The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-18

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sporting man of New York and Sara
tcga, died az his home In New York
from cerebral hemorrhage resulting
from fracture OF the skull sustained
In fall on subway. stairway
! Handcuffed together, Charles Wash
ington and Breard Henderson, negroes
charged with killing and robbing Cy-
rus Hotchkin, white. near Mornings
port, La, were taken from officers
and lynched near Shreveport. La.
Carl schoIz Of Chicago has been
reelected president OF the American
Mining congress. The following vice
presidents were chosen: Harry L.
Day Wallace. Idaho: vi. s, Kemmerer,
New York; Walter Douglas, Bisbee.
james y. Callbreath OF Denver was
reelected secretary.
Leo NJ Frank was sentenced in Ful.
ton county superior court at Atlanta,
Ga, to be hanged on Friday, January
~ for the murder In April, 1918, OF
Mary Phagan, i4-year-oId factory
girl Before being sentenced Frank
again proclaimed his innocence.
WASHINGTON.
War risk insurance amounting to
$l5,261, 261 was written by the federal
war risk bureau from September 10
December !, according to the bureaus
first statement OF It's work made to
congress.
Secretary OF state and Mrs. Bryan
were guests OF honor Friday night at
the international reception and ball
given under the auspices OF the South
ern Society Of Washington.
The first complete compilation OF
returns under the income tax law
was made public In the annual report
OF the commissioner OF internal reve-,
nue.. II showed returns for the col
lection year Of 1918 by 357,597 indi.
yiduals paying taxes aggregating
s2S, e53,535.
Secretary Daniels told the house
naval committee that II an emer-
gency arose the Atlantic fleet could
be dispatched 10 the Pacific within
eighteen days 10 deal with any hos
tile craft that might succeed In run
ming the gantlet OF American subma-
rinea from Manila and Honolulu.
The National Rivers and Harbors
congress adjourned Friday after adopt
ing resolutions favoring the building
| Of comprehensive system OF water
transportation at an annual expendi-
ture by the government OF not less
than s50,00o,000.
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Serene II, Payne, veteran congress-
man from New York, died suddenly In
Washington on Thursday from heart
failure.
FOREIGN.
The proposal OF Pope Benedict for
q truce among the warning nations
during the Christmas holidays Is said
by the official press bureau at Berlin
to have been declined by Russia.
Henryk sienkiewiez. author OF Quo
Vadis" and holder OF the 1906 Nobel
prize for literature, has been elected
honorary member OF the Russian
Academy Of Sciences.
Reuters correspondent at The
Hague telegraph's that the Dutch
governments proposal for an emer.
gency loan Of $t00,O00,00O was adopt
ed by the second chamber of the
states general assembly.
The Seryians continue to assert that
they have administered a crushing
defeat TO the Austrians and taken
large numbers Of prisoners and great
quantities OF war material.
With the return OF the French gov.
eminent 10 Paris from Bordeaux q
squadron Of aeroplanes is doing scout
duty over the capital to ward Off pos
sible attacks by hostile aircraft.
In France 100000 youths Of the
class Of 1915 have gone into training
in military camps and barracks. 1t
Is expected they win be ready for the
campaign in the spring.
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Athens says that Turkish gun
boat has been sunk by Turkish mine
at the entrance TO the Bosphorus.
The armored cruisers Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau and the protected
cruiser Leipzig. three Of the German
warships which had been menacing
British shipping, and part OF the squad.
ron which sank the British cruisers
Good Hope and Monmouth In the Pa.
ciflc on November /, were destroyed
by British squadron on the F'alk.
land islands on Wednesday,
Approximately 100000 Jews have
been driven from their homes in Rus,
sian Poland, according to cablegram
from the Petrograd Office OF the Jew.
ish Colonization association.
The Swedish people are indignant
over the planting OF floating mines
along the coast Of Finland, which has
resulted so far in the loss OF three
large Swedish steamers and the
drowning OF upwards OF forty men.
i President Poineare and Premier Wv.
iani arrived in Paris on Wednesday
from Bordeaux and members Of the
diplomatic corps followed later in the
day.
i Nicholas Alters, former German