The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-05-12
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.

Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes has
been invited to deliver a Fourth of
July Grafton at Salem. Ore.
The munitions liner Cymric is re-
ported torpedoed off the west coast of
Ireland, and is in a sinking condition.
Four more Irish revolutionary lead
ers are shot. Nineteen others SEN
fenced to death are given prison SEN
tences.
A Rotterdam dispatch declares Ger
many is formulating terms upon which
to offer peace, which include relin-
quishment of Belgium and all territory
in France.
That England is building airships of
the Zeppelin type was disclosed in the
house of commons. How much such
aircraft Great Britain possessed was
not revealed.
The house rejects the senate amend
ment to the army bill wherein it was
voted to increase the standing army to
$50, 900 men. The measure was re-
turned to conference.
Two men were killed in feud battle
at the Jualin mining camp, Juneau,
Alaska, on Berner's Bay, recently.
Forty men took part in the fight,
which resulted from card games.
Americans who have enlisted at
Toronto for army service to Europe
are denied the use of the name "Amer-
ican Legion" under instructions from
the Dominion authorities at Ottawa.
Fire destroys the Chicago Grain
company elevator and go, 600 bushels of
grain, causing 5000, 600 loss. Clar-
ence E. Fox, president of the COM
pany, intimated that the fire might be
attributable to war plot.
President Wilson's approval Of the
nomination Of Louis Brandeis for the
Supreme Court bench, in letter to
the senate, declares the charges
against Mr.. Brandeis are "intrinsi-
cally incredible to anyone who knows
him."
The British ship Galgate, from Port
land, Or, January 4, for ports in the
United Kindgdom, was sunk Saturday,
according to Lloyds. The Galgate was
last reported as having arrived at st.
Michaels April "a. She was 1856
tons gross.
Two large buildings of the plant of
the Cadillac Chemical company at
Cadillac, Mich, were destroyed by fire
Tuesday, with loss estimated at
$3.50, 1000. The company is under con-
tract to furnish an ingredient for
smokeless powder to the British gov
ernment.
DR.. Ben L. Reitman is sentenced to
60 days in the New York workhouse
for distributing literature, alleged to
be improper. relating to birth control.
DR.. Reitman was arrested at meet
ing held recently to protest against the
conviction of Emma Goldman on a
similar charge.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, presi-
dent of the National American Woman
Suffrage association, in an address be-
fore the Mississippi Valley Suffrage
conference at Minneapolis, declares
that the formation of a woman's po-
litical party would not be necessary
this year to obtain national enfran-
chisement.
A robber enters the National bank
at Francis, Okla, covers the cashier
with revolver and fled with about
$4,000. After an exchange of shots
with pursuing posse, the robber
forced the driver of one of the posses
automobiles to take him in and, with a
revolver held at the drivers head, dis
appeared in the hills.
With the melting SHOWS no longer
delaying the descent of the Russian
Caucasian army from the high Armen-
ian plateau into the plateaus of Asia
Minor, where the Turks, having gath
cred all available reinforcements, are
ready at last to make determined
stand. the campaign in Asia Minor has
reached a most interesting and pos
sibly decisive stand.
An uncensored letter from Mexico
declares Carranza is the chief obstacle
in the way of capturing Villa.
The sinking Of French fishing yes
sci $50 miles from land by a submarine
Is reported in an official communica
tion issued In London.
The rural credits bill has passed thu
senate.
A body believed to be that O
O'Reilly. leader Of the Irish rebel
lion, has been found.
Reuters Amsterdam correspondent
telegraphs that information, which Il
regarded as trustworthy, has been re
ceived there that Metz is being evacu
ated by the civil population.
Baker, Ore, voters decidedly reject
ed the proposed change to the cit!
manager form Of government by vot'
OF S09 to 1863. The city commissioner
won . salary raise By q somewha
smaller margin