The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-05-19
WORLDS DO|NGS
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.


Gompers has endorsed the strike of
60, 900 garment workers in New York.
More than half million acres of
land have been opened to entry in Ari-
zona.
A new paper mill under construction
at Oregon City may be doubled in ca
pacity over the original plans.
The governor of New York signed
bills providing for compulsory military
training in summer camps and compul-
sorry physical training in public and
private schools.
President Wilson spoke intimately
for half an hour to the members Of the
National Press club at Washington, D.
c. He took supper with the club after
his address. The speech was confiden-
tial.
Three students of Willamette Uni
versity, Salem, Or, were ducked in a
nearby creek by fellow members Of the
D. D. club, university organization,
for using intoxicating liquor, and were
afterward dismissed from the school.
The Shanghai and Hankow branches
of the Bank Of China and the Bank of
Communications have ignored the re-
cent government mandate forbidding
the paying out of silver, and stopped
runs upon their institutions by redeem
ing bank notes.
Because H. R. Saunders, clerk of
Yolo county, CAL, failed to advertise
the notice of election the number of
times required by law the 5000, 900
courthouse bonds which were voted last
week cannot be sold, and another cleo
tion must be held.
Two prisoners are dead and another
injured as result of one-man mu-
tiny in the state prison at Nashville,
Tenn. Jady Harris, who caused the
trouble, was shot and killed after he
had wounded two other prisoners, one
fatally, with a rifle snatched from a
guard.
According to the Dagens Nyheter, Of
Stockholm, the International Red
Cross conference resulted in COM
plete rupture between the German and
Russian Red Cross, owing to the re-
fusal of Germany to express regret for
the sinking of the Russian hospital
ship Portugal.
The International Banking Corpora
tion has signed a contract with the
Chinese government for the improve
ment of the Grand Canal for distance
of 200 miles between the Yang-tse-
Kiang and the northern boundary Of
Kians-su province. The corporation
lends the government $4,000, 900 for
the purpose, to be secured by canal
tolls.
There will be but one graduate from
the Wheatland, CAL, high school Fri
day. The state commissioner of ele-
mentary schools will make the COM
emencement address to him. He will
be the guest Of honor at the alumni
dinner and party, the hero in the an
nual class play, and the board of edu-
cation will travel more than rs miles
to present him with diploma.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, presi-
Dental candidate, is touring the North
west.
A Minneapolis mother of si1 COM
mits suicide, that her life insurance of
$1,000 may revert to the benefit of her
children.
Colonel Goethals has announced that
he would resign July /. 1t is reported
that he will not resign if there is
trouble with Germany.
Colonel Roosevelt has formally en-
tered the race for the presidential
nomination in the Chicago conventions.
He expresses desire to run on "unit-
ed ticket"
Seventy-five thousand dollars worth
of liquor was seized by the Seattle po-
lice Friday in the most sweeping raid
made since the statewide prohibition
law went into effect January /. Two
large warehouses and nine drugstores
were searched, but no arrests were
made, and none of the liquor was de-
stroyed. The police obtained war
rants for the search Of. IL places of
business where liquor was suspected to
be stored, and in the first five places
searched seized s25, 900 worth Of
liquor.
A four-day dust storm, the worst
ever experienced in Northwestern Min
nesota, has abated with clear sky
and chilly wave from the Northwest.
Survivors of the steamer Roanoke,
which sunk off the Southern California
coast, declare the vessel was over
loaded, which caused the disaster in
which some 80 persons were lost.
Announcement Of 10 per cent in
crease in wages for its factory EN-.
ployes. effective May 5, was announced
by the Victor Talking Machine com,
pany, Of Philadelphia. Several thou
sand workmen are affected.