The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-07-06

Ing the total number of deaths in the
last few weeks slxty-two. most of them
children
Miss Alice Black Richards, head
teacher at the school for feeble-mind.
ed ut Laconia. n. H., was found in a
cottage on the shore of Lake Win.
nissquam dead from cut in her throat
II Is believed she had been murdered.
Establishment of dispensaries in all
important seaports of the allied coun-
tries probably will be one of the first
undertakings Of the American Red
Cross in administering the big war
fund, estimated at $114,O00,000 without
flnal reports from few citIess
Mrs. Minnie Carter of Cumberland,
Nd, tied the hands of her husband to
bed while he slept off a debauch Mt
| night and then fired three shots into
him. killing him instantly. After the
shooting Mrs. Carter ran two miles TO
neighbor and announced the tragedy.
WASHINGTON
| Intervention Of President Wilson has
checked the .'bone-dry'' national pro-
hibition movement in congress. Con-
| finement of prohibition legislation To
distilled beverages without interfer-
ence with manufacture of beer and
wines, ii is generally agreed, will re-
! suit.
The Association of Collegiate Alum
nj has submitted to the wOman's com
mittee of the defense councils plan to
enroll for training all girls between
16 and q years of age. The proposed
curriculum includes food and clothing
conservation. clerical, nursing and ag-
ricultural work. and instruction in the
use of telegraph and telephone.
The navy has almost doubled its per
sonnet since war was declared and now
needs less than $4,000 men to bring
it up to the new authorized strength of
100000.
President Wilson has asked congress
10 pass law to permit Brand Whit
lock, American minister to Belgium, 10
accept decoration from King Albert
of Belgium in recognition of his
marked services to the little Kingdom
; Red Cross officials have found theil
organization the owner of one herd o
: dairy cows. a fat Plymouth Rock heI
, and Il dozen eggs, a dozen gold ans
silver medals OF various kinds, muel
jewelry and quantities of merchandise
-l-lonations to the Red Cross war fun
f from persons who could not Civ
: money.
5 Women suffragists plan to continu
d demonstrations before the Whit
Il House or places President Wilson ma
visit, despite the arrest of twenty-fiN
o women and the falling of six ia Il
. last week.
/, FOREIGN.
II Russia has adopted the daylight "a
is ing plan. The provisional goverIme
e has decided to advance the clocl
y throughout the country oae hour Ju
II for the purpose of ECONOMY III u
n, the consumption of fuel
!, All goods in the big general inerca
n tile store of the Cananea ConSolidat,
a Copper company, which closed i
mines. mills and smelters June ,
: have been confiscated ny the Mexica
L officials at Cananea-
c A Russian republic ,is forecast b
e members of the Russian mission in iii
cussing problems facing that countr.
The constituent assembly. which is eo
pected 70 open September 80, will hay
/ in its hands the building of the Who'll
n new political structure of Russia.
Premier LLOYD George. speaking i
: Glasgow on the occasion of his bein
made II freeman of the city, said tina
in his Judgment the war would COM
TO an end when the entente La
reached the aims which they had sc
: out to attain when they accepted t;el
: manys challenge If the war ended
i single minute before, he said, it woul
: be the greatest disaster in the histor
of mankind.
Special dispatches from ROTTERDAM
say it is inferred there ia view of tn
! gagging of The German press. tina
something drastic has happened or
about to happen ia Germany.
Brazil has revoked her decree of mel
! trality in the war between the entent
: allies and Germany.
The declaration that generf
| strike of organized labor in Canad
! will be called if the government a
!. tempts to apply CONSUMPTION withor
first obtaining a majority vote by til
people was made in parliament b
Alphonse Verville, who represents th
district of MaiSonneuye part of III
! city of Montreal.
Petrograd newspapers say thu
> more than $500 German prisoners an
, 100 officers. also prisoners, escape
from various parts of Russia throug
! Finland last month. The Firms ar
. said TO have given very little hel
toward recapturing them.
!. Twenty thousand American soldier
: landed in France on June &c and p
not man being lost ON the trip oyel
| They will be sent to the front soon. .