The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-05-20
WORLDS DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS m A NUTSHELL
Live News Items From All Nations.
Pacific Northwest and Our Own
Commonwealth Condensed for
Our Many Busy Readers.

The National Congress Of Mothers IL
in session at Portland.
Wenatchee, Wash, apples are sell
ling in Germany for SO box.
Because Of anti-German riots In
England, German subjects ask Ameri-
can aid.
The Italian cabinet has resigned as
a result Of disagreement over the Eu.
ropean war question.
Lightning strikes tree near Lebanon,
Ore, and kills 20 goats that were
seeking shelter there.
Baptists in session at Houston, Tex,
decide to support Presi-
dent Wilson in the war crisis.
Austro-Germans capture lab, 800 Rus
SLAMS, so cannon, 255 machine guns
in the recent battles in Galicia.
Portland, Ore, is sprinkling coal oil
on all nearby lakes, pools and ponds,
in order to destroy the mosquito pest.
The national committee of the So
cialist party adopted peace program,
but met with considerable opposition
In doing 80.
The Turks sink English battleship
Goliath in the Dardanelles, with loss
Of 500 men. The Sultan loses three
ships Of minor Importance.
United States government sends
note Of protest TO Germany concerning
the sinking Of the Lusitania and other
vessels conveying Americans.
The cold from which King Constan-
tine has been suffering for the past
week has turned into pleurisy, says
Reuters Athens correspondent.
A high German government official
declares that the steamship Mauretania
will meet the same fate as the Lusi-
Lania If their submarines can reach her.
AT the annual school exhibit at
Baker, Ore, % girls in the domestic
science department made more than
1000 doughnuts and distributed them
20 the visitors.
Treasury experts of the United
States declare that in the event of war
with Germany financial aid to the ex-
.ent Of billion dollars could be made
without embarrassment or distress to
interests.
William d. Haywood, secretary
treasurer Of the |. w. W., declares
before the Federal Industrial Relations
committee that "implacable warfare"
against capital must be waged until it
ends in confiscation of the means of
production.
John ID. Rockefeller wins an import
ant decision in his fight to prevent the
collection Of taxes on $311, 900, 900
worth of property in Cuyahoga county,
New York. The taxes, with penal
ties for non-payment when due, now
amount to about 81. 500, 900.
James Morrison Darnell, Kenosha,
Wis, minister, was found guilty OF
the Mann white slave act.
Darnell was charged with transporting
Ruth Zoper from Owatonna, Mimi, tc
kenosha. The judge in charging the
jury said the case hinged on whether
Darnell and Ruth Zoper were married.
Seward. Alaska, is visited by q
500. 900 fire.
Neutrals in Italy are hopeful that
their country will keep out of the war
Anti-German riots are occurring il
London and have gotten beyond contro
Of the peace officers.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, anc
the wizard Of electricity, is to pay
Portland visit in July.
1t is reported that Clarence Fisher
an American ranch foreman in Mex
leo, was brutally murdered by Mexican
bandits.
President Wilson's draft Of note I,
Germany on the sinking Of the Lusi
tania is unanimously approved by the
cabinet.
A deputation of prominent German
residents and business men called OF
the Lord Mayor Of Bradford, England
and handed him written protes
against the ''inhuman methods EN-
ployed by the German government n
waging war against non-combatants
including women and children, whicl
have eliminated in the sinking Of thu
Lusitania.
General Nelson A. Miles, retired
asserts that the sinking of the Lusi
tania is only one Of many disaster
while the European war lasts.
The body Of Alfred w. Vanderbilt
the millionaire, who was a victim o
the Lusitanis, is reported as havin,
been picked up on the Irish coast.
An official communication ISSUES
from Petrograd says: ''0n the lot
our Black Sea fleet, after bombardini
the forts Of the Bosphorus. exchange
fire with the cruiser Goeben. which
being struck by many projectiles
made off rapidly"
II is declared that Turkey lost 45,
900 men in killed and wounded, in tn
battle on the peninsula Of Gallipoli.
The Navy League Of the Unite
States passes resolution to congress
asking $500, 000,0 900 appropriate
which is needed to provide this cour
try with adequate means Of naval dc
Tense"
Colonel Roosevelt declares ths
Prussian treaty with the Unite
States, which permits free traverse {