The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-25

The Rev. Charles T. Baylis, head Of
the allies hospital relief commission,
was indicted by the grand jury at
New York charged with grand lar
ceny. The indictment grew out OF
an investigation into the disposition
of a fund of some $1,000 collected by
Dr. Baylis.
An additional gift of $4,000 to the
National Prohibition party's campaign
fund by Mr.. and Mrs. John P. Coffin
of Johnstown, Fla, is announced. They
previously had given $4,000 to the
fund.
The biggest practice stunt of the
national guard mobilization is being
planned by General Funston and his
staff, divisional hike" of all the
10000 guardsmen encamped at San
Antonio.
Formal announcement is made by
]. P. Morgan & Co., as syndicate man
ayers, of the new loan to Great Brit
ain aggregating $250,O00,000, to run
for two eyars at per cent interest.
WASHINGTON.
The army appropriation bill was ve-
toed by President Wilson because he
would not accept certain provisions
in the revision of the articles of war,
forced into the bill by the house con-
ferees and commonly said in army cir
Giles to be in the interest of certain
retired officers "at outs with the
army"
Without debate or record vote, the
child labor bill was accepted by the
house with the senate amendments.
A bond issue of $130,000,000 to
meet extraordinary government ex-
penditures due to the Mexican situa-
ton was Unexpectedly recommended
to congress on August II by majority
members of the senate finance COM
mittee, with the concurrence of the
treasury department.
| Republican members of the senate
finance committee, in minority re-
port on the administration revenue
bill, denounced the principle of the
bill as wrong and declared it over
looks entirely the serious interna-
tional crisis" which the country will
have to face.
AS the amended Kitchin revenue
bill was reported to the senate on
Wednesday, the proposed house cop
per tax is eliminated, and in lieu
thereof a tax of per cent is levied
on the net profits of corporations sell
ing to or manufacturing for" any mu-
nitions corporation any material en-
tering into the manufacture of mum
tions.
FOREIGN.
Assaults by British and French
forces against German positions north
of the Somme in France have result
ed in the gaining of additions
ground by the attackers, according
to the British and French war offices
Sixty revolutionists held up pas
senger train on the Mexican Nationa
! railway near Aguas Calientes, Dur
ango, taking prisoner the twenty-five
Carranzista soldiers comprising the
escort, it is announced.
The eighty-sixth birthday of EN-
peror Francis Joseph of Austro-Hun
gary was celebrated at Berlin on Au
gust Is on a large scale in militar!
and diplomatic circles.
, Miss Eileen Lee, who swan 36K
miles in the Thames river in 10 hours
| and II minutes, is said to have estab
lished a new worlds record in lonl
distance swimming for women.
A private telegram received a
t Geneva from Berlin says that the Ger
man submarine Deutschland arrived
f safely at Bremen from the United
States.
/ The steamer Pilot Boy, sunk in thu
gulf of Mexico outside of Corpus
} Christi bay, probably carried tel
! men to their death.
In the recent operations aroun,
: Katia, east of the Suez canal, tn
losses sustained by the Turkish fore,
! were estimated at about 5000 men
} including prisoners, or virtually one
A half the force.
Chinese officials assert that thu
5 clash on August 13 at Cheng Chiatul
t between Japanese and Chinese sol
f diers was caused by the resistance o
!, Japanese arms peddlers whom thu
/ Chinese endeavored to expel from Mon
l golia to prevent them from selling
weapons to Monaghan outlaws.
S Germany's submarine warfar,
: against merchant ships is again il
l full swing, according to the naval eS
t pert of the Paris Temps.
Warehouses in which hemp wa
l stored at Tacloban, on the island o
Leyte, have been burned, causing
loss of 100000 pesos.
A Copenhagen dispatch says tn
political situation that has come int,
existence as a result of the Danisl
West Indies question, is SO tangle'
that not even the best informed poll
. ticians venture to predict what de
NOV ha oynaotad