The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-01-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK
General Resume Of Important Events
IhTeugheut The World.

tngipriees.
a Three Aberdeen, Wash. lumbel
: mills have resumed operations.
villa with an army Of 5000 is march
ing north to attack many towns on the
border.
A suit has been fied TO test the
: validity of the Arizona mothers pen
: sion law.
The bin proposing that the govern
ment purchase ships for commerce. is
being pushed in congress.
Hordes Of Turks are reported swcop-
ing into Russia. with the intention Of
crossing the Armenian mountains and
attacking Tiflis.
Germans admit that the allies had
an opportunity three months ago TO
split the retreating German army in
two, but the chance was lost and the
gap closed by the timely arrival OF
German endorsements.
Great Britain decides to relax ban
on commerce between that country.
Italy and The Netherlands. whereby
commerce to the latter two countries
from the u. S. is expected to undergo
a minimum Of molestation.
The Chilean government has decided
TO send the battleship Captain Pratt
the finest vessel in the Chilean navy,
to take part in the international naval
parade in connection with the formal
opening ofithe Panama canal.
Work on 5000 portable kitchen
wagons for the French army was be-
gun at Louisville, Ky. this week. The
value Of the order is placed $780,
900. The French government speci-
fed that the wagons be ready in three
months.
President Wilson has practically de-
cided that he cannot attend the open
ing of the Panama-Pacifc exposition
unless the European war ends before
that date, as he feels it incumbent
upon all high officials to be at their
posts Of duty during the conflict
A German submarine boat reported
by wireless to the admiralty in Berlin
that il has torpedoed and sunk in the
English Channel of Plymouth the Brit
ish battleship Formidable. The Sub
marine was pursued by British de-
stroyers but escaped undamaged.
Two negroes, Edward and Win
Smith, Of Montgomery, Ala, were
taken from the Wetumpka Jail early
one day this week and lynched by q
mob. They had been accused Of inn
plication in the murder Of R. A. Still
well, an Elmore county farmer.
Searching parties later found the
negroes bodies hanging in the woods.
New Orleans celebrates 10Oth ami
versary Of peace between English
speaking nations. The ceremonies
were opened with the firing of a 21-
gun salute, so timed that the last gun
doomed at 800 a. m. Friday, 1901
years to the minute, according to his
torians, after General jackson finally
triumphed over the British on the field
of Chalmette.
The recent lull in the activity of the
German forces seemed TO indicate
preparation for q renewed attempt to
pierce the Russian lines before War
saw, and the fighting Of the last few
days shows that this attempt is being |
made on the lines from the Vistula |
south along the Bzura and Rawka
rivers to point east of the town of
Rawka, which is in German hands.
The Austrian government has noti-
fed the Italian foreign Office that she
is striving to ascertain whether four
Italian subjects were taken as host
ages after the capture of Belgrade, as
has been widely reported in Italy. The
Austrian foreign Office has given
notice to the Italian foreign Office that
she is prepared to remedy the mistake,
if one was made, and will offer repara-
tion.
The German army authorities have
issued a general order prohibiting in
future troops in the field from frater-
nizing with forces of the enemy, as
they did at several points in the west
ern theater of the war at Christmas.
To such an extent was this fraterniz-
ing carried out that at one place where
the Germans and British played foot
ball Christmas day they agreed to sus-
pend hostilities for two days more.
The fourth trial of DR.. B. Clarke
Hyde, of Kansas City, charged with
the murder Of Colonel Thomas II.
Swoke, was reset for April in the
criminal court. The prosecutor asked
for the continuance because, he said,
the funds to pay necessary expert wit
nesses are not available at this time.
Frank P. Walsh, attorney for DR..
Hyde, opposed the postponement on
the ground that it was depriving the
defendant of his right to a SPEEDY
trial.
Because of the advancing price of
wheat Chicagoans are advocating the
consumption of "day-old" bread TO
keep the price per loaf at cents.
A representative-elect to the Oregon
legislature will submit a bill to put
the state under a commission form Of
government. proposing to establish
twelve departments.
The British admiralty says the cap
tain of the Formidable, when his bat
tleship was struck by German torpe-
does, signalled nearby vessels TO es-
cape at once from..t the vicinity, instead
of helping him.