The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-04-30
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
Germany is purchasing foodstuffs for
siege of four years duration.

Uermany lS purchasing IOOQSUulTS IOI
siege of four years duration.
David Warfield has appeared in the
play "The Auctioneer" for the 1400th
time.
Twenty-one jitney bus drivers in
Seattle are arrested for doing business
without having bonds.
Ex-president Taft is scheduled to
make several speeches in Oregon and
Washington early in the fall.
A plague of crickets is reported in
Grant county Washington, and much
damage to crops is the result.
One Of Villas major generals has
resigned, at the request of his mother,
and Joined the British forces.
A holdup man in Spokane, Wash,
kicks his victim on the leg and breaks
it.; secures So in cash and fees.
The commerce investigation in Chi
cago protests an increase of freight
rates on meats, which is proposed by
the railroads.
Theodore Roosevelt, who is being
sued for libel, admits on the stand that
he was on easy terms with New York s
political bosses.
All records for April heat are being
broken in the Eastern states, and in
some localities the thermometer regis
ters 81 degrees.
-Four masked men make raid of
Eastern Oregon ranch, killing 80 head
of sheep and destroying farm house
and barn by fire.
Prominent women of all nationalities
of Europe are in convention at The
Hague and are pleading for peace in
their respective countries.
Methodist ministers from many
states are meeting in Chicago for the
purpose of establishing 10000, 900
fund to be used for old age pensions
for members of the clergy.
1. OCotC DIOOhS, ulllllOIldrc Tedl
estate owner of Portland, plunges to
his death from second-story window
of his home. Business worries are
thought to have unbalanced his mind.
The Exchange Telegraph company's
Athens correspondent says the news
papers in that city report the Greek
couorproant hoe nano+;ofad x,;+b A,,,o,
lean capitalists for loan of $7,00O,-
900.
The allies are reported as having
landed large forces on both shores of
the Dardanelles straits, and are at
tacking the forts and positions of the
Turks who are defending the city of
Constantinople.
Signorina Ida Bonora, consort of
Mario Lambardi, died at 10:45 o'clock
Tuesday night in the Good Samaritan
hospital at Portland from the effect of
poison taken after Mr.. Lambardi's
death on April %.
Governor johnson, of California,
signed the Meek convict labor bill,
permitting prisoners of the state peni-
tentiaries to build state highways A
statement was issued by the governor
in which he said that apprehension
that free labor will be affected is
groundless.
Germans in Poland offer 10 roubles
each to Russians who will desert.
Europe's purchase of leather goods
is stimulating the hide industry.
The French government has decided
to adopt all children made orphans by
the war.
General Villa is reported to be gath
ering all available forces for final
crucial struggle against the Carranza
forces.
When Russians evacuate towns in
Poland they break all windows, so that
the Germans will find poor shelter
from the cold
A celebration was held at the San
Francisco exposition in commemora-
tion of the recovery from the earth
quake and fire.
Belgian prisoners in Prussia have
opened a regular university, many pro-
fessors being among them, who give
lectures regularly.
Both Russians and Austrians make
desperate attacks upon each others
positions in the Carpathians, all of
which are repulsed.
Two men were drowned in the Nc
Kenzie river near Eugene, Or, while
trying to lead some ca tile across the
river from rowboat..
Governor Lister, of Washington,
won his fight against the emergency
clause in the recent appropriation bills
passed by the Legislature of that state,
and thereby So, $50, 600 is made imme-
diately available for road building.
French airmen drop bombs in many
towns in the Black Forest country of
Germany, and many women and child
rem are reported killed or injured.
A call has been received by the New
York war relief clearing house from
France for artificial limbs for soldiers
wounded during the early stages of the
war.
The blockade of Germany by the al
lies is preventing the latter from OBJ
tanning many necessary drugs, which
are sent to the United States from
Germany and then purchased here by
the warning nations.