The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-04-23
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

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lost by coming In contact with Russian
mines.
British destroy own submarine in
Dardanelles 10 prevent capture BY
Turks.
Germany announces that advances Of
her lines In the west war zone have
been made.
Placer gold deposits Of more than
$1,000 pan Is claimed to have been
found in Alaska.
Berlin has closed It's free war soup
house because Of the splendid econom-
ical improvement.
Japan Is said 10 be hard hit by the
war, as the French demand for silks
has materially declined.
The United States District court Of
Chicago has granted receivership 70
the Rock Island railroad system.
San Francisco refuses to bond itself
for s34, 500, 900 to purchase the prop
critics of the Spring Valley Water
company.
A Eugene, Or, man who became
alarmed about the war. buried $500 in
his garden, but has dug it up and de-
posted 1t in the bank.
Many women in Portland sign petit
tions to the city council to allow men
the privilege TO smoke in the three
rear seats Of the street cars.
Eight towns in Illinois went dry at
a recent election, and none went wet.
Fifteen towns in South Dakota also
were added to the dry column.
A government agricultural expert
declares that the farmer derives no
profit from growing oats, and that
only two mills is made on a bushel Of
corn.
Carranza soldiers fire on an Amer
lean aeroplane which was flying near
the border. Seventy shots are said
to have been fired. The aircraft land
ed safely.
The damage suit Of Theodore Roose-
welt, brought by William Barnes, a
political boss Of New York, is pro-
crossing at Syracuse. Barnes claims
$50, 900 for alleged libel.
A Reuter- dispatch from Sofia says
that the government Of Adrianople and
towns in that region have ordered the
not TO go outside the limits
Of the towns without authorization
Work on the raising of the sunken
submarine F-4 has been halted by bad
weather. The hulk is now closer to
the shore than when first located, hay-
ing been raised IL feet and towed in
until it touched again in shallower
water.
Twenty thousand fly traps will be
part of the apparatus employed this
year in the anti-fy campaign in Port
land. The traps are to be made In the
manual training departments Of the
public schools and will be distributed
throughout the city.
Sixteen thousand Chicago carpen-
ters so on strike.
German submarine sinks Dutch
freight ship while at anchor OIL the
John Bunny, the noted motion pic
ture comedian, is near death at his
home in Brooklyn.
Two Zeppelins raid English town on
EriAoxr oV1d do F0n- /
siderable damage to property.
Ten Tacoma dairies are closed by
health authorities, who claim milk
from tubercular cows was freely sold.
Twelve thousand men employed by
the Calumet & Hecla Mining company,
Calumet, Mich. and subsidiary prop
critics, received an increase OF 10 per
cent in wages. The wage rate In et-
feet prior to the outbreak OF the Euro |
pean war Is thereby restored.
The British government has offered
4 s'full and ample apology" to the Chill
can government for the sinking on
March IA in Chilean territorial waters
of the German cruiser Dresden, the
Internment OF which had already been
ordered by the maritime governor of
Bay when the British |
squadron attacked and sank her.
Select and common councils Of Phil
adelphia have decided to allow the his
toric Liberty Bell to be sent to the
Pacific Exposition. Resolu-
lions providing for its trip across the
continent were unanimously adopted |
by both branches. Mayor Blanken-
burg announced that he would sign the
and only minor details now
remain to complete the arrangements.
vehemently asserting that he had
nothing to do with the death OF Fran
cisco Madero, General Victoriano HUI
srta, ex-provisional president Of Mexi-
90. issued long signed statement In
New York setting forth what he term
ed his side OF the Mexican question.
General Huerta declared that he knew
who was responsible for Madero's
death, but that he was keeping 1t as q
professional secret"
Germany declares Russian invasion
Of Hungary was q failure. and that the
Cars army has been brought to q
halt.
Fast melting snow In Arizona wash
put two dams near St Johns ana
irown eight persons, besides doing
half million dollars damage to prop
erty.
P. C. Jenkins, prominent resident
Of Butler county, Kentucky. was found
guilty in circuit court and sentenced
10 four years and one day In the peni-
tentiary on the charge OF being con-
nected with night raiding operations
In western Kentucky.