The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-06-30
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.


who was touring Glacier National
Park, fell from her horse while ford
ing small stream and was drowned in
the Two Medicine River, into which
her body was carried.
The United States now is waiting
for General Carranza's final word in
reply to the note sent Sunday demand
ing release of the prisoners taken at
Carrizal and a formal diplomatic an
nouncement of intentions.
Respites of 80 days pending hearing
of pardon applications. were granted by
President Wilson to S. D. and W. S.
Simpson, officers of the American Ma
tional Bank of Caldwell, Idaho, con-
victed of issuing fraudulent certifi-
cate of deposit.
A general retreat of the Austrians
in the Trentino district over sector
about 20 miles in extent is announced
in an official statement issued by the
Italian war office. The statement says
that the Italians are pressing the pur-
suit vigorously.
Fighting activity in the Western
theater on the fronts occupied by the
British and the north wing of the
French army was important and has
been so for the past two days, says the
official statement isused by German
army headquarters.
Veterans of the Civil War began ar.
irving at Spokane Tuesday for the an
nual encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, Department of Wash.
ington and Alaska. 1t is expected
that 900 of the 5000 veterans in Wash.
ington and Alaska will attend the con.
vention.
A joint meeting of all train, engine
and yard men working in Eastern
Washington will be held in Spokane
July 8, at which the outcome of the
conference for an eight-hour day, re-
Gently held in New York, will be dis
cussed. The next step to be taken
will, it is said, also be discussed.
The body of man came ashore at
Agate Beach, near Newport, Or,
Tuesday. From the fact that wreck
age of fruit, etc, similar to that lost
from the steamer Bear, has been wash
ing in on the beach near where the
body was found, it is thought that the
body may be one of the wreck victims.
The Zeitschrift Fuer Frauenstimm-
recht, the German woman suffrage Or
gan at The Hague, has sent the fol-
lowing greeting to the women of
France: "We feel, think and suffer
like you, and swear that after this ca
tastrophic war the women of all ma
tions shall work unitedly to prevent
forever its recurrence.
Carranza authorities have released
all prisoners confined in jails in Sonora
towns. A dozen prisoners were re-
leased from the Nogales, Sonora, jail,
among them Mexican held on three
separate charges of murder. 1t is be-
lieved the men are being released upon
promise to join the Mexican army
and because Of the difficulty in obtain
ing food for them.
The United States consulate at Tor
reon, Mexico, was demolished June 18
by mob Of 5000 civilians, led by the
mayor of the city and Carranza army
band, according to American refugees
arriving at Eagle Pass, Tex, late
Tuesday. The populace was attending
bullfight, according to the refugees,
when the de facto government troops
forced them to join in an anti-Ameri-
can demonstration.
A large force of Russian cavalry,
after battle with Austro- Hungarian
troops, has occupied a position near
Pezoritt, about 81 miles west of Kim
polung, in Bukowina. The foregoing
was announced in the official statement
issued by the Russian war office. Re
garding the operations in Bukowina,
the war Office announced that Russian
forces also were advancing southwark,
approaching the passes leading into
Pennsylvania.
The hospital tent of Oregon's mo
bilization camp has not yet been occu
pied.
-Four new companies of Oregon
Coast artillery will be formed at once
and offered to the government for USE
wherever they may be wanted.
Francisco Villa is reported to be il
Juarez, Mex, across the river from
Ell Paso.
Edward s. Ellis, 76 years old, notet
as a writer Of boys stories, died al
Cliff Island, Me. At 10 Mr.. Ellis be
gan to write, his first works being
dime novels.
The Notifications appropriation bill,
carrying $34, 300, 900 for defense and
for both coast and field artillery ord
nance and ammunition, was passed by
the house, 165 to 8. Its total is an
increase of about SIT, 900, 900 over last
years bill.