The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-11-26

/ Thompson, mayor of Chicago, Or the
primary ballot for the Republican
nomination for president.
Ogaliala Fire, noted Indian chief,
and survivor Of Clusters last fight,
is reported to be dying at the home
in Chicago Of his friend, Chief Little
Bear.
Charles B. Munday yice-president
OF the LaSalle Street Trust & Saw.
ing bank of Chicago Of which William
Lorimer was president has been
found guilty of conspiring to wreck
the institution and his punishment
was fixed by jury at five years i'm
prisonment.
August Weeghman. father OF
Charles Weeghman, president OF the
Chicago team OF the Federal league,
committed suicide by cuttiag his
throat at his home in Chicago.
Mrs. Lucinda Bailey, convicted of
granddaughter In the killing of her
husband at their home In Percival,
Iowa. in June last. has been sentenced
to the reformatory for term not to
exceed eight years.
WASHINGTON.
President Wilson and Speaker
Champ Clark OF the house of repre-
sentatives held an important confer
ence at the White House late Friday
afternoon on the presidents prepared
ness program.
Americas protest against the plac-
ing of nearly all articles OF commerce
on the contraband lists OF European
belligerents will go TO Germany and
Austria as well as to Great Britain
and her allies.
Congressman may be asked to place
a temporary embargo on exports of
structural steel to the European bel
ligerents in order to afford suffi-
cient supply of the metal for use in
the construction of the two battle
ships.
Tentative plans are being consid-
cred, Secretary Daniels announces, for
36,000-ton battleships to be included
In the first years part Of the FIVE
year building program congress will
be asked to approve There are no
warships so large afioat anywhere In
the world now.
The British foreign office is asking
the state department at Washington
to take diplomatic steps to assure pro-
lection for the women connected with
the relief missions In Serbia.
FOREIGN.
Great Britain, France and Russia
have united In an effort to add China
to the entente alliance In order to
prevent possible friction in the future
between Japan and China and to pre-
serve the peace of the far east.
Advance of the Austro- German
troops through Serbia is being ham
pered not only by the desperate re-
sistance of the Serbs, but by severe
winter weather, according to dis
patches from the front.
The cost of Switzerland to the end
OF October Of guarding her neutrali-
ty was $51,000.O0. This figure is given
In an official statement.
A Bucharest newspaper asserts that
Austrian and German troops have
landed on the Roumanian island OF
Hurawai In the Danube river and that
they are placing mines In the river
and watching the movements of the
Roumanian troops.
Austrian aviators threw fifteen
bombs on Udine, Italy, on Friday kill
ing twelve people and wounding TWEEN
ty-seven, according to an official an
nouncement made by the Italian war
office.
Russia intends to place millions of
additional troops in the field, accord
ing to a notification by Premier Gore
mykin to the Russian press, says a
dispatch from Petrograd.
The Paris dressmakers' syndicate
has blaeklisted two American custom
ers of German origin, one of them a
man named Kurzmann, reputed to
have been commissioned to buy
gowns for Mrs. Norman Gait, who is
to become the bride of President
Wilson, according to Gustav Tery's
newspaper, FOeuvre.
Two more British gunboats have
been sunk in the Mediterranean off |
the Egyptian coast, by German sub
marine.
The British advance against Bag. |
dad has been checked south Of Kut,
in Mesopotamia, by mutiny OF In. |
dion troops, who refused to march fur
Their against Bagdad, because of the
presence in that city of objects sa,
cred to their religion. according to a
Berlin dispatch.
The French chamber OF deputies
has adopted a bill giving preference in
he government service to men mutt.
ated or disabled in the war. This
preference extends to every branch
IF the civil service.
A long proclamation in which Cen
sral Villa denounces General Carranza
md the United States government
vas issued by Governor Randall, act
ng Villa governor of Sonora, on No
iember 10.
According to Constantinople ad-
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