The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-10-08
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
from All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHB'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed !,
for Our Busy Readers.


The allies are making a fierce fight
for the second German line in the West.
The Southern Pacific is sending 400
cars to various numbering points in
Oregon in response to demands.
Another slide has blocked the Pana-
ma canal and the opening Of the ditch
will be delayed until October 10.
Nearly three score persons lost their
lives in hurricane which also caused
immense property damage at New Or
leans.
William Steele, aged 81, and Mrs.
Arleta Golden, aged 78, obtained a
marriage license and were married at
Salem, Or.
A catch of 1853 walruses is reported
by the steamer Corwin. The hides are
| in great demand in Eastern ammuni-
tion factories for furnishing shrapnel
cases.
Saskatchewan, Canada, farmers won
first and second prizes in competition
for the best bushel of wheat at the
international Soil Products Exposition
at Denver.
A Portland, Oregon, man, in a fit Of
laughter, dislodged his false teeth and
the artificial masticators lodged in his
throat. 1t required physician to re.
move the molars.
Three liners have been added to the
deet Of the Togo Kisen Kaisha Steam
ship company and will be put into thu
trans Pacific trade between Pacifi
Coast points and the Orient.
A heavy hail storm practically ruin
ed the winter apple crop in the vicin
. ity of Roswell, N. M. The damage
estimated at $4,000 Packing wa
to have begun soon in the larger orch
ards.
The inclusion of the Missouri, Kan
! sas G. Texas railroad, which recent.
went into receivership, makes tn
mileage of railways in the Unitet
States in the hands of receivers create
!, than ever before.
A semi-official dispatch received a
Amsterdam from Berlin says all tn
subscriptions to the third German wa
loan, which amounted to 10000, 900,
900 marks ($S, 900, 900, ,0OO), represen
new money. No conversions are in
cluded.
The London Morning Posts Bern
, correspondent says he learns fror
Munich that T. st. John Gaffney, tn
American consul general in Munich
after comforting with Sir Roger Case
ment, has decided to resign and go o
a lecture tour in the United States o
behalf of Germany.
! Coreans in Hawaii are training wit
y wooden guns, in the hope of bein
able to free Corea from Japan, accort
y ing to Miss Sadie E. Barrett, mi
= sionary to Hawaii, who addressed tt
8 National Convention of the Women
o Home Missionary Society of the Met
q odist Episcopal church in Seattle.
/ Germany declares she sees the go
of her ambitions.
y The British admiralty has loaned
number of submarines to the Russian
United States sends artillery
Mexican border to repel further rait
70 Of bandits.
# The Washington government HI
l. made final request that DR.. Duml
m be recalled.
u BY the will of John G. Watmoug
Of Philadelphia, his hired girl fal
heir to 500, 900.
If A Walla Walla, WASH, girl TAX
to dose Of poison for headache, in dar
I'd which proves fatal.
IN For the first time in history, Chine
s, shipbuilders are competitors of Z
,h European yards. A steamship col
ic pany of Drammen has ordefed thr
he steamers to be delivered in Cope
ie hagen in 1916 and 1917. The placi
he Of this order in China is due to t
n unusual pressure in the home yards.
q The Munich Post, according to t
OF Overseas News Agency, has received
report from Switzerland that Pc
Benedict is preparing circular lett
to the belligerents asking for ~
lll eral truce on All Souls day. The Pt
he tiff asked that the truce be dedicat
I'D to the memory of the soldiers "
m have perished in the war.
a. Society women in Paris have
he listed in the war and are driving arl
,es ambuIances, using their own cars.
" The big loan to Britain and Fran
lts which was negotiated in this count
III has been made, however, the amol
is $500, 900, 900, instead Of one billi
as first stated.
err John Muir's famous clock, which,
re- addition to keeping time, awoke him
.he the morning by tipping his bed, '
md become the property of the Univers
sc, of Wisconsin at the close OF the 7
md ama-Paciic Exposition. Muir inve
ed the clock many years ago.