The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-06-03
DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
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.
HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL

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forces.
Italians have brought heavy artillery |
to bear on the Austrian positions on
the frontier.
A department of Finance official
predicts that America will dominate
the finances of the world.
Torrential rains in Missouri, Kansas
and Oklahoma have seriously damaged
crops and demoralized traffic.
Scientists who have climbed the
crater of Mount Lassen declare the en-
tire aspect of the mountain is changed.
Urumiah, Persia, has been occupied
by the Russians after an engagement
with the Turks in the direction of Dill
man and near Bachkala.
Arizona senators ignore Bryan's
plea that Mexican murderers in that
state be reprieved for fear of reprisals
against Americans in Mexico.
British official reports say the losses
Of the Turks during the recent fighting
on the peninsula have proved to be
much heavier than were originally es-
timated.
Another British battleship, the Ma
jestic, was torpedoed by submarine
and sunk in the Dardanelles. Nearly
all her officers and crew of 800 or more
were saved. She was 20 years old.
The Illinois waterway bill, providing
for canal to connect the Lakes with
the Illinois river, and thus with the
Gulf of Mexico, is ready for the sigma
ture of Governor Dunno, who was the
originator of the bill.
A dispatch to the London Times
from its Mudros correspondent says
that 400 men of the crew of the Brit
ish battleship Triumph, which was
sunk Wednesday by submarine in the
Gulf of Saros, were saved.
The captain of the steamer Nebras-
kan, says he saw no submarine either
before or after his ship was struck
but he firmly believes it was torpedo
which injured her, while Germany de
clares her mines are harmless wheI
adrift.
. The kaiser has pardoned five nuns o
the convent at Roye, France, VIII
were convicted of having concealed
wounded French soldier in the conven
last December. When the soldier wa
convalescent they gave him women
clothes to wear and hid him success
fully for several weeks.
1t is said that King Alfonso, Q
Spain, has offered the Escorial Palac
to Pope Benedict as a residence in cas-
the Pontiff decides to leave Italy. tn
a Escorial Palace is part of the famor
a monastery of San Lorenzo, 81 mile
e northwest of Madrid. The monaster
L was built in the 10th century.
= Fifty German soldiers, passengers
a streetcar at Ostend, were killed by
bomb dropped from an allied aer
plane, according to a dispatch fro
> that city describing a series of a
. raids made by the allies aviators- III
:, railroad station, shipping in the harb
:. and numerous houses have been dar
\ aged.
d Italy places all blame on Austria f
going into the war.
German diplomats are busy tryil
=. to keep Roumania out of the war.
Id The Austro- Germans are report
Isl having captured 3d. Russians ne
= Przemysl.
The French are reported havi
taken another German trench after
id two weeks battle.
es Lord Kitchener still retains the p'
WI of Secretary of War in the new MAJ
over British cabinet.
South American business men are
, session at Washington, d. c., and
d needs and opportunities of their !
+ lions are laid before the business n
ID of the United States.
. Fifty persons were drowned wi
S. the Chilean steamer Maximiano III
L zuris struck a reef and sank near 5
" tiago, Chile. The Mazimiano Eli
. zuris was vessel of 1886 tons and
re. feet long. She was built in 1872
e; A Dayton, Ohio, girl is suing
OF Linn county, Oregon, man for SlO,'
Iese2 for breach of promise, which was
q. legged to have been contr acted by m
ne All property of the British-Ameri
v Tobacco company in Germany has b
placed under German supervision,
cording to the Berlin correspondent
the TELEGRAPH.
z Baker, Ore, gives reception to
come new Amer leans, which inclu
German, En- glishman, Scotchn
p Italian, Norwegian and a Swede,
dc of whom have sworn allegiance to
United States
Italians invade 66-mile front of
Austrians, besides the fleet dams
Nv two Austrian battleships.
Sc A Vancouver, Wash, man, while
livering a coffin, was thrown from
"dead wa gon'' and killed. w
passing a rural mail carrier the t
y became frightened when the la
. opened an umbrella
A Durham-Holstein COW beloni
to A. w. Stevens, of Haynes Ii
near Marshfeld, Or, gave brit
u- three calves last Satu rday, two m
and female, all lively and n
formed.