The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-06-02
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.

Palmer H. Ellengsen was killed near
Tacoma, Sunday, when struck above
the heart with pitched ball during an
amateur baseball game. He died al
most instantly.
The sessions of the 9th General
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, held at Saratoga Springs, N.
Y, during the last four weeks, were
concluded Wednesday.
Led by Secretary Tumulty, employees
of the White House will march in the
preparedness parade on Flag Day,
June IA. President Wilson probably
will review the parade.
The United States cruiser Tennessee
has arrived at Santo Domingo from
Norfolk with several hundred marines
to reinforce the American forces now
engaged in policing the republic.
An auto occupied by four persons
plunged over a 25-foot embankment
near CASTOR, Oregon, turning a COM
plete somersault, landing right-side-up
without injuring either of the persons.
British consular officers in the Unit
ed States have been instructed and
warned by the British embassy to
avoid being drawn into anything that
might be construed as interference
with American politics with the ap-
proach of the national elections.
Attended by members of the Yale
Corporation, the faculties of the vari-
GUS departments, members of the stu
dent body, and distinguished alumni,
the funeral of Rev. Timothy Dwight,
ex-president of Yale University, was
held Wednesday from Battle chapel on
the college campus.
A jury composed entirely of women,
sitting in the case of four Mexicans
accused of robbery, returned verdict
of guilty after three hours delibera.
tion at San Diego, Cal. This is the
first time on record in the superior
court Of that city that case was tried
exclusively by women.
Official announcement is made of the
appointment by Emperor William Of
Baron Won Schammer and Quartz,
president of the government of Bres-
lau, as secretary of state of Alsace.
Lorraine. He is succeeded by DR.. Won
Jagow, police president Of Berlin.
Herr Won Oppen, police president Of
Breslau, succeeds DR.. Won Jagow.
The wife of Major Robert B. Motion,
the negro educator who succeeded
Booker T. Washington as head of The
Tuskegee Institute, and Blanton Mo
ton, the Majors brother, were ELECTED
from Pullman car at Troy, Ala., OF
complaints from white passengers anC
required to ride in the coach provided
for negroes under the Alabama law.
Fifty men ended 72-hour battl'
Tuesday extinguishing forest fir
that burned 800 acres and threatene'
the town of Gascon, N. M. Forestr!
officials report nine fires this spring il
the Santa Fe national forest alone
which they say were started by humal
agencies. Approximately 5000 acre
were devastated. Another fire is re
ported in Pecos county.
Methodists retain ban on dancing
cards and theaters.
With tremendous losses the German
make large gains at Verdun.
Women's clubs are planning an in
ternational congress for 1920.
Vigorous notes have been sent bot
France and England on the subject O
interference with mails.
The Paris Temps in an editoris
again goes on record as not favorin
any idea of peace negotiations.
One hundred and sixteen Texas mil
tiamen who failed to respond to tn
call for service on the border will b
courtmartialed.
Exports of merchandise from tn
port of New York during Apr
amounted to $184, 751, 946, compare
with s135, 125, 523 in April year ag'
Imports for that month increased als'
amounting to s115, ,290, 462, compare
with $92, 252, 029 in April, 1915.
An unconfirmed report received
Fargo, N. D., said 10 persons had bee
killed at Rogers. N. D., in the stor
which swept Southeastern North D.
kota. Rogers was cut off complete
from the outside world, all telephol
and telegraph wires being down.
Eggs shipped from Eugene, Ore,
England, retailed there at SO cents
dozen. The shipper received net r
turn of So. 80 per case.
The deepest May snow in the r
membrance of pioneers of the Ho'
River Valley now lies in the fores
around Lost Lake, Oregon.
Victor Carlstrom, bearing messal
from the Aero Club Of America
President Wilson and carrying Alan
Hawiey, president of the club, as
passenger, flew from New York
Washington, 22O miles, in three hou
and seven minutes.