The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-12-29

che murder of her husband James r.
Barnes, a travelling salesman, was
found not guilty by jury in the Grim
inal court in Chicago. The Jury de-
liberated three hours.
Nearly $2,500.000 for the relief OF
Jewish war sufferers in Europe was
pledged at a great mass meeting in
Carnegie hall, New York City.
A lone robber entered the First State
bank of Nora Springs, Iowa. and forced
the cashier to hand over the contents
of the cash drawer-$1, 900. The rob-
Der escaped after telling the cashier
to notify the officers.
BY order of the mayor, the police at
Des Moines, Iowa, seized carload
of coal in the local yards of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad. The
mayor announced that the coal was
to be delivered to the poor.
WASHINGTON.
Two men pushed their way through
a throng of Christmas shoppers near
the capitol ON Pennsylvania avenue
Friday, threw a brick into the plate
glass window Of jewelry store and
made off with several thousand dol
lars worth of jewelry.
President Wilson has nominated
the following to be members OF the
government shipping board: William
Denman of San Francisco, Bernard
N. Baker of Baltimore, John A. Don
aid of New York, John Barber White
of Kansas City, Mo-, and Theodore
Brent of New Orleans.
Representative Augusta P. Gardner
of Massachusetts, speaking on INA
tional Defense" at the Business Mems
club at Cincinnati, fiayed pacifists and
declared that the nation, because of
its unprepared condition, is standing
over a volcano.
President Wilson on Friday received
a telegram from former Secretary Bry-
an congratulating him on his note to
the belligerents.
A definite plan for universal military
training will be laid before congress
next month in the shape of bill for
mulated by the general staff of the
army
President Wilson has appealed to
all the belligerents to discuss terms
of peace. Without actually propos-
ing peace or offering mediation, the
president has sent formal notes to the
governments of all the warning ma
lions.
FOREIGN.
The British parliament was pro-
rogued Friday afternoon without the
members being given any further in
regarding President Will
sons note or what action the govern
ment contemplates with respect to it.
Lloyds shipping agency announces
that the Norwegian steamer Avona
has Been sunk and that the steamer
Mureta is believed to have been sunk.
Declaring he could not hold himself
lin the ranks of those who say Ger
many is fighting for the rights of
weaker nations" Sir Robert Borden,
premier of Canada, asserted in an ad-
dress Friday that Great Britain and
her dominions cannot yield while
aggression goes unchecked"
Fire destroyed the Roman Catholic
the convent of the French
Nuns, and the Bishops palace at
Clarke City, Seven Islands, Quebec.
One of the nuns lost her life.
King Christian, in the cabinet coun-
Gil Friday, ratified the treaty provid-
ing for the sale of the Danish West
Indies to the United States.
Release by Turkey of the 200 Amer
leans detained at Syria and Palestine
was brought about by Germany
through the request of the United
States, exercising its good Offices with
the Ottoman government.
All American and other foreigners
have left Torreon, which Villa is re-
ported to be attacking.
The Russian, Japanese, British and
French legations at Pekin have indi-
Gated to the foreign office and the Am
erican legation their desire for Ameri-
can cooperation in the reorganization
loan of $50,000000.
Both houses of the Danish parlia-
ment now have approved the sale of
the Danish West Indies to the United
States.
Aside from the Roumanian theater
little fighting of moment is taking
place on any of the numerous fronts.
The 200 Americans detained in
Syria and Palestine by the Turkish
military authorities have been granted
permission to leave via Beirut on con,
dition that they intern at Beirut for
month to make valuless any mill
tary information they may have.
Hsia vi Ting, vice minister of for
eign affairs, appeared before the low
er house of the Chinese parliament
and answered questions concerning a
rumor that China was preparing to
join the entente. He declared that
China absolutely was not considering