The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-10-26

Seven persons were drowned at
Green Bay, Wis, when two automo-
biles ran into the river, one going in
while trying to rescue the other.
So that 1t may not interfere with
the second Liberty loan campaign,
Red Cross theatrical day has peer
postponed from October &c to Decem-
Der z, it was announced Thursday. The
entire receipts of many theatres
throughout the country n the sala-
ries of many actors for that day will
be contributed to the Red Cross war
fund.
Mrs. Blanca de SauIles, who has
been in Jail at Mineola, n. Y, since
she shot and killed her husband. John
II. de Saulles, once a noted Yale
athlete, ut his home in Kestbury last
August, was indicted Monday by a
grand jury.
WASHINGTON.
Newspapers and news syndlcates
have been appealed to by the signal
corps to release experts in photog-
raphy for service in France develop
ing and printing photographs taken by
the American air forces.
The government, on October 10, adj
vanced to France $20,0O0,0 900 addi-
tional, bringing total loans to the al
lies up to 2,731, 100000.
The government has set in motion
the machinery to apprehend and pun
ish pro-German workers who nave
started an organized campaign in
more than a dozen tates to defeat
the Liberty loan.
The National Association of Railway
and Public Utilities Commissioners,
in session at Washington, adopted a
committee report fayoring the contin-
uance of the federal appraisal of the
railroads of the country.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has is
sued a warning to coal operators and
miners where strikes have occurred,
or n is impending. that the govern
ment will take control of the mines
unless they are kept in operation.
Pro-German agents in the United
States, according to reports to the
treasury department, have directed
their energies toward defeating the
Liberty loan.
Internal revenue officers have re-
ported that evasion of the special tax
Of 1914 per cent by munitions manu-
~facturers have totaled, SO far, approx
imately SIT, 100000. More than S1O,-
100000 of that sum already has been
recovered by the government.
FOREIGN.
The American army transport An
titles, homeward bound under convoy,
was torpedoed and sunk by a German
submarine in the war zone, on October
II. Seventy sailors and soldiers were
lost, there being 1877 survivors.
The Daily Mail condemns what it
calls the failure of the British fleet to
prevent the German feet from becom-
ing master of the Gulf of Riga and
demands that ''the admiralty make an
explanation of this humiliating display
in the Baltic"
determination and fractional strife
marked the daily progress of the Ger
man Socialistic congress at Wurzburg,
according to official cabled reports.
A Berlin dispatch says two Russian
infantry regiments, totaling 5000 men,
We're captured on Moon island in the
Gulf of Riga, it is announced official
ly. The island is now completely in
possession of the Germans.
;, Beef and mutton in England now
: exceed their pre-war prices by Is
!, pence per pound, says a report pub
lished in the government Labor Gaz-
cite. Butter and bacon are now
double the pre-war level. Milk is rs
per cent higher than in July, 1914.
! Russians will move their capital
, from Petrograd to Moscow. The de-
termination to move the government
is said to be in keeping with the be-
; lief of the chief of staff that Petro-
: grad is now in the direct war zone.
! A Zurich dispatch says the old
wound of former King Constantine of
Greece has reopened and that an OPP
GRAFTON was performed at the Sauer-
bruch clinic in Zurich Friday. His
condition is said to be most grave.
The commander and sixteen sailors
D of German submarine UB123, who
were interned with German refugees
i from the Kamerun near Alcala de
Henares, northeast of Madrid, have
Q escaped.
: Mutiny has broken out in the Aus
trian fleet, according to authentic in
= formation reaching Berne through
underground channels from Vienna,
Open revolt of the Austrian sailors
is spreading and the imperial and
royal admiralty are face to face with
the most serious crisis in the history
0 of the Austrian navy.
A mutiny among German sailors at
the Belgian port of Ostend, who re
: fused TO go on board submarines, is
y reported by the Belgian Dagblad. The
v newspaper says an officer was thrown