The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-08-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout the World.

-Sh AOh SSe AiSS are fdBhis III mOl-
tana.
Mexican Federal forces are prepar-
ing to evacuate Mazatlan.
A train in Chicago hits an auto,
killing one woman and three men.
The sting of bee kills H. V. Hunt
ington, a resident of Silver Lake,
Wash.
Holland has called all army reserves,
frontier guards and coast guards to the
colors.
One man was killed and eight in
jured in $500, 600 waterfront fire in
Seattle.
Germany refuses to make a treaty
with United States for general arbi-
tration.
Thousands of American tourists are
marooned in various cities of Europe
by the war.
England seeks a four-nation confer
ence to avert war between Austria
and Servia.
E. B. Osborn, noted Irish histor-
ian, declares the Ulstermen are unlike
the Hibernians.
A farmer in Perry, Okla, killed
himself and two horses, when a chattel
mortgage on the animals came due.
The u. S. government will deposit
in the national banks of the country
$34, 900, 900 to help move the crops.
A suggestion has been made in To-
kio that United States and Japan offer
to mediate in the European imbroglio.
All foreign cargoes leaving Pacific
Coast ports are heavily covered with
war insurance, at greatly increased
rates.
A young photographer who went to
Yosemite valley for pictures, fell over
a precipice 1000 feet high and was
killed.
Becky Edelson, the |. w. w. agita-
tor in New York prison, has broken
her hunger strike by eating the whites
of two eggs.
Ex-President Huerta, of Mexico,
who landed in Jamaica from Mexico,
recently, is reported to be waiting for
a ship to take him to Spain, where
he will reside.
The Bank of France has decided tc
place in circulation 20-franc and 5.
franc notes for the purpose of reliev'
ing the difficulties of commerce arising
through the disappearance of gold anC
silver.
An aluminium tag found in the Mex
lean War department Office has proven
J to be the Identification mark of Pri
vate Samuel Parks, u. S. A. infantry
,. who is believed murdered by the Mex
leans some time ago.
An Athens dispatch to the Londo
J Daily Telegraph says the Austrian sea
port of Cattaro, in Dalmatia, has bee
occupied by the Montenegrins. Cat
taro is dominated by the Montenegro
mountains and has Importance as tn
commercial outlet of Montenegro.
Tea plants, sent from Ceylon for tn
: Thomas Upton tea exhibit at the eS
position, have arrived at San Frar
cisco, with three native Cingales
nurserymen to set them out. 1t is sal
t this may mean the beginning of
great tea industry in Southern Cal
fornia.
g Japan maintains an attitude {
I watchful waiting in the Europea
s crisis, but would be obliged to help he
ally, England, if the latter becomes il
volved-
q Lloyds marine insurance firm {
London, cables its San Francisco ageI
s. that it will make no rates on Europes
n, cargoes, as 'war is believed inevitab
5. on all sides. "
t. The French government has issue
Y, decree limiting Withdrawals fro
lie savings banks to so francs (S10) f
ly each depositor. Withdrawals can
s. effected only on two weeks notice.
Martial law is proclaimed over Be
IS dera, Russia, and the mouth of Il
at Dvina river and its vicinity. Steame
Of have to obtain special permission
Vi pass in and out. The field of su
~ marine mines outside the entrance
40 the harbor is complete.
I'D Cablegrams for Austria-Hungar
s. Roumania, Bulgaria. Servia and Mo
tenegro are accepted by telegraph col
panies in New York subject to indie
mite delay and only at the senders' ri
in and increased expense. No telegrsl
as in code or cipher are accepted.
4 I
60 Rioting in Dublin continues and oy
=! 1000 persons march through
M streets. Town councils throughout Il
s, land pass resolutions denouncing at
- massacre" which occurred recen
when a company of soldiers fired OF
nix mob in the streets, killing four a
ng wounding go.
eel Starting their second campaign
of woman suffrage, Ohio suffragists his
placed on file initiative petitions
the submission in the November ell
tion of a proposal to amend the C
y stitution so as to give women the ril
to vote. A suffrage amendment '
defeated in September, 1912.
Lieutenant John Cyril Porte, v
was assigned to pilot Rodman Wa
makers airboat America on the c
templated trip across the Atlani
b NAV he called home nv the Brit