The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-08-27
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHH'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

for Our Busy Readers.
The Eastman Kodak concern has
been declared trust by the Federal
courts. t
Official Washington declares to have
no favorites in Mexico's internal
troubles.
The British estimate the German
loss in men at 100000, with one
third killed.
The joint session Of the Oregon and
Washington Bar assertions, which
was held in Portland, has come to a
close.
In a fistic encounter young man at
White Salmon, WASH, was almost in
stantly killed by blow under the
heart.
A resolution before the American
Bar association in session at San Fran
cisco, to admit women attorneys, was
adopted. f.
Carranza officials have put absolute
prohibition into effect in the larger
towns of Sonora now under their con-
troll, according to travellers from inte-
rior points. "
A dispatch from Rome says the.
Balkan league is to be reconstructed.
A combined Balkan army of 1000, 900
men is provided to be in the field, says
the dispatch.
The governor of Oregon has asked
the Navy department for the largest
battleship in the Pacific fleet to attend
the Astoria Regatta, which will be
held September 2-3-4.,
Germany officially announces her re-
grets to the United States for the
sinking Of the liner Arabic, in which
two Americans lost their lives. All
suspension of judgment by this country
is asked.
Classical music was hooted by a
crowd of South Portland students when
public concert was being given by a
municipal band. Classics was sup
planted by ragtime and the wailipgs of
the youngsters were appeased.
Six children in Idaho, who were
locked in their home by their parents,
while they were attending party,
were burned to death. Evidence of
their efforts to escape were found by
the location of the bodies in the ruins.
According to the Cologne Gazette
the railways of Roumania have re-
ceived orders to place all rolling stock
at the disposition of the minister of
war on September IA. This move is
regarded as deeply significant of Rou-
mania's possible course in the future.
The Toxic premier and minister Of
war have paid visit to Nikko to re-
port to the emperor their plans for in
creasing the supply of munitions in ac-
cordance with the decision recently
reached to employ all available re-
vate, for swelling the nations output |
to aid Japan's allies in the war. Or
ders have been dispatched to the foun-
dries and factories Of the empire that
are engaged in the production of mu-
nitions to rush their work.
Italy, according to reports from
Rome, is making slow but steady prog
ress against Austrians on all fronts.
Edward Brown, ex-convict, SEN
fenced to four years in San Quentin for
burglary, explained on the witness
stand that certain kind of whisky is
made regularly within the walls of
Folsom and San Quentin prisons. The
juice Of potatoes and fruits is used in
preparing the concoction, he said.
Compilations just completed by the
auditing department Of the O.-W. R.
& N. company show that during the
calendar year 1914 the company spent
for wages, taxes, construction and
other purposes incident to the conduct
of its business in Oregon, Washington
and Idaho, an aggregate of SIS, $751;
355.92, the equivalent of $50, 1872. 80
for each working day of the year.
Because of the delay in shipping,
caused by the war, Baker county, Ore
gon, ranchers barely escaped disas-
trous grain sack shortage just as the
threshing season was on. Nearly 30,-
600 sacks had been ordered early from
Calcutta. Farmers were preparing to
construct temporary bins and wheat
was filling every available receptacle
when 5000 sacks arrived. Nearly 25,-
600 are expected within few days.
Dead and missing in the recent Gulf
storm are now said to number 259.
The chief signal officer at the island
Of Stromboli, off the Italian coast, re-
ports the eruption of large quantity
of lava frem Stromboli volcano. The
lava is forming lake Of fire between
the craters and the sea.
An evangelist speaking in Portland
declares the prophesies in the oath
chapter of Matthew have been accur-
ately fulfilled up to the present time,
and that the present generation will
witness its complete fulfillment and
the return of the Lord to the world.