The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-06-17
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UayHSN EAPPHaNGS N A NuTHal
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

: A German submarine Friday san
/. two British torpedo boats, one stesme
and six trawlers.
The schooner New Jersey is reporte
lost In the Arctic regions and four o
her crew have persisted.
i The plant Of the Butte Socialist,
weekly paper Of Butte, Montana, wa
blown up by dynamite.
/ Italian troops are reported ms hsvinI
occupied MonfaIcone, and being within
sight Of Trieste, Austria.
American friends Of Germany be
lieve the critical stage In tbs Lusi
tanis controversy Ia passed.
A German admiral says the Mediter
ranean sea will be the next field fol
German neutrality-suspicious..
| Official statements declare that there
are yet 5000 Germans and 1000 Aus.
trians Of military age at large In Lon
don.
Germany In the Frye case declares
the right to sink any ship carrying
eontraband, but is willing to pay dam
ages.
German residents In America believe
the retirement Of Bryan from the cab
met will make negotiations with their
country easier.
multnomah Typographical union, of
Portland, has started movement to
have all text books for the public
schools printed within the state.
According to figures announced In
the house Of commons, 1896 English
women have registered for war work,
OF which 1915 have been utilized.
Rowing crews from the steamer
Rose City twice beat the crews Of the
naval reserve cruiser Boston in the
Rose Festival races In Portland harbor.
News reaching Geneva confirms the
report that cholera has broken out in
Vienna. II il believed to have been
taken there by wounded soldiers from
Galicia.
The attendance at the Panama Pa
cihc Exposition at San Francisco has
passed the six million mark, an aver
age OF 55, 900 per day since the open
ing on February 20.
The British are again warned by one
Of their best-known newspapers that
disaster Is imminent unless they pro-
vide their army and navy with more
liberal supplies of ammunition.
The Standard Oil company announces
cut Of one cent per gallon In the
price OF gasoline. effective throughout
the United States. The new price is
s.s cents. A year ago the price was
IL cents.
Al luncheon to the visiting Chinese
commercial delegates. President Emer-
titus Charles w. Eliot, of Harvard. de-
clared that China should have an ade-
quate army and navy. adding that mo
nation can maintain a national exist
enee without national force"
Colonel Alden j. Blethen, owner
Of the Seattle Times. is dangerously i'll.
Degrees are bestowed on 254 stu
tents at Oregon Agricultural college.
The Seventh Annual Rose Festival
was formally opened at Portland Wed
iesday.
German submarines have sunk six
more merchant ships, among them be-
ng Norwegian steamer.
A delegation of Chinese merchants,
curing this country. will visit import
mt cities In the Northwest.
Canadian miners at Fernie, B. c.,
efuse to work with alien labor, which
includes Germans and Austrians.
Secretary Bryan, who has resigned |
lis post In the cabinet, is said will
AXE the stump for the furtherance Of |
,is peace ideas.
Officers Of the Washington State
league say that the cam
,aign TO obtain voters signatures to |
referendum petitions against seven
bills passed by the state Legislature
has been successful.
w. j. Taylor and II. j. Lewis. Of |
vancouver, b. c., who were accused Of |
selling Oregon lands which did not be-
ong TO them. were convicted Of fraud |
md sentenced to two years and is |
months Imprisonment respectively.
Many cattle In the vicinity of Baker,
Ore, have died mysteriously recently.
md the commissioners Of that county
IRE investigating the cause.
Portland has $500, 900 fire which
sweeps clean five blocks, including box
factory. lumber yard. feight house,
BOX cars and many other buildings.
The recent attempt Of two militant
suffragists TO force an interview with /
President Wilson was condemned at
he concluding session Of the mid-year
conference Of the American Woman
Suffrage association in Chicago We'd
nesday.
Counsellor Robert lansing, Of the
State department. is now acting secre-
larry Of state. and Il is said no new
cabinet member will be appointed for
several months.
Nine miles Oft the coast Of Newport,
Ore. has become Gretna Green. two
couples having been married on
launch that far from shore. The last
couple, a man so takes bride of 81.
Premier Asquith announces In the
house ~ commons that fho p~tff.h 49,,