The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-03-12

H'''i anu IHbOHSillHF WHISKY. GeEdt
was killed and his father, federal
prohibition enforcement officer and
policeman We're injured, the latter
shot in the arm by the salo0nkeeper.
A bill to iegalize boxing bouts in
Kentucky not exceeding twelve rounds
has passed the lower house.
The American farm bureau fedora
ton at the closing session of it's first
annual meeting, at Chicago, adopted
a resolution denOuncing the attempt
to ally the agricuiturists Of America
with the radicals of the Industrial
world. The federation is composed
Of 100000 members Of farm bureaus
in twenty-eight states.
WASHINGTON.
Additional shipping board tonnage
may be allOcated to Pacific coast OPP
eratiOns as a result Of complaints
lodged with Chairman Payne of the
board by Senator Phelan Of California.
President Wilson's rejoinder to the
last note of the French and British
premters of the Adriatic situation was
dispatched to Europe ON March 4. Its
contents were not disclosed by the
state department.
Wage demands of 100000 railroad
workers will be taken up anew early
in the week when representatives Of
the brotherhOOds meet officials Of the
corporations in the first conference
on the wage problems.
A hot row broke out in the house
when the Republicans forced through
a resolution authorizing investigation
by the judiciary committee Of the acts
Of Attorney General Palmer in connec-
ton with prices charged for Louisiana
sugar.
Lured by balmy spring weather, the
first of the season, President Wilson
went on a motor jaunt about the city
on Tuesday. 1t was the first time
he had left the White House grounds
since he was put to bed "a very sick
man." five months ago.
The senate has been asked in a
resolution introduced by Senator King
of Utah to give notice to the powers
OF Europe that Armenia should be
given complete independence.
FOREIGN
German royaliSts have organized a
party to compromise all men and wo-
men who do not approve of the pres
ent form of government" Its head
quarters will be at Leipzig. The an
nounced object of the party will be to
coordinate and organize the nations
monarchial elements"
A cablegram from Rio de Janeiro,
relates the discovery of a cure for
leprosy, by virtue OF which q number
of patients in the large leper asylum
at Tocundula. near PeIem, Brazil,
have been completed healed. T.
The London Graphic features a Dub
lin dispatch saying the Irish situation
has changed remarkably The dis
patch declares that nothing can avert
crash except the utmost GOODNESS on
the part of the authorities.
a wireless dispatch from Moscow
says the Red army has "'victoriously
broken through to the shores of the
Arctic ocean" 1t adds that the Muir
mansk railway is free of the white
forces as far as Murmansk.
The London Daily Telegraph makes
a feature of a report that the allies
have decided on the military and naval
occupation OF Constantinople in con-
sequence of the treatment of the Ar
menianS by the Turks,
The right of employees of the Domin-
ion government to join labor unions
was denied in q letter sent by the
cabinet TO the Dominion Trades and
Labor congress.
France has neither signed nor ap-
proved the declaration regarding the
economic situation of Europe which the
allied supreme council has proposed to
make, it was declared at Paris
More than 100000 Sim Fefners
are all ready TO murder the loyal sub
jects in Ireland" declared Jan Mac
PherSon, chief secretary for Ireland,
in the house of commons, in the course
Of an impassioned announcement OF
Irish republican activities.
Wireless telephone service will be
established between London and New
York and other American cities within
six months, it is predicted by Godfrey
Isaacs, director OF the Marconi Wire
less company.
The official results of the recent
soviet elections at Moscow give the
communists so per cent of the 1861
deputies, according to a wireless dis
patch from the Bolsheviki capital. One
hundred and twenty-eight of the sue
ceSsful candidates belong to no party,
the dispatch says.
Investigation of the possibility of i'm
porting wheat from North America
instead of from Argentina to meet the
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