The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-04-16

city council at Grand Rapids, Wis, by
the toss of coin. Ostruskl and Grant
Babcock, candidates for councilman,
drew tie vote in Tuesdays election,
SO it was agreed to flip coin to de-
eide the h0nors. 0struski lost Four
years ago he lost i'm the same manner.
The Kansas court Of Industrial re-
lations does not legally exist, an an
swer filed on behalf of Alexander
Howat, president of the Kansas min
ers, and three other miners union of
ficials In district court asserts.
w. b. Bast, who shot to death his
sister, Mrs. George Reagan, at Lyons,
Kansas, March "a, was declared in
sane by jury in district court and
Will be committed to the hospital for
the criminally insane at the Kansas
penitentiary. Bast, after his arrest,
declared he shot Mrs. Reagan because
she was cruel to her children.
WASHINGTON.
The Republicans of the house, with
only two OBJECTIONS and the aid of
twenty-five Democrats. one Independ-
ent and one Prohibitionist, on April
8 passed the Porter resolution declar-
ing the war with Germany to be at
an end. The vote was 242 to $50, two
members voting present.
The senate elections committee has
ordered full and immediate investiga-
ton of the Ford-Newberry election by
the subcommittee, of which Senator
Watson, Republican Of Indiana, is
chairman.
Mrs. JOsephus Daniels, wife of the
secretary of the navy, has been ap-
pointed by President Wilson as the
official delegate to represent Amer
lean women at the eighth congress of
the International Woman Suffrage al
lance in Geneva, Switzerland, in June.
The army reorganization bill was
attacked as measure that "would
build up military system equal to
any that ever existed in any country
at any time" by Senator Mcclellan,
Democrat, Tennessee, during cOnsid-
Grafton of the legislation in the SEN
| ate.
Senator Shoots bill designed to give
persons an opportunity to acquire ru-
raj homes has been passed by the SEN
ate and sent to the house.
FOREIGN
| Adyices from the Rhineland report
that the French commander-in-chief in
the area occupied by his troops has
ordered all Germans to salute the
French flag and French officers and
that he threatens reprisals in the
event there are fresh outbreaks.
After studying the state depart
ment's Interpretation of the Monroe
doctrine, sent several weeks ago, the
congress of Salvador adopted a decree
proposing the creation of a Latin
American court of arbitration with the
United States excluded.
- Unless he Immediately takes long
needed rest and abandons the cares
of state, Premier Lloyd George is in
danger of a complete physical break
down, it is learned from a reliable
source.
A strike of maritime workers has
been ordered by the Marine union in
all the ports of France. The strike
is already in effect at Marseilles and
Dunkirk.
The General Federation of Labor
and the Socialist party leaders have
ordered cessation of the general
strike proclaimed in Bologna, Flor,
ence, Leghorn, Modena, Spezia and
other places, following clash be
tween police and workmen near 30
logna, in which seven workmen were
killed and several injured.
| Restoration to China without com
pensation of the Chinese Eastern rail
way and all mining and forestry con
cessions and privileges seized by the
former Russian imperial regime, AL
-exander Kerensky, Generals Horvatf
and Semenoff and Admiral Kolchak
is announced in a note to the Chinese
government from soviet authorities a
Irtkutsk.
Militarism is the only means to full.
utilize Russia's man power, said Leol
Trotzky, Bolshevik minister of war
addressing the ninth convention Of thu
Communist party at Moscow.
Although martial law was proclaim
ed at Jerusalem and the city is unde
heavy patrol by British troops scat
tered fights occurred between Jew
and Mohammedans Monday and Tues
day in the narrow lanes of the oil
: city and outside the walls. Severa
persons were killed on both sides.
Dispatches from ovideo saying tina
the Spanish Mines company had ac
eepted the demands of the miners be
longing to the Catholic party, ind
cate that 10000 workers resumed wor