The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-06-09

Paul Railroad company suffered ST. |
100000 damage by floods north of Nc !
Gregor. Iowa. Several bridges and |
depots were washed away and it will
be more than a week before trains
can be operated.
A report from General Pershing
which reached General Funston Fri
day afternoon, described the confer
ence at Casas Grandes as success
full"
DIR. Arthur Warren Waite has been
sentenced to die in the electric chair
during the week of July 1O-the pen
atty for the murder of his father-in-
law, John e. Peck, of which he was
convicted.
Evidence intended to show that Vic
tor E. Innes killed Mrs. Eloise helms
Dennis again was submitted by the
state in lines trial at Atlanta, Ca, on
charge of larceny after trust, but was
ruled out of the court
WASHINGTON.
Senator Fall, Republican, of New
Mexico, assailed the administration
Mexican policy in discussing Senator
Kern's resolution directing an in
quiry into the guarding of American
lives and property in Ireland.
The federal trade commission has
announced that it would hold hearings
June II and 10 to give the interests
concerned an opportunity to explain
the rise in the price of gasoline.
The house bill providing for recla-
nation by the government of 100000
acres of Oregon land granted the Ore
gon & California railroad was passed
by the senate.
Favorable report has been made by
the senate judiciary committee on the
bill of Senator George Sutherland Of
Utah, providing for compensation for
accidental injuries to employees of
the United States.
Amendments to the naval appropria-
ton bill to provide for an $1,000, 900
government armor plate plant for 49,
100000, instead of 100000, worth of
aeroplanes, for 2,730 additional sailors
and for bonus system to encourage
the speedy private construction of
warships have been adopted by the
house.
The house, sitting as a committee
OF the whole, adopted an amendment
increasing the number of submarines
from twenty to fifty. Proposals to pro-
vide for six battle cruisers instead of
five, and to add two dreadnaughts and
two scout cruisers to the program
were defeated after a lively fight.
FOREIGN.
A naval battle has been fought of
the coast of Jutland, in the North sea
in which Twenty-Five vessels were
lost, at least thousand men met
at $115,000,000. The Germans claim
the victory.
According to an official statement
by the chancellor of the exchequer
Reginald McKenna, the deficit fol
1867 will be made good by borrow
ing an amount estimated at e 323, 015,
900. This will involve raising by
loans on the average more thar
s3,600000 daily.
Reports received at military head
quarters at Chihuahua from TorreoI
told of the capture of Luz Elias de
PERI, the last prominent outlaw
: leader of the section. He was found
hiding in poor quarter of that city
A number of American citizens anC
British subjects have been killed al
Talara, Peru, by striking employee:
of the London-Pacific Petroleum com
pany.
The American residents of Londor
have formed baseball team which i:
to join league organized by the Can
adam military units.
,, Some $500 riflemen comprise the
force of Ali Dinar, sultan of Darfur
defeated by the British on May 2:
near Ell flasher, in the Sudan &C
cording to an official statement ISSUED
at London.
The conference between Genera
Gabriel Gavira, commanding northern
Chihuahua, and General j. j. Perish
ing, in charge of the punitive expe
: dition, ended very satisfactorily" il
: the words of General Pershing to tn,
press correspondents.
Japan will probably decide t.
change her main railroad system from
a narrow to broad gauge. The pres
ent gauge of three feet and six inche
! was adopted when the first line wa
! built in Japan.
The French troops northwest o
Verdun, in the region of LIE Nor
: Homme, have turned on the offensive
against the Germans and in spiritet
attack have captured a strongly or
ganized position on the slopes south
west of LIE Mort Homme.
q The Mexican government now ask
for the immediate withdrawal of Am
erican troops. The request is mad
: in a 12,000-word note made publ
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