The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-01-21
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Italy.
A French senator advises parliament
to be quiet while France is invaded by
an enemy.
Twenty Thousand persons, including
many notables, were killed in the
earthquake in Italy
The American branch of the Red
Cross is asking help to aid the Italian
earthquake sufferers.
Five governments are in the Chi
cago wheat pit buying heavily, to-
gether with many foreign individuals.
Eighteen Russian generals have
been discharged from important posi-
tions, according to the Hamburg Frem-
demblatt.
A resolution was offered in congress
asking the secretary of war for in
formation as to the strength of coast
defense guns.
Gov. Blease, of South Carolina, who
resigned near the end of his term, has
pardoned and paroled 1460 convicts,
besides disbanding the state militia.
An aged pipe smoker in San Fran
cisco was killed when he fell on his
face. The long stem punctured the
roof of his mouth and entered the
brain.
The battleship Kansas sustained
damage in the big storm off the Vir-
ginia coast, which it will require two
weeks to repair, it was reported on the
warship's arrival in Hampton Roads.
British aviators early in the week
dropped bombs on the German posi-.
tions in Antwerp, according to Meth
erlands newspaper dispatch. The
damage done by the bombs has moi
been ascertained.
Geneva reports that numbers of the
Austrian nobility and aristocracy anC
Viennese fnanciers are depositinf
large sums of money in Switzerland
and are giving orders for the purchas,
of quantities of American securities.
Representative Sinnott, of Oregon
in the house, severely criticised tn
Democratic leaders for resorting t,
legislative trickery to kill the Oregon
apple box bill, which but for thei
activities probably would have beer
passed before adjournment.
Secretary Daniels wrote to littl
boy and girl of Corvallis, Or, tellin
them he was sorry he could not gran
their request that the school childre
of Oregon be permitted to make tn
voyage through the Panama Canal o
the famous battleship bearing thei
states name.
Through the solicitude of mother
seem to be getting more marmalad
. and jam than they can consume; tn
consequence is that many peasar
woman behind the lines has had he
larder supplied with a quantity {
sweetmeats that will last her for year.
: General Carranza has added to hi
program of reform the granting of al
solute divorce. Any judge in Mexico
if he cares to take the chance of Ca
ranza's reseating himself at Chapult,
pec-may now annul marriage col
tract. The law became effective {
: New Years day. Mexico has herett
fore never granted more than leg
separation. The new law not only pr,
vides for divorce with the right to r
4 marry, but makes the dissolution
: the union so simple that the me-
i agreement of man and wife to bres
+ their marital contract is sufficient.
The German and French accounts
the fighting on the Western fro
e agree in declaring there has been
d desperate battle near Scissors. III
issue is not wholly decided, but Il
, Germans are believed TO have gain
:. ground northeast of the town, viii
the French wholly failed to ma
progress. The French are now d
scribed as taking up new positions
/ the south bank of the Aisne. Ell
: peror William in person directed t
o battle on the plain of Vregny.
spired by his presence, the Germ
troops cleared this important elevat
: position of the enemy.
The state prohibition contest has
ready begun in the Washington leg
lature.
German authorities declare the ]
ports of atrocities by German soldis
are pure fabrications.
Eighty citizens of Terre Haul
Ind, have pleaded guilty to corrupt
the ballot in the last election.
East st. Louis, ILL.,, reports Il
Italian army officers areiin that vic
ity buying cavalry horses by the tho
sands.
Letters received in Montreal fir
the West Indies declare the Germ
cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk in bait
It is declared that Servia will !
now be satisfied with anything l
than complete possession Of Herze
: vina and Dalmatia.
The house, by vote of 204 to l
> refused to submit to the states a c
! stitutional amendment for the enfr
4 chisement of women,
; A fierce snow, wind and rain ste
: swept the Atlantic states, killing I
1 injuring several people and doing or
Y damage to property.
( Turks deny being routed by the R
a SLAMS, but the latter say that eve
v Turkish general sent to investigate
: defeat was also canturad