The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-07-21

NC auiiudi ecouOiuiC .1USS suffered
| by the United States from typhoid fs-
yer and malaria aggregates $92S,23
$50, according to estimates given the
senate by Senator Ransdcll OF Louis
lana, chairman of he committee on
public health
More than a score of society wo-
men, including Mrs. Oscar Lewisobn.
formerly Edna May the ac.ross, mar
rowly escaped death from lightning on
the grounds Of golf club at Great
Neck, Long Island. when Felix Jaco-
bus, a caddy, was struck and killed
within few feet of them.
Seven hundred militia from eastern
states. passing through Cleveland, left
the train and raided nearby stores
and commission houses, taking food
and merchandise and destroying what
they did not carry away.
A shark entered a swimming pool
near Matawan, N. J.. aud killed a man
and boy. II mangled another boy so
badly that he will lose leg and prob
ably will die. The pool was in the
bay, two miles from the ocean.
WASHINGTON.
]. II. Clarke, United States district
Judge at Cleveland, has been nominal
ed by President Wilson as an asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court to
succeed former Justice Charles e.
Hughes, the Republican nominee for
the presidency.
The bodies of six negro troopers,
killed at Carrizal, Mexico, were buried
in Arlington cemetery on July IA with
full military honors. None had been
identified.
The general dam bill, amended from
the form in which 1t passed the SEN
ate, regulating waterpower develop
ment in navigable streams, was pass
ed by the house, 81 to II.
The senate has begun discussion of
the $315.000,000 naval bill, the largest
naval appropriation measure by many
millions in the nations history and
bearing increases of nearly s60,0OO,0OO
over its total as it passed the house
Members of the senate commerce
committee have agreed to incorporate
in the government shipping bill pro
vision permitting ships acquired UNI
der the proposed measure to enter the
American coastwise trade.
Authority from the state department
to permit restoration to normal Of
movement into Mexico of all commo-
dities except munitions of war has
been asked by the treasury depart
ment.
FOREIGN.
Members of the Austrian imperial
family have been summoned to
Scsoenbrunn owing to the illness of
the emperor Francis Joseph, accord
ing to news dispatches from ms
bruck. Several specialists are attend
Ing the aged king-emperor and the
news Of the war is being Withheld from
him.
1t Is stated at Lima, Peru, that
there is no truth in the report that
Peru and Venezuela have concluded
secret agreement with the object of
taking vast tracts of land, the posses
sion of which they dispute with Colon
bia and Ecuador.
Chagrined by the non,arrivai Of
prisoners who recently were released
after undergoing Imprisonment since
the Dublin rebellion and who were ex-
pected at Dublin, thousand Sim
Feiners wrecked the recruiting office.
General Carranza In an interview
Friday said that the status of the me-
gotiations with Washington was very
satisfactory, as the result of the good
will shown to each other by Mexico
and the United States. Thanks to
this feeling of good WILL" the irst
chief continued, 1--WE will be able to
avoid war"
The royal chateau at Tatoi, Greece,
occupied as the summer residence of
King Constantine. has been destroyed
by fire, says a Reuter- dispatch from
Athens.
The heavy prices that the allies
are paying for their success on the
western front is shown In the British
casualty lists issued in London, July
Is, These lists give the names of 425
officers, SO of whom were killed.
In view OF the railroad strike the
government has suspended the consti-
stuional guarantees and martial law
has been proclaimed throughout Spain.
David Lloyd-George. British minister
of war. presiding at an entente allied
conference on equipment at London,
declared that the combined offensive
of the allies had wrenched the initia-
tive from the Germans. never, he
trusted, to return.
German troops on the right bank of
the River Mouse on Wednesday push
ed forward their positions to a point
nearer Souville and the Laufee works,
taking thirty-nine officers and 2.106
men, says the official statement issued
at Berlin.
The advisory committee appointed
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