The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-01-22
news OF THE week
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout the World.

Yarmouth. Eng, is visited by Ger
man airmen. who demolish Who'll
buildings. killing two persons.
Lieutenant General Freiherr vol
ompteda, Of the German army. ha
been killed in the western arena at tn,
head. of his brigade.
Reports convey news that Genera
Villa with his troops, win evacuat'
Mexico City. and will go 10 Northern
states TO strengthen his forces.
England hauls down Stars ant
Stripes from an American ship which
Is detained by that country, and in ia
stead raised the British emblem.
| The house Of representatives has
adopted all the Oregon and Washington
items in the rivers and harbors bill
without discussion and without amend
ment
Republican leaders in the senate
have attacked President Wilson's ship
purchase measure, but the President
feels confident it win pass before
March 4.
Lumbermen of Oregon have secured
orders for 10000. 600 feet Of lumber
and structural material to be shipped
to the United Kingdom between March
l and June 80.
Lighting fire with a can Of gaso-
line resulted in an explosion which
probably will prove fatal to Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Backus, of Ysquina,
Or. The can exploded in Mrs. Backus'
hands, throwing the flames over both.
Mrs. o. R. Meye, IS years old. of
Colfax. Wash, was killed accidentally
by her 9-year-old son at their ranch
home near Hay, in Western Whitman
county. The boy had been sent to the
house for the shotgun by his father.
and upon leaving the house the gun
was accidentally discharged.
Portugal is reported in q singular
situation in reference to the great war.
German forces have invaded Portu-
guese Angola and fighting has been
going on there between German and
Portuguese forces for several months.
Yet Germany has not declared war on
Portugal, the German minister remains
in Lisbon and the Portuguese in Berlin.
German aircraft made long-threat-
ened raids on England Tuesday night
and attempted with bombs to blow
up the kings royal residence in Sand
ringham, county Norfolk. King
George and Queen Mary, who had been
staying at Sandringham with their
family, returned to London only Mon
day to resume their residence in Buck
ingham palace.
The 500, 900, 900 gold pool organized
to meet American obligations abroad
shortly after the outbreak Of the Euro
pean war will be abandoned because
bankers believe the necessity for it
has passed. Bankers back Of the pool
have communicated this decision to
the Federal Reserve board, whose
sanction for the undertaking was
asked and granted before the plans
were comlpeted.
1t is reported that there is consider
able dissention in the German cabinet.
A French senator advises parliament
to be quiet while France is invaded by
an enemy.
Twenty Thousand persons, including
many notables, we're killed in the
earthquake in Italy.
The American branch of the Red
Cross is asking help to aid the Italian
earthquake sufferers.
Five governments are in the Chi
cago wheat pit buying heavily, to-
gether with many foreign individuals.
Eighteen Russian generals have
been discharged from important posi-
tions, according to the Hamburg Frem-
demblatt.
A resolution was offered in congress
asking the secretary of war for in
as to the strength Of coast
defense guns.
Gov. Blease, of South Carolina, who
resigned near the end of his term, has
pardoned and paroled 1460 convicts,
besides disbanding the state militia.
An aged pipe smoker in San Fran
cisco was killed when he fell on his
lace. The long stem punctured the
,oof of his mouth and entered the
1rain. /
The battIeship Kansas sustained
iamage in the big storm off the Vir-
yinia coast, which it will require two
weeks to repair, it was reported on the ,
arrival in Hampton Roads.
The German and French accounts of
he fighting on the Western front
agree in declaring there has been
desperate battle near SCISSORS. The /!
ssue is not wholly decided, but the
Germans are believed TO have gained
yround northeast of the town, while
he French wholly failed to make
progress. The French are now de- I
Icribed as taking up new positions on 6
he south bank of the Aisne. EN- G
,eror William in person directed the '
,attle on the plain of Vregny. In I
Ipired by his presence, the German q
roops cleared this important elevated d
,osition of the enemy. Y
General Carranza has added to his /
of reform the granting Of alb /
olute divorce. Amy judge in Mexico Q
I he cares to take the chance of Car
anza's reseating himself at Chapulte-
,ec--may now annul marriage con-
ract. The law became effective on