The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-07-30
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Eight miners are killed in a mine
explosion at Christopher, Ill.
Reports say that the Russians have
materially checked the advance of the
Germans on Warsaw.
Fishing smacks are seriously him
dered in the war zone because of the
German submarine warfare.
Japan wireless station succeeds in
communicating with the station in
Hawaii, distance Of $3.50 miles.
French take important position on
top Of high mountain in the Alsace
district after fierce bombardment.
Cable dispatches from Berlin to
Washington state that Germany will
amend reply to latest American note.
The French submarine Mariette was
destroyed by German submarine on
July 26 in the narrows of the Darda-
nelles, according to dispatch from
Constantinople.
About a dozen bombs were dropped
in Verona, Italy, by an Austrian aero
plane. There were no victims of the
air attack and the damage done to
property was insignificant.
Evidence offered before the coroner's
Jury in the case of the overturning Of
the excursion steamer in Chicago river,
shows the boat was overloaded, and
the water ballast pumped out to keep
the vessel from scraping the bottom.
officials of the Navy and Army de-
parsnents have begun series Of con-
ferences which will have to do with
the betterment of National defense.
Findings of the conferences will be
presented to President Wilson.
The temperature rose to 80 degrees
in the shade at Seward, Alaska, and it
was 103 at Kenai Lake. There have
been only four rainy days in two
months. Several fires are burning in
the Sugah forest east of Anchorage.
The governor general Of the French
Congo, which adjoins the German col
ony of Kamerun, telegraphs that, after
a series of combats at Monso Besam
and Assaobam, French column occu-
pied the important German post Of
Ionic, June rs.
Charging that she had been de-
frauded Of $4,000 in stock deal, and
that she had been beaten and injured
and falsely arrested when she tried to
get her money back, Mrs. Bertha M.
Leland, former restaurant cashier,
files suit aggregating $780, 600 against
Frank Rockefeller, brother of the "oil
king
Efforts to teach English to Chinese
crews on Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany vessels at San Francisco have
failed. The experiment was made in
the hope of complying with require
ments of the seaman's act, effective in
November, which will require that rs
per cent of crews in all departments
shall understand any order given by
their officers in the native language OF
the officers.
Three persons were killed when q
roller coaster on the "Rough Rider,
an amusement enterprise at Coney
Island, New York, jumped the track
Wednesday while travelling at high
speed. Mrs. Clarence Moles, Of
Spring Valley, N. Y, and her 7-year-
old son Edward, who were passengers,
escaped injury. Thrown clear Of the
car, she clung to the track, holding the
boy on one arm until rescued by police
men.
A Norwegian naturalist lost both his
hands in the Arctic region by freezing
Many straying Britons are returning
from all parts of the earth to aid theil
country.
Russians are reported to have burnet
the city of Windau before leaving it t.
the oncoming German forces.
Charles Jameson, one Of the two ul
Innate heirs to the great Arbuckl'
estate Of $50, 100000, is dead.
French hospitals and German pris
oners in Siberia have asked the Amer
lean Red Cross society for help.
Those well informed claim that Ger
many has supplies to last several year
and good crop is being harvested.
Two months Is reported as the aver
age life of horse after he goes int
active service in the European war.
The Carranza commander confirm
reports that bis soldiers executed be
tween so and so Villa soldiers for loot
ing at Cananea.
For the first time since the begir
ming Of the war, a whole week ha
passed without the loss of a BIRTHS
vessel Of any kind.
Washington has a report that Ger
eraI Carranza has given notice that b
will sever all diplomatic relations wit
foreign nations who do not maintai
ministers to his government at ver
Cruz. This viii not, however, affes
his relations with the United States.