The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-09-29


of 5000 employees. The men will re-
ceive time and half for overtime
work.
Peace and prohibition were urged
by the Prohibition national campaign
ers on their southwark trip through
California. J. Frank Hanly, the pres
idential nominee, declared that his
party was for peace, enforced by
world police force.
Wright Huntington, actor, plav-
wright and theatrical manager, who
has been appearing in production
at Cincinnati theater, dropped dead
Thursday. He was so years cad.
A $25,OO0,OO0 contract for building
ten merchantmen for the Argentine re-
public is reported under negotiations
with the Bethlehem Steel corporation.
The vessels will be of special design,
it is said, .embodying the latest
achievements in marine engineering.
WASHINGTON.
The department of commerce has
cabled the American consul general
at Havana to investigate published
report that millions of tons of potash
have been discovered near Motembo,
on the Matanzas and Santa Clara bor-
der with deposits averaging 25 per
cent
| There remain approximately 10000
national guardsmen still to be sent to
the border under the plan of the de-
partment to give all the modified
militia service on the frontier.
American gifts to the sixty princi-
pal war relief societies are estimated
at $2S 1896, 277.36 by the new yearbook
of the Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace.
The lowest death rate in the coun-
try's history is shown in preliminary
vital statistics for the year 1915, made
public by the census bureau. The
rate is 1875 per thousand
General Funston has been directed
by the war department to return one
national guard regiment to its home
station for each new regiment of the
guard sent to the border.
Major General Albert L. Mills, chief
of the bureau of militia affairs. holder
of the army medal of honor to- brav-
cry under fire, builder of the new
West Point, and former president OF
the army war college, died at Wash
ington, after fifteen hours illness from
pneumonia.
FOREIGN.
Two British subjects were taken
from their home and shot and thirty
six of a party of thirty-eislt Carranza
soldiers were killed in raid on an
Aquila oil camp near Tuxpam by ban
dts calling themselves Villistas.
The Hungarian diet has rejected
the motion of Counts Andrassy and
Apponyi, leaders of the opposition, for
the convocation of the delegations
Establishment of a British trade
bank with capital of G10,000,000
was recommended by committee of
which Baron harrington, chairman of
the Great Central railway, is head.
Additional figures received regard
ing Canadas losses in the big engage
ment on the Somme bring the total
casualties up to approximately 1000
men. Of these about 900 were killed.
The French chamber of deputies
unanimously voted war credits for the
remainder of the year, amounting to
S.S3S 100000 francs.
The British admiralty has informed
the state department that it was con-
WINGED that British steamer Kelvinia
was sunk by mine and that no fur
Their Investigations would be made.
The department will regard the Incl
dent as closed.
A revolution in the Greek island Of
Crete is reported in Havas dispatch
from Athens. The revoluionists are
said to have proclaimed provisional
government.
Chen China-Tao, the Chinese minis
ter Of finance, has formally asked the
quintuple group of bankers for a $780,
900 900 reorganization loan on the Sc
curity of the salt monopoly surplus.
Lieutenant Colonel Earl Feversham
was killed in action September Is
while leading his battalion, it has just
been learned. Earl Feversham was a
member of parliament from 1906 to
; 1915, and from 1902 to 1905 was as
sistant private secretary to the first
lord of the British admiralty.
A verdict of accidental death was
returned by the coroner's jury at Que
bee at the inquest into the loss of
thirteen lives in the collapse of the
central span of the Quebec bridge on
September IL.
The Bulgarian right wing in Mace.
donia has suffered further serious
defeat at the hands of the Serbians,
. who took a dominating mountain peak
and subsequently pushed their lines
! farther toward Monastir, the chief
. Bulgarian base.
The seriousness of Mondays food
: disaster, caused by the bursting of
the Tannwald dam in Bohemia, grows
} as the water subsidies and investiga-