The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-01-26
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Thaw by Fred Gump, Jr., of Kansas |
City, has been released in $4,000 bail
without opposition from the district
attorney.
The pangs of hunger drove Law.
renee Southall, aged IA, Chicago or
phan, to murder Charles H. James, a
car inspector who had befriended him
at Cleveland. O.. the boy confessed,
say police.
American farm products attained a
gross value of $13,449, 900, 900 in 1916,
making that year the greatest in point
Of value of any in the nations exist
ence.
Officers of the Alabama national
guard were exonerated for alleged bad
conditions in camp and the govern
ment was criticised for keeping the
guardsmen on the border, in a report
of Charles HENDERSON, governor of Ala
bama. after an investigation.
WASHINGTON.
Members of the senate steering COM
mittee were earnestly urged by Presi-
dent Wilson on Friday 70 get into live
ly action on administration legislative
measures so that the entire program
of reforms advocated by the president
when he entered the White House
might be on the statute books by
March A.
An omnibus public buildings bill,
which President Wilson has given no
tice he will veto, was passed by the
house, 234 to go. 1t carries $38,000,-
900.
Although Villas operations have con
fused the situation in northern Mexico,
there is every indication that the adj
ministration is going forward with its
plans for early withdrawal of Per-
shing's expedition and rehabilitation
of the national guard
Profligacy and extravaganza of the
American people in pursuing pleasure
were condemned in the senate by Sen
ator McCumber of North Dakota, in
opposing proposals for an embargo on
food products.
Representative Roneburg of Illinois,
Republican, has introduced resolu-
ton designed to make illegal the pur-
chase of government supplies from any
foreign firm.
Contracts for armor-piercing navy
projectiles of the fourteen and six
teen-inch types, totaling $3,141, 900
have been awarded by Secretary Dan
iels to the Hadfields, Limited, the En-
glish munition company.
FOREIGN. e
More than 42S,000 officers and mel
were taken prisoner by the Russian
during the last year and 525 guns car
tured, according to Russian servic
organ, as quoted in Central New
dispatch from Petrograd.
Word comes from Ambassador E
kus at Constantinople that the nun
Der of Americans seeking to leav
Syria and Palestine has grown froI
a few hundred to more than a thol
sand.
After a tramp of eight days acros
the Sonora desert, Lieutenant Rober
son and Lieutenant Colonel Bishop
the missing United States army ayi;
tors, were found Friday in starvin
condition.
General Ulrich Willie, commander c
the Swiss army, wishes to mobilize a
Switzerland's military forces, accord
ing to a Berne dispatch to the Peti
Parisien. The federal council Is sal
to regard such measure as excessive
A wreck on the Vienna-Triest raj
road near the towns Of Sagov and Tre
fall, is reported in Vienna telegram
received by the Exchange TELEGRAPH
company, by way of Copenhage
Seven dead and fourteen injured pei
sons have been extricated from tn
debris.
Germany was withdrawn her charg
Of unneutral conduct against Ministe
Vopicka, accredited to Roumania, Sci
bia and Bulgaria.
!, The British steamer Yarrowdal
,, was brought into harbor on Decembe
! 81 as a prize by a prize crew of si1
teen men, says an official statemer
issued at Berlin.
4 Swiss newspapers assert tbs
: masses of German troop are concel
a trating near Basel" says the Exchang
Teiegraph's Geneva correspondent
!, The Swiss general staff is convince
!, that an invasion Of Switzerland is col
:. templated with view to freeing A
SAGE from the French invader"
. Tripolitan rebels lost 1000 men in
S fight Janaury 16 with Italian trooI
between the city of Tripoli and II
i frontier at Tunis.
s Shortage of sugar in Denmark hi
! forced the government for the fir
n time in its history to adept card sy
r tenn of purchase to reduce consum
ton.
/ The Danish West Indies on Janual
e II passed under the sovereignty
+ the United States. Negotiations co
q tinued for over half century can
.. to conclusion with the exchange
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