The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-18

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the Republican candidate for vice
president will be held at his resi-
dence at Indianapolis on August 81.
Efforts of strike sympathizers to
prevent miners from working on the
Guyana range resulted in battle be-
tween deputy sheriffs and rioters at
Crosby, Mimi, in which many shots
were fred.
The climax of day marked by i'll
feeling on the part of striking drivers
of St. Louis dairy companies came
when David Mitchell, striking en-
ployee of the st. Louis Dairy COM
pany, was shot and killed in an argu-
ment on the street.
cambridge Colby, who nominated
Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency
at the Progressive national convention
in Chicago, has declared himself in
favor of the reelection of President
Wilson.
WASHINGTON.
The Democratic senate caucus has
approved committee amendment tc
the revenue bill which would increase
the surtax on incomes in excess OF
$2,0O0,O00 from 10 per cent to Is per
cent.
| Turkey has refused to grant the re.
quest Of the United States that a neu.
trail committee be permitted to under
take relief work in Syria, where thou.
sands of native Christians are report
ed to be starving.
The war department has given out
statistics showing for the first time
that the total strength of the national
guard on the border is $500 men;
the percentage of sick among the
guardsmen is LA.
Frank R. Wilson, a Sioux City
newspaperman, has been appointed di
rector of publicity of the rural credits
board. The appointment was made BY
Secretary McAdoo.
The state department has forward
ed TO the American embassy at Lon.
don without comment a protest by
several American newspaper CORE
spondents stationed in Germany
against censorship of their dispatches
ny Lu6 bTlllSn OFFICIALS.
A net profit excise tax on all manu-
facturers selling goods to foreign gov
ernments, as substitute for the mu
nitions tax in the pending revenue
bill, is being seriously considered by
Democrats of the senate finance com
mittee.
w. P. G. Harding has been desig.
mated by President Wilson as gov
, ernor of the federal reserve board, to
succeed Charles S. Hamlin, and Paul
! Warburg was named vice-governor, to
: succeed Frederick Delano.
! FOREIGN.
The German Socialist national com
2 mittee has issued an address stating
that the committee has renewed its
/ appeal to DR.. Won Bethmann-Hollweg
e the imperial chancellor, to lift the
S embargo on discussion of terms OF
; peace.
The Greek steamer Eletheria, bound
e from Saloniki to Volo with a cargo
= of oil owned by an American company
and 1900 passengers, principally dis
e banded troops, caught fire off tht
: Island of Skiatho. Forty persons were
t killed and many were injured.
:. The Danish steamer Danevang
e bound from Haparanda, Sweden, TO
Hull, has been sunk by submarine
/ in the North Sea, according to Reu
it ter dispatch from Copenhagen. Thu
h crew was saved.
l. The capture of Stanislau, an i'm
J. portant railroad center southeast o
Lemberg, capital of Galicia, is an
IS nounced in the official statement giveI
A. out at Petrograd.
IT German casualties during July, &C
cording to a table complied at Lon
IS don from German casualty lists, to
" tailed 122, $40, bringing tie grand to
W tai since the beginning of the wal
v taken from the same source, to S,315
# III.
Under the heading Gambling i
% Bread" the London Daily Express eN
,r plains to its readers that the new ris
at in the price of bread, which will g
into effect in London Monday, is du
r 10 manipulation in Chicago
al German airships raided the cas-
coast of England and the southeas
ee coast of Scotland early Wednesda.
Of Three women and child were kille
e. and fourteen persons injured.
is An official dispatch from Berli
n says that between July 81 and Angus
Mt one German submarine sank in til
North sea thirteen British steam tray
al lers and one British government COZ
as steamer.
lg Twelve men are dead as the resu
of of an explosion in mine at Niche
re B. G. Lightning which struck surfaC
wires conducting power into II
ed depths of the coal mine is suppose
n. to have caused the explosion.
of The Russians in their advan'
tn against the Austro-Germans in Ea
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