The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-11-09

shot his father while the latter was
engaged In a quarrel with his mother.
After being given mock trial at
which he was accused OF pro.Gernan-
ISM. william Sales 20 years old, we'll
known citizen ~ Lansing. Mich. was
tarred and fentbered by a group Of
men clad III white robea,
Three hours before the American
Steamship Lewis Luckenbnch was tor.
pesioed and sunk by nn unseen snbma-
rlne on October n. aayol gunners
aboard the vessel planted shot be.
tween the Twin periscopes Of an
enemy submarine aud sent her 20 the
bottom, according % 40 officer OF the
Iuckenhanrh. who has arrived at an
Atlantic port
WASHINGTON.
Steps "a limit the use OF coal for
electric display advertising win be taxi
en No hy the fuel administration with
Ia few days. Fuel administration
officials haze decided that large
amount u coal may be saved by dim.
mlng signs aud is al work now on
regulations Of be put into force.
Consumption of Industries 10 supply
the needs ~ the army was discussed
Friday hy the war industries board
with automobile and accessories man
agacturers. who pledged their full co.
operation 70 tho government in what
ever is necessary 10 win the war, The
pihn Is TO divert a part OF each plant
to the production OF war material.
five members on President Wilson's
cabinet Endorsed woman suffrage In
statements made public at New York
hy Mrs Norman Do H. Whltehouse,
chairman OF the New York State
Woman's Suffrage party.
An order extending from November
Q TO December D. next, the time With
Ia which persons holding property be-
longing 20 enemies or allies Of enemies
must iile reports has been issued by
A. mitchell Palmer, allen property
custodian.
Immediate relief from the coal
shortage Ia the east was promised
Wednesday by the fuel administration,
which Will issue an order modifying
the arrangement under which ship
ments 20 the northwest have been
given preference over all other move
ments.
FOREIGN.
AT present something like lat Ger
man divisions are required along the
Russian front and must remain there
all through the winter, according to of
fetal Russian statements, while Italy
Is receiving physical and financial REIN
forcements from the allies that have
given hor armies renewed strength for
their task.
Italy IS undergoing a rebirth of pa
| tFiouEm. Everywhere men are clam
orlng TO go 20 the front. Even the
Garibaldi veterans have marched in a
body 10 offer their lives ON their couu.
try's altar Thousands Of younger
veterans Of the present war, interned
IA hospitals or invalided home, are
Insisting ON returning to their COM
mands
Three officers and number OF sail
ors OF the German navy were killed IN
another mntiny at Kiel early In Sep
tember, according 20 a dispatch from
Amsterdam.
Diaries taken from captured U-boat
commanders furnish documentary evil
dence that the destroyer Ii the most
effective OF present weapons against
the submarine. Avoided destroyer"
IL the often repeated entry,
The Germans have retreated from
points along the historic Chemln des
Danes sector on the AIsne front In
France, where for several months tho
French troops for General Petaln had
been keeping them sharply to task.
A German uprising Is in progress in
southern Brazil, completely paralyzing
railway tranic, according to private
reports received In railway circles at
Bueuos Ayres. The strikes inaugurat-
ed Ia this district are said to be
spread to other parts of Brazil
In his first address to the British
parliament on November /, Sir Erie
Geddes declared that between 40 and
90 per cent Of the German submarines
operating In the North sea, the AT.
lantic and the Arctic oceans had been
sunk
4 Russia entered the war early and
She Is now worn out by the strain
Premier kerensky Is repSsted TO have
said Few days ago, He said that
Russia claims as her right that the
other allies now shoulder the burden
~ the war.
4 German warshlp has been sunk II
tito sound, according 20 dispatch
from the National Tidende from Nal
utoe, sweden. II n reported that thu
vessel struck mine.
ca the battle fronts IN France aud
Belgium little activity n betng dis
played, Oxcep, by the artilleries OF III,
opposing slides, which at various point,
are carrying our violent reclproca
bouibBrtlments,
Efght persons were killed aud TWEEN
, q one others we're injured IN Ga,