The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-03-02

vessel was held up by a British
cruiser, believed to be the Earl of
Glasgow, off the Brazilian coast on
January % and two Germans in her
crew removed.
The soaring cost of foodstuffs
throughout the county now engages
the attention of virtually every gov
ernmental agency with even a. re-
mote relation to the problem.
A newspaper reporter using a
basket as a purse and potatoes as
money had little difficulty in getting
about and in making purchases in
Chicago. The potatoes were from
Idaho and valued at retail at az cents
each.
BY unanimous vote the Maine sen
ate adopted a resolution providing for
woman suffrage by constitutional
amendment.
WAsHINeToN.
Arbitration Of the case of the Amer
can sailing ship William p. Frye, de-
stroyed by the German commerce
raider Prince Eitel Friedrich, is now
considered impossible, it is claimed
at the state department, because OF
other sinkings of American ships.
Absolute prohibition legislation took
its longest forward stride in the ma
tons history when the house, on Feb
ruary 81. approved by a four-to-one
majority a senate measure which
would raise an iron-clad barrier
against importation OF liquor into pro
hibition states.
National banks during the calendar
year 1916 showed the largest earnings
ever reported since the organization
of the United States national banking
system half a century ago.
The administration espionage bill,
providing sever penalties for spying
on matters of national defense, and
Furnishing conspiracies to violate
American neutrality. was passed by
the senate by a vote of so to 10.
One OF the measures which Presi-
dent Wilson will insist upon as a part
of the program to be completed by
congress before it adjourns is the APP
preparation of $400, 900 requested by
the federal trade commission for an
inquiry into high prices.
FOREIGN.
That Great Britain is faced witt
a serious situation, due to a shortage
of tonnage, was the admission made
February 20 in the house of commons
by David Lloyd George, the British
prime minister.
Twenty-Five Canadian women an
:. children who arrived at Halifax on
steaY whip from the United States TO
Euro Re were taken off by government
authorities under a regulation whic
provides that women and childre
may not sail from a British port fo
England at present.
The French chamber of deputie
has adopted a resolution asking tn
government to recall by March l a
farmers of the classes of 1883 an
1889 who are now at the front or i
the interior zone, in order to intens
fly agriculture.
The British forces operating agains
the Turks in the Tigris region of No
sopotamia have captured two lines c
trenches near Sanniyat, according t
an official statement.
1t is reported from The Hague b,
Reuters correspondent there that
German submarine has stranded Of
the Dutch island of Walcheren, in tn
North sea.
The French steamer Athos, carry
ing Senegalese troops and colonial la
borers, has been torpedoed in tn
Mediterranean sea.
A number of Sim Feiners, who hat
recently returned from internment II
England, were arrested February 2:
in Limerick, Galway and Skibbereen
as we'll as in Dublin. The arrests
were made under the defense OF the
realm act.
Vice Admiral Won Capelle, German
minister of the navy, told the reich
stag, according to Berlin dispatches
that the submarine warfare mad no
only realized but surpassed the navy:
expectations.
There were approximately two thous
and persons killed OF injured in the
recent railroad accident near CHR
urcha in northern Roumania, accord
ing to the Moscow newspaper Russ
koye Slovo.
One-third of the Armenian Popula
ton either has been massacreed Oh
died of starvation or disease since the
European war hegan, and one-na1f o.
those remaining are homeless and dy
ing in exile, according to a cable mes
sage from John Masefield. famous
English writer, made public at New
York.
In introducing the naval estimates
in the house of commons, Sir Edward
Carson, first lord Of the British ad
miralty, said the vote for 400, 900 men
which the government was asking
demonstrated the strength of the navy
Frederic C. Penield, American am