The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-02-06

ed, the coroner placed the RESPONSE
bility upon the architect who prepar.
ed the plans and supervised the re-
modelling of the building.
Changes in the criminal code to
prevent such complications as Harry
X. Thaw caused when he escaped
from Matteawan and took refuge In
another state were recommended at
the annual meeting Of the New York
Bar association.
Resolutions favoring increased
freight rates desired by the railroads
OF the country were adopted by the
directors OF the National Association
Of Manufacturing in session in New
York.
Leah Alexander. charged with the
murder Of j. ID. Van Baalch, an adver
Using man, October Is last. was found
not guilty by q jury at San Francisco.
The conviction of Daniel a.. Dugan,
Jr, of Orange. N. II, for manslaugh-
ter in killing Leo +. McDermott, IA
years old, with his motor car two
years ago, has been affirmed and he
must serve sentence Of from Ave
to ten years in the state prison.
WASHINGTON.
The senate foreign relations com.
mittee has voted to recommend rati
fication Of general arbitration treaties
with Great Britain, Japan and other
nations that have been pending since
last summer, when their original five
year limitation expired
Ernest p. Bicknell. national direct.
or of the American Red Cross so.
ciety. has announced that the society
had been divided into four sections,
to operate under supervision OF the
national headquarters in Washington,
each with its own head.
Winthrop More Daniels of Prince.
ton, N. j. chairman Of the New Jer-
sey public utilities commission, and
Henry Clay Hall of Colorado Springs,
former president of the Colorado Bar
association, probably will be named as
members OF the Interstate commerce
commission.
Administration rural credit bills
were introduced simultaneously in the
senate and house on Thursday by
Senator Fletcher OF Florida and Rep
resentative Moss of Indiana. members
of the committee President Wilson
Wilson sent abroad last summer to
study the foreign systems.
Colonel George w. Goethals has un-
conditionally accepted President Will
sons offer of the first governorship
of the Panama canal zone.
After months of quiet investigation
the department of justice has con-
| cluded that 1t has sufficient grounds
for suit to dissolve under the Sher-
man antitrust act. the American
Smelling & Refining company, the
so-called smelling trust.
FOREIGN.
An attempted is to be made by
Emperor William to win back the
| sympathies of the Alsatians after their
recent irritation In connection with
the zabern incidents by appointing a
royal prince as viceroy.
Another plan for raid on Persia is
said to have been put in progress
by the former shah, Mohammed All
Mira, whose movements are a source
of great anxiety to the government.
Fifty thousand dollars in cash was
stolen at Roston on Don, Russia,
while the mails were being transfer.
red from a railroad train to the post.
office. The government official who
had charge of the mail was arrested
Twenty-Five persons were killed
and seventeen injured in an explo
sion of tire-damp in Achenbach col
liery at Dortmund, Germany.
The American Red Cross society
has been granted by the Chinese gov
J eminent year in which to obtain
$20,000,000 to carry out a project for
controlling the river Hwai, whose
overfows have hitherto caused every
year great loss of life and damage to
property.
Advices received at Shanghai say
that the bandits who on Thursday
sacked and burned the town of Liuau
Chow, province of Ngan-Hwei, muir
dered Father Ritch, French Jesuit
missionary and captured two Jesuit
priests. Father Allan and Table. who
are being held for ransom.
The steamer Sardinia arrived al
Kingston. Jamaica, on Thursday. from
Port au Prince, having on board Au
gust Donamy. the Haitian minister OF
finance. and Nj. Guilbaud, the Haitian
minister of public instruction and jus
tice. who fed from Haiti because o.
J the revolution.
General Francisco villa, military
commander of the rebel forces, has
disclaimed any ambition to become
president of Mexico in the event the
revolution is successful.
Baron zorn Won Bulash, secretary
announced in the diet on Wednesday
that the entire civic government o.
Alsace-Lorraine had resigned as re
suit OF the difficulty which recently
, arose between the civil and militar.
. | authorities at Zabern