The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-03-17
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The farth
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Live News Items Of An Nations end
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Vice President MarahAll celebrated
bis 62nd birthday Tuesday. March IL.
Tho Germans again attack tho forts
nSAr verdun with the hops Of gaining
the city.
Michael Damphoffer, aged i0l years,
dies In tho Home for the Aged at Van
eouveF. Wash.
The report that Germany has offered
20 buy the Danish West Indies for
go. 900. 600. Ia denied.
villa and his followers have taken .
sudden twist eastward and are declared
To b. seeking q new goal.
The Aero Club Of America has Of
ferod services Of men and machines 70
aid tho U. 5. capture villa.
General CArranxa'a army is gather.
ing In Northern Mexico 10 aid the
United States In capturing villa.
Two Mexican editors At Los Angeles
arc held 20 trial accused Of using the
u. $. mails to incita revolt and mur-
der.
Seven women prisoners In the jail at
San Francisco make their escape
through vacant room and descend .
ladder.
A New jersey grand jury refused 10
indict woman who killed her husband
because he was beating her with o
razor strop.
Germany has requested Bulgaria 70
ssndtw divisions 70 tho Frsneh front,
but owing 70 tho attitude Of Roumanla
Il IL refused.
The government laboratory nt Mad
ison. wia. finds grain alcohol cheaper
than gasoline. and tho director pre-
diets ita general use ss . substitute.
Manitoba. Canada, votes 2 TO for
prohibition. When the law goes into
effect May 81. 200 bars. AZ wholesale
hcusaa and seven licensed cluha win 10
out Of busineaa
Senators Bornh and Chamberlain
urge congress- 70 act quickly on tho
national defenao program. declaring
same 10 be necessary, now that the
punitive expedition IN Mexico may do |
velop into serious proportions.
Keith r. Dalrymple. missing for |
eight years and heir 10 s400. 900. was
found III IN Missouri hospital and |
taken 70 hla homo In Pennsylvania TO |
claim his fortune. Proceedings 10 do
eiaro him legally dead have been drop
ped.
General Alvaro Obregon has been |
appointed minister Of war Of Mexico.
and General Candido Aguilar minister
Of foreign affairs. Many foreigners
arc leaving tho city and there 10 an
undercurrent Of excitement among all
ciaanoa.
Chew Chong. 2b-year-old Oriental.
was shot and killed In Chinese room
ing house In Oakland. Cal. The po-
llco think tho murder was another
move In tho tong war now being wagcd
In Pacific Coast cities.
Tho names Of all persons arrested
for intoxication In Aberdeen, WASH,
and tho places where they obtained
their liquor hereafter win be published
BY Chief Of Police Schmidts, according
TO an announcement made by him.
DIR. J. b. Lloyd, Of the government
health service a Tacoma, WASH. who
10 supervising tho campaign Of rat
catching In that city on an extensive
scale, says tests are now being made
from rats caught during the past week
a. TO evidence Of bubonic plague.
While crossing Birch lake, 1s miles
east Of Mesaba, Minn., William G. Taft
waa attacked by seven timber wolves.
With pocket knife a. his only
weapon Mr.. Taft killed two Of the
animals and was himself severely
scratched before two companions with
rides came TO his assistance and drove
of the wolves.
Failure Of the machine guns TO work
at the crucial time when most needed
st the beginning Of the fighting be-
tween the Villa bandits and the Thir-
teenth Cavalry at Columbus, N. NJ. is
the reason given for the escape Of the
Villa band and also for the relatively
small loss among them, according to
Private Thomas Barton. Of the Hos
pital corps. :
A $SO,000 contribution TO the ma
tional treasury's conscience fund, the
largest ever received, came by mail III
a registered package from New York.
With the temperature l5 degrees
below zero and heavy wind blowing,
the Western Mesaba range In Mime
sota IL In the grip Of the second severe !
blizzard within week.
The National Houaewives' League Q
has declared boycott" on sugar and
sent out communications to all branch /
leagues. as well as to other women's I
societies. urging cooperation In the t
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