The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-06-11
WORLDS DO|NGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Colonel Alden j. Blethen, owner
of the Seattle Times, is dangerously i'll.
Degrees are bestowed on 254 stu
dents at Oregon Agricultural college.
The Seventh Annual Rose Festival
was formally opened at Portland We'd
nesday.
German submarines have sunk six
more merchant ships, among them be-
ing Norwegian steamer.
A delegation of Chinese merchants,
touring this country, will visit import
ant cities in the Northwest.
Canadian miners at Fernie, B. c.,
refuse to work with alien labor, which
includes Germans and Austrians.
Secretary Bryan, who has resigned
his post in the cabinet, is said will
take the stump for the furtherance Of
his peace ideas.
Many cattle in the vicinity Of Baker,
Ore, have died mysteriously recently,
and the commissioners of that county
are investigating the cause.
Portland has 100000 fire which
sweeps clean five blocks, including box
factory, lumber yard, feight house,
box cars and many other buildings.
Counsellor Robert Lansing, Of the
State department, is now acting secre-
tary Of state, and it is said no new
cabinet memher will be appointed for
several ponths-
NiAe miles off the coast Of Newport,
Ore, has become Gretna Green, two
couples having been married on a
launch that far from shore. The last
couple, man go takes bride of 81.
Premier Asquith announces in the
house of commons that the British gov
ernment is considering the initiation
of a national insurance scheme to cover
the losses inflicted by German aircraft.
Officers Df the Washington State
Referendum league say that the cam
paign to obtain voters signatures to
referendum petitions against seven
bills passed by the state Legislature
has been successful. Z
w. ]. Taylor and R. J. Lewis, of
Vancouver, B. c., who were accused Of
selling Oregon lands which did not be-
long to them, were convicted Of fraud
and sentenced to two years and 18
months Imprisonment respectively.
Extension of the German empire be-
yond the old frontiers, to ''secure it
against future attack" was predicted
by King Ludwig, Of Bavaria, in an ad-
dress before the Canal League, ac-
cording to a telegram from Munich.
The recent attempt Of two militant
suffragists to force an interview with
President Wilson was condemned at
the concluding session of the mid-year
conference Of the American Woman
Suffrage association in Chicago We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Minna Mollman, of St. Louis,
has three sons. One, Fred W., has
taken his seat as mayor of East St.
Louis. Another, Julius, has been
elected mayor Of Mascoutah, I'll. The
third was defeated by slight margin
in mayoralty. election in st. Clair
county, Mo.
German submarines sink two Welsh
trawlers in English channel, but first
rescue the crews.
More than 400 men will compete in
the civil service examinations for the
position of policemen in Portland.
David Lloyd George tells England q
better supply of war munitions must
be maintained, or defeat may result.
The Austro-German army has re-
taken Przemysl from the Russians in
one Of the bloodiest battles Of history.
DR.. David Starr Jordan, the noted
educator, speaking before the General
Federation Of Women's Clubs, scouts
the war idea which is prevalent in this
country.
A British submarine operating in
the Sea of Marmora torpedoed and
sunk q large German transport in Pan
derIna Bay Friday. This announce
ment was given out officially in Lon
don as having been received from the
vice admiral in command at the Oar
danelles. 1t is said also this submarine
was one of several operating in these
waters.
The italian premier declares that
Austria in 1918 decided to provoke 9
war.
According to Berlin telegram the
l6-year-old Countess Helene Dardey
has been sentenced to three months
Imprisonment for publicly insulting q
German officer.
President Wilson drafts note, brief
and pointed, to be sent to Germany,
asking q definite question - whether
the imperial government intends to be
guided in the future by the humane
principles embodied in international
law for the conduct Of maritime war
fare