The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-12-03
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
from-AlI Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.


Senator Works, Of California, will
not seek reelection in 1917.
The reichstag is considering a bill to
tax war profits and incomes.
The French government is reported
seeking large loan in England.
Nineteen miners are killed by an ex-
plosion in mine at Boomer, w. Va.
A police census of Greater New
York gives that city 5,25S,S88 inhab-
itants.
Winston Churchill, who has gone to
the front for England, will soon be
made general.
Two hundred and twenty acres of
wheat land near La Grande, Ore, was
sold for SIG, 900 cash.
Avalon, on Santa Catalina island,
off the coast Of California, is destroyed
by fire. The loss is million dollars.
The allies are planning to hold
concil in Paris to receive the report
of Lord Kitchener's visit to the far
East.
Italy is making fierce onslaughts on
the Austrian front in three places and
the near retirement of the latter is ex-
pected.
Jane Adams, settlement worker and
noted peace advocate, has been sent to
a Chicago hospital. Her illness is re-
ported as not serious.
Shipbuilders at Hoquiam, WASH,
are constructing one of the largest
schooners on the Coast, which will
transport lumber when finished.
Henry Ford, who has chartered a
ship to convey pacificists Of this coun-
try to Europe, denies sending cable
gram to the Pope on peace matters.
A collie, locked out of the house at
Binghampton, N. Y, leaps through a
window and alarms the occupants in
time to save themselves from death by
fire.
The order calling the youth Of
France to arms is being bitterly OPP
posed in the chamber Of deputies on
the ground that shirkers still avoid
war duty.
Ex-Pressident Roosevelt requests his
name withdrawn from the Nebraska
state primary ballot as candidate for
president before the National Republi-
can convention.
Publication of the new charter Of
Warsaw University shows that under
German control the official language of
the university will be Polish. in which
all lectures must be delivered.
According to witnesses in the con-
spiracy case at New York, it is. shown
that Germany was behind the plan to
aid in supplying her ships at sea from
vessels leaving American ports.
The famous statue of Smile
Rheims" in Paris, which was shattered
during the bombardment Of the Rheims
Cathedral, has been mended. The frag-
ments broken from the figure have
been collected and replaced.
Thirty workmen were killed and
seven fatally injured in terrific ex-
plosion of about four tons of black
powder at the Upper Hagley yard Of
the Du Pont Powder company at Will
mington, Delaware. 1t was the worst
accident that has occurred in any OF
the company's plants in quarter OF
century.
London trade unionists refuse to
work without their customary allot-
ment of beer.
Detectives in Tacoma frustrated
scheme to defraud a firm Of grain
brokers Of $1,000.
Fire horses of Portland, retired by
auto apparatus, will be purchased BY
the State National Guard.
It is predicted that the administers
tion's ship purchase bill will be de
feated in the next congress.
A mischievious lad liberated severa
mice in a Portland moving picture
house. A near-panic followed.
General Villa and his troops arr
nearing the border and more trouble il
expected for the United States.
Representative Witherspoon, o
Mississippi, known as the little navy
leader, dies suddenly at his home.
Three gold medals will be bestowe'
on as many American women b.
France. because of their great devo
tion to the work Of aiding the needy.
Ex-President Taft declared in
speech before the New York Teachers
association, that be believed the Fed
eral government could and should Civ
aid to education in the several states
France has given order calling yout
of class of 1917 to arms. These boy
are from IL to l9 years of age, an
the order requires minimum trainin
OF Eve months before entering activ
duties.