The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-09-01

manding Company F. Fifth infantry,
Georgia National Guard, was shot
dead in front OF his tent at Camp
Harris, near Macon, Ca, by Mrs. Hat
tie Adams.
Archbishop John Lancaster Spald-
ing noted prelate of the Catholic
church in Illinois and a resident If
Peoria continuously since 1877, died
August %.
After eluding the authorities for
forty-four years, Andrew Wise, white
man wanted for killing constable in
Buncombe county, North Carolina, has
been arrested in Williamson, w. Va.
He was caught Immediately after the
killing, but escaped while on the way
to jail.
George L. Hammer, of Omaha, Is
dead as the result of injuries received
in the tornado which swept through
Omaha on March %, 1913. Mr.. Ham
mer and his wife were both injured
when their residence was wrecked
and Mrs. Hammer died a year ago.
WASHINGTON.
COnferees of house and senate
working to reconcile differences in the
Shields bill to permit construction of
power dams by private enterprise in
navigable streams have given up all
hope of agreement at this session of
congress and adjourned to November
%. Conservationists have made hot
| fight on the measure.
The workingmen's compensation
bill, as passed by the senate, was ac-
cepted by the house with slight differ
ences of a minor character which
promise to be arranged in conference.
The army bill, vetoed by President
Wilson because of provisions in its
revision of the articles of war, has
been accepted by the house with a re-
vision approved by the war depart
ment.
Opposition to President Wilson's de-
mand for an eight-hour day to pre-
vent strike is dying hard. AS a
last stand the railway executives are
insisting upon guarantee from the
White House that legislation which
will make impossible similar crisis
will be enacted before the Novem-
Der election.
A protocol amplifying financial, eco
nomic and administrative treaty with
Haiti, has been signed by Secretary
Lansing and Minister Menos.
Debate in the senate on the emer-
gency revenue bill was featured by a
long speech on August % by Senator
Penrose urging industrial prepared
ness to safeguard the country against
commercial warfare at the close of
the European war and vigorously at
lacking the pending measure.
FOREIGN.
| Eight persons were killed and thir-
ty-six injured in the Zeppelin raid
Thursday night, it was. announced Of
fcially at London. One hundred bombs
were dropped. One Zeppelin reached
the outskirts of London
An appeal for protection of Armen-
ians in Persia during the advance of
the Turks into that country reached
the state department from the head
of the Armenian church in India.
Nearly 100000 marks has been con
tributed by number of wealthy men
of Bremen for presentation to Captain
Koenig of the commercial submarine
Deutschland and his crew.
The shooting down by soldiers of a
number of citizens Of Corona, Spain,
capital of the Catalonian province of
that name, is reported by the Havas
correspondent at Terpingan on the
Franco-Spanish frontier
German airships again have raided
the east and southeast coasts of Eng
land, dropping bombs.
The merchant submarine Deutsch-
land arrived at the mouth of the
Weser August %, according to the
Overseas News agency, and anchored
before the mouth of the river All
on board were well.
The German government has issued
decree providing for the introduc
ton of meat cards for the whole en-
pire on October 3 Families butch
ering for their own consumption are
subject to the card system.
The parliament has unanimously ap-
proved the appointment by President
Ii Yuan Hung of Tuan Chi Jul as
permanent premier OF the Chinese re-
public.
| The result of DR.. Karl Liebnecht's
appeal against his sentence for war
treason has been the imposition of
new and severe sentence of four
years and one month penal servitude
and expulsion from the army, &C
cording to dispatch from Berlin.
The statement is made on good au-
thority that the number of Roumanian
troops that can be modified exceeds
100000 and that the army is in the
best of condition after long prepare
ton.
Duties on agricultural implements
imported into Mexico from the United
States have been reduced by Carranza
materially, while a reduction of 80 per