The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-07-16


drink William Jennings Bryan said
in an address at Oakland.
Bates Huntsman, aged 20, a mem
Der of prominent family at Bedford,
Iowa. has been arrested on a charge
Of murder growing out of the recent
unearthing on farm near Siam,
Iowa, of treasure chest said to con-
tain $4,000. The alleged murder is
said to have occurred in 1868.
Carl Auerswald, discharged EN-
ployee, shot G. e. Cumberson, cap
| italist, near Redwood City, Cal, after
| first poisoning livestock, cutting the
water supply and firing the house.
barn and garage on the CnmbersoD
estate. Then he died, probably from
| poison, on the way to jail. Cumber-
son was not seriously wounded.
The federal trade commission has
announced tour of the country for
the purpose of continuing its foreign
/ trade investigation. The commission
will begin hearings in Chicago on
July 10 and will visit other points in
| the middle west.
WASHINGTON.
A general investigation of the rates
and practices Of all common carriers
| in the United States in connection with
transportation of lumber and lumber
products is announced by the inter-
state commerce commission. Hear
ings will be set later.
The department of justice will in
vestigate reports that General Felix
Diaz is fitting out Mexican expeditions
in Baltimore and Miami, Fla.
American farmers, confronted with
feeding the world while Europe is at
war, have planted record acreages OF
all the principal crops. Moreover, Of
fetal estimates made public by the
department of agriculture disclose
prospects of production exceeding the
average of the last six years in al
most every important crop.
4, Urgent suggestions that the United
States wait no longer than another
month before taking some decisive ac-
ton to restore law and order in Mex
leo have been forwarded to the state
department by several consular Off
GERS in the northern part of the re-
public.
; Although department of justice of.
ficials are confident they have nipped
in the bud plan to ship large mum
bers of Montenegrins back to their
native country to join the colors, it is
said there is no present intention OF
: preventing the departure of Montene
grins who already have been induced
to start for home.
FOREIGN
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener
whose conduct of the war office has
been criticised in certain sections o.
the British press, received very re
Inarkable ovation from the public or
his visit to the London guild hall t.
make an appeal for recruits.
General Villa telegraphed an Amer
lean consular agent at Chihuahua thai
he had led the Carranza forces undel
4 General Hill into trap and severed,
defeated them in the vicinity of Aqua.
Calientes.
Curtis's big powder mills at Houns
low, Middlesex, England, were virtual
ly destroyed by a series of explosions
which occurred shortly after 100 men
had commenced work. No statement
of the casualties is yet available. Only
one person was killed.
| i ~
the Austro-Hungarian government tc
United States Ambassador Frederick
G. Penfield because of an abusive arti
, Gle printed in the Neues Wiener Tag
: blatt attacking President Wilson an6
: the American people in connection
], with the second note protesting
, against German methods of submarine
: warfare.
Reinforced by fresh hordes and sup
: ported by the strategic railway a
J their rear, the Russians in southern
! Poland have developed a violent of
J fensiye, which has, for the time al
: least, blunted the Austro-Germar
drive on Warsaw and thrown the Teu
J tons strictly upon the defensive.
/ The Italian armored cruiser Amalf
was torpedoed and sunk by an Aus
/ trian submarine, while taking part il
( a reconnaissance in the upper Ari
: attic. Most of the members of the
/ crew were saved.
An international trolley car oper
ating on the Canadian side of the
Niagara river jumped the track on
i, the Queenstown heights, Buffalo N
I Y. Ten were killed and ninety in
| jured.
Argentina's delegates to the Pan
American Financial congress, held in
Washington in May, on returning te
Buenos Ayres ON July z, expressed
: themselves as being satisfied will
I the result of their mission.
Y Captain Liebsicher and Enginee,
i Hoppe of the German STEAMSHIP
Lemnos were condemned at Venice tt
K ten years imprisonment in solitar,
$ confinement on the charge of spyIng
g The other members OF the crew wer,
d acquitted.
Eight persons four woman +wr