The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-06-25

chanician, was killed, and william d.
Ely of Providence, r. L., who was re-
ceiving instruction in flight from
Harry M, Jones, the operator Of the
machine, sustained injuries from
which he died on the way to the hos
pital
Gustave Stahl, the German reservist
who swore in an affidavit to the state
department by the German embassy
that he saw guns aboard the Lusitania,
has been indicted for perjury by a
federal grand jury at New York.
Nineteen people were killed on June
Is in Missouri and Kansas as a result
Oh cyclones and lightning.
Mrs Mary NoIte found the body of
her l1-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. in
the rear yard of her home at Cincin-
natl The body was without clothing
ana wrapped in sheet. The child
had been attacked and murdered, ac-
cord1ng to the police.
Vance Peel, foreman, was killed
and ten workmen were injured in the
collapse at Cleveland of steel arch
OF bridge being constructed over the
Cuyahoga river.
WASHINGTON.
Former Secretary of State William
Jennings Bryan in the third and con-
GLIDING section of his statement on
The Causeless War" issued on June
IL, suggests mediation as the way
out" AS a preventive of war Mr..
RrVan nr0uocaS ,,nivarcoI av+anefo,, 20
his investigating commission peace
treaty plan.
Under new system of accounting
at government navy yards, to be inau-
gurated July l, Secretary Daniels ex-
poets to demonstrate that battleships
can be constructed by the government
at cost that will at least insure sat
isfactory competition in bidding for
contracts by private builders.
President Wilson called at the home
of former Secretary Bryan on June is
to bid goodby to Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan
before they depart for a southern
trip. He remained chatting for ten
minutes with the former secretary and
| his wife.
Experts of the navy department
have begun an examination of evil
dence gathered by the American en-
bassy at London concerning the ex-
plosion which damaged the American
steamship Nebraskan off the Irish
coast several weeks ago.
The Italians have just captured
their fourth Austrian hydroplane The
machine few over Venice, dropping
bombs, but was forced to descend to
the sea while returning to Pola, and
was picked up by patrol boat.
FOREIGN.
During the last three months about
1000 soldiers in the Turkish army
operating in the Olti district of Trans
caucasia have been disabled by dis
ease. Thus weakened the army has
been forced to give up all serious &C.
tivity on this front.
Ten million dollars worth of gold
and silver bullion of the Santa Ger
trudis Mining company, an English
corporation, has been confiscated by
Carranza authorities at the mines, thir-
ty miles north of Mexico City.
All religious education will be
barred within ten years from schools
of Korea giving "a general education"
by an order promulgated by General
Terauchi, Japanese territorial gov
ernor of Korea, the text of which was
made public at Washington by the
Japanese embassy.
Following the entrance of Rus
sian army into Urmiah, northwestern
Persia, Russian officials investigated
complaints of the torturing of Chris
tians by Persians during the siege of
Urumiah by Kurds. Information was
obtained that Persians. taking advan-
tage OF the panic among Christians,
stole hundreds of young women and
children and placed them in harems.
A sensation has been caused at
Boulogne by the report of the discov.
cry of party of Germans with two
armored automobiles hidden behind
the British lines. The Germans were
captured.
The British steamship Ailsa Of Leith
was sunk by German submarine of
the southeast coast of Scotland The
crew was saved.
David Lloyd-George. the minister Of
munitions, is arranging to send q
prominent business man to Americs
to discuss the whole question of Am
erican and Canadian contracts fol
war munitions.
The news of the complete victory in
the Grecian general elections of the
party of former Premier Venizelos
which is in favor of Greece's partici
/, patton in the war on the side of the
allies, has proved an unpleasant sur
prise to the newspapers of Germany
A peaceaful settlement of the ques
tions which have arisen between the
, United States and Germany is pre-
dicted by DR.. Anton Meyer-Gerhard
, who is on his way from the German
embassy at Washington to Berlin tt
expltin the situation to the German
government.