The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-12-24
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.

Great Britain now demands enlist
ment of her eligibles to full strength
Russians capture Bulgaria's CHIEF
seaport at Varna on the Black Sea-
The city lies in ruins.
One woman is killed in klamath
county, Oregon, and one man wounded
in fued over ownership of piece Of
property.
| The Northern hemisphere produced
In 1915 $500, 900, 900 bushels OF
wheat, an increase Of 1914 per cent
over 1914.
An Athens dispatch to Reuter- g
Telegram company says that British
submarine has sunk the German
steamer Leros and other craft in the
Sea of Marmora.
The nitro-glycerin plant of the Aetna
Powder company at Fayville, ILL.,, was
blown up when 5000 pounds of nitro
glycerin exploded. The explosion was
due to chemical reaction.
1t is announced from Teheran, that
the Russians have occupied the town
Of Kun, 80 miles southwest of Te-
heran, after great battle. The op-
posing force was completely defeated.
The National Tidende, of Copen-
hagen, prints statement of a Dane
from Constantinople that the Krupps
works outside Constantinople have
been destroyed by bombs dropped by
British airmen.
The attorney general of Illinois de-
mands grand jury investigation of
the death of the deformed child in a
Chicago hospital, which was permitted
to die when simple operation might
have saved its life.
The European nose fly, which at
tacks horses and cattle alike, has been
found to interfere seriously with farm
operations in the West. The depart
ment Of agriculture is planning to
stamp out the pest if possible.
The Ell Paso, Tex, police depart
ment receives report that 1000 Villa
troops have arrived in Juarez from the
south and that 5000 more were within
a short distance Of the town. It was
said General Villa was not with the
party.
A donation of $40, 1000 has been made
by Henry Ford to the Christiania Stu
dents society for new building. In
making the donation Mr.. Ford an
nounced that he believed the students
were doing much to promote world
peace.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation Of Labor, gave
considerable evidence before the grand
jury investigating the activities of the
Labor's National Peace Council in TO
menting strikes Of employees in muni-
tion plants.
According to figures announced in
London the number of casualties in
Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria and Wurtem-
burg up to November 80 were 1884,
ago. OF this number 484, 228 men
were killed or died Of their wounds,
354, 1893 were severely wounded, 27, 7,674
died of disease and 98l, 149 were miss
ing. Naval casualties were not in
cluded in these figures.
| A new president has been elected in
the republic of Switzerland.
| A great increase In demands for
wool Is predicted when the war ends.
Seattle police capture IA Cinnamon
being smuggled In from Vancouver, b.
C.
The state banks Of Washington in
crease their deposits $1,000, 900 over
1914.
Lack of vessels to export grain has
congested the Western elevators with
wheat.
, Alien employees OF the city Of Aber-
deem, WASH, will lose their jobs un-
less they become naturalized.
The plans for the Portland postoffice
are classic In design and provision foi
} enlarging the building is made.
The German government has adopt.
, ed resolutions providing for maximum
prices for sugar and by-products, rice
and vegetables, also foodstuffs fol
, livestock.
College students returning home
from Seattle to Spokane for the holi
days had fitted for them car in which
to dance.
!, The French government Is consider.
! ing the extension Of the moratorium
on all commercial obligations for tbs
term of the war.
Unless congress provides for so ol
Q 70 additional employees for the burea,
: of construction and repair of the Nav,
a department. the designing Of the ship
' included in the administration five
! year building program will be delayes
b six months or longer.
: Greece believes herself safe for tn
present, at least, from any incursiol
by the fighting forces Of Europe.
q The body of man missing nearI,
!. two years was found In trunk burie
n in the basement Of . building In Phils
4 delphia.
!, The Portland Market Mems associs
d tion, composed Of meat market pro
+ prietors and including all the lsrg
shops in the city, ia engaged in wa
+ to finish with the Meat Cutters un
g ion. The trouble was started by
/ strike over half hours time in tn
morning.