The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-18
4 General strike Of all Iaborers EN-.


struction Of the new Alaska railway
has been called by the federal labor
union. which was organized at mass
meeting of laborers at Anchorage.
James King, negro, charged with
killing ]. Fl. Seals, white farmer,
near st. Marys, Ga, was shot to death
by posse in the western part oil Ca
mien county. officers said they learned
King was killed while resisting ar
rest.
six hundred pounds of powder ex-
ploded in a dry house at the pro1ectile
plant of the Bethlehem Steel company
near Newcastle, Della, injuring TWO
workmen and completely wrecking the
building.
Sixteen men were killed, four others
injured and about eight more en-
tombed by an explosion of gas In mine
No. 2 of the Jefferson & Clearneid
Coal & Iron company at Ernest, Pa.
WASHINGTON.
Diplomatic negotiations Of various
characters will soon confront the
United States as the result of the ex-
pected intention of the German ana
Austrian governments to treat armed
merchant ships of the entente allies as
war vessels after February rs.
Secretary Lindley M. Garrison re-
signed on February 10 because Presi-
dent Wilson would not 'irrevocably
support the continental army plan anu
because he opposes the admlnlstra-
tons programs of setting a definite
time for Philippine independence AS
sistant Secretary Breckenridge also
resigned
Republicans of the house military
committee have assured President
Wilson that strong army increase
bill. drafted in a non-partisan spirit
and accomplishing all the main OBJ
jects sought by the war department
plan. would be on the house calendar
within three weeks at most.
President Wilson told the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States on
Thursday that America needed real
scientific tariff board and he thought
it was going to get it.
Senator Borah's motion to consider
the pending Nicaraguan treaty in open
session was voted down in the senate.
FOREIGN.
London newspapers, commenting on
the German memorandum regarding
the future treatment by Germany of
armed merchantmen, allude to it as
The German government is about
to issue a memorandum to neutral
governments announcing that hereaf-
ter armed merchantmen belonging to
countries at war with Germany will
be considered and treated as warships.
There has been no diminution in the
severe fighting between the French
and the Germans in tn Artois region
of France.
Luchow, in the southern part of
Sze-Chuen province, has been cap
tured by the Yunan revolutionists, ac-
cording to word received at Shanghai.
The closing of the German-Swiss
frontier is along stricter lines than
ever before. All persons are rigor-
ously searched and the mails and
freight traffic have been entirely gus-
pended.
The Amsterdam Courant states that
the Prussian casualty lists Nos. 42O
to 429 show 1889 dead. wounded and
missing and Prussian lists Nos. 43O
to 499 show 1S,349 dead, wounded and
missing. The total Prussian losses
are computed by this newspaper as
2,377,37S.
The Spanish government is sending
a regiment of marines to Spanish
Guinea to guard the 900 Germans and
$4,000 German colonial troops who
took refuge there when driven out of
the German colony of Kamerun by
the British pursuit according to a
Hayas dispatch from Cadiz.
Francisco Villa and his band have
been driven out of Canyon de Ell
Nldos, western Chihuahua, according
to official reports.
ELY Reuss, woman missionary at
Cologne, the head of a small section
OF Seventh-day Adventists. who
preached the practical application of
the commandant Thou shalt not kill"
was sentenced by courtmarshal 70
nine months Imprisonment in a fort
ress.
The Republican convention was held
at Manila on February 8. The dele
gates Endorsed 'the nonpartisan mol.
ICY OF former administrations and
condemned the present Injection Of
politics into affairs of the Philippines"
The number of Serbian troons which
nave reached the island of Corfu is es-
tlmated at $4,000 by correspondent
CT the Petit Parisien.
The Manchester Guardian in an edi-
.oriai, suggests that Viscount Bryce
formerly British ambassador 70 tbe
united States, or Arthur J. Balfour
lrst lord of the admiralty be sent 70
Ine United States with full powers 70
ADJUST the blockade controvers,, ..4L