The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-04
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Germany has voted war credit of
81, $50, 100000.
The department of Agriculture pre-
diets cheaper fowls for the Christmas
dinner tables.
Two prisoners in the jail at Eugene.
Or, bound and gagged the turnkey
and made their escape.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke, American
minister to The Netherlands, says
peace talk is premature.
Kaiser visits his troops in East
Prussia, where fierce fighting with the
Russians is in progress.
The Supreme court Of Oregon holds
that if a bartender sells minor a
drink, the proprietor is likewise liable
to prosecution.
A dispatch from Berlin claims that
the Germans broke through the Rus
sian lines near Lodz, capturing $4,000
men and 25 guns.
A prominent department store owner
in Portland sees "rosy future" for
Northwest business, but adds that op-
timism is the only need.
John D. Rockefeller, head Of the
Standard Oil Co., has expanded to the
extent that the oil fields Of Peru, have
been taken over by that company.
Coalition chiefs, Villa and Zapata,
are in the suburbs Of Mexico City in
readiness to enter when the conyen-
tional president Gutierrez, arrives.
An attorney Of Marshfield, Or, is
disbarred three months for helping to
drive /. W. W. advocates from that
city, according to Supreme court
decision.
| For the first time in history the
mikado consented to Japan's gift Of
/ S25, 1000 for the establishment Of hos
pital under the auspices Of the Epis-
copal mission at Toxic. Nv
The Worlds Purity Federation in
session at La Crosse, Wis, is making
,rororot;ors for tha aafatv of c;rls
wha attend tha Panama exnosition at
San Franc;sco next wear
-
: Ihe government assures tnose VINO
. failed 70 secure revenue stamps .ne
|, +hars w;l, he NJ nrosecutions If their
, ;rtant;ons we've annarent
! <,
rev saloons IN Tortlalu, o,s WIN
: amendment GOES into effect January i.
! 1915 as great majority have applied
: for license covering that period.
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wrack ~ the steamship Hanalei. which
went ashore on the reefs Of Duxbury.
: near San Francisco. November 2s, BY
! coroner's iury. The jury further
0 recommends the erection Of life
saving station at the scene OF the ais
aster.
Arkansas has secured new electri-
| clan who will null the lever that will
/, put to death ~ condemned men VINO
Q were reprieved 10 await ene oulcoine
] OF the apoiishment OF capitai PUNISH
! ment amendment thau was iost ~ .i,s'
!. recent election. Inc former eiectf'-
ciah quit tne place pecause u 'ne
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4 The turkish embassy at Rome says
that the Egyptian advance guaro On
the Suez canal mas deserted 10 tne
! Turks.
n Thanksgiving Day found 1000, 900
q starving Belgians in dire want OF
: bread and only half enough to appease
7 'ne'i n'eei'
u A young Portland streetcar con-
ductor was electrocuted in bath tub
when he reached Iup to turn off the
electric light.
Il d;.notch +o the Havas agency
% f,an, Atbans s.vs advicaa reca;ved Il
l. tha creal canitaI from M;tvlene atate
II that ! Turk;sh m;ne-laver has heen tor.
Ie nedoed and sunk in the Bosphorus.
= II IA said in Petroprad that the re-
y mort published in the Bourse Gazette
l. tbat Russia France and Great Britain
a. were endeayoring to secure the re
rs opening of the Dardanelles is pure
1t invention.
Y Reports of a pan-Islamic anti British
at movement are confirmed by the Russ
os kove sloyo. of petrograd. which say,
that the movement had it's beginning
~ ~esho,;atan Tha porta sa1a tha
N Aignalssah. aae 81 s s;,;ts,, 1ass ss.s sna
an Araps why ale ~ ior n,,a.y ai;.. &C..
III ice nave aeciareo the'r reau'iiess iof
nf holy war.