The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-11

"Chain Lightning" was convicted OF
sending unavailable matter through
the mails.
Juan Castillo, musician, and his
wife Sylvia, q singer, were found shot
to death in their apartments In Chi
cago. A revolver clutched in his
right hand indicated he had shot his
wife and then himself.
Frank S. Lusk, delegate from Mon
tana, created some excitement in the
hearing of state governors and dele
gates before the federal trade COM
mission by introducing a resolution
favoring the suspension for the war
period of the Chinese exclusion act
and recommending the admission OF
Chinese and Japanese labor for work
ing in the United States mines and
timber camps and upon farms.
WASHINGTON.
Subscriptions to the liberty loan
poured into the treasury department
Friday at the rate of nearly $20,000,0O0
an hour.
villa followers, cientifico leaders
and legalistas, are believed by govern
ment agents here to be planning to
launch a new revolutionary movement
against the established government Of
Mexico with Villa as the military
leader and Miguel Diaz Lombardo as
the provisional president.
The espionage bill was passed by the
| house with modified censorship pro-
vision after administration leaders
had lost an insistent fight for reten-
ton of the original section aimed at
the publication of news of value to the
enemy. The final vote was 260 to 105.
| Madame Joffre, wife of the marshal
of France, is going TO get a fine big
sugar-cured Virginia ham, a gift from
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, when the mar
shall returns to Paris.
Absolute authority to regulate in its
discretion the production, distribution
and prices of food and other necessi-
ties during the war has been asked of
congress by the administration.
Although the full allotted quota of
10000 men probably will be enrolled
in the officers training camps when
they open May 10, there still is plenty
of room for men of the right qualities"
the war department has announced.
i Plans for great national service
reserve, made up of men not subject
to draft into the army, and of women,
already approved by the war depart
ment, have been submitted to the coun-
ell of national defense.
4 FOREIGN.
Word has been received at Copen
, hagen from Americans in Berlin that
the German military authorities have
. issued orders that Americans now art
to be regarded as hostile foreigners
and are required to report daily to thu
police stations.
j The Massbode of Maestricht say
that serious revolts occurred in BerliI
i last week. According to the paper
: the mob became so menacing that ma
' chine guns were used against it.
President Artiguenave has sent
/ message to the Haitian senate anC
3 chamber of deputies demanding dec
/
: a commission has been appointed t.
3 consider the question.
7 The British admiralty reports tina
: the missing boat from the Rocking
: ham, with all the fourteen men hal
been picked up by British steamer
/ German newspapers have published
1 an appeal for "a German peace,
5 which is signed by a large number o
/ unions and associations representa-!
German agricultural, industrial ant
: economic interests.
G Announcement was made in parlia
t ment by Sir Thomas White, the Cana
h dian minister of finance, that plan
: are under way for joint action b,
+ Canada and the United States to re
n duce the price of wheat.
/ The British transport Arcadian wa
u sunk by a submarine April 10. 1t i
y believed 279 men were drowned.
Talaat Pasha, the Turkish prim
= minister, in an interview in the Fren
denblatt, expressed complete -satisfaC
= ton with his visit to the central pow
, ers and their prospects for peace, az
:. cording to Vienna telegram.
Military activities in France and Be
e GUM are still in a deadlock, but til
:, big guns everywhere continue violer
a duels and doubtless new phases of il
! fantry actions are developing.
The American steamer Rockingham
i has been sunk by German submarine
> Thirteen men are missing.
lie A compilation from British, Frenc
f and German official communique
II shows that TIT airplanes were She
O. down on the western front durin
April. The Germans lost 800, th
k French and Belgians POI and the Bri
" ish LAT.
ID King George has signed proclaim;
e. ton exhorting the people to Jesse
~ their consumption of wheat and
r, practice the greatest economy and fri
Irolitxy IN, fI,a ,,eo of all ether. ,