The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-10-30
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

many holds 296, ,869 prisoners.
Germany 10 now heavy buyer Of
cotton from the United States.
The American Red Cross has wired
$65, 900 to its various hospitals in the
European war zone.
President Jefferson's friend, Thomas
G. Fagg, aged 93 years, dies in san-
tarium in st. Louis.
Products from five states are being
shown in the Manufacturers and Land
Show being held in Portland.
Canada is raising second army Of
10, 900 to aid England, which will en-
bark for that country in December.
1t is reported that 1000, 900 Bel
gians are facing starvation and that
the food supply will last only two
weeks.
When dealers advance prices of po-
tatoes in Amsterdam, people start riot
and destroy greater part Of stock be-
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F. H. Crosby, of San Francisco, has
purchased the entire stocks and bonds
Of the Northwestern Long Distance
Telephone company for $3.50, 900.
A woman, widowed by the Titanic
disaster, has become the wife Of man
picked up by the lifeboat she was
saved by. They will reside in Hunt
ington, W. Va.
A thrashing at home with birch
rod was the sentence meted out to
three grammar school boys in Ply
mouth. Mass, when they were found
guilty Of burglary.
Seventy-one Japanese held as pris-
oners in Germany have been released
and escorted safely out Of the country.
This leaves S8 Japanese in addition to
a number Of children, who still are be-
lieved to be held in Germany.
A casualty list was issued in London
dated October 22-23. 1t reported is
officers killed, 81 wounded and II
missing. Among the wounded is Lieu
tenant Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst,
who accompanied the British Antarctic
expedition in 1907.
German property in France, taken
over by the French government, has not
been confscated, but merely taken into
trusteeship for its protection, accord
ing to a statement at the French en-
bassy supplementing dispatch from
the foreign Office at Bordeaux.
The Chinese foreign minister has
demanded the surrender Of Japanese
torpedo boat with its crew which en-
tered Chinese waters and substituted
the Japanese flag for the Chinese
Dragon and attempted to tow away
the wrecked German torpedo boat
500. M
Judges Of the Mississippi Supreme
court heard arguments while clad in
overalls and cotton shirts. Attorneys
presenting cases were clothed SINH
larly. The departure from conven-
tional dress was the result of a local
cotton day" in furtherance of the
"wear cotton clothes" movement in
the South.
1t is officially announced that the
rebel Liutenant Colonel Maritz and
his forces have been completely de-
feated at Kakamas in the Gordonia
district Of Bechuanaland, by Union of
South African troops. Maritz was
wounded in the engagement and fled to
German territory, according to the
statement.
Belgian postal clerks are refusing
to work for the conquering Germans.
Chinese by hundreds are leaving
Hongkong, fearing attack by Germany.
Navy balloons greatly aided the
allies in bombarding the German posi-
tions at 0stend.
Westminster Abbey, London, has
been insured for $750,000 against dam
ages from aircraft attacks.
A German casualty list just issued
contains the names Of about II 800
lne steam schooner Rochelle, wreck
60 az tne mouth OF the Columbia river,
mas broken up and disappeared from
sight.
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