The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-06-04
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.

The General Federation of Women's
clubs is in session at Portland.
Lone robber holds up Spokane bank
at noon and gets away with $500 ir
cash.
Early entry into the war of Rou-
mania and Bulgaria is counted on by
Italy.
A Portland traffic survey shows 44E
jitneys in use and a material increase
from March l to June /.
Newport, Ore, lifesaving crew res.
cues 5-year-old boy who was drifting
in boat two miles from shore.
East st. Louis, ILL.,, manufacturers
have declined orders for war munitions
which amount to 100000 per week.
President Wilson will send Germany
a note demanding absolute and cleal
answer to the original note on the
sinking of the Lusitania.
According to the statistics for Paris
there were 1850 births in May, the
10th month of the war, as compared
with 1890 in the same month last year.
German airmen have succeeded ir
dropping 80 bombs in London, killing
four persons and injuring many others.
The raid has melted mobs to loot many
German shops.
Emerson Reid, driver Of, racing
auto, who ran into another machine,
killing two, has been indicted by 6
Portland grand jury for Sinvoluntary
manslaughter."
New York state begins taking de.
cennial census and it is believed the
population of New York City will be
1906, 532, while the entire state will
contain 10,250, 900.
Two women and two men were
drowned in the Willamette river al
Portland by the overturning Of 6
launch at a. m. Tuesday. A fifth
person, a woman, clinging to plank,
was saved by fisherman.
The Wilson cabinet has ratified the
governments policy as regards Mex
leo, which has changed from "watchfu
waiting" to a stern demand for al
early settlement between the warrinl
factions, and notice Of which has beer
sent to the several leaders.
The Atlantic fleet, as original!
scheduled, will not pass through thu
Panama canal at the formal opening
owing to the probability of land slides
occurring while in Pacific waters, there
by hindering prompt return to the
Eastern seaboard in case of necessity
The little republic of San Marino, 2s
miles in area, and surrounded by 1tal
ian territory, is considered wal
power because of its elevated location
and an ideal base for aeroplanes. It'
government is debating the advisable
| ity of entering the cause of the allies
Twenty-three miners were killed il
a mine explosion at Nanaimo, B. c.
Italian troops were the first to brinl
down an aeroplane of the opposing
forces.
Italians have brought heavy artiller,
to bear on the Austrian positions OIL
the frontier.
A department of Finance officia
predicts that America will dominate
the finances of the world.
Torrential rains in Missouri, Kansa
and Oklahoma have seriously damages
crops and demoralized traffic.
Scientists who have climbed tn
crater of Mount Lassen declare the en-
tire aspect of the mountain is changed
It is said that King Alfonso, Q
Spain, has offered the Escorial Palac
to Pope Benedict as a residence in cas-
the Pontiff decides to leave Italy. Tn
Escorial Palace is part of the famou
monastery of San Lorenzo, 81 mile
northwest of Madrid. The monaster
was built in the 18th century.
Fifty German soldiers, passengers i
a streetcar at Ostend, were killed by
bomb dropped from an allied aero
plane. according to a dispatch fror
that city describing series Of al
| raids made by the allies aviators. tn
railroad station, shipping in the harbc
and numerous houses have been dam
aged.
| Urumiah, Persia, has been occupie
by the Russians after an engagemer
with the Turks in the direction of Di
man and near Bachkala.
4 British official reports say the losse
of the Turks during the recent fightin
on the peninsula have proved to B
much heavier than were originally e.
timated.
A dispatch to the London Time
from its Mudros correspondent say
that AGO men of the crew of the Bri
ish battleship Triumph, which wa
sunk Wednesday by submarine in th
Gulf Of Saros, were saved.
Arizona senators ignore Bryan
plea that Mexican murderers in tbs
state be reprieved for fear of reprisa
against Americans in Mexico.
Another British battleship, the MI
iestic, was torpedoed by a submarir
and sunk in the Dardanelles. Near
all her officers and crew of 800 or MOI
were saved. She was 20 years old.
The Illinois waterway bill, providin
. for canal to connect the Lakes wit
. the Illinois river, and thus with Il
Gulf Of Mexico, is ready for the sign
ture of Governor Dunno, who was Il
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