The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

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homa house of representatives on Fri
day while the members were voting
on section of an election law de
signed to take the place of the famous
grandfather clause" Several fist
fights occurred.
Eight parishes in eastern Louisiana
are flooded by overfiows, backwater, OF
breaks in levees in the Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Atchafalaya, Red and Black
rivers. But three lives have been lost
so far as is known.
Sixteen years in the penitentiary
was the sentence given to Mrs Ida
Meyer the 60-year-old woman who was
convicted of completely in the murder
OF, her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ethel
Meyer, at Winterset, Iowa, last July
The interstate commerce commits
sion has no right to examine CORE
spondence between shippers and rail
road companies, according to de-
cision rendered by Judge William G.
Van Fleet in the United States dis
trict court at San Francisco.
WASHINGTON.
The senate has, by vote of SIS to IS,
ratified the long pending and persist
emily opposed Nicarauguan treaty,
whereby the United States would &C
quire ninety-nine year option on the
Nicaraguan canal route and naval
base in the gulf of Fonseca for
100000.
Count Won Bernstorff, German am
bassador, has dispatched, by cable to
Berlin, advices containing the new
demands of the United States, which
call for assurances as to the future
conduct of submarine warfare as an
inseparable part of the settlement Of
the Lusitania controversy.
Sweden has informally advised the
state department that, in consequence
of the announced intention of Germany
and Austria to sink armed merchant
men without warning after February
29, it will notify its nationals not to
travel on such ships.
Data submitted to the senate by
President Wilson disclosed that sew
enty-six Americans were killed In
Mexico in the years 1918, 1914 and
1915, as compared with forty-seven
in the three years preceding, and that
twenty civilian Americans and six
teen soldiers were killed on American
soil in the last three years as result
of Mexican troubles.
Repeal of the free sugar clause of
the Underwood tariff law was APP
proved as a party measure by the
house Democratic caucus. The vote
was "a to 20.
FOREIGN.
New votes of credit amounting to
approximately e4QO,00O,O0O will be
asked by Premier Asquith in the house
of commons. The new votes will
bring UP the total of war appropria-
tons to 2,062,O00,000.
Reuters Cairo correspondent says
that many eastern tribes of Bedouins
are seeking protection of the British
authorities, owing to a violent dispute
between the western and eastern
tribes, which are hereditary enemies.
1t is reported at Havre that Adolph
Max, former burgomaster of Brussels,
who was arrested by the Germans
shortly after the outbreak of the war
and later taken to Germany, has been
liberated and sent to Switzerland,
where he now is.
While it is semi-officially estimated
in Petrograd that 100000 Turks and
1000 guns were taken by the Russians
at Erzerum, late advices state that
portion, at least, of the Turkish army
has escaped.
Official figures of the French Gus
toms service during Janaury, issued
Thursday, show total imports of &c.
993 900 francs, an increase of 277,532,-
900 francs over January, 1915. Elk
ports were 201,000000 francs, an in
crease of 4S,000,O00 francs.
Young married men who have not
enlisted are soon to receive the atten-
ton of the war office, says London
dispatch All single men who attested
under the Earl of Derbys plan have
been called upon.
Erzerum, Turkeys chief city in Ar
menia, is in the hands of the Rus
SLAMS. Heavy assaults by the Rus
SLAMS against the long line of de-
tached forts protecting the city last
ed over period of five days.
The allied powers signatory to the
treaty guaranteeing the independence
and neutrality of Belgium have decid-
ed to renew the agreement not to end
hostilities until the political and eco
nomic independence of Belgium is re-
established and the nation is indemni-
fed for the damage suffered.
Debate on Wednesday in parlia-
ment on the air defense of Great
Britain was chiefly remarkable for
the frank admissions made by the
cabinets spokesman that the present
conditions are far from satisfactory.
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