The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-02-05
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Reports have it that Serbia is to be
invaded again by large army of Aus
tro-Germans.
A German dynamites Canadian
railroad bridge and escapes to the
United States.
A London dispatch announces that
the Germans lost 5000 killed on q
Polish front less than mile long.
General Villa en- route to Tampico,
captures San Luis Potosi and is in full
possession of the city and vicinity.
The steamer Northland loses rudder
in storm off CALIFORNIA; coast, but was
taken in tow by the steamer Mann
Smith.
W. H. Hornibrook, editor Of the AL
bany, Ore, Daily Democrat, has been
appointed by President Wilson as
minister to Siam.
Victoria, B. c., film censors in the
last IL months barred 30 per cent Of
the pictures because there was used
too much Stars and Stripes.
An Indication of possible action by
Italy is to be found in a notification is
sued to Italian reservists in England
to prepare to join the colors.
A German statistician denies that
Germany can be starved out" in the
present war and declares the country's
granaries are stocked with abundance
Of cereals.
Reports reaching Holland say that
the new bread regulations in Germany
have caused SO much unrest that 12,-
900 special constables have been ap-
pointed to guard the bakeries in Berlin.
England notifies U. S. that ship.
ments of foodstuffs for Germany and
Austria will be considered as contra.
band and will confscate all cargoes
captured without compensation to the
shippers.
According to reports in circulation
at the Vatican, Great Britain, Ger.
many and Austria have answered
favorably Pope Benedict's proposal fol
an exchange of civil prisoners -wo.
men and children and men above the
age Of 55.
With the opening Of the British par
lament the political truce was re.
newed. The government, while as
suming all responsibility for the war,
welcomed the opposition's support and
the ministers announced that they
would reply readily to all criticism and
endeavor to avoid controversial mat.
ters.
Jitney-bus bandits, operating for the
first time in Seattle, Wash, kidnapped
two passengers from the downtown
districts, took them to lonely spot or
the boulevard near Lake Washington,
beat them, and, after stealing $8. so in
cash and two watches, left them te
find their way back to the city after
they recovered consciousness.
A conscience-stricken person sent
SIS to the Seattle office of the Unior
Pacific railroad, and the fund has beer
forwarded to the Portland headquar.
ters. Bills amounting to $15 were
pinned to the following note: "U. P.
R. R. Col have been in your debt
this amount since 1882" No explain.
alton whatever is given as to how the
company was defrauded, and the iden.
tity Of the ,remitter remains hidden.
A Portland highwayman said to bt
sixty years old, secured 40 cents from
a victim.
Carranza troops enter Mexico CITY
and with little resistance take charge
Of the government.
Germans are reported to be using ,
new shell containing a higher ex
plosive than heretofore known.
A Babylonian tablet, believed II
have been buried in the earth more
than 1000 years ago and containing th'
earliest law code, recently has beeI
unearthed and is now in possession O.
Yale University. The laws are writ
ten in the Sumerian language, the Ian
guage Of Southern Babylonia prior t,
its conquest by the Semites or Ac
cadians in the time of Hammarabi
Owing. to imperfect knowledge Of th'
language the work of deciphering i
axtremelv difficult. The laws tina