The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-03-12
NEWS OF THE week
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout The World.
Russians report capture Of many
German supplIes In North Poland.

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two additional battleships 10 Vers
CruE.
A British cruiser captures an Amer.
lean bark and takes tho cargo Of 5000
bales Of cotton Into prize court.
French troopa advancing on Germans
In Belgium find the foes In strong po-
sItlons, and both floods and deep SHOWS
are encountered.
Tho University Of Toronto 10 figur-
Ing on closing several weeks earlier
than usual 10 allow its students 10 en-
list In tho army.
Greece has formed n now cabinet,
but King Constantine declares that
unleaa Il stands ncutrai. he will cause
Il 20 be dissolved.
Il 10 reported that France has 22
troop ships enroute 20 tho Dardanelles
apparently 10 aid In land operations
should Constantinoplo fall.
Forty hours after dreaming that her
brother had committed suicide, the
deed was actually committed by J. G.
Jshn. In Salt Lake City, Utah.
Three San Francisco bakers were
found guilty OF selling ahort.wolght
loavea. Their plea OF tho high price Of
-four did not save them from fines.
The Gould family has been entirely
eliminated from the railway director.
ahIps Of railroads by tho roorganiEa.
tIon Of the Missouri Pacific. Iron Noun.
tain railroad.
During tho early hours Of Tuesday
morning German submarines made
thelr presence known at three widely
separated points on tho British coast
and sunk three merchant steamers.
Tho London Daily Tolegraph's Paris
correspondent says he learns that DIR.
Won Bethmann. Hollwcg. the German
imperial chancellor, will make state
ment In tho Roiehstag soon, setting
forth the terms on which Germany 10
willing 10 make peace.
Countess LasElo Sxcckcnyi. formerly
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. Of Now York.
10 recovering from smallpox. which
she contracted while nursing wounded
In an Austrian hospital three weeks
ago. according 10 Budapest dispatch
20 tho Post dated March =.
John X. Gather. who has boon post
master OF La Center, WASH, for II
years, will retire from tho service as
apon na Patrick M. Kanes. recently ap-
pointed, can fle his bond and receives
HE commission. Mr.. Gather. who In
70 years old, came from Indiana In
1873, and tho following year became
postmaster. He has missed only one
term Of Office.
Mrs. T.. A. Pierce, aged ~, Of
Welchcs. Or, killed big black bear
with garden hoo when the bear at
tackled her Saturday at her little cabin
on the south slope Of Mount Hope.
The bear had chased r. A. Hutchinson
from n neIghboring cabin and ad-
vanced on Mrs. Pierce where she was
hooing her garden. While Mr.. Hutch.
inson ran for aid, Mrs. Pierce slew
Bruin with the only weapon at hand.
the hoe.
The Middle West 10 having a severe
snow storm.
Austria 10 said TO have refused aid
to Turkey In her present engagement
with the allies fleet.
N. r. Berry, originator Of the pres
ent system Of express and postal
money orders, 10 dead.
The Minnesota legislature has re-
fused TO submit woman suffrage
amendment TO the people.
Having "abstained" during all of
February, the moon will be full twice
during March. This is the first occur
cnce since l846.
"Unless neutral nations are pre-
pared TO assist In throwing the Ger
mans out Of Belgium, no suggestions
from them In the matter Of preventing
the further devastation Of that country
are wanted" said Sir Edward Grey,
the foreign secretary, in the British
house Of commons.
William Willett's daylight saving
bill, which was discussed In the British
parliament In the spring Of 1909, pro-
vided for tho earlier use of daylight
by putting forward the clock 20 min
utes on four successive Sundays In
April and reversing the process on four
Sundays In September. This proceed
ure, Il was argued, would bring more
time at the end Of the day for recrea-
tion while the sun was still up. The
measure never became law in England.
The author Of the bill has just died.
The British now claim that the war
will be short, and that their artillery,
once weak. now dominates.
Bombardment of Turkey by the al
lied fleets continues and the probable
results are that Constantinople will
fall.
After two years Of almost continu-
ous session the esd congress, which re-
vised the tariff and the currency sys-
tenn Of the nation, supplemented the
trust laws, created an income tax and
experienced the first popular election
Of United States senators, ended at
noon March 4.