The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-08-06


mine of the United States Coal com
pany at Elizabeth. Pa. when a cable
carrying train broke on the incline.
The cars crashed into party of men
at the mouth Of the mine.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad com
pany has filed suit in the federal dis
trict court at Lincoln, to have the Ne
braska 2-cent fare statute be declared
null and void, and that the members
OF the state railway commission be
enjoined from exacting penalty for a
violation Of the statute.
Charles Becker was electrocuted
Friday morning at the state prison
at Ossining. N. ", for his participation
In the murder of Herman Rosenthal.
Becker protested his innocence to the
| last
When 10000 volunteer workers en-
gagged in the construction of an inter-
, state highway between Paducah, KY,
and Memphis, Tenn, laid down their
picks and shovels Thursday night,
they had completed, in its most i'm
portant details. the entire roadway
over its length of $50 miles.
WASHINGTON.
Conditional assurances were receiv-
ed at Washington from Great Britain
that importation Of German sugar
beet seed to plant next years Ameri-
can crop will be permitted as result
Of informal negotiations by the state
department.
Demanding in the name of human
ity that food be permitted to reach
the starving people of Mexico City,
urgent representations have been
sent by the state department to Cen
erals Carranza, villa and zapata.
The United States government ex-
poets Germany to pay for the Amer
can steamer Leelanaw, sunk by Ges-
man submarine off the Orkney islands,
and the state department has trans
mitted instructions to ambassador 1s-
rard for proper presentation of a
claim.
The state department has been ad
vised informally by Great Britain that
she is prepared to make certain con
cessions to American commerce,
which 1t is hoped will remove some of
the causes of friction between the two
countries.
Encouraging reports have reached
officials of the Washington admins
tration recently as to peace PROS
poets in Mexico, although no indlca-
tion has come that General Carranza
would yield to another request from
the United States to join in peace me-
gotiations with General Villa and
other Mexican leaders.
FOREIGN.
Two American bluejackets we're
killed in an attack by natives ON Port
au Prince. Haiti, held by Rear Adj
miral Caperton with 400 men from
the cruiser Washington
In the 0sservatore Romano, official
organ of the vatican. there appears a
letter addressed by Pope Benedict to
the heads of the belligerent countries,
inviting all friends of peace to unite
with him In his desire to terminate
the war.
A new policy respecting recruiting
has been adopted by the authorities
in Canada. Hereafter men with poor
teeth and other minor physical de-
fects will not be rejected, but will be
accepted and sent to dental and sur
gical depots for treatment, after
which they will be trained and sent
to Europe.
The Russians now are facing the
problem of exacuating Warsaw and
the surrounding country without los
ing their armies, while the Austro-Ger-
man forces are making supreme eff
fort to get across their line of retreat
The new Dutch landstrum bill was
adopted by the first chamber on Fri
day and became law The measure
provides for an eventual increase in
the total trained soldiers of Holland
to approximately $4,000 officers and
men. instead OF 100000 who are now
under arms.
The first five months of the great
war cost France exactly 6.64S.000.000
itahNos mo 10 ollOWA W bHC i0pOAt
of the budget committee on supple
mentary military and naval credits
just issued.
The American forces which have
been landed at Port au Prince, have
restored order. Both Haitian soldiers
and civilians have been disarmed
and there is little sign now of the ris-
ing, which for two days had kept Port
au Prince in panic.
The Earl of Kilmorey died at Lob
don of pneumonia, aged 70. The earl
was prominent in sports, theatricals
and Ulster politics.
The probable evacuation of Warsaw
and the whole Polish salient by the
Russians is indicated in dispatches re.
ceived from Petrograd.
William Letter of Windsor, Ont.
was found guilty on two counts in an
Indictment charging him with dyna-
hitting the plant OF the Peabody Man.
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