The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-02-18
WORLDS DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN ANUISHHl
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

A noted Hungarian actress has been
shot as British spy.
Thirty-three gamblers were arrested
in raid at Aberdeen, Wash.
The county auditor at Tacoma issued
9S permits to buy liquor in one day.
Rear Admiral Charles Eben Fox, U.
s. NJ, retired, dies at the age of 65
years.
The plot to poison many prominent
citizens at banquet in Chicago is laid
to anarchists.
Grahame- White, the noted British
aviator, has been gravely injured by a
fall in his aeroplane.
Brigadier General Benjamin C. Card,
retired, dies at the age of 81, at his
home in Washington, D. c.
Philadelphia's streets were covered
Sunday with heavy coating Of ice
caused by bad sleet storm.
Six per cent Of the fish fry in the
hatcheries at Bonneville were lost be-
cause of the recent heavy storm.
Gasoline in Portland is selling for
18A cents gallon and may 60 higher.
In New York it sells for "a cents.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen, ex-president Of
China, is reported remarked to his
private secretary at Toxic, Japan.
The value of real estate in New
York City is placed at So, 205, 600, 900,
an increase of $97, 900, 900 over year
ago.
Two wealthy Americans have equip
ped hospital train of 13 cars and
have presented it to the French gov
ernment.
The film pictures of the Columbia
River Highway are to be shown in
Syracuse, N. Y, upon request from
that city.
President Wilson is now declared a
candidate for denomination, regardless
Of the one-term plank of the Demo
cratic platform.
Two young men in an automobile
were killed at Sumner, WASH, when
their machine was struck by North
ern Pacific train.
Rear Admiral Grant, the submarine
commander of the U. s. navy, declares
that undersea boats should be at least
800 tons surface displacement.
Richard L. Mctcalfe, ex-governor Of
the Panama Canal zone, has invited
w. ]. Bryan to debate the question of
preparedness before the voters of Ne
braska.
The Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage sent President Wilson a val
entine on which was inscribed:
"Won't you be our valentine? We
will be your valentines. J"
DR.. Carlos Mendoza, ex-president Of
Panama, died suddenly Tuesday night
from heart trouble, was buried the fol-
lowing day, after the body had laid in
state all day in the government build
ing. DR.. Mendoza was the leader of
the opposition faction of the Liberal
party and was widely regarded as one
of the most able men in Panaman pol
itics.
Germans capture large section of
French trenches in Artois.
Portland citizens have raised fund
of over s13, 900 for the relief of suffer-
ing Jews in Europe.
The customs officials at San Fran
cisco have seized a totem pole that
bears nude pictures and is otherwise
indecent.
According to the decision of the Ma
tional Association of Merchant Tailors,
the ideal Americans measurement
should be, height, feet 6 inches;
chest, S8 inches; waist, 33A inches;
hips, 39a inches; thigh, 21a inches;
calf, 144 inches; head measure, one
eighth of the full length of the body;
legs straight and feet arehed.
Germany and Austria, through their
embassies in Washington, have notified
the United States of their intention
to treat armed merchantmen as war
ships after March /. That date was
fixed to give the entente allies time to
signify their intentions toward the re-
cent note of the United States pro
posing the disarmament Of all mer-
chantmen.
The Willamette river at Portland
reaches 19-foot stage and floods all
waterfront Easements.
A liquid which bursts into fame
when poured on paper is believed to
have been used by incendiaries who
set fire to the Ottawa, Can, parlia-
ment building.
The Navajo Indians are dancing
their war dance and threatening to at
tack white settlers in Northeastern
Arizona, in retaliation for the staying
Of one Of their number recently by po-
licemen according to two cowboys
from Utah.