The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-11-27

CouiS y. WciSlc Uu d charge Vi annoy
ing Miss Mary Mckinney on a subur-
ban train in Chicago, disagreed and
was discharged Before being permit
ted to sit on the jury, each prospec-
tive juror was required to swear that
he had never fiirted
The state supreme court has re-
fused a writ of error to the United
States supreme court in the case of
Leo NJ. Frank, under sentence of
death at Atlanta, Ca, for the murder
of Mary Phagan.
Creditors of the defunct La Sale
Street Trust & Savings bank of Chi
cago, of which William Lorimer was
president, ultimately will receive
about so per cent, it is said.
Twenty-six persons, including for
mer officials of the United Mine Work.
e of America, were indicted at Fort
Smith, Ark, by the special United
States grand jury investigating ALE
cations made in connection with the
troubles in the Hartford Valley min
ing district.
Ten persons were burned to death
at Mariana, Fla, when fire destroyed
the main building of the Florida re-
form school. Nearly a hundred boys
escaped by climbing through a sky
light and down the sides of the three
story building on fire escapes
WASHINGTON.
Secretary Daniels has received mes
sages from Captain Decker of the
cruiser Tennessee and Captain Omar
of the cruiser North Carolina, ac
knowledging receipt of his order that
no action be taken by either ship in
Turkish waters without specific in
structions from Washington.
Applications of all railroads doing
business in Kansas have been filed
with the public utilities commission
asking the restoration of the Scent
passenger rate.
Secretary Lane has issued orders,
extending the provisions of the en-
larged homestead act to about $1,000
acres widely distributed over Utah;
more than 10000 acres in Idaho,
mainly in Elmore county, and more
than 10000 acres in Wyoming, the
greater portion of which is in Albany,
Carbon and Uinta counties.
Warnings to cattlemen to beware
OF men posing as representatives Of
the federal COVE. nment in its fight
against foot and mouth disease went
out Thursday from the department Of
agriculture.
To reassure consumers who fear to
eat meat because of the livestock foot
and mouth disease, the department of
agriculture has issued a statement ex.
planning that if properly cooked, even
the meat of an infected animal was
not dangerous.
FOREIGN.
Notwithstanding the amount Of re.
lief work which is being done for the
Belgians, conditions in the larger cit.
les, as well as the rural districts, are
becoming more serious.
Great Britain has declined to modi
fy, in favor of American manufactur.
ers, the embargo on the expectation
of wool from Australia and other Brit.
ish dominions.
Reports received in Berlin from Hol-
land, according to information given
out In official circles there, are to the
effect that in the fighting near Blk.
schoote and Dixmude the French lost
10000 men and that $500 British
were drowned in the User canal
The Emperor Francis Joseph has
contributed all his patrimony to the
war exchequer, according to a tele.
gram from Vienna. The same tele.
gram states that Hungarian women in
Vienna are giving their wedding rings
to the war fund
A dispatch from Warsaw to Petro-
grad says the German generals, Won
Bredow and Won Bromel, committed
suicide at Czenstochowa, Russian Pc.
land, after a German defeat.
1t is officially announced in Berlin
that, according to information from
South Africa, 5000 Boers have gath,
cred near Bloemfontein aid that an
attack on the town is feared. The
garrison there numbers only 500.
The British house of commons has
formally passed the vote for the sup.
Elementary army estimate which pro.
vides for an additional army of 1000.
600 men.
The German steamer Luxor OF the
Kosmos line, with 5000 tons of coal
on board, has suddenly left Coronel,
Chile, without having received clear
ance papers. The German steamer
Memphis also has secretly left Sandy
Point.
dispatch received from Marmorn.
itza on the Austro-Roumanian from.
tier, declares that furious fighting is
going on in the northern part of the
crown land of Bukowina.
England's new war loan, the larg.
est in her history, already has been
covered, according to reports which
are current in banking circles.
President Poincare has issued de.
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