The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-12-24
news OF THE WEEK
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout the World.

Berlin goes wild over victory OF
army against Russia in Poland, and
enthusiasm runs riot.
Repairs of the damage done to the
English coast towns by the German
feet are rapidly being made.
Rear Admiral Fiske admits there is
one foreign navy that leads in gun
merry, but refuses to name the country.
A British shipbuilding concern built
a modern battleship in ten and one half
months, said to be the shortest time
on record.
Deputy Game Warden Hubbard, of
Ashland, Ore, is shot by alleged game
poachers, when he attempts to search
their cabins.
It is reported from Amsterdam that
two British ships were sunk Friday off
the coast Of England, but the rumor
is not confirmed.
Mexican troops on the border show
no signs Of needing the warning of
President Wilson, that firing into
American territory should be stopped.
Report comes from South Shields,
England, that three ships were sunk
by mines; one is believed to be pas
senger vessel, and the other two are
unknown.
Food exports from the United States
during November showed an increase
of 300 per cent over same month last
year.. The great increase Is attributed
to the European war.
E. Henry Wemme, prominent Port
land citizen and good roads enthusiast,
dies suddenly in Los Angeles. He is
reputed to have purchased the first
automobile ever brought to Portland,
likewise an areoplane.
A German diplomat in New York
upholds the attack on the English
coast towns on the grounds that they
were either fortified or defended,
which does not conflict with the de-
cision of The Hague convention of Oct.
16, 1907.
A letter from Robert Fulton to
General William Duane, March l.,
1918, telling him of torpedoes invent
ed by him capable of destroying any
foreign invaders of New York harbor,
was sold for $92.50 at the auction sale
of the library of the late Adrian H.
Joline. 81 am happy to find you con-
tinue the firm friend to torpedoes,
Fulton wrote, ian infant art which
requires only support and practice to
produce change in maritime affairs
of immense Importance to this country.
Expecting the enemy here, ! have moi
been idle. have prepared nine tor
pedoes, with locks that strike fire by
conclusion, and four with clockworl
locks"
Vienna officials admit of the retak'
ing of Belgrade by the Servians.
President Wilson expresses deeT
interest in the uplift of the negro.
Pendleton, Oregon, is sending 10(
barrels of flour to aid the Belgians-
Russians were forced to retreat be
fore the Austrians in West Galicia-
1t is reported in Toxic that the Ger
man armed merchantmen Oxford ha
been captured by the British in the In
dian Ocean. The German converte'
cruiser Cormorant has entered the har
Dor of Guam, in the Ladrone Archipel
ago.
The postoffice department has ad
vised that hereafter all Oregon posta
savings funds at offices without locs
depository bank, will be RENTED t
the Portland office, which will serve a
clearing house for the payment O
Withdrawals.
President Wilson was asked by de
egation representing the Masters an
Pilots association to support a
amendment to the administration shi
purchase bill to restrict employmer
of officers of government-owned vet
sells to America.
All the street lamps in Paris 81
being extinguised at midnight. tn
reason for this precaution is said to
the receipt of report that two Zel
pelin dirigible balloons had been sigh
ed at Amiens, proceeding in the dire
tion Of Paris.
The mikado's budget for 1911
which shows an estimated expenditul
of 556, 900, 900 yen (s278. 900, 000). ar
decrease of the revenues of $40, 800
900, is now before the house of repr
sentatives for consideration. Consi
cradle opposition to it has develope
There is good reason to believe tn
unless the house passes the budget
will be dissolved. The right Of di
solving the house of representatives
among the prerogativies Of the er
peror.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., favors
reconciliation plan between the mine
and mineowners in the Colorado &C
districts.
Church, druggists and liquor m
are allied against the ''drys" in Al
iona, and the law recently carried
the prohibitionists will be tested
the courts.
General Bliss, who has command
the Mexican boundary, has been rel
forced by three regiments and wi
instructions to return the fire of bell
erents whose bullets fall on Americ
territory.
The allied armies have begun ca
paign to rid Belgium of all Germans
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