The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-04-09
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Events Told in Brief.
German submrianes sink two British
ships in the English channel.
"Drys" succeed in voting out 100
saloons in Illinois at the recent elec-
tion.
Butte, Mont, Gusts its entire So
cialist set of officers and elects Demo-
Gratis.
Twenty-seven Terre Haute, Ind,
officials are convicted of election
frauds.
Chicago elects an entire Republican
ticket, including mayor, the first in
many years.
The steam schooner Speedwell is
stranded on the spit off the Oregon
coast near Bandon.
An Italian senator declares that un-
less all nations disarm anarchy will
prevail universally.
An Austro- German force capture
1900 Russians of mountain line on
the Hungarian border.
DR.. Jordan, president of Stanford
University, predicts that the European
war will end this summer in draw"
DR.. Sun Vat Sen, first provisional
president Of China, is accused of plot
ting another revolution in that country.
Carranza troops are reported to have
expelled six nuns from a convent near
Vera Cruz, compelling them to leave
in the garb o.. peasants.
French government declares that the
ammunition crisis" is past and the
allies, including Serbia and Belgium,
will have all the shells they need.
The Willard Johnson fight films are
barred from the United States by a
Federal statute, which expressly for
bids interstate transportation of fight
films.
A motorcyclist in Portland, losing
control Of his machine, jumps the
street curbing, runs 20 feet over a
lawn and lands through the window
into parlor.
At the government investigation of
Pullman porters' salaries, it is shown
that they receive $27.50 per month,
but the ''tips" exacted from the trav-
cling public amount to an average of
$75 per month.
Rear Admiral Peary, United States
navy, retired, celebrated the sixth an
niversary of his attainment of the
North Pole by giving an "Alaska din
ner" in honor of Secretary Redfield,
of the department of Commerce.
A Zeppelin balloon appeared over
Dunkirk Wednesday night, coming
from the direction of the sea. The
dirigible apparently intended to bonn
bard the shipping in the harbor, but
being sighted by the torpedo boats
retreated to the German lines.
Jeremiah W. Robinson was elected
Mayor of Boise, Idaho, in opposition
to Mayor Arthur Hodges. There was
light vote. Mr.. Robinson is Dem
ocrat, but the election was non-par-
tisan. He was a candidate for the
position of director of the mint.
The arrival at San Reno of the
American ambassador, Thomas Nelson
Page, occasioned the rumor that he
had gone to Italy to meet foreign
diplomats for the discussion Of peace
negotiations. The ambassador, how
ever, denied that his presence was in
any way connected with the interna-
tional situation. He explained that he
was seeking few days rest.
Villa and Zapata have agreed to
the neutrality Of Mexico City, but the
consent of Carranza 10 lacking.
A rate expert declares some Of the
railroads asking for rate increases are
already accumulating surplus.
The United States begins an investi-
cation into the death Of an American
on torpedoed British liner.
Ten thousand men returned to work
In the steel mills and factories Of Chi
cago Heights, a suburb of Chicago.
An anarchist on trial for placing
bombs in New York church declared
that detective forced him to do the
work and directed it.
A man arrested for vagrancy in San
Francisco had $4,000 in bills in his
pocket and proved himself to be the
owner of buildings worth 5000, 600.
The Russky Slovoe, of Petrograd,
prints note intimating that the Rus
sian government has been approached
through neutral channels with over
lures from Austria for a separate
peace without Germany's knowledge.
German prisoners of war in French
camps receive the same rations as
their French guards, with the excep-
tion Of a little less meat, and are in
good spirits and well satisfied with
their treatment. They all believe
Germany is bound to win.
Coast artillery companies at Fort
Winfield Scott, San Francisco, made
from 80 to 100 per cent at ranges Of
1000 yards, approximately four miles
A writer in the London Daily Mai
declares that dogs Of the German dasc
hund variety are being treated shame
fully In England, out Of pure prejudice
An Austrian steamer loaded will
arms and ammunition, on its way from
Semlin to Panosova, both ports on tn
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