The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-04-21
Brief Resume Of General News
from All Around The Earth
UNVRSM EPPBING n 4 HNOIm
live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Efforts to amend the army reorgnn-
ization bill in the senate was quickly
defeated.
The first ten-pound box Of cherries
shipped from California sells in Chica-
90 for 500.
Premier Ryah, Of Queensland, Aus
tralia, arrived at San Francisco on his
way TO London on a mission "arising
Indirectly out Of the war.
Gasoline in st. Louis Wednesday
sold at 10 cents gallon, a drop Of ]
cent. The decline was attributed 10
the importation Of oil from Borneo-
"The French have captured the sub
marine which t0rpedoed the SUSSEX
and have made prisoners the captain
and crew." says the London Daily
Mail.
A second protest against detention
Of mails by the British authorities,
with demand for indemnities, Is said
BY the Overseas News agency to have
been made by the Dutch government.
Neutral shipowners are warned by
the British foreign Office that all ear
goes or bunkers Of coal Of German
origin in neutral ships would be liable
to seizure under the order In council Of
March ii.
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duced the gold standard, with the gold
plaster as the monetary unit. Long
standing debts will be paid in accord
ance with the former standard, a
dispatch says.
The foreign Office Of Chang Chow
Fu, Fukien, reports that 80 soldiers Of
the northern army, and upward Of 40
civilians not belonging in that locality,
have been killed by mob. Disturb
ances also are reported in Haicheng.
In speech before the convention Of
the Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton, President Wilson says: And
the only excuse that America can ever
have for the assertion Of her physical
force is that she asserts it In behalf Of
the interest Of humanity"
The Overseas News agency made
public the following: Russian sol
diers at Nikolayevsk, government Of
Samara, mntinied and set fire to the
barracks. Twenty-seven soldiers per-
ished in the flames. The men COM
planned Of ill-treatment by their Off
GERS. "
An injunction temporarily restrain
ing the enforcement Of negro segrega-
tion ordinances Of st. Louis is granted
by the Federal District court The
ordinance prohibits whites or blacks
from living in block in which rs per
cent of the houses are occupied by per
sons Of the opposite race. The other
makes similar restrictions on basis
OF 100 instead Of rs per cent.
The German crown prince, accom-
panied by his staff and number Of
correspondents, approached TO within
range of heavy French gun on the
Verdun front, when one Of the shells
exploded near the party. 1t is said
that several persons were wounded
slightly and that Others. including
Colonel Mueller, correspondent OF the
Berne Bund, were knocked down.
A rabbit drive at Lorella, Or, netted
about 1850 dead Dummies.
Bits Of the skeleton Of prehistoric
animal were dug up in gravel beds
near Baker, Or.
The sugar ratio in Germany has
been fixed at one kilogram-2- 2 pounds
per person per month, according TO
the Overseas agency.
The Danish steamer Frederick VIII
arrived in New York without 697 sacks
of mail with which she started from
Copenhagen, Christiania and Chris
tiansand The mail was removed BY
the British authorities.
Official announcement that sailors Of
the Pacific Coast win strike on May I
If shipping interests fail to comply
with certain demands relative to wages
and conditions was made at meeting
of the Portland Labor Council
Evidence relating to the rise in
gasoline is being considered BY the
Of Justice with view,
it is understood, to determine If prose
cutions can be brought under the law
as it stands or whether additional leg
islation will be required.
The Overseas News Agency Gays
that according 70 wireless report from
Badajos, Spain, several Portuguese
provinces are in open revolt.
The revolution in China l. causing
some disquietude in Japan. where the
opinion IL thet II viii be dli1eult for
Yuan Shi Kai to retain the presidency.
Chinese newspapers express alarm
the reported Russo-J apsnsse
treaty. which is said 70 grant Japan
uontrol in Far Eastern affairs The
journals say that Russia's need Of var
doubtless brought about the
reported agreement.