The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-10-08
Brief Resume Of General News
from All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPpHIEGS N A NUTCHB'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

The allies are making fierce fight
for the second German line In the West
The Southern Pacific Is sending 40t
cars TO various numbering points II
Oregon In response TO demands.
Another slide has blocked the Pana,
ma canal and the opening Of the ditch
win be delayed until October 10.
Nearly three sdSe persons lost thsil
lives IN q hurricane which also causet
immense property damage ct New Or
leans.
william Steele, aged 81. and Mrs
Arleta Golden, aged 78, obtained
marriage license and were married n
Salem. Or.
A catch Of 1853 waIruses Is reportet
BY the steamer Ccrwin. The hides ars
in great demand Ii Eastern ammuni.
tion factories for Furnishing shrapnel
cases.
Saskatchewan, Canada, farmers wcr
iirst and second prizes In competition
for the best bushel Of wheat at the
International Soil PRODUCTS Exposition
Mt Denver.
A Portland, Oregon. man, in 9 fit oi
laughter, dislodged his false teeth and
the artificial mastieators lodged in his
throat. II required . physician 70 re
move the molars.
Three liners have been added to the
fleet Of tho Togo Kisen Kaisha Steam
ship company and viii be put into tbs
trans Pacific trade between Pacific
Coast points and the Orient.
A heavy hail sssgm practically ruin
ed the winter apple crop in the yicin-
ity Of Roswell, N. M. The damage Il
estimated at 5000, 900. Packing wa
to have begun soon In the larger orch.
ards.
The inclusion OF the Missouri. Kan.
sas & Texas railroad. which recently
went into n receivership. makes the
mileage Of railways in the United
States In the hands Of receivers greater
than ever before.
A semi-oiiicial dispatch received ai
Amsterdam from Berlin says all the
subscriptions to the third German wal
loan, which amounted to IL, 900. 000,-
900 marks ls3, 900. 900. 000). represent
new money. No conversions are In
cluded.
The London Morning Posts Berne
correspondent says he learns from
Munich that 7. st. John Gaffney. the
American consul general in Munich,
after conferring with Sir Roger Case
ment, has decided to resign and go or
lecture tour in the United States or
behalf Of Germany.
Coreans in Hawaii are training with
wooden guns, In the hope Of being
able 10 free Ccrea from Japan, accord
ing 10 Miss Sadie e. Barrett, mis-
sionary to Hawaii. who addressed tbs
National Convention Of the Women'f
Home Missionary Society Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church In Seattle.
Germany declares she sees the goal
Of her ambitions.
The British admiralty has loaned q
number Of submarines to the Russians.
United States sends artillery tc
Mexican border to repel further raids
Of bandits.
The Washington government has
made final request that pr. Dumbs
be recalled.
BY the viii of John G. Watmough.
Of Philadelphia, his hired girl falls
heir to 500, 600. e
A Walla Walla, WASH, girl takes
dose Of poison for headache, in dark,
which proves fatal.
For the first time in history. Chinese
shipbuilders are competitors of the
European yards. A steamship COM
pany Of Drammen has ordered three
steamers to be delivered in Copen.
hagen in 1915 and 1917. The placing
Of this order in China Is due to ths
unusual pressure in the home yards.
The Munich Post, according to the
Overseas News Agency, has received q
report from Switzerland that Pops
Benedict is preparing circular letter
TO the belligerents asking for gem
eral truce ON All Souls day. The Pom
tiff asked that the truce be dedicated
to the memory of the soldiers who
have perished in the war.
Society women In Paris have en-
listed In the var and are driving army
ambulances, using their own cars.
The big loan to Britain and France.
which was negotiated In this country,
has been made, however. the amount
is $500, 000, 900. instead Of one billion,
as first stated.
John Muir's famous clock, which, in
addition to keeping time, awoke him n
the morning By tipping his bed, will
become the property Of the University
Of wisconsin at the close Of the Pan
ama-PaciIic Exposition. Mcir invent
ed the clock many years ago.