The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-03-31
Brief Resume Of General News
IRON All Around The Earth
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Live News items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Columbus. Ohio. residents arc fleeing
the lowlanda because Of the high water
In the Scioto.
Tho rainfall at Portland Tor March
reached 1921 Inches, 1856 inches leni
than March. 1873. the highest figure
on record.
villa 10 feeling nouthward hoping
10 reach tho Slerraa. whore, u ID
claimed. Il viii take many months "a
capture him.
Failure Of senate Republicans "a
take any action at y conference on tho
Mexican situation leaves the admins
tratlon nnhampored In dealing with
the problem.
Tho senate bill designed 20 increase
the number Of cadets at West Point
was ordered favorably reported by the
house military committee. with = few
minor changes.
Turkey has informed tho United
States ID was not a submarine Of tho
Ottoman government which sank the
liner Persia In the Mediterranean last
winter with loan of American life.
The British infantry storms and
take the hrst and second line German
trenches along . front Of 600 yards 1T
st. Eiol. Tho British official COM
mnnIcatlon glvoa this information.
r. c. stoddard. Of Vancouver. D. G.,
and two other passengers were seri-
oualy injured when the Wolverine
Flyer, on the Michigan Central rail-
way. jumped the track near Kalama-
400. Mich.
/. The British steamer Manchester En-
glnasr. from Philadelphia March II
for Manchester. has been sunk. accord
ing 10 information received by LloydA
The members Of the crow were taken
aboard tug.
Miss Catherine Prehms editor and
pubiisher Of tho Merrill, Ore, Record.
was arrested In Klamath Falla on q
charge Of disturbing the peace by at
tempting 70 horsewhip George Brad
mack. editor and publiaheF Of tho Mer-
rill Times.
Twelve men at Kelly'a Butte, q
workhouac for Portland prisoners. es-
capped by saving tho bars Of a cell.
The exit was only 7 inches square,
therefore q largo number OF heavy
weight prisoners were detained. The
break was not discovered until day
light
Tho most sensational Of the Mann
act cases In Chicago since the passage
Of that law. involving William Rufna
Edwards, wealthy st. Paul lumber
man. IN defendant and Misa Ada Cox
a. complaining witness, was begun be-
fore United States District Judge An.
derson.
Tho lIteracy test. barring. with a
few exceptions. all aliens over 10 years
old. physically capable Of reading. who
cannot read tho English language or
some other language or dialect, was
approved by the house working as the
committee Of tho whole, by q vote OF
226 TO SO. This presaged the passage
Of the bill by an overwhelming major
ity despite the record Of Presidential
vetoes of several similar measures on
account Of the literacy test.
villa Ia reported 70 have held up
train and searched II for Americans,
but found none.
One of the American columns pene-
trated so miles into Mexico before II
was discovered by the natives.
Congress avoids any unnecessary
discussion Of the Mexican question,
but 10 ready 70 authorize war measures
at moments notice.
A dispatch to tho Balkan agency
from Bucharest says tho chief clerk OF
the American legation at Sofia is re-
ported to have been arrested by the
Bulgarian authorities, accused OF CIV
Ing present to an employe for using
greater haste than ordinary In issuing
passports.
Men Of the Hungarian landsturm
born In 1868 and 1869 and also the
men belonging to the classes OF 1865
and 1897, who hitherto have been en-
ploysd In making war materials, now
are dismissed from this service and
ordered TO Join the army on April 3,
according TO a Reuter- dispatch.
Yuan Shi Kai renounces the throne
Of China and proclaims the restoration
Of the republic. but his opponents say
the change Is too late to save him.
Instructions to recruit the IL Ma
tional Guard companies Of Arizona TO
war strength Immediately were trans
mitted to the company commanders by
order OF the War department.
An army aviator was found by a
wagon train after being lost In the
Mexican desert fer ls hours. He re-
paired his leaking tank, received q
supply Of gasoline and was soon on his
way.