The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-02-05
NEWS OF THE week
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout The World.

Tho price Of bread In Chicago has
risen ono eent--to 0 cents loaf.
Two hundred Of tho $40 members Of
tho Engllah parliament are serving at
tho front.
Reports have II that Serbia 10 TO bc
invaded again by large army Of Aus
tro-GermAna.
A German dynamites y Canadian
railroad bridge and escapes TO tho
United States.
A London dispatch announces that
tho Germans Lost 5000 killed on n
Polish front less than mile long.
General villa on route 10 Tampico,
captures San Luis Potoai and 10 In full
possession Of tho city and vicinity.
Tho steamer Northiand loses rudder
In storm OH CALIFORNIA; coast, but was
taken In tow by the steamer Mann
Smith.
W. II. Hornlbrook, editor Of the Al
bany, Ore, Daily Democrat, has been
appointed by President Wilson N
minister 10 siam.
Victoria. u. C.. film eensors In the
last 10 months barred 80 por cent Of
tho pictures because thore was used
too much Stars and Stripes.
An Indication OF possible action by
Italy 10 20 be found In notification is.
sued 20 Italian rcaervlsta In England
70 prepare 10 Join the eolors.
A German statlaticlan denies that
Germany can be starved OUT In the
present war and declares the eouHtry's
granarlea arc stocked with abundance
Of cereals.
Reports reaching Holland say that
the now bread regulations In Germany
have caused 10 much unrest that H.
900 special eonstablca have been ap-
pointed 10 guard tho bakeries In Berlin.
England notifies u. s. that ship
ments Of foodstuffs for Germany and
Austria will bc considered as contra.
band and will conhacate all cargoep
captured without compensation TO the
shippers.
According 10 reports In circulation
at the Vatican. Great Britain. Ger
many and Austria have answered
favcrably Pope Benediet's proposal for
an exchange Of civil prisoners
men and children and mon above the
ago Of bb.
With tho opening Of the British par
lament tho political truce was ro-
moved. The government, whiie an.
suming all responsibility for tho war.
welcomed the oppoaltlon's support and
the ministers announced that they
would reply readily 20 all crltieiam and
endeavor 10 avoid controversial mat
tera.
Jitney.bus bandits. operating for the
hrst tlme In Seattle. WASH. kidnapped
two passengers from the downtown
districta, took them TO lonely spot on
the boulevard near Lake Washington,
beat them. and, after stealing $s.6 so In |
cash and two watches, left them TO
find their way back to tho city after
they recovered consciousness.
A conacienee-strlcken person sent |
SIS 10 tho Seattle Office Of the Union
Pacific railroad, and the fund has been
forwarded TO the Portland headquar-
ters. Bills amounting TO $l6 were
pinned 70 the following note: ''U. p.
r. r. Col have been In your debt |
this amount since 1882" No explain
ation whatever 10 given as TO how the
company was defrauded. and the iden-
tity of the remitter remains hidden.
A Portland highwayman said TO be
sixty years old. secured 40 cents from
q victim.
CarranEa troops enter Mexico City
and with little resistance take charge
Of the government.
Germans are reported to be using
new shell containing q higher ex-
plosive than heretofore known.
A Babylonian tablet, believed to
have been buried In the earth more
than 1000 years ago and containing the
earliest law code, recently has been
unearthed and 10 now In possession Of
Yale University. The laws are writ
ten In the Sumerian language, the Ian
guage Of Southern Babylonia prior to
its conquest by the Semites or Ac-
cadians In the time of Hammarabi.
Owing TO imperfect knowledge Of the
language the work Of deciphering Is
extremely difficult. The laws that
have been translated refer to legisla-
tion concerning injury to women, the
repudiation Of children who have been
adopted, elopement. the hire Of boats
and cattle, and provision for the Kill
ling Of hired OK by lion.
During the year ended June 80 last
q total Of 10, persons, including
266 passengers, lost their lives In acci-
dents on railroads and In railroad shops
reporting to the Interstate Commerce
commission. In addition, l92, 662 per-
sons were injured, Of whom i6, l2l |
we're passengers.
A dispatch from Lima, Peru, says
that DR.. Gazzanl, Peruvian ex-minister
Of foreign affairs, was seriously
wounded In q duel with Juan Durand.
Durand is brother Of DR.. Augusta
Durand, the Peruvisn revolutionary
leader, who was compelled to leave
Chilean territory last August.