall In fire which
destroyed department store In Ros-
ton.
WASHINGTON.
Carl Browne, chief lieutenant to
General Coxey In the march from
Masillon, Ohio, to the capital in 1894,
dropped on the street In Washington
from acute indigestion, and died soon
after In hospital.
Representative Stanley Of Kentucky.
after conference with President Will
son, introduced on Friday an amend
ment to the Sherman law, which
would make illegal the monopoliza-
ton or restraint of trade .'in any de-
gree II Is designed to eliminate the
rule of reason" laid down by the su-
preme court In the Standard Oil case.
The kodak trust" is the latest of
the great corporations sued under the
Sherman antitrust act to seek a
peaceful settlement OF its troubles
with the department of Justice.
The nomination of John Shelton
Williams to be comptroller of the cur
rency was ordered favorably reported
to the senate Friday by the commit
tee on banking and currency.
Government ownership of the great
coal mines of the country as a rem
edy for strike disturbances was rec
commended by Senator MARITIME of New
Jersey In report submitted to Chair
man Swanson of the senate commit
tee which investigated the West vir-
ginia coal strike troubles.
FOREIGN.
The radical, liberal and clerical
members of the German parliament
have determined to take the militia
tive toward the introduction Of
measure governing the use OF weap-
ems and the exercise of police powers
Of the military Of Germany.
After year of personal investiga-
ton In eleven European countries,
Abraham Flexner, commissioned by
the bureau of social hygiene, has
come to the conclusion that police
regulation of the social evil in Europe
Is failure and Is rapidly dying out.
The two officers and nine men.
comprising the crew of the British
submarine AT" were trapped Fri
day night in their craft beneath the
waters Of Whitesand bay, about five
miles southwest of Plymouth.
Dispatches from all parts Of the
Union OF South Africa report that the
strikers are returning to work and
that victory has been won by the
government In the struggle with the
Federation of Trades.
A majority of the women of the Ro.
man aristocracy have decided to con.
form TO instructions issued by Cardi-
raj Basilio Pompili, vicar general az |
Rome, and Danish the tango from
their salons and otherwise discourage |
the dance.
A snowstorm In southern France. |
followed by severe cold, is causing
much suffering.
The loan of $1OO.00O,OoO, to be float.
cd by Prussia on January 80, is to take
new form-4 per cent treasury war
rants.
King Gustave OF Sweden. in his
speech from the throne to the Swe.
dish parliament, which he opened in
person Friday, announced the inten.
lion OF the government again to ask
parliament to grant to women the
franchise and the right Of election 10
9tnce and to parliament on the same
as are enjoyed by men.
No blame can be attached to Can.
ain Francis Inch or the officers Of
he Uranium liner volturno in connee.
Ion with the fire which DESTROYED her
ma lS2 OF her passengers and crew
n mid-ocean on October IL. 1918, nor
n relation to her abandonment 40.
'ording to the judgment of the conr,
! INQUIRY appointed by the British
'oard Of trade.
Mendel Beiliss, recently acquitted OF
ne killing OF the Christian how An.
rev fushinsky, has left Kiev. Russia !
Icompanied by his family. for lara
n Palestine. Baron de Rothschild has
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