The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-07-21
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
uEyBSn HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHELL
Live News Items Of An Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Tho allies continue 20 make BIZ
gains against the central powers on al
sidea.
The senate naval program includes
10 capital battleships within thres
years.
Wilson postpones date Of notification
ceremonies until after congreas 3D.
jeurna.
Columbia river basin realty msu
held meet nt Portland and declare
against the shark. T"
Three persons IN an auto on their
way 70 q circus In lows. run through .
bridge railing and are drowned.
The BritIah government publishes q
lIst Of from 10 10 80 firms In the Unit
"a States with whom residents Of tho
United Kingdom are forbidden 70
trade.
-Four persons were killed by the In.
tenna heat which amotheFed Chicago
Tuesday, another was killed by light
ming. and thFce. seeking relief In tho
lake. were drowned.
In Volhynla. IN tho region Of Lutak,
where tho troops Of the Teutonie allies
have been forced 70 give ground before
the attacks Of the Russians ard retire
behind the Lover Llpa river. tho Rus.
alnns continue 70 press their foes and
are taking additional prisoners.
General CIprlAno Castro. sx-presl-
dent Of vsnexusla. and his wife. who
arrived In New York Saturday from
Port Of Spain. Trinidad. on the steam.
ship vauhan. have been ordered do
ported from the United States BY .
apscIal board al Inquiry at the Ellia
Island Immigration station.
The new HaTahan bridge spanning
tho MisslssIppi river at Memphis. said
TO- be the longeat structure on the
river. was opened 10 traffic this week.
II cost SO, 900, 900. including ap-
pruachea the bridge 10 three miles
long tho bridge proper being 2600 feet.
Construction was started In June. 1918.
The epidemic Of infantlls paralysis
IN New York has been checked, In the
opinion Of Health Commissioner Emor.
aon, who issued . statement In which
he aaId tho diminution In the number
Of new cases ard deaths indicated that
tho health authorities are reaching the
cases earlier and are finding way 70
control them.
william Boutwell,. fcrmer Seattle
City Controller. and recently special
oiIicer on tho waterfront, was killed,
and w. w. Morris and G. v. Harvey,
members Of the prohibition enforce
rnent aquad Of tho Seattle police force,
were aoriouaiy wounded In q pistol
dght which resulted from raid on the
Ferguson Bar. IN the Ferguson Hotel.
Monday.
The captain Of tho German subma-
rino freightar says German freight
carrying Zsppelins win soon visit
America.
Wars Increase Of food priees In Eu-
rope, as shown by the bureau Of labor
statistics, has touched neutrals almost
a. heavily 40 II has the belligerenta.
A corporation win be organised BY q
group Of American bankers. headed BY
). p. Morgan II Co, and Brown Broth
ers a Co, 10 lend 500. 900. 900 TO the
French government.
William thinner. aged IL years, waa
arrested in New Orleans, charged with
killing his mother. The boy, accord
sng 10 the police, said he shot his
mother because she threatened to beat
him when he returned home after an
unsuccessful search for work.
The engagement IL announced OF
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, widow OF
the late British statesman. and the
Rev. William Hartley Carnegie. rector
Of st. Margaret, and canon OF West
Before her marriage. Mrs.
Chamberlain was Miss Mary Endicctt.
Of Massachusetts.
The Socialist newspaper. Tribune.
Of Amsterdam, asserts that bb, 600
workmen employed in the munition
factories and electrical works In Ber-
lin and IN an serodrome at Johanisthal
have gone on strike as q protest
against the prison sentence imposed on
Or. Karl Liebknecht, Socialist leader,
for participation IN the May Day dem
1t Berlin.
A boy Of 10 was killed and two girl
injured at Portland when
their coaster wagon ran into motor
truck.
Russian troops have captured the
town Of Mamakhatum, 80 milea west
81 Erzerum. on the Tuzulu river. by
assault. The retreating Turks set Are |
10 the town.
The Georgia house refused, 81 TO 81,
10 adopt special rule FOR c0nsidera-
lion Of a suffrage amendment The
result is expected to end the fight for
suffrage at this session Of the legisla-
lure.