The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-03

steps 10 reileFe the car shortage ID
western railroads have been taken BY
the American Railway association, ac-
Icording to an announcement by that
Organization.
Two men were killed in the Black
Diamond mine at Auburn, Ills, when
a string Of coal cars jumped the
track, knocking down many tons Of
coal.
Eighteen steamers viii compose the
feet Of the new CASTOR, Williams &
Wigmpre Steamship corporation. or
ganized at New York City to operate
lines across both the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans.
United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge OF Massachusetts, in speech
delivered at Morristown, n. j., before
the Washington association, paid trib-
ute to the popular government which
Washington founded, and which, he
asserted, has been lost.
WASHINGTON.
The senate has confirmed the nom
ination of Henry Prather Fletcher as
ambassador to the government Of
Mexico The vote was 40 to 16.
The country's export trade declin-
ed during January. though the
months total was far above that for
the same month OF last year. The
value of exports was 1896. 535, 1903,
cember. The increase over January,
1915, was nearly ssS,00O,OO
The United States navy's whole
system of government and operation,
from education of officers to questions
of ship and gun construction, was
sharply criticised before the house ma
val committee by Admiral Cameron
MGR. Winslow, commander in chief Of
the Pacific feet
The senate paf,Ile lands committee
has reported favoraJly upon the bills
granting Utah sixty-eight acres of
land in the Fish Lake national forest
for state fish hatchery.
President Wilson has sent a letter
to Senator Stone, insisting that pol
icy of United States toward German
naval warfare must not be modified.
The house appropriations commit
tee, in reporting the legislative bill,
included items for continuing the as
say offices at Boise and Salt Lake
City, thus indicating the effort to
abolish these offices has been discon-
tinued.
FOREIGN.
The revised official figures of the
casualties in the Zeppelin raid of jan
uary 81 over England are given as
sixty-seven killed and III injured
British forces in Mesopotamia made
an attack on the Turkish position at
Felahio, below Kut-el-Amara. the
Turkish war office announces. but
were driven back with considerable
losses.
Reports from Russian sources tell
of resumption of the offensive by the
Russian army in Galicia and Poland
under command of the car.
A dispatch from Fetrograd says that
the Russians have taken by storm
Kermanshah, the important Persian
city in the neighborhod Of which ser
ious fighting has recently taken place.
Before sailing for San Francisco
from Nagasak the captain OF the
American steamship China lodged a
protest with the American consul
against the action OF the British con-
verted cruiser Laurentic in holding up
lSs vessel of Shanghai on the last
western voyage and removing. twenty
eight Germans, eight Austrians and
two Turks of military age
Emperor William has established
les headquarters at the German posi-
tions facing Yerdun, according to in
formation received from Berlin by
the London Evening News by way OF
Copenhagen.
Led by the crown prince, 100000
Germans are attacking the French on
front of twenty-five miles in a coIos-
sal smash for the great fortress Of
Verdun. They have broken through
the French lines on front of ten
miles to depth of two miles.
Mining men and others with inter
ests in Mexico have been notified that
the American consulate at Chihuahua
City, which has been closed since last
autumn, had been reopened.
A dispatch from Copenhagen to the
Exchange Telegram company asserts
that Germany has lost thirty Zeppelins
since the war began and that she now
has sixty.
The French chamber of deputies
passed the bill taxing war profits. The
measure remains effective a year af-
ter the cessation of hostilities, and ap-
the cessation of hostilities, and ap-
plies to all who have proflted by the
war, the regular furnishers Of war
supplies not being excepted.
Flying the German naval ensign and
in charge of a prize crew. the British
steamship Westburn, of 2,01S tons, has
arrived at the tort of Santa Cruz de
Teneriffe, according to dispatches
from fho Caparv CHI, - -,