The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-01-29

| L. .. Larsen. wife murderer, gaine<
forty-one minutes OF life when hii
execution, set for 10 O'Clock Friday al
San Quentin prison, was delayed until
1914, while the state supreme court
at San Francisco passed upon an ap
plication for writ OF habeas corpus
telegraphed from Los Angeles
Twenty-Five deputies guarding the
Liebig chemical plant at Roosevelt, ".
j., were arrested Friday night charged
with murder The action grew from
rioting In which nineteen strikers
were shot. Two of the strikers died.
Percy Tugwell was found guilty Of
the murder Of Mrs Maud b Kennedy
at Los Angeles The Jury fixed Tug
Wells punishment at life imprison-
| fnenf
George - Perkins, Boston archi
tect, WAS found guilty Of mansIaugh.
| ter by jury In the federal court at
Columbus. s. c.. for killing r. w. r.,
Human Of Jacksonville. Fla, on the
steamship Mohawk. last November.
Professor Lewis Lindsay Dyche. 20.
olcgist and explorer died at Topeka,
Kansas, OF pneumonia, aged SIS. Pro-
fessor Dyche was one OF the party
which rescued Lieutenant fnow Rear
Admiral peary in the Attic regions
In 1896
WASHINGTON.
After two days OF debate on the gen
eral state of the national defenses, the
house on January 20 passed with
out roll call the army appropriation
bill carrying siO1.0O0.OO0.
Republicans OF the senate at for
NAL conference held Thursday deter
mined to fight the government ship
purchase bill with all the resources
they could command, and to continue
the opposition indefinitely until
March or In an extra session, should
one be called.
An urgent deficiency bill has been
adopted by the senate, carrying 81
100000 to reimburse farmers for cattle
slaughtered in the campaign to eradi
cate the foot and mouth disease.
At 4 p. m, April 2. the population
OF the United States will have reached
and passed the 100.000,O00 mark, &C.
cording to G. d. Sloane, geographer of
the census bureau, who estimates the
population at that hour will be 100,-
000,059
Business and railroad conditions in
the United States were pictured to
President Wilson as slowly improving
by Frank M. Trumbull OF New York
chairman OF the railroad legislative
advisory committee.
FOREIGN
Messages received from Berlin de.
clare that the airships which raided
England the night OF January 10 were
zeppelins OF the latest type. They
went forth from secret base on the
German frontier, carrying full com.
plement OF men, heavy guns and am.
munition.
One OF Germany's new super-sub.
marines for chasing and sinking Brit.
ish merchantmen on the high seas
concluded her trials In Heligoland bay
on Friday. Each super-submarine
VIII carry three months supplies.
The British steamer Durward has
been torpedoed by German subma.
rine. The crew was saved
A group OF German aeroplanes at.
tackled Dunkirk and nearby coast vii.
lagos on Friday. They dropped about
eighty bombs. There are twenty
known victims OF the raid, of whom
seven are dead. One warehouse full
OF merchandise was burned.
II Is announced that the Russian
government has awarded contract
for $4,000 railroad cars to a Seattle
firm II is said this order was only |
the beginning of commercial relations
between the Russian government and
the Pacific northwest.
The ice-breaker Canada. sent by the |
Canadian government for the purpose
OF keeping open as late in the winter
as possible, the port OF Archangel, has
been disabled. Sixteen steamers al.
feawq nave been disabled. Sixteen
sNNsheAS ohuauy nave Dbeu frozen IN
and the prospects OF releasing them
are poor.
The battle for the trenches in Elan
ders and France continues almost
without cessation from the sea to the
Swiss border.
A dispatch from Stockholm states
that German airships have been re-
the frontier between
Sweden and Finland. evidently with
he purpose of destroying the bridges
u the new Finnish railway, thus in.
communication between
russia and sweden.
Slight earthquake shocks continue
o be felt at Ayezzanno, Italy. The
disturbances are causing the walls (,
which We're cracked by the earthquake !
4 last week to fall. and keeping the !
'opulace In a state OF terror.
Christian missionaries and converts
a Urumiah, which recently was occu. (,