The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-03-03
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.

Secretary Daniels is opposed to To-
eating naval base at the mouth of
the Columbia river.
A German editor advocates sinking
all ships of whatever nationality,
bound for Great Britain.
Great Britain will permit shipment
to the United States of cargo of dye
stuffs valued at SIS, 600, 900.
Only three co-eds out of % at the
University of Oregon have good feet.
None have a perfect toe-line.
The momentous battle between the
French and Germans before Verdun
continues with practically no gain for
either side.
Mrs. Carrie Hall, rs years old, a
cousin Of Abraham Lincoln, dies at the
home of her sister, Miss Isabel Hanks,
near Louisiana, Mo.
Germany delivers note to United
States setting forth her submarine
warfare on armed merchantmen to
which this government has objected.
A negro enters the Mechanics State
Bank at st. Joseph, Mo-, and after
forcing the cashier and two clerks into
the vault, obtains $1,000 and escapes.
The Russian steamship Petshenga
has been sunk. Fifteen of those on
board were saved. She was of 1647
gross tons. Seven of the Petshenga's
crew were lost.
Thieves in New York steal 5000, 900
from U. S. mail truck while it was
on a ferry bound from the Central
New Jersey station. The auto truck
contained 81, 900, 900 in all.
According to Lloyd's, the British
steamer Southford, formerly the Sind
bad, has been sunk. Eleven of the
vessels crew were saved. Two were
killed. The Southford was vessel of
897 tons.
Another shipment of gold to Holland
from New York under an agreement
with the British government against
seizure will go forward on the Holland
American liner Nieuw Amsterdam for
Rotterdam. The shipment, amounts
to 81, 500, 600.
General Felix Diaz, who has been
in the United States for several
months, and under surveillance of the
department of Justice, has succeeded
in leaving for Cuba, where, it is re-
ported, he will form plans for another
revolution in Mexico.
Bake ovens filled with the bodies of
roasted babies was one of the verbal
pictures of alleged Turkish atrocities
drawn by Rev. E. A. Yarrow, an
American missionary at Van, Turkey,
in the course of an appeal for financial
aid for Armenians and Syrians in Chi
cago.
More than 40 guests, all Methodist
ministers and their wives, were rem
dered seriously i'll after they had par
taken of food which is alleged to have
been poisoned, served at a banquet
given by Methodist ministers in the
Howard-street Methodist church, San
Franisco, February %.
Ex-senator Root, of New York, is
expected to announce his support to
Roosevelt for the presidency.
During friendly sparring bout be-
tween William Hildebrandt and Au-
gust Naisel, both IA years of age, at
the Thirteenth District school, Gin
cinnati, Hildebrandt was struck on the
jaw. He died few minutes later.
In response to agitation by the news
papers urging England's ministers to
set the country an example of econ
omy, preferably by accepting reduc-
tion in their salaries, it is announced
the ministers have agreed for the fu-
ture to accept one-quarter Of their sal
aries in the form Of five per cent ex-
chequer bonds.
President Wilson, at the end of two
days of agitation in congress for action
warning Americans off armed mer-
chantmen, wrote a letter to Senator
Stone, chairman of the Senate foreign
relations committee, saying that he
could not consent to the abridgement
of the rights of American citizens in
any respect. "The honor and self
respect of the Nation are involved, I"
he said. "We covet peace and shall
preserve it at any cost but the loss of
honor"
A crazy Montenegrin runs amuck in
Seattle and stabs six persons before he
is overpowered. One of his victims is
seriously wounded.
A Portland school girl, aged IA, was
knocked down and killed by large
auto truck, as she was on her way to
rehearsal of school play.
John F. Gillies, deposed claim agent
of the Washington State Industrial In
surance commission, was found guilty
of grand larceny in connection with
the looting of the industrial insurance
fund of several thousand dollars by
means of false accident claims.