The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-10-22
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
from All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NTSHH'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

PdclTlC Northwest CONDENSED
for Our Busy Readers.
Lord Derby makes final plea to
the English people to enlist voluntar-
lily.
A Rock Island passenger and freight
train collided in Oklahoma, killing
six.
Colonel T. E. vickers, pioneer in
the British armament industry, is
dead.
Poisonous weeds along the Klamath
river in Northern California are kill
ing hundreds of cattle.
Fifteen miners were blown to pieces
In Butte, Mont, by the accidental ex-
plosion Of 500 pounds of dynamite.
The allies on the Gallipoli peninsula
are in grave position, and London
admits the campaign may be aban-
doned.
Formal recognition of Carranza by
the United States and eight South
American republics was forwarded
Oct. 10.
It now develops that the five-gear
naval program outlined by Secretary
Daniels contemplates the expenditure
Of $500, ,482,214.
Two unmasked robbers forced the
cashier of the Renton, Wash, bank to
hand over $1416 in cash and then es-
capped in an automobile.
A posse of Texans killed ten Mexi-
can bandits believed to have been i'm
plicated in the recent train robbery
and killing of two Americans.
At banquet given in honor of
Thomas A. Edison in San francisco,
the guest of honor, at his own urgent
request, was served only a glass Of
milk and piece Of hot apple pie.
Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford,
the noted automobile maker, inspected
exhibits at the Panama-Pacific expo
sition together and became SO intent
upon their work that they forgot to
keep lunch appointment with their
wives.
A new order in council has been
gazetted in London prohibiting the
expectation of any cotton product
whatever, with the exception of cotton
lace and cotton waste. Allied coun-
tries in Europe, Spain and Portugal
are made exceptions.
The Nordlandsposten of Gefle, Swe-
den. says that the Swedish legation
at Petrograd has informed the foreign
office at Stockholm that the Swedish
ore steamer Nike has been captured
by a British submarine and taken to
the Russian port Of Reval.
The sale Of seat on the New York
stock exchange for $4,000. was an
nounced Friday THE price is $1,000
higher than the last sale, q few days
ago, and is several thousand dollars
higher than number of sales betWeen
four and six months ago.
Two prisoners charged with espion.
age and tried by courtmartial in Lon
don were found guilty and one was
sentenced to death and the other To
five years penal servitude, the press
bureau of the war office announced
The prisoner sentenced to death was
executed, the announcement stated.
According to the London Morning
Posts Athens correspondent, the di
plomatic corps left Nish Tuesday for
Monastir, in the extreme south of Ser
bia, to which city the national archives
and the Serbian national bank also
are going Immediately. The central
Serbian government, the correspond
ent adds, remains in Nish.
New Jersey registered at the polls
for the ballot. Indications shortly af
ter midnight were that the white and
yellow banners Of Votes for Women
had fluttered down to defeat in eacf
Of the states 21 counties and that thu
majorities against adoption of the con
stitutional amendment to enfranchist
women was between $4,000 and $4,000
The mind of Emperor Franz Joseph
Of Austria, is said to be failing rap
= idy.
English people cry loudly for repris
ais against the Germans for recen
Zeppelin raids.
Anthrax has been cured by Sai
Francisco physicians by the local ap
plication of antiseptics.
The trial of the directors and forme
directors of the New York, New
Haven 6 Hartford railroad, which will
test the ability Of the government T.
obtain the conviction Of the director
of an alleged monopolistic corporation
under the so-called criminal clause o
the Sherman antitrust law, was begul
In the Federal court.
Private advices received in Paris ar
to the effect that Bulgarian divisio
was almost annihilated in fierce bat
tie near Kraguyvats, Serbia.
Zeppelin airships raided London o
two successive nights, the first tim
killing eight and wounding about 81
The second raid resulted in the KILN
of 56 persons and starting many fires
It il believed the United States wi
soon suppIant Russia in supplyin
crude oil and Its products to the Scar
dinavian countries, and steamers al
being chartered in this country for th
trade.