The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-02-13

] the first Missouri woman to gain this
honor.
Shooting from the top Of his burn.
Ing home, In which he was holding Q
mob at bay, d negro at Pine Bluff,
Ark, wounded four men and boy Ia
the crowd before he was killed. The
negro earlier In the evening had
killed city detective, who had gone
to arrest him for shooting another
4 negro,
Benjamin Gitlow, former Bronx as
seinblyman, was found guilty Of Grim
inal anarchy by jury in the criminal
branch Of the state supreme court at
New York. The jury was out two and
one-half hours.
WASHINGTON.
Completion Of the record of casual
| ties of the American expeditfonary
force in world war shows: Killed in
action, including 3S2 at sea, 34,844 ;
died of wounds, 1860; died Of disease,
23,738; died from accident and other
causes, 5102 wounded In action,
(more than So per cent returning to
duty), 215,423; missing In action (not
including prisoners released and re-
turned). 3. Total, 293,070.
Conditions In Mexico were described
us "intolerablen by Gen. Robert Lee
Howe, commander of the El Paso dis
trict, when he testified before the SEN
ate subcommittee investigating the
Mexican situation.
The modified Lodge reservations
agreed on tentatively by the recently
abandoned bipartisan committee most
likely will be the basis on which con-
sideration of the peace treaty will be
resumed.
Casting aside the anti-strike proyi-
sion of the Cummins bill, against which
labor has leveled protests and threats,
and modifying the rate-making clauses
of the same measure, senate and house
representatives have reached virtually
a complete agreement on legislation
designed to meet conditions growing
out of the return of the railroads on
nihlC1l W PRIVATE COllIUl.
Sale of the former German passen-
ger liners seized at the outbreak of
the war was forced on the shipping
board by the operation of the national
prohibition law, Chairman Payne is
understood to have told President
Wilson,
FOREIGN
Germany will never deliver the war
criminals wanted by the allies for
trial, declares Rene Viviani, former
premier minister of France, who sug-
gests substitute demand for further
supplies of coal as reparatlon for Ger
many's noncompliance with the treaty
paragraph STIMULATING the surrender
of the criminals.
At least six Germans who have been
dead for some time are said to be in
cluded in the list of alleged war crimi-
nails demanded by the allies for trial,
declares Berlin dispatch,
English royal and ducal families are
being urged by section of the press
to give up their family gold plate and
other treasures as an example to the
Ration and thus help to pay off the
$1,000, 100000 debt which Britain owes
the United States.
The Montenegrin foreign affairs
committee, the headquarters of which
is Neuilly, has issued communica-
ton in which 1t was asserted that
fighting between Montenegro insur-
gents and the Serblans is incessant.
Outbreaks of the plague are report
ed in the Teschen pleblscite area,
which, upon ratification of the treaty
of VarsSilles by the United States is
according to the general understand
ing.
Fire destroyed the principal build
ings of the American Agricultural &
Chemical company and their contents
at Regla, Cuba, at loss estimated at
more than $10oOO00o.
The first move by the sugar plant
ers to break the strike of Filipino and
Ht'ltAtANeN lubolSlH was
made Friday in the shipment of 200
strike breakers, 1875 of them Koreans
and the rest Chinese and Hawaiians,
to the Honolulu plantation.
Reports that the Bolshevist govern
ment of Russia plans military often
stve against Poland are denied by
Maxim Litvinotf, representative of the
soviet government.
King Nicholas, who has remained
at the head of the royal Montenegrin
government, although he was ousted
by the national assembly of that coun-
try, is understood TO be in Albania
preparing for coup, which may re-
store him to his throne and country.
Chapultepec Military academy,
known as the Mexican West Point"
was reopened on February 6 as the
leading feature of the celebration of
the national holiday Thh school hos