The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-02-07

flVe-yeHr TERM IA NANt
racks at Fort Leavenworth, kans.' mas
lbeen notified that he had fallen heir
e 100000 through the death OF an
uncle at st. Paul.
The Pennsylvania railroad, with
scientific accuracy, has found that
since women have begun wearing ught
skirts the average stopping time OF a
train NJ d station Is now seventeen
seconds longer than it was when the
skirts were short and roomy around
the bottom.
PAM T.. Skterseth, former vice presi-
dent Of the First National BANK OF
Saco. Mont, was arrested at Kansas
CIV ON federal indictment charging
emhezzlement Of some of the banks
funds The indictment contained ten
counts and was issued by q grand
iury IN Great Falls, Mont, last fall.
WASHINGTON.
Washington police are engaged in
an attempt to solve the mystery OF the
killing of Dir. I. 4. Wong, chief of the
Chinese educational mission to the
United States, and G. Fl. Hsie and Ben
sen WI, students at George Washing
ton university, whose bodies We're
found in their homes in the fashionable
Mount Pleasant section.
An army of 100000 men was unan-
imously decided on by the house mill
tary committee as the basis for de-
termining the appropriation for army
pay for the year beginning next July.
Committee members said the number
was expected to be the average force
during the year.
To meet further rate reductions pro
posed for British vessels, the shipping
boards division Of operations mas an
nounced cuts in freight tariffs ON car
90 carried in American bottoms from
north Atlantic ports of the United
States to Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa and the far east.
With the announcement that 10000
disabled soldiers are now being given
work in forty-three army
hospitals, Surgeons General Ireland has
sent out call for additional instruc-
tors and supervisors.
A plan to demobilize soldiers through
local draft boards instead of discharg-
ing them direct from camps is being
considered by the war department.
Maximum wholesale and retail mar
gins on oleomargarine, butter substi-
tutes, ham bacon and sugar were with
drawn by the food administration jan
uary %.
Ratification of the prohibition
to the federal constitution,
effective January 16, 1920, was pro-
claimed in a proclamation signed at
Il 80 a. m. on January 20 at the state
department. by Acting Secretary Polk.
FOREIGN.
Serious conflicts between the police
md strikers developed at Glasgow,
Scotland in which at least forty per-
IONS were more or less badly injured.
The number of American, French
md British troops to be maintained in
he occupied regions along the Rhine
viii be limited to 100000 men, ac-
'ording to the Echo de Paris.
Two British soldiers We're killed and
eyeral injured at Mons, Belgium. by
he explosion of bombs hidden under
oal abandoned by the Germans. The
oldiers We're engaged in removing the
oal when the explosion occurred.
Unofficial returns from elections TO
he Prussian assembly, without tax
ng Posen's twenty-one delegates into
consideration show the selection of
* Socialists, twenty-four independ-
mt Socialists, eight-seven Christian
copies party, forty-one German Ma
lohallsts, eighteen German PEOPLES
'arty sixty-one Democrats. six
tuelphs and one Democrat Peasant.
Or. Franz Mehrng, independent
member of the Prussian diet,
dead Advices say that death was
ue to pneumonia.
President Wilson has won half Of his
10y " ms pollcy OF International
zatlon OF the former German colonies.
contests are still on over demands that
ne president show his plans can be
worked out on a practical basis
MAJOR General Sir Sam Steele. of
ne permanent staff of the Canadian
lnnS' uiea at Putney, England, Jan
arS 81 He had been ill for about
w0 months, but the end came rather
uddenly
twenty-five We're killed and thirty
lJurea When freight and passen-
er train collided near Laguna, Mex
~ 10y miles south of the border.
LORD Robert Cecil, British authority
y a league Of nations, praised the
lohroe doctrine in an interview re-
a :. the interest Of neutral COM
Sles' especially Latin-America in a
'ague of nations.
pr, Alexandra Cesar has been an
olll'ed the representative Of Nicara-
ia at the peace conference pr
gSar IS a prominent surgeon.
Drastic import regulations coverine
vice range Of cn,,,,,.l.a.