The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-28
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.
British hammer desperately at Ger
man third line, but make little prog

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with his ancestors.
Rewards aggregating $14, 900 are
offered for the perpetrator of the San
Francisco bomb outrage.
Men who conceived the idea OF sub
marine merchant ships are said to
have made So, 600, 900 out Of it.
Six British trawlers were sunk by
German submarines off the Englisn
coast on July II, says German ad-
miralty statement.
The Dutch steamship Mas has been
sunk near the North Hinder light as
the result Of striking a mine. Ten
members Of the vessels crew were
drowned.
Sergius Sazonoff, minister OF for
eign affairs Of Russia, has resigned.
He is succeeded by Boris Vladimiro-
witch Sturmer, the premier, who has
taken over the Office.
Chicago witnessed the hottest
weather SO far this year when the
Thermometer reached SO at IL a. m.
Monday. There were several pros
trations but none was serious.
June records for postal savings in
New York City were eclipsed last
month when a net gain of more than
$500, 900 was rolled up, quadrupling
the net increase for June, 1915.
Negotiations between the United
States and Denmark for the purchase
Of the Danish West Indies are under
: stood to have reached stage where
definite developments may come soon
Emperor William, it is officially an
nounced. has moved from the Western
to the Eastern theater of the war. ID
was accompanied by the chief OF tn
general staff Of the army in the field
Representative Dill protested to tn
secretary of War against the retentio
of the Washington National Guard Q
Calexico, one of the hottest spots o
the border. He asked that the reg
ment be transferred to some NOR
comfortable station.
Under the menace of heavy Rul
sian assault the Austrians in the Cal
pathians, in the region Of Bukowin.
southeast of Tatarowa, have Will
drawn toward the main ridge OF u
Carpatbians, This was officially al
nounced by the Austrian war office.
One. Of the oldest, if not the oldes
man on the Pacific Coast died at re-
dleton. Or, when Ayoushakatsagor
the veteran Cayuse Indian, passed
to the happy hunting grounds. !
was reputed to be 120 years old, q
his memory dated back to events whl
happened during the war of 1872.
The Idaho delegation will conf
with Secretary Lane and urge that 0
of three mining experiment static
for which S75, 600 has been approp
ated, be established at Moscow, ldaf
or Butte, Mont. -
instruction in military science is
be included in undergraduate instr
tion at Stanford University, Palo AL
Cal. Of which David Starr Jordan,
cificist Of international reputation,
now chancellor emeritus
Canada's consumption OF alcone
beverages dropped from .S72 Of 6
Ion per, capita to. .745 per capita in
fiscal year just ended, according
the Inland Revenue department.
consumption of tobacco also show
falling off from 3.427 pounds to g..
pounds per capita.
The first official announcement :
Great Britain had captured Germ
snbmarine of the U-35 class was m
in the house of commons by Thol
McNamara, financial secretary OF
admiralty. He said that one OF II
vessels would be brought to Londol
be viewed by the public.
Twelve gallon cans OF .whs
stunned in a trunk as baggage I
San Francisco to Portland, were Sc
by city detectives following long b
Of watchful waiting. julius Randa
a Spaniard, is under arrest, cha
with receiving consignment
liquor not properly labeled"
Californians deposited in their
banks the fiscal year ending June
s97, 1896, 1863 more than they nc
last fiscal year, while at the same
the resources of the state bank
creased sS8, 985, 1872 over the last
year, according to the annual repo
the state bank superintendent.
The British steamer Adams, y
was captured off the Swedish Goa
German destroyer, has been reie
according to Reuters Amsterdam
respondent. Sweden made an Of
protest to Berlin against the ca
Of the steamer, saying it was EN-
within Swedish territorial waters