The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-09-17

tomoDlle parts, announced that the
company would reduce the working
hours at its plant at Toledo, Ohio, to
rorty-eight hours per week during Oc-
tober with no change in the scale of
wages.
The strike of trolleyEen of the
Holyoke Street railway, which has
caused a complete suspension Of traffic
IN Holyoke, Mass, and Amherst since
August 26, has been ended.
Seyenty-fve German and Austrian
machinists employed by Torris, Void
& Co., tool manufacturers at Chicago,
went On strike, when they learned
that the company had taken a con-
tract to make tools to be used in
manufacturing shrapnel for Great
Britain and her allies.
Tumultuous scenes marked the
thirty-fifth annual convention Of the
negro Baptists at Chicago, and only
the presence Of policemen prevented
lnnumerable fist fights.
WASHINGTON.
Ambassador Penield, at Vienna, has
been instructed by cable to inform the
Austro-Hungarian government that DR..
Constantin Dumba no longer is &C
ceptable as an envoy to the United
States and to ask for his recall.
One enlisted man was killed and
two injured in an explosion on the
destroyer Decatur at the Cavite navy
yard, Philippine ISLANDS, according to
cable reports to the navy department
Germanys note to the United
States concerning the sinking of the
White Star line steamer Arabic by a
German submarine has been commu-
nicated to the American ambassador.
The note ascribes the destruction of
the liner to an act Of self-defense
on the part of the submarine.
A plan to appoint commission of
business men to mobilize business re-
sources of the United States in case
of war, has been presented to Presi-
dent Wilson by Bernard Baruch, a
New York banker.
All United States troops on the Mex.
lean border are under orders to be in
readiness to meet any emergency. War
department officials said extraordi.
nary vigilance had been ordered as a
result of repeated raids in American
territory by Mexican brigands. /.
FOREIGN.
The death is announced at Havre of
Louis Hysmans, the Belgian minister
of state and member of the Belgium
chamber of deputies for Brussels.
A British official statement says:
THE ships lost for the week ending
September s number 10, of gross
tonnage of 1895; fishing vessels,
four, tonnage, 1874"
Announcement is made at Madrid
that a new steamship line between
Spain and the United States is to be
established. The steamers will ply
directly between Vigo and New York.
1t is said King Alfonso will give his
support to the enterprise.
Twenty persons were killed and
eighty-six others injured in Zeppe-
lin raid at London.
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia.
who had been acclaimed as one of
the greatest strategists of the war
for his mastery retreat in the face
of the Austro-German onslaught, has
been relegated tc the comparatively
unimportant post of leader of the
Russian forces opposing the Turks
in the Caucasus.
There were five passengers on the
French steamship Bordeaux, whose
destruction by submarine off the
western coast of France is an
nounced.
Pinceiro Machado, one of the poll
teal leaders in Brazil, has been as
sassinated.
Princess Adelbert, wife of the third
son Of the German emperor, gave
birth to a daughter Saturday. The
child died soon after it's birth. The
condition of the princess is reported
to be satisfactory.
Hostile aircraft revisited the east
ern counties of England Tuesday
night and dropped bombs.
The Central News says the Harri.
son line steamship Dictator was sunk
several days ago and her crew of for.
ty-two was landed without casualties.
Twelve hundred Carranza troops
under General Benjamin Cara oecu,
pied Piedras Negras. the Mexican
town opposite Eagle Pass, Texas.
Villa forces evacuated the place and
fed to surrounding hills.
The Turkish torpedo boat destroyer
Var Hissar has been sunk in the Sea
of MarEora by an allied submarine
o. c. Bixler, driver, was killed and
Will Kendall. mechanician, was prob
ably fatally injured when their car
threw a tire and ran into the fence
at the Juarez Jockey club track on
Labor day.
The major portion of the state of
Tabasco has revolted against the
Carranza government. Street fight
ing in San Juan Bautista, the capital
of the state. and in Frontera, town
on the coast, resulted in the killing