The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-05-26
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.

lUl Uui DuSy NtdutlS.
A Greek collier was sunk Thursday
by an Austrian submarine. Twenty
seven members of the crew were
picked up by French torpedo boat.
The resignation of Charles Ware as
general manager of the Union Pacific
was announced Tuesday at the COM
pany's headquarters. No reason is
given.
The Swedish steamer Rosalinn, 877
tons, from Copenhagen for Stugsund,
in ballast, has been sunk by mine off
the Stockholm Skerries. The crew
was saved.
By vote of 80 to 81, the house in
committee of the whole has adopted an
amendment to grant suffrage to the
women of Porto Rico. 1t was proposed
by Republican Leader Mann.
Notices of contests from the Sixth,
Seventh and Fourteenth districts of
Texas, involving four delegates to the
Republican National convention are re-
ceived by Secretary Reynolds.
The battleship Nebraska left the
navy yard at Boston Tuesday under
orders to proceed to Mexico. She will
take on a complement of apprentice
seamen at Newport, r. l., en- route.
Victor Carlstrom, in a 160-horse-
power biplane, flew from Newport
News, Va, to the Sheepshead Bay
speedway, in New York City, Tues
day, distance of 416 miles, in four
hours and one minute.
More than 1900 French, including 81
officers, 16 machine guns and eight
cannon, were captured in German
assault on the Verdun front in the re-
gion of Deadman's hill, the German
war office announced Tuesday.
President Poincare has conferred the
war cross on Queen Elizabeth of Bel
gium as an expression of "the admira-
tion of the people for the magnificent
courage and untiring devotion to the
wounded which she has never ceased to
show under the enemy's fire.
London underwriters charge so per
cent to insure against declaration of
peace between Great Britain and Ger
many before January l. The rate in
dicates that in the underwriters opin-
ion the prospects for an early peace
are better than two months ago, when
the rate for the same risk was only 80
per cent.
1t is officially announced from Dub
lin that in addition to the sentence of
death imposed on jeremiah G. Lynch,
American, similar sentence was i'm
posed upon Peter Gallighan, but that
this sentence was commuted to five
years penal servitude. A number of
other persons also were sentenced to
various terms of Imprisonment.
Nine residents of Pacific county,
Wash. were arraigned Wednesday be-
fore Judge Cushman in the United
States District court at Tacoma, on in
dictments returned by the Federal
grand jury last Saturday, charging
conspiracy against Mrs. Margaret Ross
and sons. The defendants are the al
legged nightriders who are accused of
having forcibly restrained Mrs. Ross
and her sons from exercising their
rights as settlers on the public domain.
The administration five-year navy
program was rejected by house COM
mittee.
The Northwestern railroad at Omaha
has announced an increase of per
cent in wages of some classes of en-
ployes.
A San Francisco judge has decided
that it is as much crime for woman
to desert her dependent children as
for man to desert his family.
Four mice, whose ancestors had been
inoculated with tumor germs for 15
years, took up their residence in the
Crocker cancer research laboratory at
Columbia University, New York,
where they have been brought from
London to be safe from wars ravages.
Estimates Of the governments re-
ceipts and expenditures for the re-
mainder of the current fiscal year and
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1917,
tend to show that much less new reve-
nue. will have to be raised to meet the
bill for preparedness and other large
contemplated expenditures than had
been supposed.
n earthquake of particular violence
occurred along the Adriatic coast
ally. At eczema dozen persons
injured. Interior districts were
badly shaken.
handbag containing six $40 bills
found in bundle of clothing by
alton Army workers in Portland.
returning the money to its owner
received $40 bill as reward.
rgeant Furman, a member of the
nine gun company of the Twenty
Infantry, was shot and killed on
lean soil mile and half east of
ez by Mexican customs guards.
psies up-to-date - IA motor cars
If them-the band numbering 100
bers, left Eugene, Ore, en- route
San Diego to Minneapolis.
is generally believed that the vote
edit which Premier Asquith will