The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-09-17
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 Pro-Germen element in New
York is said will be invited to sub
scribe to the billion dollar loan sought
by the allies.
Threatening letters have been re-
ceived by the Angio-French financial
commission which is in this country
seeking large loan.
Washington will insist on the abso-
lutte recall of DR.. Dumba, the Hun
garia-Austria military attache, who
attempted to incite strikes in this
country.
Two bottles, believed to contain a
high explosive, were found on the
steamship Lapland, of the White Star
line, at her pier in the North river,
New York. The Lapland was to sail
for Liverpool.
In dispatch from Amsterdam Reu-
ter's correspondent says: "A tele-
gram from Ameland, Holland, says
that only three Of five Zeppelins which
Wednesday night sailed westward re-
turned Thursday, flying in an easterly
direction.
The British steamship Leonardo, the
first vessel to clear from this port for
VIadivostok by way of the Panama
canal, sailed Wednesday for the Siber-
ian port. Fifteen locomotives and
5000 tons of steel rails comprised the
cargo, valued at about $575, 900.
Following complaints by members Of
the Civic Improvement association,
spooning in the lobby Of the city hall
at Aberdeen, WASH, has been declared
a nuisance by the police. Hereafter
it will be prohibited. The lobby is
used for free reading and magazine
room.
Delegates to the convention of the
Master Horseshoers' National Protec-
tive Association, at Cleveland, O., de-
clared that the hard pavements used
on automobile roads was helping their
business. They say horse's shoes now
are wearing only one-fourth as long as
formerly.
Efforts of United States officials to
move the Mojave Indians from Need
les, CAL, to new reservation located
across the Colorado river at Parker,
Ariz., met with such opposition from
the Indians that the authorities had to
threaten to call United States troops.
The Indians are reported to be rest
less.
Since the beginning of the war 81
persons have been arrested by the
Swiss authorities on the charge Of be-
ing spies. The arrests, made in vari-
ous towns, were mostly of Austrians
and Germans. At Lausanne recently
three spies, their leader German,
were sentenced to a years imprison-
ment and to pay heavy fines.
Wong Doc King, a Chinese famous
in San Francisco as highbinder,
whom the immigration authorities fol
years have tried to expel from this
country, must go at last. The order
for his deportation was signed after
the case had hung undecided for many
months, with the Chinese using every
legal device to stay off the decision
More British gold, nearly five and
one-half millions of dollars in sove
reigns, has arrived here aboard tht
Oceanic liner Sonoma from Australian
bankers. Including this shipment thu
total of British money received here
from Australia and New Zealand since
June 80 approximates $40, 1000, 600
Early next month 5000, 600 more il
expected.
Lloyd-G George says British workmer
are not yet doing their best.
Raiding Zeppelins reached the hote
district in the heart Of London, killini
20 and doing much damage will
bombs.
A prize Berkshire hog raised by tn
Delaware College experimental farm
Newark, Del, known officially as Duk
of Sussex Sixth, was sold for $1,000 il
cash-the worlds record price for
registered porker-to C. H. Carter, o
Westchester. Pa.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Ex
change Telegraph company says: -
Zeppelin which left Brussels in tn