The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-04-16


building at Milwaukee. Paulus re-
Gently has had financial trouble.
q. H. Hartman, 1t appeared in tes
timony given before the United States
commission on industrial relations at
Chicago on Friday. was a friend of
labor.
An eight-hour day, In place of nine
hours. for women employees of the
Western Union Telegraph company,
VIII be put into effect in it's larger
Offices throughout the country this
week.
Charges with the theft OF $1,000
from letters intended for victims OF
the war in Belgium, Frank Charvat,
an employee of the outgoing exchange
department of the Chicago postoffice
for fourteen years, was held to the
federal grand jury.
The Iowa house has refused, by a
vote of 81 to "a, to permit Iowa brew.
ers to manufacture or sell malt bev.
erages either for consumption in the
state or outside after January l next
WASHINGTON.
Final instruction were given April
~ by Secretary Daniels to Rear AID.
miral Beatty, commandant of the Nor
folk navy yard, for the internment
OF the German auxiliary cruiser Prinz
Eltel Friedrich and her officers and
crew.
General Carranza has finally mott
fed the United States government
through Consul Silliman that he can.
not agree to the naturalization of
either Mexico City or the railroad
from the capital to Vera Cruz.
DR.. P. Magruder of Washington, one
of the physicians at the head OF the
American Red Cross unit in Serbia
has fallen victim to typhus fever.
Brig. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief Of
staff of the army, has submitted to
Secretary Garrison report on his re
cent expedition to Utah. where he sue.
ceeded in quelling an uprising of In
dians.
Secretary of state Bryan has an
nounced that he does not expect the
liquor question to find place in the
platform of either party in the COM
ing campaign.
American copper exports for the
week ended March q were worth So.
3z26S7, according to an announcement
by the department of commerce. The
greater part of it was shipped to Italy,
England, Sweden and France.
FOREIGN.
dispatch received from Berlin
says that on April l, S12,SOS prisoners
of war were being held in Germany
-1O,175 officers and SO2,6333 men.
Official denial of the report that
Austria has asked the good offices of
the holy see to obtain peace propo-
sails, is printed in the Osservatore
Domano. the organ of the vatican.
A fearful rate of mortality among
the 10000 refugees crowded into the
yards of the American mission at
Urumiah, where, it is said, 5000 per.
sons could scarcely find aecommoda-
lions, is reported.
The closest inquiries made in dip
lomatic. ministerial and military cir.
Giles failed to discover the reason for
the alarming rumors printed in Lon
don newspapers relative to the posi-
bility of hostilities between Holland
and Germaay.
Germany has sent to the United
States government s note complaining
that the latter has accomplished
nothing in its diplomats correspond
ence with the allies to obtain for
American exporters the rights to
ship foodstuffs to the civilian popula.
ton of belligerent country.
According to an official list made
public in Berlin, there were in Ger
many, March 1, a total of $50 pieces
of captured artillery. These include
$500 Belgian pieces of both heavy
and light caliber, 300 French guns,
$50 Russian and sixty British.
Clifford Pinchot has arrived at the
home of his brother-in-law, Sir Alan
tombstone, in London, after his ex-
perience with the German authorities
in Belgium. He is on his way back
" ~AAASA va win HIS VINE, uuc0 dis
gusted at his treatment by the Ger
mans.
Alfredo Gonzales, president of Cos
ia RIGA, had narrow escape from
drowning when the presidential
yacht was wrecked in the Caribbean.
He and the members of his party had
to swim ashore through heavy surf.
Vera Cruz newspapers announce.
that General Obregon's reported vic.
tory near Celaya cost the Villa forces
$4,000 men killed or wounded.
The information bureau at London
has issued statement saying that
the British steamer Falaba, sunk al
sea March s by a German submarine
with loss of over 100 lives, was not
armed.
Twelve women and children were
killed and forty-eight others injured
by bombs dropped by Austrian avia-
tors in the market place at Podgo-
r;t1a MantopoCro