The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-09-15

settlement of the threatened railroad
strike the paramount issue Of the cam
paign and declared his opposition to
the Adamson bill.
Photographers employed by tina
Northern Pacific railroad were award,
ed increases in pay, shorter hourl
and other working advantages in tha
settlement at ST Paul of their de-
mands on the road, thus averting a
threatened strike.
Senator Robert M La Toilette was
renominated as Republican candidate
for United States senator in the Wis,
consn primaries.
The worlds record for the 10n-yard
backstroke swim was broken at Homo
lulu by Harold Kruger of Honolulu,
who made the distance in / minute
Ia Is seconds.
WASHINGTON.
Senator Reed Smoot in commenting
on the session of congress just closed
characterized it as the most wanton-
ly extrayagant in the history of the
country.
Ensign Fitzhugh Green, who ac-
! companied the Macmillan polar expe-
dition in search of Crocker land, re-
ported verbally to Secretary Daniels
that the expedition found no such
land as Rear Admiral Peary report
ed he saw from Cape Thomas Hub
bard in 1906. He told Secretary Dan
iels that no such land as Croker
land existed.
A bill giving to widows of officers
or enlisted men who served in the
Civil or Mexican wars or the war OF
1872 and who have reached the age
of 70 years, pensions of $40 month
instead of the present s12 month
was passed by congress.
Authority to take drastic retaliatory
steps against interference with Amer
lean commerce by belligerents in the
European war are contained in the
, emergency revenue bill as finally ap
proved
The senate has rejected the nomi
master at Chicago
FOREIGN
: Press dispatches from Stockholm
to the Overseas News agency repor
that a revolt occurred recently a
Moscow. resulting in the killing o
2 wounding of many persons.
2 Vernon Castle, one of the foremos
/ opponents of the modern dance o.
i the American stage, who went abroa
. several months ago to join the color
:. under the British flag, has been kille
4 in action in France.
/ Extension of the British mail ce1
e sorship from it's original purpose {
o destroying all trade to or from &c
e many to the field providing data fc
S Great Britain's fight for commerce;
i supremacy is seen in admission
a made by David Lloyd-George, the Wa
s. secretary, before parliament, just r
ceived in full in this country.
II The first big success of the Rumal
Q ian campaign has been won by ii
a Germans and Bulgarians. They hay
e captured the important fortress
II Turtukai, or Turkan. thirty-seyen mil,
as the crow flies southeast of B
y charest
q The British steamship Torridge
II 5,036 tons gross has been sunk Min
teen members of the crew have bee
s landed. No news has been recei- ed
a the other sailors making up the Gre
IN Repulsing German counter-attacl
n on both banks of the Somme, Il
lie French have gained fresh success
p in local actions around Deniecoul
south of the river, and have struck
se powerful blow on the verdun front.
y Colonel Christodoulos, with Il
~ troops of the Greek garrison at Sere
&c forty-five miles northeast of Salonil
Sc has succeeded in making his way
the seaport of Kavala IN the Aege;
Oh sea, where he. is reported to ha
al seized two forts despite the efforts
y the Bulgarian troops which had occ
IL pied them.
- The Tages Zeitung of Berlin sa
l that its naval expert Count Erne
u Won Reventlow, has been forbidden
publish anything of any kind for t
- duration of the war without subm
g ting it to the censors and being pl
~ vided with an imprimatur.
Casualty lists for the first t,
:. weeks of August show that t
20 British army lost 600 officers kill,
", 20 1,702 wounded and 204 missing, to-
u of 2,506. This brings up the loss
44es since the beginning of the war to
- 922 officers
!. Canada has 361 .693 men under arr
M according to figures just announc
u During the month of August the
ha were 7,246 enlistments, as again
IA 1875 in July, 1926 in June and 15,C
j. in May.
Tia The trades union congress, rep
senting nearly 100000 organic
an workers of Great Britain, took an
or. portant and unexpected step at T
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