The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-09-25
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

II uO uuulDcT VI hIlS ldlillllcS HAS
decreased 1862, asa since the census Of
1911.
Lillian Russell, the actress, was
operated on for appendicitis in Pitts
burg.
The Germans in retreat from France
have fortified again and plan another
stand.
Rev. W. T. Sumner, of Chicago, is
chosen bishop of the Episcopal diocese
Of Oregon.
According to dispatches from Ber-
lin, the Belgians are accused of COM
mitting atrocious acts.
British war office admits the sinking
Of three Of her warships in the North
Sea by German submarines.
Chicago gains BOG, ,668 in population
since the government census Of 1910,
according to the school census.
Summer came to an end this week in
Washington when President Wilson's
''offiice" tent was taken down.
first founded 5765 years ago in the
temples of Israel, ushering in Rosh
Hashana, or the Jewish New Year.
The minister Of finance of Russia
! has prohibited the expectation of man.
ganese except to the allied nations.
A hodcarrier on San Francisco
skyscraper slid 13 stories down a rope,
burning out the palms Of both hands.
A Petrograd dispatch says many de-
serters are arriving at Russian head
quarters, mostly Slavs and Bohemians.
James E. Sullivan, famous Olympic
games commissioner, and a noted au-
thority on field athletics, died in New
York.
Because reporters were required to
enter the back door of the official
press bureau in London, the war writ
ers have gone on strike.
People in Vienna are rioting. because
of the government Withholding the
war news. Several persons have been
killed and many arrests made.
General Beyers, head of EngIand's
troops in South Africa, refuses to lead
the Beers in campaign against the
Germans, holding the conflict unjust.
III the synagogues of Portland, Or,
Monday was heard the Shofar, or
rams horn, blown in keeping with the
custom which Jewish records say was
1t is officially announced from Zanzi-
bar that the British cruiser Pegasus,
which was recently attacked and
disabled by the German cruiser Koen-
igsburg, has been beached.
In asdesperate attempt on the part
of the chauffeur of King Albert, of
Belgium, to deliver him to the Ger
mans for price, the king promptly
shot him through the head.
The Oregon Apple Box" bill which
has been before congress for several
vears was stricken from the mani
NOUS consent calendar which means
Il will NOT come nm at this session
German papers are adopting more
sober tone, some of them even men
tioning possible retreat ''for STRAIT
n,,rnose "a s.nun;sb;no tbe Puss;ars -
dur;no three davis tbe Russ;ans II Co.
iic;a have cantnred x 0oo Austr;ons
including 15( officers Manv cannon
nuick-fire onns and sunnlies also have
been taken
Wnile tne Germans were DomDard-
in the doorway seeking aims and was
nat injured bv the Destruction of tbe
building The man was cr;nnled in
the French war of 1870
Austrian aeropianes wnicn new over
the Russian army were DESTROYED, and
found lists of the Austrian reserves
and notes as to their positions, which
greatly aided the Russians.
~. ca.,,.n o,,,,a.ow L., ..,., =,
h;s a,,arts-s - In-ass,h,,~a asaasd; -
to Paris dispatch. To guard against
possible raids by French aviators a
squadron of aeroplanes is in constant
readiness to beat off attacks.
N a;sn..ah go, v;a.n. s.,,. ~.
General Radko Dimietrieff, Bulgarian
minister at Petrograd, who resigned
from the diplomatic corps of his coun-
try to join the Russian field forces,
was fatally wounded in the fighting at