The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-09-10
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHf7'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

A dividend from Coeur d'Alene
mines amounting to $6,699,87 has
been declared.
Judge Willis S. Knowles, of Rhode
Island, is shot from ambush in his
home in that state.
Italy has declared cotton contraband
of war, Rome dispatch to the Havas
News Agency announces.
An earthquake in Central America
has detroyed Jutiapa. The city had a
population of about 10000.
Three jailbreakers at Pendleton,
Ore, were captured by the sheriff,
who was soon on their trail.
A British squadron bombarded all
the positions along the Belgian coast
as far as Ostend Wednesday.
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam,
superintendent of the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, has been removed.
Hundreds are in peril by floods in
Kansas because of torrential rains.
Many persons have taken refuge in
trees and on housetops.
General Funston has taken control
Of the border line in the entire Rio
Grande country because Of the raids
made there by the Mexican brigands.
Major General Goethals, builder of
the Panama canal, and who is visiting
Pacific Coast cities, was elaborately
entertained by the Panama-Pacific Off
cials.
M. Dumba, the Austro- Hungarian
ambassador in this country, has admit
ted melting strikes in munitions plants
and his conduct has caused anxiety
among diplomats both here and abroad.
VIM. M. Johnston, San Francisco
youth, has won the national tennis
championship from Maurice E. Nc
Loughlin, also of the same city. The
tournament was held at Forest Hills,
N. Y.
A dispatch from Berlin says: "The
autumn floods already have started all
along the Eastern front. The rivers
everywhere are overfowing their
banks and the German advance has
been checked"
An unskilled laborer with family
of FIVE, living in New York City, can
not maintain for his family standard
of living consistent with American
ideas on wage of less than $840
year, according to report of the bu-
reau of standards of the board of es-
Inmates.
According to British estimates, the
worlds wheat crop for 1915 will total
24S, $50, 900, 900 pounds, as against
production of 219, 120, 100000 pounds
produced in 1914. The same statistics
show an indicated surplus in exporting
countries of 636, 900, ,000,0 900 pounds,
leaving reserves at the end of the year
at the same total as at the beginning.
The British figures are given in ''quar-
ters" instead of pounds, one quarter
equaling 480 pounds.
The three-day regatta opens at AS
toria, Ore.
Dogwood trees near Vancouver,
Wash, are in bloom for the second
time this year.
Two Americans were killed by Mex
lean bandits who have been attempt
ing raids in Texas.
Germany offers to submit the Lusi-
tania and Arabic claims to The Hague
tribunal for adjustment.
The Portland Gas & Coke company
pays per cent on preferred and COM
mon stock for the year ending June 30.
The secretaries of war and navy
have been asked by the President to
outline adequate defense plans for the
nation.
The work of completing the O.-W.
R. & N. cutoff from Chambers Prairie
to Olympia, about 7.5 miles, will be
completed at once.
Eight Albanians were sentenced to
long terms in prison for having COM
municated with Austria by carrier
pigeons. The men involved are Cap
tain Mustapha, of the Albanian bark
Bella Scutarina, who was sentenced to
20 years, and seven members of his
crew, condemned to serve ten years
each.
A Portland, Or, druggist was ar
rested and confessed to robbing the
stand of blind cigar dealer and sell
ling the goods at his own store.
Germany is reported as ready to en-
tertain peace negotiations and will
yield Belgium. 1t is reported also that
the freedom of Poland and Finland will
be asked.
President Wilson went to theater
party Friday night for the first time
for more than q year. He was per
suaded to go as relaxation from the
work he has been doing recently or
foreign problems.