The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-03-12
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.
Russians report capture Of many
German supplies in North Poland.

A British cruiser captures an Amer
lean bark and takes the cargo of 5000
bales of cotton into prize court.
French troops advancing on Germans
in Belgium find the foes in strong po-
sitions, and both floods and deep SHOWS
are encountered.
The University of Toronto is figur-
ing on closing several weeks earlier
than usual to allow its students to en-
list in the army.
Greece has formed new cabinet,
but King Constantine declares that
unless it stands neutral, he will cause
it to be dissolved.
It is reported that France has %
troop ships enroute to the Dardanelles
apparently to aid in land operations
should Constantinople fall.
Forty hours after dreaming that her
brother had committed suicide, the
deed was actually committed by J. c.
jain, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Three San Francisco bakers were
found guilty of selling short-weight
loaves. Their plea of the high price of
-four did not save them from fines.
The Gould family has been entirely
eliminated from the railway director
ships of railroads by the reorganiza-
tion of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Noun
tain railroad.
During the early hours of Tuesday
morning German submarines made
their presence known at three widely
separated points on the British coast
and sunk three merchant steamers.
The London Daily Telegraph's Paris
correspondent says he learns that DR..
Won Bethmann- Hollweg, the German
imperial chancellor, will make state
ment in the Reichstag soon, setting
forth the terms on which Germany is
willing to make peace.
Countess Laszlo Szeckenyi, formerly
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, of New York,
is recovering from smallpox, which
she contracted while nursing wounded
in an Austrian hospital three weeks
ago, according to Budapest dispatch
to the Post dated March 2.
John X. Gather, who has been post.
master of La Center, WASH, for Al
years, will retire from the service as
soon as Patrick M. Kanes, recently ap-
pointed, can file his bond and receives
his commission. Mr.. Gather, who is
76 years old, came from Indiana in
1878, and the following year became
postmaster. He has missed only one
term of Office.
Mrs. E. A. Pierce, aged 72, OF
Welches, Or, killed big black bear
with garden hoe when the bear at
tackled her Saturday at her little cabin
on the south slope of Mount Hope.
The bear had cha1ed E. A. Hutchinson
from a neighboring cabin and ad-
vanced on Mrs. Pierce where she was
hoeing her garden. While Mr.. Hutch
inson ran for aid, Mrs. Pierce slew
Bruin with the only weapon at hand,
the hoe.
The Middle West is having severe
snow storm.
Austria is said to have refused ait
to Turkey in her present engagement
with the allies fleet.
M. F. Berry, originator Of the pres
ent system Of express and posta
money orders, is dead.
The Minnesota legislature has re
fused to submit a woman suffrag'
amendment to the people.
Having "abstained" during all o
February, the moon will be full twic'
during March. This is the first occur
ence since 1846.
"Unless neutral nations are pre-
pared to assist in throwing the Ger
mans out of Belgium, no suggestion
from them in the matter of preventing
the further devastation Of that countr.
are wanted" said Sir Edward Grey
the foreign secretary, in the Britisl
house Of commons.
William Willett's daylight savini
bill, which was discussed in the Britis
parliament in the spring of 1909, pro
vided for the earlier use of dayligh
by putting forward the clock 20 min
utes on four successive Sundays il
April and reversing the process on fou
Sundays in September. This proceed
ure, it was argued, would bring NOR
time at the end Of the day for recrea
tion while the sun was still up. tn
measure never became law in England
The author Of the bill has just died.
The British now claim that the wa
will be short, and that their artillery
once weak, now dominates.
Bombardment Of Turkey by the a
lied fleets continues and the probabl
results are that Constantinople wi
fall.
After two years of almost contint
Gus session the SD congress, which n
vised the tariff and the currency syl
tenn of the nation, supplemented th
trust laws, created an income tax an
experienced the first popular electic
Of United States senators, ended
noon March 4.