The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-11-17

"Three cheers LOT oOA r.A.S
walsh. next president OF tne on,sos
states" brought a hearty respon0.
sro,n more than 1000 men, women anu
oh,Idran who escorted the cnairniah
~ he western Democratic headquaru
ers 10 his train when he departed iioa
chicago TO his home in Helena mohs
charles f. Swartz. mechanician on
racing automobile which wen.
through the fence on death Curve
~ the Vanderbilt race course at Los
Angeles during practice, died later a.
a hospital. Harry Horswan, VINO was
driving the car, was seriously inlureu'
New London's citizens Wednesday
night gave a reception and banquet 10
Captain Paul Koenig and the ere" "
the German merchant submarine
deutschland. A gold watch, bearing
the seal of the city, was presented 70
the captain and his men received sh-
YER match cases and fountain pens.
WASHINGTON.
The immediate purchase OF 4,oUo
yickers machine rifles of the present
standard model for the equipment Oh
the regular army and the natlonai
army is recommended by the JOINT
board of army, navy and marine OH
GERS. which have been studying Tor
months machine gun problems.
Secretary Lansing has announced
that the Austrian government mas
named Count de Tarrow TarnoWski
ambassador to the United States and
that he has been accepted by this gov
eminent.
Oliver w. Stewart, chairman OF the
prohibition national campaign commit
tee, has issued statement in which
he said the prohibition vote would
reach $4,000.
Proposed increases of from l to 4
cents per hundred pounds in freight
rates on grain and grain products
from Kansas City and Omaha to Mis-
sissippi valley points have been sus-
pended.
During a spectacular experiment
with a new type of aeroplane bomb at
Indian Head, Wednesday afternoon,
Naval Lieutenants Clark X. Bronson
and Luther Welsh were instantly
killed.
The supreme court has consented
to review a decree of lower federal
courts ordering deportation of thirty
five Hindoos from San Francisco, who
were i'll and likely to become public
charges.
FOREIGN.
The Swedish academy of science
has decided not to distribute the 1916
Nobel prizes for physics and chemis-
try. The sums available for these
prizes will be added to special fund.
Germany has informed the Ameri-
can embassy in Berlin that the sink
ing of the British steamer Marina on
October %, with the loss of the lives
of six American horse tenders, will be
thoroughly investigated as soon as the
submarines operating on that date
have reported.
Chancellor Won Bethmann- Hollweg,
in his speech before the reichstag
committee, expressed the conviction
that Germany was certain of final vic
tory.
Several German newspapers, in
commenting on Chancellor Won Beth
mann-Hollweg' speech, express the
opinion that it opens the way for
peace.
Villa bandits under Silvestre Que.
vedo appeared at Gallego Station, 122
miles south of Juarez, on the main
line of the Mexican Central line, loot
ed the station, robbed the safe and
carried away all the merchandise
which had been stored No one was
killed.
The Swedish academy according tc
a Reuter- dispatch from Stockholm
has awarded the Nobel prize for litera
ture for 1915, which had been held in
reserve, to Roman ROLAND, the
French playwright and novelist.
French and Belgian civilians killed
behind the western front in Angus
by artillery of aeroplanes of the allie.
} total seventy-five killed, includins
} thirty-one men, twenty-seven womel
and seventeen children. There were
J also 1S1 wounded.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollwi,
has announced that after the ending O
the war Germany would cooperate il
an endeavor to find a practical mean,
for procuring lasting peace by mean,
OF an international league.
A report that $50 bandits, claim
: ing to be followers Of Francisco villa
are at La Null pass, south of oiinaaa
: Chihuahua, had caused much excite
ment across the river from Preside
! Texas, in the Mexican town.
The American elections occupy lead
l ing positions in both the news and obi
torial columns of the London nanar
l wednesday morning and the war new
3 hnds itself crowded into secondary NO
sition for the first time since the ont
break of the war.