The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-10-09
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Events Told in Brief.
The plight of Americas in Turkey
is said to be serious.
Two feet of snow is reported in
Macleod, Alberta.
The czar of Russia has Joined his
army on the German frontier.
The outer forts Of Antwerp are said
to have been pierced by the Germans
heavy guns.
Harry Thaw has leased an estate in
Manchester, N. H., where he will
spend the winter.
Two unidentified victims Of the
wrecked steamer Leggett were or
dered buried at Newport, Oregon.
Twenty Eastern Star delegates and
members were injured when plat
form in Kansas City collapsed, precip-
itating 400 persons.
Lieutenant Tassoni, under-secretary
Of state for war Of Italy, has resigned,
owing to disagreement with General
Grandi, the war minister.
Italy is ready to make protest to
Turkey against the abolition of the
capitulations at Constantinople, ac-
cording to a Rome dispatch to the
Havas agency.
An official message from Constanti-
nople transmitted from Amsterdam to
the Central News says that the vic
Tins of an earthquake in the province
Of Konia, Asia Minor, Saturday night,
are estimated at $500.
1t is officially announced by Austria
Hungary, says dispatch from Rome
to the Havas agency, that General
Won Auffenburg, commanding the first
Austrian army, is i'll. 1t is said the
general has contracted cholera.
The historic annual banquet held by
the New York chamber of commerce,
has been postponed on account of the
war, and the president of the chamber
suggests the members give the price
Of each plate ($20) to the Red Cross.
An Antwerp dispatch to the London
Daily Mail says: ''King Albert is to
be seen constantly in the danger zone.
He Is reported to have ascended in
balloon to survey operations. The
enemy shelled the balloon but the
shells fell short"
Eighteen steamers Of an aggregate
tonnage Of 29,581 have been sunk by
German warships during September,
according to a London board of trade
report, while nine steamers were de-
stroyed by mines in the North Sea in
the same period, rs lives being lost.
A Petrograd dispatch states that a
member of the Russian duma, who has
just returned from Galicia, declares
that the Russians captured the heights
between four and five miles from
Przemysl and that the Austrians have
several times vainly attempted to re-
take them.
"co.o,.,, rhar,as n Ka,lay who
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ployed men to Washington last spring,
and whose followers were dispersed in
Sacramento, CAL, by police officials
and a fire hose, was released from tne
county jail after completing SIX
months sentence Tor vagrancy.
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her ~ nIaces with some fatalities
The Belgian government, the letters
add, mas placed guns on tne poats on
the Congo IN order 10 resist herman
attacks.
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oranh dstsd Saturday NIGHT saws that
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~ the Apatr;sn forcaa bv the heir nre-
sumptive 10 tne Austrian throne,
Prince Charles Francis.
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nonSaIs save. 1Ths steamer Ard.
mount, loaded with grain, which left
Dover for Zebruge, Holland, struck a
mine. Her crew of 35 were saved.
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commanded by Captain Ronald, sailed
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feited in Chicago when johnson failed