The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19

ClollliiiB manufacturers III dHNfeHbtr I
before the National Association of Re-
tail Clothiers at Chicago, insisted that |
extra wages for overtime work lin
tied production and kept costs high,
and declared there was no profiteering |
in their industry.
Telling officials at the federal build !,
ing that he wanted to go back to Tur-
key to find his wife, who was sold into
a Turkish harem five years ago, Isa-
dore Derr Boghos, an Armenian, ap
piled for a passport at Chicago.
Burial of the dead at Mobile, Ala,
on Sunday is punishable by fine of
800 under city ordinance just adopt,
ed. Passage of the ordinance was ths
result of petition to the city COM
mission by ministers, undertakers and
grave diggers.
ODE Cox, negro, alleged murdered
of the wife of an Oglethorpe county
farmer, was captured by posse at
Athens, Ca, taken to the scene of this
crime, his body riddled with bullets
and burned at the stake.
WASHINGTON.
The house passed a special resolu-
ton setting 2 p. M, September Is,
as the time for joint session of con-
gress to receive General Pershing.
The treaty of peace with Germany
was reported to the senate on Septem-
Der 10 by Senator Lodge, chairman of
| the foreign relations committee, with
four reservations and forty-five amend
menIs which the committee asked The
| senate to adopt.
| The first of the high cost of living
laws asked of congress by President
Wilson took form Wednesday when the
| house agricultural committee ordered
favorably reported bill to control
cold storage.
Every American casualty in the wal
has been accounted for. A list OF
missing, at one time zo,905, was re,
duced to two. 1t is now presumed thai
the two soldiers are dead and they
have been so listed officially.
A regular army of 225,000 to 100000
coupled with a system of universal
military training that would provide
an organized reserve is ample for the
present needs of the country, Maj. Gen
Leonard Wood, commander of the cen
trail department, declared before the
senate military committee.
An appeal for formal recognition BY
the United States of the belligerencs
of the various anti-Carranza revolu
tionary factions in Mexico and for fin
ancial aid in the proposed overthrow
of Carranza and the setting UP of {
provisional coalition government ha'
been presented at the White House.
FOREIGN.
A munition magazine exploded II
the neIghborhood of Neuwied, says {
Cologne dispatch. Two hundred ger
sons were injured and it is belle {;
many were killed.
Unconfrmed reports received in re
sponsible quarters tell of serious
, rioting in Fiume between Italian AM
Jugo-Slav troops. The allies were
compelled to intervene.
The royal government of Montene
/ gro has sent protest to the peace con
t ference because her representative
| were not permitted to sign the Aus
/ trian treaty.
Ten persons were killed and eleve
t wounded during food riots in Glogal
: Silesia Troops used machine gun
: and hand grenades against the rioters
. From two to three hundred person
r are dying daily in Petrograd fror
A cholera, according TO advices froI
that city. Owing to the lack of met
}, icines and food many hospitals hay
d been closed.
! Japan is not planning to WITHDRAW
troops from Siberia, according to a
official statement issued at the wa
I office. Far from considering tn
a withdrawal of troops from Siberia,
: the statement says, conditions ther
may necessitate the sending of reil
forcements to that country"
Lord Charles Beresford died Satu
day night at the home of the Duke {
!. Portland, Berriedale, near Caithnes
y Scotland, where he had been stayin
for some time.
: Advices from Moscow say NJ. Tchi
cherin has sent a note to the Persia
government notifying it that the Ru
:, sian government does not recognil
!, the Anglo-Persian treaty.
# The Obstetrics have decided to sen
j, group of speakers from Ireland
J. America to combat the home ru
movement and in addition much liter
a ture is being prepared for circulatio
q in the United States.
4 Soldiers returning from the Metho
d list church at Dublin were attacked
twenty men firing point blank. Or
n soldier was killed and four wei
q wounded Eighteen of the soldier
: rifles were captured by the assailant
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