The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-07-05

writer on the Missouri Staats Ieitung,
was found guilty of violating the es-
plonage act by the writing of certain
editorials In the newspaper.
John II. Winfield; negro, who re-
Gently confessed to the murder of three
members of the Wick family, November
Is last, was secretly tried at Parsons,
Kans., TO prevent lynching, and was
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Howard w. Fenton, Chicago
banker has been appointed manager OF
the central division of the American
Red Cross, with headquarters in Chi
cago.
Suspension of the Illinois Stats
Zeltung, morning German labor news
paper, and its affiliated evening paper,
the Chlcagoer Presse, was followed by
the appointment of a receiver,
WASHINGTON.
Members of the house military COM
mittee were told at their weekly
war department conference that the
soldiers of the American expeditionary
forces are freer from disease than
any troops in Europe, and that pro-
| portiOnately fewer are i'll than among
the troops training at home.
! The war labor board policies board
announced Friday it had recommend
ed conference of departmental rep
resentatives and others interested to
| determine to what extent during the
war the adoption of the basic eight
hour day principle of determining
wages if feasible in all work being
done for the government.
Immediate extension of the present
army draft age limits, 81 to 81 years,
was overwhelmingly defeated in the
senate June %.
Secretary McAdoo has Informed the
! house, in response to a resolution by
Representative Madden of Illinois, that
there are 595 men Of draft age in the
employ of the treasury department
who have been given deferred military
! classification.
President Wilson on June 20 sent a
! cablegram to General Diaz, COM
handing the Italian army, congratulate
ing him upon the victory over the
Austrians and saying America feels
| a great blow has been struck not only
for Italy, but for the world.
/ Another inquiry has been sent to
Sweden by the American government
asking for information concerning the
/ reported seizure of the American con-
sulate and looting of an American hos
pital by Turkish troops at Tabriz, Per-
STA.
FOREIGN.
The kingdom of Siam Will celebrate
Of war against Germany next month.
Hangmen and firing squads are
working overtime in Austria Hungary
Two thousand troops have been con
demned to be shot as traitors as the
result of mutinies in two Hungarian
towns.
A Berlin dispatch says that, accord
ing to a telegram received there from
Kiev, member of the soviet govern
ment announced the reports that for
mer Emperor Nicholas had been
brought before revolutionary tribunal
and that he had been assassinated are
! incorrect.
1t seems probable, according to word
received at correspondents headquar-
ters, that both July 4, American indie
J pendence Day, and July IA, the French
national holiday, will be celebrated
/ jointly by Americans and French in
, Paris this year.
: Count Gilbert de Lafayette, who was
{ serving as sergeant in the French
: army, was killed during the fighting
: in Champagne June II, says the Paris
E edition of the New York Herald. He
is the third descendant of Lafayette
i who has met death in the war.
S Merchant tonnage losses for the
\ month of May due to enemy action anC
Y marine risk, the British admiralty'>
d monthly statement shows We're as fol
lows British, 224,735 tons. Allied anC
Il neutral, 13O959 tons.
d Canada already has sent 100000
: men to the war and has another 100000
t, in reserve, I. C. Norris, premier o.
t Manitoba, announced Thursday.
Cafe patrons must pay for theil
. | tlAtuhS DGlblS lEeg dtt SSlNGu hlt llil
II the hours when big Bertha" the Hun
: long range gun, operates on the Pari
. district, for the cafe proprietcrs ar,
: taking no chances.
Americas unframed troops have nd
= ministered another smashing defeat t,
some of the kaiser's veterans on tn
Marine front. They snatched from tn
Germans the last remaining position
i, of tactical value around the hotly con
I tested Belleau Thierry in biillian
night attack, Wednesday, that nette
7 them nearly 800 prisoners and grea
booty.
r. "0ur enemies says the Iondo
"a Star, ARE looking uncomfOrtably owe
n their shoulders anticipating the. da
~ when they will have their backs agains
a the Rhine. 1t is significant that Eo
Kuehlmann in his reichstag Speecl