The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-04-02


Philadelphia, bound and gagged four
men and a girl, gathered together
nearly $500, four watches and some
clothing and escaped. They refused
to take the money of girl customer.
Anthracite mine owners have gone
on record as opposed to granting the
hard coal diggeEs' demands for an In
crease i'll wages OF at least 1873 more
than the % per cent increase just
granted the bituminous miners.
kissing is unsanitary until sunshine
and fresh air have sterilized the lips,
according to DIR. Lawson Brown of
Saranac Lake, who told the New York
state medical society at its conven-
ton that ''it's a good thing for the
human race that counting is done at
night and in the late afternoon"
WASHINGTON.
A direct charge that big financial
interests are trying to buy the nation
al conventions of both the Republican
and Democratic parties, was made in
the senate on March 26 by Senator
Borah, Republican, Idaho, in a speech
advocating congressional action to reg
ulate the preconvention expenditures
of candidates for the presidency.
Appropriations of 100000 for forest
fire protection in the west were in
Guided in the annual agriculture APP
preparation bill by the senate.
Capt. Leigh C. Palmer, who as chief
of the bureau of navigation during
the war was responsible for obtaining
and distributing officers and men, tes-
titled before the senate committee
that a shortage of personnel was the
American ''nayys Initial handicap in
the war"
With warning against profiteer-
ing, President Wilson has ordered
abandonment of government control
over bituminous coal prices and asked
miners and operators to negotiate
new working agreement on the basis
of the majority report of the coal
strike settlement commission.
The senate has confirmed the NOM
ination of William Martin Williams
of Alabama to be collector of inter-
nal revenue, vice Daniel C. Roper, re-
signed.
FOREIGN
Allan Bell, resident magistrate, 20
years old, and for many years an of
ficiai of the Royal Constabulary, was
dragged by a gang, some of whom
were masked, from a crowded tram
car in Dublin and shot four times
before the eyes of the passengers.
Hermne Roller, well known Ger
man moving picture actress of Ores
den, was killed and several other ac-
| tors and actresses were injured near
Innsbruck in the upper steppes of the
| Wild Gratz mountain when an imfta-
ton avalanche, which was to envelop
the group, developed into a real ava
| lanche.
Five million dollars in bills, found
| in a sack in the corridor of the Sim
plon Express have been seized and
confiscated at the Temesvar station
on the Hungarian frontier,
says a Bucharest dispatch, The own
ership of the money at present is not
known.
The Bolsheviki have occupied Mia
kop, a town in the territory of kuban,
Ciscaucasia, according to a wireless
message sent out by the Russian So
Wet government at Moscow.
Gcrmanys organized labor, insist
ing upon it's veto right promised it in
return for calling off the general
strike, has definitely wrecked the
Baur government.
A bitter attack upon Premier Lloyd
George of Great Britain was delivered
in the chamber of deputies on March
25 by Jean Louis Barthou, the for
mer premier, in connection with the
discussion of Frances foreign policy.
The Dominion government is asked
to debar enemy aliens from entry into
Canada for fifteen years in a resolu-
ton adopted by the Great War Vet
Grams association.
Elihu Root has accepted the invita-
ton to become member of the COM
mittee agreed upon at the London
meeting of the council of the league
of nations to work out the details for
the constitution of a permanent court
of international justice.
Order is slowly emerging out of the
confusion and chaos of the last ten
DAVIS in the industrial centers of Sax
ony. The workmen are captivating
and calling off the strike and the mil
itary are taking over control of the
cities.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist,
died of heart disease March "a, in a
London hospital. Mrs. Ward was one
of the best known of English novel
lists. She was born in Tasmania in
| 1851