The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-03-26
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

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Italy is fortifying the Islands Of tn,
White Sea with heavy. guns and it il
said steamers are taking munitions O.
war there.
Fifty-six bodies have been recovered
from the avalanche at the Britanni,
mine in British Columbia. No hope
of recovering many others is enter
tained.
Many passengers and crew of 6t
were rescued from the sinking steamer
Denver in mid-ocean, through the ait
of the wireless.
1t is reported that the Washington
government will seize the German
steamer Odenwald which is at New.
port News for repairs.
The Prussian diet has given permis.
sion to English subjects residing ir
Germany to appear as plaintiffs in
cases before the court.
Sir Thomas Upton declares that the
only hope Of eliminating the plague in
Serbia is by fire, such as was done in
London many years ago.
Bombsrdment s'of the forts of the
Dardanelles is again begun by the
allies, and Constantinople fears they
will eventually be beaten.
Riots in Constantinople are reported
untre and the city is calm. The allied
fleet is proceeding slowly up the OAR
danelles to the Turkish seat of gov
ernment.
An American warship will carry
1925, 900 in currency to Yucatan to aid
in harvesting the sisal crop, which is
used in making most of the United
States binding twine.
Later reports concerning the cap
ture of Przemysl by the Russians in
clude 119, 900 men, 2400 guns, 1000 of
which were heavy cannon. Many are
reported to have gone insane from
want.
Seventeen Belgians, most Of whom
were young peasants, were shot at
daybreak Wednesday in the Client
barracks. They were found guilty by
a German court-martial of espionage
in the interest of the allies" says
dispatch.
The German emperor has ordered the
removal to Berlin of valuable paint
ings and tapestries from his mountain
castle known as the Leatkoenigsberg,
on the Alsatian side of the Vosges
mountains. French aviators recently
flew over the imperial summer resi-
dence, which fmormerly belonged to a
king of France.
Governor Spry of Utah has vetoed
the Shields initiative and referendum
bill. He gives as his reasons that the
initiative is unnecessary at this time,
as the people of the state may petition
the legislature if they wish; that the
expense of its operation will be dis
proportionate to the benefits to be de-
rived and that the constitutionality of
the measure is questionable.
Jitney buses in San Francisco now
give transfers to the municipal street
cars.
Germany is reported to be building
two railways to the frontier of Alsace-
Lorraine.
1t is reported that the Russians have
pillaged and destroyed $4,000 homes in
East Prussia
One of Washington's largest shingle
mills, located at Centralia, has re-
opened since shutting down the first Of
the year.
Numerous plaques and diseases prev
alent in Serbia are reported to be dew
astating a large percentage Of the
population.
1t is estimated by Alice Clement and
Mary Riley, policewomen of Chicago,
that one woman in each twenty in that
city smoke cigarettes.
Governor Spry, Of Utah, vetoes pro-
hibition bill passed by the legislature,
declaring that the saloon is simply
transferred to the drug store.
Another British steamer, the Glen
artney, from Bangkok for London
loaded with rice, has been torpedoed
by German submarine off Beachy
Head in the English Channel. Only
one of the crew was drowned.
Mine-laying drills by the troops at
Fort Stevens, Oregon, were COM
menced this week under the direction
Of the officers on board the steamer
Major Ringgold. The drills are being
held in the night, short distance be-
low the government wharf. The prac-
tice will be continued until the open
ing Of the fishing season on May J..
City Of Portland has just completed
municipal barn of the most modern
type. The horses will have sanitary
stalls, washroom and hospital.
Protesting against the action of the
board of regents of the University OF
Utah, in dismissing four teachers. IA
other professors have resigned.
Testifying before the american