The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-04-14
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.

All Florida cold-weather records for
this late in April are broken by low
temperatures over the state. The
minimum was AZ, with light frost in
the country districts.
The house of representatives agreed
to all Oregon and Washington appro-
priations in the river and harbor bill,
in the amounts reported by the river
and harbor committee.
The senate rejected, Al to rs, an
amendment by Senator Lodge to in
clude tariff on coal tar dyes in the
bill providing for retention of the
present tariff of cent pound on
sugar until 1920.
A civilian military encampment on
lines similar to the Plattsburg camp
will be held in Fort Terry, N. Y, dur
ing July. 1t is expected that between
500 and 1900 men will be in quarters
during that period.
The result either of murder and
suicide or double suicide, the bodies
Of Mary Hawn, 18, and c. M. Frazier,
80, were found on bed in room in
the Grand Hotel at Walla Walla. Both
were fully dressed.
Contracts for two steamships, under
construction in American yards, were
sold in New York at public auction on
the floor of the Maritime Exchange,
instituting the first ship auction held
in the United States.
An attempt was made to assassinate
the chief of the military police at
Annoy, China. A bomb thrown through
a window of his residence damaged the
building badly, but no one was injured.
The assassins escaped.
Three men we're fatally shot and an
other dangerously wounded in riot
which started at dance conducted by
a carnival company at Buffalo, Okla,
one of the latest oil towns to spring up
in the Stone Bluff field.
Nine more steamers have been de-
stroyed by German submarines, ac-
cording to announcements from various
British sources. Seven Of the vessels
were under the British flag, one was
Norwegian and the other Spanish.
Official denial is made by ]. W.
White, inspector Of immigration agen-
cies of the Canadian government, that
William and Louis Schroeder, of Iowa,
had been executed or condemned as
spies at Clavet, Saskatchewan, on
March "a.
Professor Charles A. Davis, accred-
tied one of the foremost authorities on
peat, dies in Washington at the age of
I 55 years. He had been connected with
the United States Bureau of Mines for
some years and had written numerous
scientific articles.
The monthly statement of untitled
orders of the United States Steel cor
poration breaks all records. The Or
ders stood on March 81 at 1881, 001
tons, an increase of 762, 035 tons over
February 20, when they were $685.
966 tons, the previous high record.
At a meeting of the relief commit
tee for INDECENT Jews held in Berlin
the president said that 700, 1000 Jews
in the occupied districts of Poland re-
quired assistance. Thus far nearly
1000, 900 has been spent in relief
work, which has been made possible
largely by help of Jews in America.
Governor Spry, of Utah, issued a
call for conference on control and
eradication of the alfalfa weevil, to be
held in Salt Lake April 20 and 21. The
states of California, Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Col
orado, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona
and Utah are expected to participate
insthe meeting.
Mrs. Joseph E. Howard, daughter Of
Michael Kilgallon, millionaire steel
magnate of Chicago, and wife of JOS
eph E. Howard, actor and writer Of
popular songs, committed suicide by
shooting at hotel in Omaha. An
actress acquaintance, who was with
her at the time, said Mrs. Howard was
temporarily demented.
Washington denies any intention Of
abandoning the pursuit of Villa.
Many families have been driven
from their homes by foods in the Mis-.
sissippi in Wisconsin.
A Spanish cabinet council has beer
called to consider the question of the
torpedoing of Spanish vessels.
Five cattlegrowers who said they
were prosperous and contented protest.
ed to the house Judiciary sub-commit
tee against the Borland resolution fol
investigation Of the packing industry.
Grant county, Oregon, is preparing
to fight spotted fever, one case having
been reported in Prairie City. The pa
tient is said to be critically i'll. Be
cause of the disease appearing 80 early
it is feared there will be many casel
this season.