The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-11


department Of correction.
William Green. a negro, was forcih
| ly taken from officers by a mob nea
Coward, 8. c., and lynched. Greer
was arrested after he frightened som.
women who had been left alone.
Panic, due to distrust OF banks, hal
been relocated to the museum OF an
Equities by the new reserve bankinf
system, In the opinion OF c. s. Ham
lin, governor Of the federal reserve
board, In an address at New York.
Rattlesnake venom as a cure for
epilepsy proved a failure In official
tests conducted for the state OF Kan.
sas. This Is said to have been the
first authoritative attempt to cnfe
epilepsy with rattlesnake poison.
David Lamar was found guilty at
New York OF impersonating Represen.
tative A. Mitchell Palmer OF Pennsyl.
vania for the purpose Of defraudIng
J. r. Morgan a. Co, and the United
States Steel corporation, and was sen.
fenced TO two years imprisonment.
WASHINGTON.
One effect Of the European war,
which treasury department officials
are beginning to appreciate, Is the
opportunity afforded TO gather accur.
ate lists OF Americans living In Eu.
rope who are subject to the income
tax.
The office OF director Of the recla
nation service will be abolished on
December 10. The offices OF direc
tor and chief engineer will be consoli
dated, with Chief Engineer A. p
Davis In charge. Director +. IA. New.
ell will become consulting engineer.
Secretary Daniels has announced
that q supplemental contract has been
signed with the San Francisco Bridge
company for completion OF the great
naval drydock at the Pearl Harbor ma
val station. Hawaii Work on this
dock was suspended nearly two years
ago whom the bottom heaved.
The Italian ambassador has lodged
q protest against the Arizona law,
which requires at least 80 per cent
OF certain employees In that state to
be American citizens. The British
ambassador already has protested
for his government,
President Wilson, 1t Is said, wants
q law enacted applying to all Indus
trial disputes, similar to the New.
lands act, under which many threat.
ened strikes on railroads have been
averted.
interlocking directors In banks and
trust companies not having common
ownership may serve out their terms,
provided they do not extend more
than two years after the final pas
sage OF the new Clayton trust bill, &C.
cording to decision OF the federal
reserve board.
FOREIGN
Experts estimate that the Germans
lost twothirds of their army In Pc.
land in the recent fighting in the re.
gion between the Warta and Vistula
rivers, says dispatch from Petro.
grad.
Two hundred members OF the
French parliament out OF the total
Of s97. are serving with the army.
Three hundred thousand youths Of
Is years In France who normally
would begin service in the army in
October OF 1916, are by government
decree to be called to present them.
selves for examination beginning on
the goth OF this month.
II is reported that there are 10000
wounded persons and $4,000 refugees
In Seryia, who are In grave need of
According to an unofficial announce.
nent made at Berlin number of
escorted by British and
French warships. have reached Anti
iari, the sole seaport OF Montenegro,
Provisional President Gutierrez and
General villa are In Mexico City and
several of their military chiefs have
zone to Cuernayaca TO discuss with
General zapata and his officers the
of forces In the capital
md vicinity.
News that the Suez canal is In no
danger from an Arab raid |
3 contained in dispatch from Cairo.
Reconnaissance have failed to dis |
over any hostile bodies In the vicin-
ty of the canal" says the message.
General Christian De Wet, the
OF the South African rebel
lon. who was captured on farm at
Waterbury In British Rechuanaland,
as been brought to vryburg under a
trong guard.
An attempt to escape made by
prisoners in the concentra.
ion camp at Lancaster, England, was
hwarted by the guards, who charged
he mobs with bayonets, wounding
everal.
General villa has entered Mexico
lily at the head of $4,000 soldiers,
eelaring that his only mission is to i
estore peace. and that foreigners will
g protected.
Count Won Moltke. chief Of the Ger.
nan general staff. is said by the Vos.
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