The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-04-13
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Happenings That Are Making History
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candidate to succeed himself when his
present term expires in March, 1919.
Senator Warren is serving his fifth
term. He resides in Cheyenne.
Thirty-two hundred persons march
ed in a patriotic parade at Boise, Ida
no, after which a patriotic melting was
neld at the capitol. The demonstra-
ton was said to be the greatest of
the sort in the history of the state.
Announcing that he would vote for
the war resolution, Senator Borah of
Idaho said it would not commit this
country to a war of aggression, but to
a wal for the defense of American
rights and the American people,"
Utah will go dry August 1, 1917. If
the sheriffs of the several counties of
the state cannot or will not enforce
the law, Governor Bamberger will
take a hand. This was announced in
no uncertain words by Governor Bam-
berger in an address at Salt Lake.
The Pacific coast baseball league
opened the 1917 season on April 3,
games being played at San Francisco,
Los Angeles and Salt Lake.
twenty-five thousand citizens OF
Pueblo turned out in a patriotic
parade, mass meeting and flag raising
Sunday afternoon. Ten thousand per-
sons marched in the parade, while 49,
600 witnessed the procession and
Joined the throng at the courthouse,
where patriotic addresses were made.
DOMESTIC.
Philip Nadine, a Mexican, was SEN
fenced to six months in the work
house by a police justice at Trenton.
N. j., for splitting on the American
flag.
Great Britain is understood to have
under consideration the withdrawal of
its commercial blacklist in so far as it
refers to firms and individuals in this
country. 1t will now be the duty of
the American government to see that
nobody in the United States gives aid
to Germany.
Six Germans convicted by a federal
jury of conspiracy to destroy steam
ships carrying food and munitions
from New York for the entente allies
with incendiary bombs manufactured
in Hoboken, N. j., were sentenced to
serve prison terms varying from two
years to six months in addition to pay
ing fines of from $4,000 to $500.
AS in the days of the American revo-
luton when something momentous oc-
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April 6 notified its citizens of the sign
ing by the president of the war reso-
luton by ringing the bell at Independ-
ence hall
Five German steamships, which
have been in refuge at Boston, were
ordered seized and their crews dispos-
sessed on Friday, while at Baltimore
three German steamships were seized.
Michael Borzatovsky, commercial
messenger for the Russian govern
ment, who was found in his room at
the Baltimore Country club with a
bullet wound in his stomach, shot him
self accidentally, the police announced
after an investigation.
German Chancellor j. Won Bethmann-
Hollweg has sold part of the property
he has owned in Waco, Texas, for
many years to A. Colyin, a cotton
man. The consideration was $1,000.
A report that a white man is at
tempting to stir up negroes in this
country to a revolt is being investi-
gated by the authorities at Marshall,
Texas. The negroes are said to have
been promised that if the United
States and Germany go to war, Ger
many will give them Texas in which
to form a black republic"
Reports that German agents are
working in southern states, particu-
larly in the tobacco and cotton belt,
to incite negroes, we're confirmed at
Birmingham, Ala, by local govern
ment agents. These officials say that
steps already have been taken to curb
these activities.
The United States Steel corporation
has announced an increase of about
10 per cent in wage rates and salaries
up to $4,000" of the employees of the
corporations various subsidiaries, to
take effect May l next, subject to
equitable adjustment.
The conviction of murder in the
first degree of DR.. Arthur Warren
Waite of New York for poisoning 10
death his father-in-law, John Peck of
Grand Rapids. Mich, was affirmed by
the court of appeals.
Officers and enlisted men in the
United States army stationed at Ell
Paso gave a remarkable demonstration
following the Jews of President Viii
sons speech to the war congress when
they paraded the streets singing patri-
tic songs and cheering the war policy.
Harry Lang, in jail at Shenandoah
City, Va, for obtaining goods under
false pretenses, killed his wife outside
with a pistol shot through the walls
and then committed suicide. The
tragedy is believed to have been
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