The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-01-29
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

unemployed in this country.
Russian submarines are reported to
have seriously damaged the German
cruiser Gazelle in the Baltic.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is to en-
tertain "Mother Jones" and ask her
advice about the labor question.
Germany officially assures the United
Safes that food cargoes to neutrals
will not be seized for military use.
A Portland policeman arrests him
self for failure to secure license for
his dog. His case was continued for
sentence.
A Spokane auto transfer man COM
mits suicide because he believed the
jitney busses would completely ruin
his business.
A Japanese peace society in New
York will investigate what causes the
friction between that country and the
United States.
Theodore Roosevelt, in a recent
speech, urges the national government
to start work on needed projects to aid
the unemployed Of the country.
A Portland policeman mistakes a
police sargeant for an automobile thief
and fires fatal shot. The bullet di-
verted from the rear tire and lodged
in the sargeant's brain.
A cook in a restaurant in Baker,
Ore., admits he set fire to the place by
agreement with his employer and was
promised half the insurance money.
The blaze destroyed half block of
business houses.
The American-Hawaiian freight ship
Washingtonian, collided with the
schooner Elizabeth Palmer near the
Delaware breakwater and sunk the
later. Only one of the two crews con-
sisting Of 81 men, was drowned.
A dispatch from Berlin says that the
hereditary prince Of Brunswick, whose
wife is the daughter Of Emperor Will
liam, is seriously i'll. The child has
been suffering from Inflammation Of
the ear and an operation was per-
formed recently. There is, however,
no cause for immediate anxiety.
II hereby bequeath my entire estate,
consisting of money in banks and prop
erty, to the children of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. E. Nichols, of Riddle, Or, with the
understanding that they are to care for
my dog-puppy as long as it lives" was
the essential part of will filed by
James Rice, of Riddle, in the Probate
court.
A chair made from pieces Of wood
sent to him by the governor Of each
state in the Union is to be shipped
from Red Bank, N. j., next week by
L. S. Chasey for exhibition at the
Panama-Pacifc exposition. The ex-
hibit, which will be known as the gov
ernors' chair, is of rustic design, each
piece of wood being in its natural state
and on each is silver plate on which
is inscribed the name of the governor
who gave it. Each state exhibit will
have the use of the chair one day,
after which it will be on exhibition in
the New Jersey section.
Martial law has been lifted at Cop
perfeld, Ore.
King George will maintain only the
formal court social functions.
After so years of courtship, an Ore
gon couple were welded at Vancouver,
Wash.
Oregon state senate votes Is to 10
for the abolishment of the state naval
militia.
Germans make decisive victory at
the battle Of Scissors, which began
January 9Th.
Berlin hints that America, by ex-
porting munitions Of war, is prolong-
ing the conflict.
William D. Scott, general manager
of the North Bank railroad, dies at his
home in Portland.
German soldiers are charged with
circulating forged entreaty for peace
among the Russian troops.
Jitney bus company finds that indi-
vidual auto owners are competing for
traffic business in Portland, Ore.
The remaining eight members Of
the Stefansson Arctic exploring party
are thought to have perished months
ago.
Mayor Mitchell, Of New York, and
Mayor Rolph, of San Francisco, will
talk on the telephone next Monday
over direct wire between the two
cities. This will be the first telephone
conversation across the continent ever
held, except between officials Of the
telephone company who have been
testing the wire for the last month.
Earth tremblings are still being re
ported in Italy.
A passenger arriving at Arnham
from Germany asserts that allied air
men Friday threw bombs upon the
town Of Essen, destroying number Of
houses. Essen Is the home of the
famous Krupp steel works.
Russian Consul Dogoravlensky an
nounces that the Russian government
has awarded contract for $4,000 rail-
road cars to Seattle firm, and says
that this order is only the beginning Of
business between the Russian govern
ment and the Pacific Northwest.