The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-21
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.

for Our Busy Readers.
The allies continue to make big
gains against the central powers on all
sides.
The senate naval program includes
l6 capital battleships within three
years.
Wilson postpones date Of notification
ceremonies until after congress ad-
journs.
Columbia river basin realty men
hold meet at Portland and declare
against the SHARK. +"
Three persons in an auto on their
way to circus in Iowa, run through a
bridge railing and are drowned.
The British government publishes a
list of from 10 to 80 firms in the Unit
ed States with whom residents of the
United Kingdom are forbidden to
trade.
Four persons were killed by the in
tense heat which smothered Chicago
Tuesday, another was killed by light
ming, and three, seeking relief in the
lake, were drowned.
In Volhynia, in the region of Lutsk,
where the troops Of the Teutonic allies
have been forced to give ground before
the attacks of the Russians and retire
behind the Lower Lipa river, the Rus
SLAMS continue to press their foes and
are taking additional prisoners.
General Cipriano Castro, ex-presi-
dent of Venezuela, and his wife, who
arrived in New York Saturday from
Port of Spain, Trinidad, on the steam
ship Vauban, have been ordered de-
ported from the United States by a
special board Of inquiry at the Ellis
Island immigration station.
The new Harahan bridge spanning
the Mississippi river at Memphis, said
to be the longest structure on the
river, was opened to traffic this week.
1t cost SIS, 900. Including ap-
proaches the bridge is three miles
long the bridge proper being 1900 feet.
Construction was started in June, 1918.
The epidemic of infantile paralysis
in New York has been checked, in the
opinion of Health Commissioner Emer-
son, who issued a statement in which
he said the diminution in the number
of new cases and deaths indicated that
the health authorities are reaching the
cases earlier and are finding way to
control them.
William Boutwell,, former Seattle
City Controller, and recently special
officer on the waterfront, was killed,
and w. w. Morris and C. V. Harvey,
members of the prohibition enforce
ment squad Of the Seattle police force,
were seriously wounded in a pistol
fight which resulted from raid on the
Ferguson Bar, in the Ferguson Hotel,
Monday.
The captain Of the German subma-
rine freighter says German freight
carrying Zeppelins will soon visit
America.
Wars increase of food prices in Eu-
rope, as shown by the bureau of labor
statistics, has touched neutrals almost
as heavily asit has the belligerents.
A corporation will be organized by a
group Of American bankers, headed by
J. P. Morgan & Co., and Brown Broth
ers & Co., to lend s100, 600, 900 to the
French government.
William thinner, aged IL years, was
arrested in New Orleans, charged with
killing his mother. The boy, accord
ing to the police, said he shot his
mother because she threatened to beat
him when he returned home after an
unsuccessful search for work.
The engagement is announced of
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, widow Of
the late British statesman, and the
Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, rector
of st. Margaret, and canon of West
minister. Before her marriage, Mrs.
Chamberlain was Miss Mary Endicott,
of Massachusetts.
The Socialist newspaper, Tribune,
Of Amsterdam, asserts that $1,000
workmen employed in the munition
factories and electrical works in Ber-
lin and in an aerodrome at Johanisthal
have gone on strike as a protest |
against the prison sentence imposed on
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, Socialist leader,
for participation in the May Day dem
onstration at Berlin.
A boy of 10 was killed and two girl
playmates injured at Portland when
their coaster wagon ran into motor
truck.
Russian troops have captured the |
town of Mamakhatum, SO miles west
of Erzerum. on the Tuzulu river, by
assault. The retreating Turks set fire
to the town.
The Georgia house refused, 81 to 81, |
to adopt special rule for considera-
tion of a suffrage amendment. The |
result is expected TO end the fight for |
suffrage at this session of the legisla-
ture.