The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-03-31
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Hens Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Columbus, Ohio, residents are fleeing
the lowlands because of the high water
in the Scioto.
The rainfall at Portland for March
reached 1921 inches, 1.85 inches less
than March, 1878, the highest figure
on record.
Villa is fleeing southwark hoping
to reach the Sierras, where, it is
claimed, it will take many months to
capture him.
Failure of senate Republicans to
take any action at conference on the
Mexican situation leaves the admins
tration unhampered in dealing with
the problem.
The senate bill designed to increase
the number of cadets at West Point
was ordered favorably reported by the
house military committee, with a few
minor changes.
Turkey has informed the United
States it was not a submarine of the
Ottoman government which sank the
liner Persia in the Mediterranean last
winter with loss Of American life.
The British infantry storms and
take the first and second line German
trenches along front of 600 yards at
st. Eloi. The British official COM
munication gives this information.
R. G. Stoddard, of Vancouver, B. G.,
and two other passengers were seri-
ously injured when the Wolverine
Flyer, on the Michigan Central rail-
way, jumped the track near Kalama-
ZOO, Mich.
The British steamer Manchester En-
gineer, from Philadelphia March IL
for Manchester, has been sunk, accord
ing to information received by Lloyds.
The members of the crew were taken
aboard tug.
Miss Catherine Prehm, editor and
publisher Of the Merrill, Ore, Record,
was arrested in Klamath Falls on a
charge Of disturbing the peace by at
tempting to horsewhip George Brad
mack, editor and publisher of the Mer-
rill Times.
Twelve men at Kelly's Butte, a
workhouse for Portland prisoners, es-
capped by saving the bars of cell.
The exit was only Z inches square.
therefore large number of heavy
weight prisoners were detained. The
break was not discovered until day.
light.
The most sensational Of the Mann
act cases in Chicago since the passage
of that law, involving William Rufus
Edwards, wealthy st. Paul lumber
man, as defendant and Miss Ada Cox
as complaining witness, was begun be-
fore United States District Judge An
derson.
The literacy test, barring, with
few exceptions, all aliens over 16 years
old, physically capable of reading, who
cannot read the English language or
some other language or dialect, was
approved by the house working as the
committee of the whole, by a vote of
225 to 50. This presaged the passage
of the bill by an overwhelming major
ity despite the record of Presidential
vetoes of several similar measures on
account of the literacy test.
Villa is reported to have held up a
train and searched it for Americans,
but found none.
One of the American columns pene-
trated so miles into Mexico before it
was discovered by the natives.
Congress avoids any unnecessary
discussion of the Mexican question,
but is ready to authorize war measures
at moments notice.
A dispatch to the Balkan agency
from Bucharest says the chief clerk of
the American legation at Sofia is re-
ported to have been arrested by the
Bulgarian authorities, accused of CIV
ing present to an empioye for using
greater haste than ordinary in issuing
passports.
Men of the Hungarian landsturm
born in 1868 and 1869 and also the
men belonging to the classes of 1865
and 1897, who hitherto have been en-
ployed in making war materials, now
are dismissed from this service and
ordered to join the army on April 5,
according to Reuter- dispatch.
Yuan Shi Kai renounces the throne
of China and proclaims the restoration
of the republic, but his opponents say
the change is too late to save him.
Instructions to recruit the IL Ma
tional Guard companies of Arizona to
war strength Immediately were trans
mitted to the company commanders by
order of the War department.
An army aviator was found by q
wagon train after being lost in the
Mexican desert fer 48 hours. He re-
paired his leaking tank, received a
supply Of gasoline and was soon on his
way.