The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-01-19
An inventory Of the estate Of the

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late Richard G. Kerens. railroad mag
nate and former ambassador to Aus
tria- Hungary, filed at st. Louis, showed
a total value for personal property
alone of s6.565,OOO. besides large hold
ings of real estate. i
The Postal Telegraph Cable com. |
pany announced wage increase of s |
per cent to all employees throughout |
the country vho were in the com
pany's service on January l.
The plant of the Canadian Car & |
Foundry company, one-half mile east
Of Kingsland, N j., in which were
stored hundreds Of thousands OF shells
destined for the Russian government,
was destroyed Thursday by series of
explosions. Loss, $4.000,0OO. No one
was killed.
WASHINGTON.
An effort to put the house military
committee on record against universal
military training failed, but resulted
in the adoption of resolution declar-
ing that no radical change of military
policy should be considered in franz
ing this years army appropriation bill.
! President Wilson has recognized
/ the bravery of two Barbuda citizens
by sending to each a pair of binocu-
lars suitably inscribed as a reward for
their rescue of the crew OF the wreck
ed American schooner Fairfield.
Gatherings in all parts of the coun-
try may be able to listen to President
l
morning of March by long-distance
telephone.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, on Friday informed the
state department in a note that he
had relieved from duty Franz Bopp
and E. H. Won Setback, respectively
consul general and vice consul at San
Francisco. recently convicted of vio-
lating the neutrality of the United
States by conspiring to destroy NUM-
lions consigned to the entente allies.
The entente reply to President Will
sons peace note is regarded in Wash
ington as putting an early peace prac-
tically out OF the question, but still
leaving an open door for the president
to make further efforts.
Wayne Macveagh, attorney general
in the cabinet of President Garfield
and brother of Franklin MacVeagh,
former secretary of the treasury, died
at Washington, January IL.
: Confirmation Of Winthrop M. Dan
iels of New Jersey to succeed himself
as a member of the interstate com
/ cd lIyf (
. senate on January 10.
: FOREIGN.
The London Weekly Nation, discuss
ing the entente reply to Presider
Z Wilson, remarks that this is the fir;
=. time that all the entente allies hav
= formally committed themselves to tn
- approval of league of nations for i
:. surfing peace.
:. 1t is officially announced that II
Italian battleship Regina Margherit
= struck a mine and sank December 1
: Six hundred and seventy-fve men c
:, board persisted. Two hundred an
seventy were saved.
A British cruiser of the Juno typ
: 5,600-ton vessels, has been destroye
- by Turkish gunfire. it is announce
= in the Turkish headquarters report {
i Janaury IL.
The total German casualties sine
the beginning of the war were place
: at 4,010,160 in an official summary il
: sued by the British government.
The entente allies, replying to Pres
!. dent Wilson's note in joint COMMIT
nication, express the belief that it I
), impossible at the present moment t
= attain peace that will assure them ri
paration, restitution and such guaraT
: tees as they consider are essential.
l. THE submarine menace to the mel
i. chant service is far greater now tina
at any period of the war, and it r.
quires all Of our energy to combat 1t,
], said Admiral Sir John R. Jellico'
: first sea lord, in a speech at a luncl
. con given in his honor in London.
a. The Turks apparently are receivin
u hard usage at the hands of the BIRTHS
. in the Mesopotamian and Egyptia
theaters. Following up their advanc
- northeast of Kut-el-Amara, on the 7
~ girls in Mesopotamia early in the weel
= the British have again attacked an
y. captured Turkish trenches.
ii Greece's reply accepting the term
of the ultimatum of the entente allie
:, was delivered Wednesday evening
4. says Reuters Athens correspondent.
q. An Italian submarine destroyer wa
ar recently sunk off the Isalnd of Corr
re according to an Overseas News agenC
announcement. The members of a
90 army staff were on board the vesse
70 the statement adds, and several nav
!. officers and thirty-three army Officer
i were killed.
lie Information received on January
u indicates an increasingly serious s.
- uation between China and Russia ov'
the recent reported killing of 400 CT