The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-10-06

port that a life preserver marked
Bremen" had been picked up of the
Maine coast.
Mrs. John odegard and three of her
children were burned to death and her
husband and three other children seri-
ously and perhaps fatally burned when
fire Of an unknown origin destroyed
the Odegard country home near PARK
side, Sask.
Revision Of American neutrality
laws, with a view to discouraging
Americans from participating in Mex
lean factional conflicts was suggested
at the conference Of the Mexican
american joint commission.
Health reports from the border fer
the week ended September % show
the sick percentage OF the national
guard was 2.98. with six deaths, as
against 213 and five deaths for the
preceding week.
WASHINGTON.
Prices Of meat animals, hogs, cattle,
sheep and chickens. increased IL per
cent from August Is to September Il,
compared with an average increase OF
90 per cent in the same period the
last six years.
Responsibility for any statement
that after the European war Japan
would renew negotiations with the
United States over emigration and
alien land legislation was disclaimed
by the japanese embassy in a state
ment issued by the charge, Tokichi
Tanaka
A personal letter from the emperor
of Russia replying 10 President VIII
sons note to the heads OF five bellig-
erent nations requesting concessions
for the shipment of relief supplies into
Poland has been received at the state
department.
American exports have passed the
half million-dollar a month mark. Sta
tistics issued by the department Of
/ commerce show that goods sent abroad
/ in August were valued at $4,000, 900,
/ a record not only for this country, but
+ for the world.
FOREIGN.
The report comes from Mexico City
/ that General Lucio Bianco has been
sentenced to five years and nine
months Imprisonment on technical
charge of disobedience Of military or
I ders and usurpation OF authority.
/ A Berlin dispatch says eleven Brit
ish fishing steamships were sunk by
! 9 German submarine in the North sea
+ September o. Four Belgian lighters
/ were sunk in one day at the entrance
! TO the English channel by another
submarine.
Within less than a century, Crete
on Tuesday accomplished its eleventh
+ revolution. The only resistance was
met at Heraclion, not from the king
soldiers, but from anti-Venizelist in
/ habitants Only a few were killed in
the fighting, which lasted more than
two days.
over a hundred Villa followers
were killed, the bandit leader Baudelio
Tribe was taken prisoner, and heavy
# casualties suffered by Carranza forces
in terrific fight at Cusihauririachic,
/ it is reported.
4 The Greek ministry is reported pre-
pairing an ultimatum to Bulgaria as a
7 prelude 10 war. This document, It is
said. will contain such demands and
be set forward ii such verbage that
hostilities can be the only result.
Floods have made breaches in the
river levees in the region OF Mel
bourne. Australia, inundating 100
square miles OF the country. The
town of Morocco has been virtually
submerged.
The Danish parliamentary commit
tee has decided that plebiscite shall
be held before the sale OF the Danish
West Indies to the United States is
submitted TO the rigsdag. This action
was taken on the amendment OF the
conservatives.
Bandits wrecked a northbound Ma
tional railway passenger train between
Gonzales Junction and San JUS Potosi.
Mexico. resulting in the loss of sew
eral lives.
Great Britain has withdrawn regula-
tions for the Importation OF cigar to-
baeco. which American growers have
declared would ruin their business. and
authorized imports on the basis OF
/ those in 1918, 1914 and 1915.
Lieut.. Sir Ernest Shackleton. the
explorer. who is on his way TO Eng
land, has arrived at Santiago, Chile.
from Punta Arenas with the members
of his party who were rescued from
Elephant island
The crew Of the Zeppelin airship de-
troyed in Essex during the air raid
Sunday morning were buried in vii
!age churehyard there. The funeral
was semi-military in character.
According TO imprisoned crews of
the armored automobiles used by the
British on the Somme front. the fam
Gus tanks" as the British soldiers
call them. the new machines have
proved a complete failure. says Ber-