The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-10

iCdn mayors 10 pTUHtOIe the CduSe VI
national defense was effected at st.
Louis at a meeting of mayors and
their representatives from eighty
large cities.
The White Star liner Canopic.
which sailed Friday for New York TOR
Italian ports with three Americans in
her first cabin. will take on arma-
ment when she arrives at Gibraltar,
| it was announced by the White Star
| line.
Walter Watson of Brooklyn was
electrocuted at Sing Sing, March 2,
for the murder Of his wife year ago.
Watson protested his innocence to the
last.
Five thousand custom tailors Of
New York City, many of whom were
employed in Fifth avenue shops, have
struck for higher wages and the abo-
lition of Sunday work and the So
called free shop.
WASHINGTON.
By vote of 68 to IA the senate On
March carried out President Will
sons wish and killed Senator Cores
resolution to warn Americans off
armed belligerent ships.
A bill to appropriate 100000 for
the relief of inhabitants of Poland has
been introduced by Senator Hitchcock.
In the senate enough votes have
been pledged to kill, once and for all,
Senator Cores resolution to warn
t Americans off armed ships of the
European belligerents and demon
strate that congress stands behind
the president inn his negotiations
' with Germany.
President Wilson has served notice
}. on congress that he will consent tc
r nothing less than record vote on the
anti-administration resolutions t.
warn Americans off the armed ships
: of European belligerents before he
I. goes on with the German submarine
Y negotiations
, The senate public lands committee
!. has adopted amendments to the Ferris
e water power bill which practically re.
move the objections western senators
n had to the bill
1 IlCO1uSlll WI AGS uCCluCu LleiI
0 he can not proceed with the German
s submarine negotiations while dissen-
s sion in congress weakens his position
before the world, and has asked for
a vote of confidence.
r Pensions of not less tha7 500 e
S month for all union c!..M war ssterans
: 20 years of age or more and eligible
5 for the pension roll are proposed in a
2 bill fayorably reported to the house
, FOREIGN.
< The first subscriptions to the fourth
German war loan were made by the
: firm of Friedrich Krupp, which sub.
s scribed 100000 marks; the Cen
: trail Agricultural Loan bank, 30,000,00C
!. marks and the Nassauisches Savings
bank, 20,00O,000 marks
e The British admiralty announces
t that the mine sweeper Primula was
S torpedoed and sunk March l in the
s eastern Mediterranean while perform
ing her usual duties All the officers
y and crew, except three men, were
s saved and landed at Port Said.
e 1t is announced that there were
Il nearly 1000 men on board the French
X auxiliary cruiser Provence when she
t was sunk in the Mediterranean Oh
r February &C. only 734 being rescued
g The London newspapers feature dis
patches from Athens which declare
d that agitation in Constantinople in ia
l. vor of peace is becoming so pro
G nounced that it would surprise no one
e if Turkey suddenly capitulated to the
! entente allies.
A proclamation will be issued by
: the British government calling up on
y April married men between Is
y and q years old.
A Bucharest dispatch received by
Reuters Telegram company by way
{ Of Amsterdam says that Queen Moth
err Elizabeth of Roumania Garner
SYLVIA died March 2
; General Benjamin Argumedo, leader
: of the opposition to the facto gov
eminent in Durango and the La Guna
districts, was executed after court
:, martial at Durango City, it is an
y nounced.
Press dispatches from MontevideC
say that a steamer arriving from
? Europe Intercepted near the coast q
: Brazil a wireless message stating thai
British cruisers mad captured the Ger
man auxiliary cruiser Moewe ant
: taken her to the island of Trinidad.
|, The budget presented to the Russia
duma showed an ordinary estimate
revenue of 3,OS3, 049,31S rubles, an es
;, timated ordinary expenditure of 1922
463, 69S rubles, the excess of expend
: ture over revenue being 210,414,2S0.
A German seaplane bombed POI
y, ton of the southeast of England Wet
. nesday night, according to an officis
J, statement. A nine months old chill