The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-10-09
WASHINGTON.

stitutionalist sources conveyed further
assurances that permanent peace soon |
will be restored in Mexico through |
the designation of Fernando Iglesias
Calderon as provisional president
pending an election.
Secretary Bryan and Mrs. Bryan
Wednesday celebrated the thirtieth
anniversary of their marriage. Mrs.
Bryan called at the state department |
and took the secretary to lunch and
for trip through the national mu-
scum.
The senate Thursday confirmed the
nominations of Frederick Jesup Slim
son, ambassador to Argentina; Henry
P. Fletcher, ambassador to Chile; and
Edward Ewing Pratt, chief of the
bureau of foreign domestic commerce.
The establishment of a national
employment bureau in the department
of labor is proposed in the Melon
aid bill, which a house labor sub-com.
mittee agreed upon.
Civil service employees of the post
office inspectors office at Chicago
were somewhat perplexed Wednesday
at receiving circular letters from
Washington directing them to report
on their party affiliations
Three more of Secretary Bryan's
peace commission treaties are on the
way to consummation. One with
Greece will be signed soon; the Rus
sian ambassador will confer with Mr..
Bryan over the details of another, and
still another between the United
States and Sweden is being prepared.
The interstate commerce commits
sion Tuesday suspended from October
1, 1914, until January 20, 1915, the
operation of a change in passenger
tariff providing for an increase in
fares from points on the oregon Short
Line via Salt Lake or Ogden and the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
The Biarritz correspondent of Reu-
ter's Telegram company says the
newspaper Radical of Madrid states
that. the Spanish government has of
fered to accommodate 10000 wounded
soldiers in various hospitals.
A joint resolution to express appre-
citation Of congress and to confer gold
medals on the A. B. C. mediators, EN-
bassadors Da Cana, Naon and. Suarez,
for their services in the Mexican me-
diation was introduced Saturday by
Chairman Flood
Clifford Pinchot, Progressive party
candidate for United States senator,
m fc
from severe attack of ptomaine
poisoning. Mr.. Pinchot tainted after
delivering an address last night at
Fire, Pa.
FOREIGN.
Eighteen steamers, of an aggregate
tonnage of 29,5S1, have been sunk by
German warships during September,
according to a board of trade report,
while nine steamers were destroyed
by mines in the North sea in the same
period, seventy-fve lives being lost
King Albert of Belgium is seen
constantly in the danger zone. He is
reported to have assembled Friday in a
balloon to observe the operations,
The enemy shelled the balloon, but
the shells fell short
Great Britain's intentions to seize
goods which may be classed as condi
tional contraband of war specifically
destined for Germany or Austria,
even when such shipments are carried
in American ships and consigned to
neutral ports, was announced at the
state department "Wednesday by Sir
| Cecil Spring-Rice, the British embas-
sador.
Rome dispatch to LIE Temps says
that Pope Benedict XIV is personally
working to inaugurate peace in
Europe. His holiness already has ex-
/ changed letters with the emperor of
Austria to that end.
A dispatch to the Havas agency
from Amsterdam says that in order
to prevent the expectation of contra
band articles to Germany, the Neither
lands government has declared mar
tial law in the eastern provinces.
The Belgian commission appointed
to place before President Wilson al
legged instances of German atrocities
in Belgium, sailed for home Wednes-
day on the White Star liner Adriatic.
The vorwaerts, German Socialist
paper, has been suppressed and its
publication permanently forbidden, ac-
cording to an Amsterdam dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph company.
A report received at Geneva
from Munish estimates that 2,00O,O 900
men and women are idle in Germany
and that the number of unemployed
is increasing daily. A lack of raw
material, it is said, is the cause.
The Canadian government an
nounced Sunday an appropriation of
$4,000 for Belgian sufferers from the
war.
The Dardanelles have been closed
to navigation, according to a dispatch
from Constantinople to the Reuter-
Telegram company. The duration of
the closure is not stated.