The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-01-22
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

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head of his brigade.
Reports convey news that Genera
Villa with his troops, will evacuat
Mexico City, and will go to Northerl
states to strengthen his forces.
England hauls down Stars an,
Stripes from an American ship whicl
is detained by that country, and in it
stead raised the British emblem.
The house of Representatives has
adopted all the Oregon and Washington
items in the rivers and harbors bill
without discussion and without amend
ment.
Republican leaders in the senate
have attacked President Wilson's shiE
purchase measure, but the President
feels confident it will pass before
March A.
Lumbermen of Oregon have secured
orders for 10,000,OO0 feet of lumber
and structural material to be shipped
to the United Kingdom between March
l and June 80.
Lighting fire with a can of gaso.
line resulted in an explosion which
probably will prove fatal to Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Backus, of Yaquina,
Or. The can exploded in Mrs. Backus'
hands, throwing the flames over both.
Mrs. 0. R. Meye, 35 years old, Of
Colfax, WASH, was killed accidentally
by her 9-year-old son at their ranch
home near Hay, in Western Whitman
county. The boy had been sent to the
house for the shotgun by his father,
and upon leaving the house the CUR
was accidentally discharged.
Portugal is reported in a singular
situation in reference to the great war.
German forces have invaded Portu.
guese Angola and fighting has beer
going on there between German and
Portuguese forces for several months.
Yet Germany has not declared war on
Portugal, the German minister remains
in Lisbon and the Portuguese in Berlin.
German aircraft made long threat
ened raids on England Tuesday night
and attempted with bombs to blow
up the kings royal residence in Sand
ringham, county Norfolk. King
George and Queen Mary, who had been
staying at Sandringham with their
family, returned to London only Mon.
day to resume their residence in Buck.
ingham palace.
The $100, 900, 900 gold pool organized
to meet American obligations abroad
shortly after the outbreak of the Euro
pean war will be abandoned because
bankers believe the necessity for il
has passed. Bankers back of the pool
have communicated this decision to
the Federal Reserve board, whose
sanction for the undertaking was
asked and granted before the plans
were completed.
1t is reported that there is consider
able dissention in the German cabinet.
A French senator advises parliament
to be quiet while France is invaded by
an enemy.
Twenty thousand persons, including
many notables, were killed in the
earthquake in Italy.
The American branch of the Red
Cross is asking help to aid the Italian
earthquake sufferers.
Five governments are in the Chi
cago wheat pit buying heavily, to-
gether with many foreign individuals.
Eighteen Russian generals have
been discharged from important posi-
tions, according to the Hamburg Frem-
demblatt.
A resolution was offered in congress
asking the secretary of war for in
formation as to the strength of coast
defense guns.
Gov. Blease, of South Carolina, who
resigned near the end of his term, has
pardoned and paroled 1460 convicts,
besides disbanding the state militia.
An aged pipe smoker in San Fran
cisco was killed when he fell on his
face. The long stem punctured the
roof of his mouth and entered the
brain.
The battleship Kansas sustained
damage in the big storm off the Vir-
glnia coast, which it will require two
weeks to repair, 1t was reported on the
warship's arrival in Hampton Roads.
The German and French accounts of
the fighting on the Western front
agree in declaring there has been
desperate battle near Scissors. The
issue is not wholly decided, but the
Germans are believed to have gained
ground northeast of the town, while
the French wholly failed to make
progress. The French are now de-
scribed as taking up new positions on
the south bank of the Aisne. EN-
peror William in person directed the
battle on the plain of vregny. In
spired by his presence, the German
troops cleared this important elevated
position Of the enemy.
General Carranzs has added to his
program OF reform the granting of abb
solute divorce. Any judge in Mexico
IL he cares to take the chance of Car
ranza's reseating himself at Chapulte-
pec-may now annul marriage con-
tract. The law became effective on
New Years day. Mexico has hereto
fore never granted more than legal
separation. The new law not only pro-
vides for divorce with the right to re-