The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-10-22

war supplies. not q dollar. II is learn
ed authoritatiyely, can be spent with
out the official sanction OF the British
government. obtained from commit.
tee sitting In London.
A pistol battle, In which one man
was killed and four wounded, broke
lup a. meeting OF the Democratic city
executive committee at Charleston,
South Carolina.
Peter Benedict, aged 80, logging
jobber and the father OF twenty-five
children, the Oldest OF whom is rs,
died at Marinette, Wis. Hy was the
father Of four pairs OF twins
The American Prison association. at
its closing session at Oakland. select
ed Buffalo. N, ". as the place of its
next meeting.
A second suit to test the constitu-
tionality of the Illinois woman suf-
frage law has been filed In the state
supreme court at Springfield. In the
previous suit the law was held to he
constitutional.
WASHINGTON.
The treasury department has issued
a statement denying that 1t holds q
fund OF $6s.000,O00. or any other sum,
for ex-slaves or their heirs, or for
other persons, who worked In the cot
ton fields during the civil war and the
years just preceding and following
that conflict
All leave OF absence for the men of
the German auxiliary cruisers Kron-
lprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Fried
rich. informed at the Norfolk navy
yard, has been revoked by the navy
department. until the disappearance of
six warrant officers of the Kronpinz
Wilhelm has been satisfactorily ex-
planned.
Secretary Daniels has ordered the
trial by courtmartial OF Rear Admiral
William N. Little. retired, on charges
involving neglect and careless meth
DDS in the conduct of his duties while
inspector of machinery at the Fore
River Shipbuilding company, Quincy.
Mass. in connection with the con
structlon OF the submarine K-2"
The administration program for ma
tional defense to be recommended to
the forthcoming session OF congress,
proposing total expenditure on the
army and navy next year OF about
$400,000,O0O is practically completed.
Secretary Daniels, in agreement
with the general board of the navy,
practically has decided to recommend
to congress a five-year construction
programme which will include sixteen
capital fighting ships-ten dread
thoughts and six battle cruisers.
FOREIGN.
Since the beginning of the war 1000
French public school teachers have
been killed on the battlefield and 5000
have been put out of service, accord
ing to statistics given out by the min
istry Of public instruction.
General Rodolfo Fierro, chief OF
Villa generals, is dead. Ferro fell
from his horse while fording river
and was drowned.
A British submarine torpedoed and
sank German destroyer at the south
ern entrance to the sound, q narrow
strait before Denmark and Sweden,
which connects the Baltic with the
North sea.
Fifty-fve persons were killed and
ia injured in the Zeppelin raid over
London October 49, Fourteen of the
fifty-five persons killed and thirteen of
the ia wounded were military casual
ties.
The chief OF the German army staff
in the east and west, Flanders zone
OF operation, announces that an ar
for the provisioning OF
OF about two million Belgian civilians
In that district has been concluded.
The Berlin Tageblatt publishes re-
port that the Italians have occupied
twelve islands in the eastern Med
iterranean, in connection with the
new developments in the Balkans.
The kaiser has abandoned the road
to Calais, according to a leading ar
ticle In the Berliner Tageblatt, which
says this is the real meaning of the
new German move in the Balkans.
IL is said that there are now 2,00O,-
900 men in Europe who have suffered
the loss of limbs, faculties or both as
a result of injury in the war.
The Messageries Maritime's liner
Yunnan has been torpedoed, presum-
ably in the Mediterranean sea. The
vessel did not sink and her crew of
ninety men took to the boats and
were safely landed.
The Russian foreign office has been
informed, says Petrograd dispatch
to the Times, that the wish has been
expressed at Toxic that preliminaries
to negotiations fo- a Russo-Japanese
alliance be concluded as speedily as
possible.
General Villa. in telegram from
Casas Grandes, denied that he had au,
thorized confiscation Of American min
ing property in Chihuahua. or else.
where. He added that he would not
hermit Americans or ofhar foratgnar. |