The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-09-08
Brief Resume Of General News
from All Around The Earth
uxNuSu HlPpHlNss N MVciH
live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

About 5000 mon marched In Port
Iand's Labor Day parade, Monday.
The Third infantry Of the orsgo,
National guard. arrived At eamI
wlthyeombs Tuesday from duty on th'
border.
4 II u snno1need ofIieaiIy that DaS-es
I ealaam. the chief town Of German
! East Affira. has surrendered TO th'
I Britinhs
Z From klamath Falls. Oregon. Il Il
reported that labor 10 70 scarce that
one Of tho lumber mills was obliged q
disoontinae ita night shift.
Lees than Atty per cent Of the school
! children Of Portland were IN attend.
, ance on tho fret day Of school. owing
! 70 the iact that it was Labor Day.
q Tho Argentine government has
Reached no hnal dseislon ~ 10 lie reply
Ia the representations Of tho entente
allies that merchant submnriea Of =
bslllgoFent nation should BE- treated ~
warahips.
With more than ao0o people from
I ell sections of Donelns county, Oregon.
In attendance. the Rod and Gun Club
! Of Rlddie held itn fourth annual yoni-
aon barbecue under the most favorable
eondltions Monday.
The COLLAPSE Of q portion Of the
hlaaeher seats at tho Wclsh-WhIte
lightweight chAmplonahip fight at
Colorado Springs. Monday precipItated
900 spectators 20 the ground and In
jured 1t least 100. several seriously.
Another clash between Chinese and
Japanese troops 10 officially reported
from Chaoyanwpo. Mongolia. and has
led 70 the dispatch Of heavy Japanese
relnforcaments. II II contsndad that
the Chinese attacked the japanese
while tho Japanese were advancing 70
mediate between the Chinese and Mon
Koiians.
Athens - Seising tho opportunity
offered BY The presence 1t Piraeus,
within FunahDt 81 Athena. Of . large
fioot az tho entente nations Premier
xaImia has assumed unobtruaiveiy what
amounts virtually 10 dictatorlal pow
ora. All ID nov In readiness for the
final act 70 end the neutrality Of
Greece.
osiieers and man Of the German air
ship destroyed Saturday night while
raiding England. win be buried with
full military horrors In London. De
tails OF the funeral have not beon set
lied but the bodies probably viii be
put In separate graves In . churchyard
near the spot whcro they were found
after the alrship fell
Rioting, m euigrowth Of strike
Of street railway trainman In progress
In m Paao. Texas. followed Labor
Day parade Monday. Tho rioters A.
tackled several strectcars being oper-
atesl By strikahreakers n the down
town streets. wrecked tho cara and
hest the tralnman. A dozen persons
were arrested on charges Of melting
riot and and Il II estimated that at
least so persons were injured In the
street fighting.
John r. 81. John. . candidate for
the Presidency on the Prohibition
ticket Ia 1884. twice governor Of Kan
saa. and ono OF the most widely known
temperance advocates IN the United
States, died at 0lathe. Kan, aged 50.
Al d secret session ot the Chinese
parliament. Premier Tuan Chi Jul, re-
plying 10, Inquiries about the recent
claah between Chinese and Japanese
troops IN Eastern Mongolia, said the
Japanese were tho aggreasors and fred
the fiFst shots.
The prico Of platinum jumped $40 an
ounce In two days. the quotations now
running from $50 TO $50 an ounce.
Scarcity Of the metal because OF the
war embargo set two years ago on
platihusA ffom Russia, together with
the beginning Of the Christmas holiday
demand from jewelers., was attributed
a. reasons.
A profit Of more than 81. 900. 900
week was made by the Ford Motor
company during the year which ended
Jaly 81, according to aflnanclai state
msIit. The years business totaled
saOe. e67, SAT; the years profit was
$50, 90A, lis. Henry Ford announced
that most Of the profit viii be used In
expanding the company's business.
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