The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-07-14
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNNBM HAPPENINGS m A NUTSHELL
live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

A cherry troo II White Salmon,
Wash. yields 1911 pounds Of fruit.
Tho sudden onFuah Of Russians on
Tho East front AmAzes tho Germans.
The French take nm 81. which dom.
mates the somme. q point Of vantage,
The winter wheat crop Of for the
Northwest ID estimated at "a. 900, 900
buahslu less than In 1915.
Tho funeral Of Lieutenant Adalr.
killed In the carriEAi battle In Mexico.
was held In Portland Wednesday with
military honcrs.
Major u. q. MeAlsxAnder. Of o. A.
O. has been promoted by President
Wilson 70 the rank Of lieutenant
colonel Of the Oregon troops on the
border.
The Union Pacific decides % cut the
lumber freight 20 Eastern points b
cents. making the tariff 4b cents per
hundred pounds. instead Of 10 cents.
Tho change IL duo September ].
General SHUTS, IN command Of the
British forcea In German East Africa.
has occupied Tanga, according 70
statement Issued by tho war office.
THO Germans offered only slight resist
nnee.
No trace Of J. r. GIilles. tho ens-
bearler Of Washington stats funds,
who escaped from tho Thuraton county
fall Sunday, has been found. He is
thought % be elaaing the law In fcml-
nlne apparel.
Captain Kocnig. Of the submarine
which successfully ran tho Brltiah
blockade and landed 10 Baltimore Sun
day. declares many more such craft are
being built and win be put Into tho
service Of carrying commerce.
I An Amsterdam dispatch says that
Dr. Frederick w. X. Won ilberg died
IL Berlin Sunday. DR.. Won Ilberg had
The special case 81 tho throat affection
from NAich the German emperor has
aulfered for many years and was ono
a the dmporor'a most intimate friends.
Tho Daesns Nyheder. at copenha.
gen. announces that d sea battle IL
believed 10 have occurred In the Baltic
nntside Of Haefringe on Sunday night.
Violent cann0nading was heard from
several points on the coast and II IL
s.roaumed that the German and Russian
ratrcIling squadrona elaahcd.
9Aecurding 10 the London morning
pnpera Il probably win be well Into the
year 1917 before the now Irish parlia.
ment is Get up Little can be done
othsr than tho Introduction Of the bill
bdfora Parliament riaea early In Au-
Rtiaf for recess OF some six 70 eight
weakA 20 that the passage Of the bill
u not likely before late IN October.
German Casualties from tho begin.
Ming Of the war 10 the end Of June. ~
computed from official German llsta.
are given "a SOFA. cat. These figures
include all German naticnalities. They
do not include naval casuAlties or cas-
unltleE og colonial troops. They are
not an estimate made BY the British
authorities, but merely caaualtics an
nounced In German official lists.
Russian army IN Turkey retires 80
miies In Bagdad region TO await cooler
weather.
The new Swiss war loan Of 100, 000,- |
900 france at per cent, issued At 81,
has been oversubscribed BY 81, 600, 900
franca.
Admiral Jellicoe, Of the British
navy. reportipg on the North Sea
naval battle estimates the Germans
lost 81 ships.
A new project for saving life at the
time Of naval engagements is reported
from Copenhagen. It 10 said several
prominent Danes intend to organise .
Acct Of several hundred motor boats
along the west coast Of Jutland. These
boats, flying the Red Gross flag. will
be sent out TO pick up tho wounded
after each sea battle.
Petitions carrying rs, 900 names In
support Of initiative No. "a, which au-
tho operation OF breweries and
sale Of bear direct 10 consumers, were
liled with the secretary Of state Of
Washington II ls estimated that 5O,-
900 Of the petitioners win be found
to sign, while the law needs
only 50, 600 signatures to place on the
ballot.
Vienna admits defeat Of the Aus
lrians, when they were driven back
nearly Eve miles from their positions.
Theodore Tobiason, owner Of mill
Iinery store ID Spokane. was shot and
killed In his store by Alphonse Pan
sierra. Panniera, according TO the po-
lice, said Tobiason owed him $4,000.
It Is understood that the report that
Sir Edward Grey, the English foreign /
secretary, ls 70 be raised TO the peer
age, is correct, and that In fact he al-
ready has accepted such an offer.
baronetcy Of the United Kingdom
probably win be conferred upon him. |