The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-07-28
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
uNNRsa HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHELL
Dgs News Items Of All Nations and
: Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

British hammer desperately Ut Ger
man third line. but make little prog
ross.
.Ths body Of tho lats Yuan shi Kal
was carried IN state and laid away
with hia ancestors.
Rewards Aggregating $4,000 are
aoifeFed for the perpetrator Of the Var
Wsanciscc bomb outrage.
= Men who conceived ths Idea OF sub
marine merchant ships are said q
shase made ~. 900. 900 out Of Il.
Hlx Brltlah trawlern were sunk BY
l0erman submarines OF the Engllsh
coast on July ~. says German adj
smiralty statement.
4 The Dutch steamship Maas has been
tsnnk near tho North Hinder light ~
Sths result Of striking . nina. Ten
Kmemberu Of the vessel's crew were
Sdrowned.
HsrRius Sasonoif. minister Of for
1slgn 'nlFairs Of Russia. has resigned.
siio Ii succeeded by Boris VladlmsFo-
witch Siurmer, the premier. who has
Ataken over the oiiice.
Chicago witnessed the hottest
weather 20 far this year when tho
thermometer reached eS at ii a m.
Monday. There were several pros.
tratlons but none was serious.
June records for postal savings In
lNew York City we're acllpsed last
smonsh whon q nes gain of moro than
ss, 800, 900 was rolled up. quadruplinR
tho set Increase for Juno. 1915.
Negotiations between the United
9tates ard Denmark for tho purchase
81 the Dnnish West Indies arc UNDER
stood 70 have reached stage whore
.defnlte developments may come soon.
Emperor william. Il ID officially an
nouneed. has moved from tho Western
10 the Eastern theRter Of tho war. He
was accompanied BY the chief Of tho
general ataif Of the army In the field.
Representative DIN protested 70 tho
secretary Of War against tho retention
Of the Washington National Guard at
Calcxieo, one Of the hottest spots q,
the border. He asked that the regi-
ment he transferred TO some more
comfortable station.
Under tho menace OF heavy Rus.
alan assault the Austrians In tho Carr
pathlans, In the region Of Bukowina,
southeast of Tatarowa. have with
drawn toward tho main ridge Of tho
CarpathIRna. This was officially ar-
nouneed by the Austrian war Office.
One 81 the oldest. II not the oldest,
man on the Pacific Coast died ut PEN
dleton,s Or. when AyouAhakataagom,
tho vsteran Cayuse Indian, passed on
10 tho happy hunting grounds. He
was roputed to be 100 years old. and
hib memory dated back 10 events which
happened during the war Of 1912.
Tho Idaho delegation win confer
with Secretary Lane and urge that one
Of three mining experiment etations
for which S76, 900 has been appr0pri-
ated, be established at Moscow, Idaho.
or Butte, Mont.
Instruction In military science 10 to
ba included In undergraduate instruc-
tion At Stanford University. Palo ALTO.
CAL, Of which David Starr Jordan. pa
cincistof international reputation. 10
now chancellor emeritus
Cjanada's consumption Of alcoholic
beverages dropped from .ST2 Of gal
lon per capita 10 .74B per capita In the
fiscal year just ended, according %
tho Inland Revenue department. The
consumption Of tobacco also shows q
falling on from S.427 pounds 20 S.829
pounds per capita.
The first official announcement that
Great Britain had captured German
submarine OF the U.S6 class was made
In the house Of commons by Thomas
heNamara, financial secretary Of the
admiralty. He said that one Of these
vessels would be brought 10 London TO
be viewed by tho public.
Twelve onergallon cans Of whisky.
nhipped In trunk a. baggage from
San Francisco to Portland. were seiHed
by city detectives following long hours
Of watchful waiting. Julius Randazzo.
a Spaniard, 10 under arrest, charged
with receiving consignment OF
liquor not properly labeled. /"
Californians deposited in their state
banks the fiscal year ending June 80,
$e7, 800, 1853 more than they did the
last fiscal year. while at the same time
the resources Of the state banks In
creased $ss. 9s5. ss2 over the last fiscal
year, according 10 the annual report Of
the stste bank superintendent.
The British steamer Adams. which
was captured on the Swedish coast BY |
q German destroyer, has been released,
according to Reuters Amsterdam cor
respondent. Sweden made an Official
protest 70 Berlin against the capture
Of the steamer, saying Il was effected
within Swedish territorial waters.