The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19

Members of the Methodist Episcopa
church who play cards. dance and at
tend the theater win no longer BIZ
liable to expulsion II recommendation
made by subcommittee OF the gen
eral conference at Saratoga Springs
N. Y, are adopted
| William b. Bankhead, son Of Senator
Bankhead, has defeated former Con
gresham Richmond p. Hobson for the
congressional nomination In the new
Ily-created Tenth district Of Alabama
by fifty-one votes, latest returns show
| Conference at lei Paso came to o
close on Thursday, General Obregon
being unable to make agreement with
American representatives because
General Carranza insists upon Amer
lean withdrawal and refused to sane.
ton obregon's cooperation plans.
Approximately forty bandits crossed
to the American side Of the Rio
Grande above Eagle Pass, Texas, on
Wednesday, and rode up and down the
river for several miles, later crossing
to the Mexican side without doing any
apparent damage.
WASHINGTON.
Failure Of the military conference at
El Paso to reach a definite agreement
has brought no change In th policy
toward Mexico Of the Washington adj
ministration.
The $11 100000 Indian appropriation
bill was finally perfected by the house
and senate on May 10 and went to the
president.
Secretary Of State Lansing says
that no further representation will be
sent to Great Britain for the present
for relief of oppressive features of the
British blockade.
A favorable report on the Nolan bill,
10 pay federal employees minimum
wage of SO a day, was ordered by the
house labor committee.
The close relation OF poverty to tu-
berculosis is emphasized in report
made public by the health service,
after an extensive investigation In
many cities. one-sixth Of all tubercu-
losis cases, 1t declares. develop In
cheap lodging houses and one-heth are
traceable to occupational hazards and
bad working conditions.
Bids were opened at the postoffice
department on May IL on the govern
ments first aerial mail service routes.
They will be in Alaska and Massachu-
setts. II the service proves success
full. gradual expansion will follow to
other routes where transportation is
slow or inadequate.
FOREIGN.
About 500 yards of British trenches
in the region of Vermelles were cap
tured by the Germans Thursday night,
but later the British, in counter-at-
tack. took back portion OF their lost
ground.
The Russian force In Persia, which
during the past ten days has complet-
ed the arduous task of trayersing the
mountain district separating II from
the TurcoPersian frontier, driving the
Turks upon their strongly fortified
base OF khanikin, now stands at the
very threshold of Mesopotamia.
A dispatch from Amsterdam says
that Captain Karl Boy-Ed, formerly
German naval attache at Washington,
has been decorated with the Order of
the Red Eagle. third class, with
swords, by the emperor.
Hundreds of persons are homeless
as a result OF the floods in the mid
land districts in the Union of South
Africa The loss of life Ia estimated
at $50 The property damage is very
large.
The crown prince has resumed with
fury his bombardment OF the French
positions on both banks of the Mouse
north Of Yerdun.
The most dangerous factor in Ire
lands situation, which has been rec
ognized since the brief rising flashed
In the pan. was that the punishment
Of the rebels would cause reaction
of sympathy among the warm-hearted
and emotional people. This threatened
danger appears to be fast materializ-
ing.
Thirty-seven unarmed British mer-
chantmen and twenty-five neutral yes
sells were torpedoed without warning
between May 7, 1915, and May 7, 1916.
Thomas j. Mcnamara, financial sec
rotary to the admiralty, said in the
house of commons.
The British government has just
announced its acceptance OF the plan
submitted by Walter Hines Page, the
American ambassador. last February,
for feeding the civilian population of
Poland by an American commission.
Demetrio De La Cara, once known
as the bad man of the Big Bend coun-
try" met his death in long range
rifle duel with an American trooper
in the hills near Boquillas, Mexico
A British official estimate of Ger
man casualties in April places the to-
tai at s1,l62. The number of German
casualties since the beginning of the
war is given as 2,S22O79