The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-04-02

was pdooCu Wy bhC oChdtC oAS
now awaits the governors action.
A cablegram received at st. Louis
that William Northrup Nc
MILAN, millionaire st. Louis druggist
and mine owner, with extensive es-
tates in England and Africa, has en-
listed in the British army as lieuten-
ant.
Mrs. Victoria Cadaract, aged 105,
died In Ottawa county infirmary, neal
Oak Harbor, Ohio. Mrs. Cataract was
Chippewa Indian and was the last
known of the native Ohio Indians Of
the full blood.
The bill intended to provide pen
sions for widowed mothers passed the
New York legislature. The governor
said he was undecided whether he
would sign the bill.
Mrs. Anna Jackson, widow of Cen
eral "Stonewall" Jackson, died at her
home at Charlotte, N C., March "a, at
the age of "a.
WASHINGTON.
Following receipt of word from
Theodore Roosevelt declining to tes-
tify before the senate ship bill lobby
committee, Chairman Walsh called a
conference at which it was decided
not to subpoena the colonel.
President Wilson has RENTED the
$4,000 fine imposed on Frederick A.
Hyde as part of sentence of convic-
ton for land frauds against. the gov
eminent in California and Oregon.
The German embassy's second
charge that dumdum bullets are being
shipped from the United States to
the allies has not been substantiated
by an investigation by army ordnance
experts and the state department has
SO informed Count Bernstorff, the
German ambassador.
President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan have practically completed con-
sideration of the note to be transmit
ted to Great Britain and France, CIV
ing the views of the United States gov
eminent on the recently proclaimed
blockade of commerce between Ger
many and neutral countries.
Postmaster General Burleson has
ruled that parcel post shipments of
fodstuffs and merchandise to bellig-
erent countries in the European war
will be accepted at the "sender's
risk"
FOREIGN.
Telegraphic conditions in Europe,
except in Belgium, Turkey and the
Balkan states, are now such that there
is reasonable assurance that many
transfers can be made.
! In the recent aerial battle in Alsace
engaged on both sides. 1t was the
greatest aerial fight since the begin
ming of the war
Servia is in the grip of an epidemic
of typhus more virulent and attended
by greater fatality than the world in
upon to combat, according to Henry
James, Jr., of the war relief commits
sion of the Rockefeller foundation.
Despite Lord Kitchener's warning
and the agreements between the gov
eminent and the trades unions tia
strikes should cease, stoppages
work still continue in England.
A financial report issued at LondoI
by the American commission for relic
in Belgium shows that foodstuffs o.
a total value of $20,O00,0OO have beer
delivered in Belgium since the incep
ton of the commissions work.
The steamer Delmira has been sunl
by a German submarine off Boulogn,
in the Eglish channel The members
of the crew were given ten minutes il
which to leave the vessel Subse
quently they landed on the Isle o
Wight
Efforts to effect an adjustment o
the differences between Italy and Aus
tria are being continued pertinaciousl.
by Prince Won Buelow, the German
ambassador, notwithstanding the al
most insurmountable obstacles he ha
: encountered.
Turkish troops have committed ful
Their acts of violence at the American
mission in Urumiah Persia, accordin
to a message received from Grdo
Paddock, the American consul at Ts
: briz.
: All the men at Gulpashan, a larg
village near Urumiah, Persia, hav
been shot by Kurds, the women viz
lated, an American missionary beateI
and sixty-five refugees, taken from tn
[ French and American missions, hav
r been hanged on gibbets erected in tn
j, mission ward.
! President Guillaume of Haiti wa
recognized by France March "a, it
announced Guillaume is the lates
. revolutionist to gain the presidency {
e the island republic. The United State
/. has not recognized him.
The British government has refuse
g the request of the United States tina
r an American consular officer he pc
h mitted to take station at the port {
!. Kirkwall, Scotland, to report o
American cargo ships detained Their,