The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-09-10
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS N A NuTCiB'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

A dividend from Coeur d'Aiens
mines amounting TO 5000. s79 hal
been declared.
Judge Willis s. Knowles. OF Rhode
Island, ls shot from ambuhh IN hii
homo In that state.
Italy has declared cotton contrabant
Of war, . Rome Dispatch 70 the Havai
News Agency announces.
An earthquake IN Central AmerIca
has detroyed Jutiapa. The city had q
population Of about II. 1000.
Three jailbreakers 1t pendlston.
Ore. were captured by the aheriff.
who was soon on their trail.
A British squadron bombarded all
the positions along the Belgian coast
~ far M oatend Wednesday.
Rear Admiral william p. Fullnfn.
superintendent Of the Naval Academy
at Annapolis. has been removed.
Hundreds are In peril by foods In
kanaaa because uf tnrrentlal rains.
Many persons have taken refuge In
trees and on houaetopa.
General Funston has taken control
of the border line In tho entire Rio
Crande country because Of tho raids
made there by the Mexican briganda.
Major General Goethals, builder Of
thu Panama canal, and who 10 visiting
Pacific Coast cities. wss deliberately
entertained BY tho Panama-Paeiiie OH.
cials.
NJ. Dumba. tho AustFo- Hungarian
ambassador In this country, has admit
ted sneltlng strikes IN munitions plants
snd his conduct has caused anxiety
among diplomats both here and abroad.
WIN. NJ. Johnston. San Francisco
youth, has won tho national tennis
championship from Maurice n. Nc
Loughlin, also Of the Same city. Tho
tournament was held at Forest Hills.
N. X.
A dispatch from Berlin says: Tho
autumn floods already have started all
along the Eastern front. The rivers
everywhere are overfiowing their
banks and the German advance has
been checked. |"
An unskilled Iaborer with q family
Of five. living IN New York City. can
not maintain for hts family standard
Of living consistent with American
ideas on wage OF less than $40
year. according TO a report Of the bu-
reAu Of standards Of the board Of es-
Inmates.
According 20 British estimates, the
world's wheat crop for 1915 will total
gas, $50, 900. 600 pounds, a. against =
production Of 2i9. 100, 900. 900 pounds
produced In 1914. The same statistics |
ahow an indicated surplus IN exporting |
countries Of 6aG, 600. 600. 900 pounds,
leaving reserves at the end OF the year
at the same total as At the beginning.
The British figures are given In quar-
tors instead OF pounds. one quarter
equaling $50 pounds.
The threc-day regatta opens at AS
toria, Ore.
Dogwood trees near Vancouver,
wash. are In bloom for the second
time this year.
Two Americans were killed by Mex.
lean bandits who have been attempt
Ing raids in Texas.
Germany offers TO submit the Lusi-
tanla and Arabic claims to The Hague
tribunal for adjustment.
The Portland Gas a Coke company
pays per cent on preferred and COM
mon stock for the year ending June 80.
The secretaries cf war and navy
have been asked by the President to
outline adequate defense plans for the
nation.
The work Of completing the o.-W.
R. q N. cutoff from Chambers Prairie
% Olympia, about 7.6 miles, will be
at once.
Eight Albanians were sentenced to
uuH toKmh lu PKtnuu Aux h&NAAH CVHA-
nunicated with Austria by carrier
pigeons. The men involved are Cap
ain Mustapha, OF the Albanian bark
BELLA Scutarina, who was sentenced TO
10 years, and seven members Of his
rev. condemned to serve ten years
ZACH.
A Portland. Or, druggist was ar
ested and confessed to robbing the
tand Of blind cigar dealer and sell
Ing the goods at his own store.
Germany Is reported as ready to en-
ertain peace negotiations and will
ieId Belgium. II is reported also that
be freedom Of Poland and Finland will
o asked.
President Wilson went 10 q theater
arty Friday night for the first time
or more than year. He was per- Z
uaded to 60 a. q relaxation from the
'ork be has been doing recently on !
Oreign problens.