The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-05-21
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items From All Nations,
Pacific Northwest and Our Own
Commonwealth Condensed for
Our Many Busy Readers.

A new gold strike is reported from
Nome.
Heavy rains check battles in Flan-
ders and France.
Lord Kitchener asks England for
300, more men.
Shocks of slight earthquake in
East Portland are reported.
Charles M. Schwab, the "steel king"
of Pittsburg, pays Portland visit.
Spokane is visited by $3.50, 900
fire which burned a wholesale grocery
house.
At a conference of Western gov
ernors at Seattle strong plea is made
for stronger coast defense.
A Petrograd correspondent declares
a collapse of the Russian forces is
limited in bulletin issued in that city.
Wallace Bray, manager of the Ven
ice ball team, and known to the fans
as Happy Hogan" dies suddenly of
pneumonia.
It is reported that a ship hearing the
distress call of the Lusitania was not
permitted to go to her aid by German
submarines.
Probable entrance into the war by
Italy is said to be one of the causes of
delay of Germany answering the
American note.
Resignation of the veteran sailor,
Lord Fisher, has forced a crisis which
will result in the reorganization of the
British cabinet.
An entire German army corps is
moved from France to the frontier of
Russia and that country now looks to
the allies for aid.
Washington hears that German sub
marine warfare in the war zone is to
be abandoned until after Berlin replies
to the American note.
German and Austrian envoys in Italy
have packed their trunks and are or
dered to be ready to leave that country
on moments notice.
The British admiralty has checked
the English channel with mines so
numberous that a channel only one
third of mile wide is left.
A giant egg IA feet in diameter was
''hatched'' in the streets Of Eugene,
Oregon, and out of it marched I'll new
members of the Commercial club.
Atlantic fleet, five miles long, passes
before President Wilson in the annual
inspection parade in New York. The
fleet goes to sea for maneuvering pur-
poses.
Criminal records of $500 Portland
children, who were before the Juvenile
court, are destroyed by the outgoing
Judge Gatens, in order to give them a
clean start with the new judge.
The consistorial congregation at
Rome decides to submit for the ap-
proval of Pope Benedict the appoint
ment of Right Rev. Edward J. Hanna
as archbishop Of San Francisco.
Bride of two months of Hoquiam,
WASH, is instantly killed when thrown
from an automobile driven by her hus.
band, who swerved his machine tc
avoid striking speeding motorcycle.
The National Congress of Mothers is
in session at Portland.
Wenatchee, WASH, apples are sci.
lingiin Germany for So box.
Because of anti-German riots il
England, German subjects ask Ameri
can aid.
The italian cabinet has resigned al
a result of disagreement over the Eu
ropean war question.
Lightning strikes tree near Lebanon
Ore, and kills 20 goats that wert
seeking shelter there.
Baptists in session at Houston, Tex.
unanimously decide to support Presi
dent Wilson in the war crisis.
Austro-G Germans capture lab, 500 Rus
slams, SO cannon, 255 machine gun
in the recent battles in Galicia.
Portland, Ore, is sprinkling coal oi
on all nearby lakes, pools and ponds
in order to destroy the mosquito pest