The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-10-06
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OF CURRENT WEEK
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.

30l UuI BUSY KeddelS.
Statistics show the number of auto
mobile accidents is decreasing steadi
ly as compared with the number oi
machines In use.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, CHIEF
of the general staff, celebrated his
69th birthday at headquarters on the
eastern front Wednesday.
Imitation pearls have become an i'm
portant article of manufacture recent
ly in Barcelona, Spain. During 1916
they were manufactured there to the
value Of over $1,000, as against $4,000
In 1914.
In their latest raid on Bucharest
says the Times Bucharest correspond
ent, the German. aeroplanes dropped
proclamations declaring that the city
will be laid in ruins soon, unless Rou
mania hastens to make separate
peace.
Roumanian troops have gained q
footing on the right bank of the Dan
ube river south Of Bucharest, says
the official statement issued by Ger
man general headquarters concerning
the fighting in Pennsylvania and Do
brudja.
According to statistics for the year
1915, the population of Russia has In
creased more than 53,000,000, or AZ
per cent, since 1897. 1t increased
more than 3,S00,000, or more than 2
per cent, since 1914. The total popu-
lation is set down as 1S2,1S2,6O0.
q The first case of infantile paralysis
in six years in Walla Walla, Wash
was reported Wednesday, the 3-year
old child of c. G. Eubanks being III
with the disease. The case is NOT
serious, and physicians are taking ev
cry precaution to prevent spread .oi
the contagion.
y The rebellion in the Dutch East In
dies Is being quelled, according to
official dispatch received by the gov
eminent. The rebels In the district
near Mocaratebi have surrendered
Three brigades Of infantry inflicted
serious losses on q rebel force near
zemabce on September rs.
Early winter, predicted by Indians
and birds, arrived in Baker, Or, at II
o'clock Tuesday night, when snow fell
In the city's streets. Little more than
trace fell in the city, but the snow
! in the hills was heavy. 1t is the earli-
est snow in two years. No damage
was done to crops, practically all be-
ing harvested.
The American Association Of Wool,
en- and Worsted Manufacturers tele-
graphed the department Of commerce
protesting against the holding up OF
the census report on dyestuffs. Sec
retary Redfield replied that the report
was being withheld temporarily to af-
ford proper privacy to transactions OF
dye importers.
Mason D. Hill, aged "a, of Port
Townsend, Wash, the oldest Oddfel-
low In the world in years as well as
In membership, received 70-year jew
el from his associates, the presenta-
ton being made by H. G. Merritt,
grand master of Oddfellows Of Wash
ington. Mr.. Hill is the first Oddfellow
to be entitled to such jewel.
{ More than 1000 students registered
for evening school work at IL public
schools which opened for classes In
Portland Wednesday night. With the
exception of three schools, all are well
up to the average in attendance, and,
according to John G. Veatch, supervis-
or, substantial increase is expected.
Nearly every nation was represented
in the registrations.
simultaneously with the announce
-r1ent that 10000 employees of the
Wholesale Clothiers' Association of
Chicago would receive a reduction in
working hours without loss of pay, a
voluntary wage increase of ~ cents
an hour for employees Of the operating
department all over the United States
was announced by Wilson G Co., Ar
mour & Co., Swift & Co., Libby, Nc
Neil & Co., and Morris & Co. The
increases granted by the packers will
affect 10000 men, while about 10000
will be benefited by the reduction of
hours In the clothing trades from go
to 4S. To the packers the increase
will mean an additional payroll Of $4.-
100000 a year. The action Of both
garment makers and packers was vol
untary, it was announced. In neither
case was there threat of labor diff
culties.
King Constantine of Greece is ready
to declare war on Bulgaria.
Pendleton, Or. whei market is
practically ut standstill on account
Of the shortage Of carse
Work progresses rapidly on the Ore
Washington interstate bridge, and
the opening In the near future seems
certain.
The American Bankers Association
ia alarmed over the report that live
stock production is not keeping pace
with the demand.
The threatened sympathetic strike
of New York unions to aid the street
car men did not materialize as sched-
uled, Dut leaders assert tnat many
thousands have quietly quit their jobs.
German aviators again dropped a
great number of bombs on Bucharest,
according to German official state
ment. This adds that several points
of the Roumanian capital "are still
burning as the result of our previous
attack"