The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-03-24
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.

Astoria, Oregon, is visited by a
$50, 900 fire.
Mexico wants pursuit protocol
with the United States.
w. ]. Bryan opens the Nebraka
campaign for statewide prohibition.
A Portland business man is fined for
hugging girls who applied to him for
work.
Food supplies are said to be becom-
ing short in the Torreon district of
Mexico and rioting is feared.
The immense Simpson holdings in
Coos Bay district have been sold for
sum said to be near 81, 900, 900.
President Wilson's name is the only
one for president that will be on the
primary ballot in Georgia this spring.
A North Yakima, WASH, lad of 9
obtains rifle, in the absence of his
parents, and accidentally shoots his
playmate, who, it is thought, will die.
The effort to increase the army bill
to 220, 900 enlisted men was defeated
by the house. The bill will probably
remain at lao, 900, expandable to 175,-
900.
Through arguments before the Rail-
road commission of California, it is
learned that the Hill lines wish to
enter that state through Lakeview,
Ore., and also the Western Pacific
seeks to extend a feeder into Reno,
New.
A German aviator has dropped sew
eral smoke bombs near a French bat
terry, it is reported from the front.
This is the first time since the war be-
gan that such bumbs have been used.
Not in themselves dangerous, the
bombs give forth an intense smoke
which persists for long time and
serves as a guide for the hostile ar
tillery.
A war conference of probable mo-
mentous Importance is about to open
in Paris, where military and political
representatives of every one of the en-
tente allies are gathering. This, taken
in conjunction with rumors of peace
which have prevailed for several days,
gives rise to all sorts of conjecture,
and the forthcoming conference at
The Hague is being watched and
awaited with extraordinary interest,
especially by the advocates Of peace.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia University, is the
latest possibility considered for "key-
noter" Of the Republican National con-
vention next June. DR.. Butler sec
onded the nomination of Taft in the
1912 convention and, as chairman of
the resolutions committee, was chief
drafter of the Taft platform. It was
said his name was taken up by the
subcommittee of the Republican Ma
tional organization, which is meeting
in Chicago.
American troops in Mexico are re-
ported to have suffered from snipers.
The Chicago Tribune strongly ad-
vises mobilization of the National
Guard.
Paris AYERS the German attack on
Verdun has failed. and believes the |
worst is over.
The people of Belgrade are suffering
from shortage of provisions and sani-
tary conditions are bad.
A Is, 900 ton Dutch liner was sunk
off the coast of Holland, either by a
mine or torpedo, the captain claiming
the latter.
Tom Swanson, of Vancouver, B. c.,
was shot and killed near Atlin by his
partner, Charles Petit, who mistook
him for a moose while the two were
hunting.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador. under instructions from
his government, formally notified the
State department that no German sub
marine was concerned in the sinking
of the Norwegian bark Silius, from
which seven American members of the
crew were rescued.
With 13 Democrats and the one So
cialist member opposing, the house, by
vote of BAG to IA, passed the admin
istration bill to retain the present
tariff Of cent pound on sugar in
stead Of permitting the free clause of
the Underwood Simmons tariff act to
go into effect May /.
The cannery tender Alpha sunk near
Rachel island, on the British Columbia
coast, and six of her crew of seven are
believed to be lost.
The name of Clarence True Wilson,
of Kansas, was filed with the secretary
of state as prohibition candidate for
the vice presidential nomination.
The National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation offered prizes aggregating $500
to artists for the best 10 posters for
suffrage window display and billboards
in competition to end October /. A
prize of s25 was offered for a slogan
Of not more than five words.