The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-01-21
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.

Ford peace board is reported near
complete disruption.
The steamer Tahoma is ice-bound in
the Lower Columbia river.
An aged Indian at Oregon City, dies
from want of his daily drinks.
A so per cent dividend is declared
by the Standard Oil company Of Cali
fornia.
Lord Derby of England declares
the British army is sufficient to win
the war.
Floods in Southern California are
continuing to do considerable damage
to property.
Montenegro makes complete sur
render to Austria who will have full
supervision of that country.
A Polander was refused his natural
ization papers when he declared he
would not take up arms in defense of
the United States.
The allies have landed troops 48
miles west of Athens and it is asserted
that it is the intention of the entente
powers to force Greece into the war.
Arrest of 67 members of secret
band in Southeast Missouri, is believed
to have frustrated plot to burn sew
eral towns and kill many leading citi-
gems.
Senator Jones, of Washington, intro
duces bill authorizing survey of
Bakers bay, near the mouth Of the
Columbia, with view to its improve
ment.
A Chinaman, and common laborer,
in the United States for 26 years has
been ordered deported. He was
brought to this to this country when z
years old.
A Maastricht newspaper reports that
the gunfire of the French has destroyed
two Zeppelins north of Rhiems. The
aircraft are said to have fallen within
the German lines.
One hundred and twenty-five post
packages containing sheet rubber,
weighing an aggregate of 1875 pounds,
consigned to Gothenburg, are taken
from the Danish liner Frederick VIII
at Kirkwall.
Katherine Kelly, aged 10, and
Gladys Edgerly, aged 0, Of Seattle,
were probably fatally injured when
they were thrown from their sled after
coasting down steep hill and crashed
into q concrete wall.
Restoration of the Manchu dynasty,
which ruled China before the establish
ment of the republic, has been pro-
claimed by the leaders Of an uprising
in Eastern Mongolia. A brigade of
Chinese troops is marching on Huihua-
chen to attack the Mongolians.
Ensign Lawrence K. Ford, of Wy
oming, was dismissed from the navy
by President Wilson's approval of a
court martial which held him guilty of
conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman. He is charged, among
other things, with failing to support
mis- wiIe.
Inc Ferris Dill 70 create system OF
640-acre stock-raising homesteads on
arid, semi-arid and mountainous lands
three of the sdministration consevra-
t;on measures nrovidino for water
mower deyelopment mineral leasing
ana larger ssochraising nones.eaus
now await tne actioh Oh tne senate'
Five hundred negro troops loot ten
derloin districts Of Honolulu.
The cruiser Marblehead ia to be To-
Gated at Portland for use by the naval
militia
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