The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-04
TWO men entered the office Of the

Aurora, Ills, knocked Floyd, the |
unconscious with a blow on !
the head and escaped with $4,000.
Two more victims OF the bomb ex-
plosion at San Francisco died on
Wednesday, making total Of nine.
Two armed men held up and robbed
a bank at Indianapolis and escaped in
an automobile with $500 Harvey B.
Tilman, cashier, fought the bandits,
but was struck on the head with a
revolver and overpowered.
Reports have reached Terlingua,
Texas, that 200 bandits are operating
south of the Rio Grande beyond San
Carlos.
Senator Lawrence Y Sherman of IL
linois has been chosen chairman OF
the Republican committee which will
notify Charles Warren Fairbanks. Au
gust 10, of his nomination for the
yice-presidency.
WASHINGTON.
Nearly S700,000,000 for national de-
Tense in the fiscal year 1917 is the ag-
gregate of proposed appropriations in
q OF the army appropriation bill, car
rying in round numbers $314.000,000.
Prospects Of an early agreement be-
tween the American and Mexican gov
ernments to submit the border dis
agreements to a joint commission are
described as brighter.
An arbitration treaty between the
United States and Honduras. similar
to those negotiated by former Score
tary Bryan with many countries, has
been signed at the state department.
1t is the thirty-first of the treaties ne
gotiated to be contaminated.
The Carline bill to prohibit federal
officials and employees from giving
their time, skill or knowledge to any
foreign government, directly or indi-
rectly, for business competition with
American industry or labor has been
favorably reported to the house by
the judiciary committee.
President Wilson and state depart
ment officials practically have com
pleted preparation OF a protest against
the PRONUNCIATION of a blacklist OF
American firms under the British
trading with the enemy act.
I Great Britain will consent to the
admission of food in the areas occu
pied by the armies of the central pow
ers under the provision OF neutral
commission appointed by President
Wilson.
FOREIGN.
1t is said that on August l, the sec,
ond anniversary OF the start of the
great war, the direct money cost to
all the belligerents will have reached
$50, 100000.
4 Ambassador Page at London has
been instructed to inquire Of the Brit
ish government the cause of detention
at Liverpool of Eugene Hughes Kelly
of New York, treasurer of the Irish
relief fund; Mrs. Kelly and Joseph
Smith
The only new feature in the Irish
situation today is that a petition is be
ing largely signed in the house OF
negotiations for an Irish compromise
on the lines suggested by John Red
mond and Sir Edward Carson.
J. Gonzales. formerly a colonel in
Villas army, who recently surren
dered with his band south of Torreon
has been granted amnesty by Gen
Jacinto Treyino, and is raising troops
for the de facto government.
1t is estimated that the total losses
of the British. French and Germans il
Picardy during the past three weeks
are fully 100000 in killed, wounded
and prisoners.
A hurricane OF unprecedented VIC
lence has ravaged the provinces o.
Saragossa, Soria, Valladolio and LeoI
and Pontevedra, Spain. The village
OF Torreon is completely in ruins
Eleven are known TO have been killed
Great Britain is not firing OF the
war. On the contrary, the country has
never been more hopeful and united,
said Lord Derby, former director OF Re
cruiting and now under-secretary fol
; war, in an interview Wednesday,
Six civilians have been executed b!
the Germans at Client charged viii
, war treason" according to a Reuter-
Amsterdam dispatch quoting tbs
Telegram
Villa, with about thirty men, is il
the Canyon de Las Huertas, near E
: Paso de Penoles. Durango, according
to reports received at chihuahua.
The fourth German war loan ha,
, been paid fully in cash, says BerliI
dispatch. Money borrowed from LOAF
; banks on collateral for the war LOAF
, totals only per cent of the entir,
, amount of the loan.
According to message received a
Buenos Ayres. Lieut.. Sir Ernest Shack
Teton, the British Antarctic explorer
| has reached the ice field in his effor
! to rescue the twenty-five men Left OF
, Elephant island last April. when hi
; expedition returned from the soutl