The Meridian times., 1917-03-09
Five thousand members 81 the

sand union laborers and hod carriers
were locked out, are on sympatheti,
strike at Cleveland
Two unmasked men locked ths
cashier of the Rice Growers banl
at Wheatley, Ark, In the vault, and
escaped with $4,000.
The Texas house defeated finally !
resolution calling for submission O.
the prohibition question to the people
OF that state. The vote was SO to Al
submissfonists being two votes shorl
or the 30 necessary to passage.
Harry X. Thaw is a physical and
mental wreck, according to report
made by DR.. John Wanamaker, po.
lice surgeon at Philadelphia.
| Seven dead and twelve injured ii
the hospital. at least two of whom
VIII die, was the toll of an automobile
accident at Lima, o.
WASHINGTON.
The senate bill to relieve federal
judges from duty when mentally or
physically disabled was defeated by
the house with vote Of 200 to 1872.
Germany, in a note delivered to the
state department by DR.. Paul Ritter,
Swiss minister, promises the release
OF the Yarrowdale prisoners on March
7, saying quarantine regulations will
have been complied with by that date.
President Wilson, on March /, in re-
sponse to the senate's call, laid before
that body official information that the
United States is in possession Of evil
dence which establishes the authen-
ITCHY of the sensational document dis
closing how Germany intrigued to ally
Mexico and Japan with her to war on
this country.
A bill to empower the president to
arm merchant ships, but not extend
ing the authority he requested to use
other instrumentalities, in defend
ing American rights against the SUBJ
marine menace, was passed by the
house on March /, by vote of 403
to 13.
President Wilson's request Of con-
gress for power to arm ships is held
in diplomatic and official circles at
Petrograd to constitute the second
step toward war with Germany and
to be the logical sequence of the break
ing of diplomatic relations with that
country.
FOREIGN.
Pablo Dreher a German, was ar
rested at Havana by Cuban authori-
ties, charged with conspiracy. Dreher
is an intimate friend of Jose Miguel
Gomez, formerly president of Cuba
and now heading a revolt against the
government of President Menocal,
which is upheld by the United States
government.
AS an act of revenge for the execu-
ton of an alleged bandit by Mexican
government troops large number of
soldiers were killed
February % at point just south of
Victoria, capital of Tamaulipas, when
a train was wrecked.
Destruction of German submarine
In the Atlantic by the British steamer
knight Companion, was reported by
the steamers officers on her arrival
at New Orleans.
Germany's attempt to involve Mex
leo and Japan with the United States
in the event of hostilities between
Germany and America has attracted
widespread attention in Chile. 1t is
scoffed at by the press, which regards
It as a futile move.
Negotiations looking to Chinas en-
trance into the war against the cen
tral powers now are in progress at Pc
kin and in all the entente capitals, |
and their success depends only upon
the harmonizing of the rewards to be |
given China with the amount of CO.
operation demanded of her.
Prussian vigilance has not been
able thus far to suppress much Illicit |
traffic in farm products which is be-
ing carried on in devious ways In the
rural environs in Berlin.
The New Mexican constitution,
adopted at the constitutional conven-
tion at Quaretaro, became effective |
throughout the republic on March /.
The London Daily Chronicle thinks
iermany's attempt with Mexico on a
par with her other activities, but adds
It is not often that such complete
y damning document is brought to
light at such dramatic moment"
That bread cards would be instituted
IN France to prevent waste was an
nounced March by Eduord Herriot,
minister of provisions,
Withdrawal of the German forces
along an eleven-mile front on both
sides of the river Ancre, in France, is
admitted by the Berlin war office for
The first time.
British casualties during February
reached total of 1,243 officers and
l7,lS5 men, according to advices from
london.
Canada is making active prepara-
lions to take prominent part in the
great allied offensive on the wesfarn