The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-08-25
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.

The city Of Portland has 337 jitneys.
Intense heat in Chicago Sunday
claims eleven victims.
General Funston is in favor of with
drawing the American troops from
Mexico.
The daily death toll from infantile
paralysis in New York City is reported
decreasing.
The railroad presidents are reported
against the eight-hour day proposed by
President Wilson.
Two Eskimos have been captured at
Nome, Alaska, who are charged with
the murder of priest in 1918.
President Wilson signs the navy
building bill and the work of carrying
out the program will begin at once.
Roumania is thought about ready to
join the allies, as the situation be-
tween that country and Germany is re-
ported serious.
Eight persons were killed and 16 in
jured when three boilers in the Harlan
Morris Stave Manufacturing Co., at
jackson, Tenn, exploded.
American supervision of Dominican
finances soon is to be extended to in
ternal revenue as well as customs re-
ceipts. A budget system also is to be
arranged.
Swiss dispatches to the Overseas
News Agency report that the French
have removed the civil population
from towns and villages behind the
front in the districts of Nancy, Lune-
vile, Baccarat and Saint Die.
A masked robber held up and re-
lieved W. H. Estabrook, manager of
the Boston-Ida Gold Dredge Mining
company, of gold dust and nuggets
valued at $3.50 near Boise City in the
Boise basin. The desperate made good
his escape.
One man was killed and several
wounded early Sunday at Cienfuegos
in political riot between partisans of
Santiago Reye and Juan Florencio
Cabrera, rival candidates for mayor.
Many shots were fired and knives and
machettes were used. One man was
arrested.
The National Guard will be retained
on the Mexican border until it can be
withdrawn without again endangeringI
American lives and property. Secre-
tary Baker 80 declared the administra-
tion's policy in answering a score of
letters from many parts Of the country
complaining that the state troops were
being held in service after the emer-
gency for which they were called out
apparently had passed.
The list of securities furnished as
collateral for the $3.50, 900, 900 new
British loan, which j. P. Morgan &
Co., syndicate managers, have pre-
pared, shows more than 500 issues of
stocks and bonds, representing virtu-
ally every important railroad and in
dustrial company in the United States.
The list has been classified into groups,
all railroad stocks and bonds having |
been placed in one group, industrial
corporations in another and miscel-
laneous in third.
The conference in Washington to
settle the impending railroad strike
has not accomplished anything and the
President has sent for the presidents
of the roads involved, in the hope that |
an adjustment can be made.
The new German war usury bu-
reau has justified its existence by
revealing surprising details of widely
ramifed food frauds, according to re-
ports received at The Hague. The
frauds are said to involve half dozen
leaders and 100 accomplices.
Plans for a more vigorous campaign
to prevent the spread of infantile par
alysis were made in Washington, D.
c., at conference of health authori-
ties Friday of most Of the state with
officials of the Federal Public Health
Service. Resolutions will be adopted
by the conference, in which eminent
plague experts, scientists and bacteri-
ologists are participating, outlining
definite proposals for checking dissem-
ination Of the disease. While few of
those present expressed alarm that the
epidemic might assume countrywide
proportions, they uniformly declared
measures were necessary to guard |
against widespread outbreak.
Candidate Hughes is greeted with
the second largest crowd Of the West
ern tour at Portland.
Miss Grace Arnold, Portland stem
ograher, has been admitted to practice
in the United Safes District court. She
is the third woman thus honored in
Oregon.
A bill providing that the sheriff Of
any Georgia county in which lynch
ing occurs be removed by the governor
was tabled 113 to 20 by the Georgia
house Saturday few minutes before
the close of the legislative session,
after it had been passed by the house.