The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-26


ing of Mrs. Mary E. Surratt in Wash
ington, D. c., July Z, 1865, when the
latter was found guilty as one of the
plotters of the assassination of Abra-
ham Lincoln, died May 10, at Pitts
burg.
Mrs. Emily Nelson Richie Mclean,
wife of Donald Mclean of New York,
and past president-general of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, died at hospital in Baltimore.
The resignation of A. L. Mohler as
president of the Union Pacific rail
road and the Oregon Short Line rail-
road, effective July l. was announced
Thursday at Omaha. No reasons for
the resignation were given.
William H. Taft appeared before
the Lake Mohonk conference on inter-
national arbitration Wednesday night
as missionary for the League to En-
force Peace
WASHINGTON.
Secretary Daniels has appealed to
President Wilson to use his influence
to save the navy's reserve in the Cali
fornia oil fields as a vital step in the
campaign for adequate national de-
Tense.
Administration forces in congress
lost the first skirmish in the naval pre-
paredness campaign Thursday when
the house committee broke a five-day
deadlock and completed the naval ap-
preparation bill without approving the
five-year building program advocated
by President Wilson and Secretary
Daniels.
President Wilson has accepted an
invitation to speak either Friday or
Saturday of next week before meet
ing of the League to Enforce Peace, of
which former President Taft is presi-
dent.
DR.. Cary T. Grayson, President Will
sons naval aide and physician, and
Miss Alice Gertrude Gordon, whose
engagement was announced several
weeks ago, will be married in New
York May "a.
President Wilson, talking with con-
gressional callers, indicat ed his graft
fication at the progress leing made
on legislation supported by the admin
istration and expressed hope that con-
gress would be able to adjourn early
in the summer. 1t is the hope of the
president to see most of the admins
tration program completed before the
political conventions in June.
FOREIGN.
Attacking with 100000 men, the Aus
TRANS have made further progress
against the Italians in their great and
sudden offensive which now extends
from the Trentino to the sea and
across the Adriatic into Albania.
Ambassador Page at London has
cabled the state department that the
sentence of jeremiah c. Lynch, the
Inaturalized American convicted of
not been confirmed.
A Berlin dispatch to the Franklin
ter Zeitung says that the federal
council has empowered the imperial
chancellor to seize and regulate the
distribution Of all vegetable supplies
in the empire.
None of the passengers nor the
crew of the French coasting steamer
Mira were saved when she was sunk
as a result of a torpedo attack in the
Mediterranean on May 16.
| Serious damage was done at Rim
mi, Italy, by the earthquake which
shook central Italy during the night
of May 1917. Ten houses collapsed
and about 1000 dwellings were dam
aged.
| Placedo Villaneuva, a Villa leader
who was reported killed in fight with
Colonel Telesforo Dominguez near
Ojinaga, several weeks ago, is not
only still alive, but has joined in ac-
tive banditry with Jose Chavez, an
other well-known outlaw
The Austrian offensive south and
southeast of Rovereto is making pro-
gress daily. The Austrian front al
ready has been advanced five miles in
places.
| General Chen Chi-Nei, high official
of the Chinese revolutionary party,
was assassinated by three alleged
Yuan Shi Kai supporters in Shanghai.
| The German steamer Hera of 4,705
tons was sunk off Landsort island in
the Baltic. Sinking of the Hera marks
the first activity of submarines in the
Baltic this season.
The report comes from London that
representations have been made to
Germany by the vatican with view
to inducing Germany to abandon sub
marine warfare.
Interest in the war operations has
shifted suddenly to the Italian front,
where the Austrians have begun to at
tack along the whole line, but particu-
larly in southern Tyrol against the
Italian troops threatening Trent.
The Dutch steamer Batavier V, 1900
tons, has been blown up in the North
sea. Four members of the crew were
| lost the remainder landad af Groat