The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-09-01
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
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.


King Constantine undergoes opera
tion, by which a part of his tenth rib
was removed.
The senate ,rder Democratic eau
o,,s cor+ro1 q unable 70 bring the i'm
roirrot;on XIII r. : vote
What at cb;caoo takes tumble of
!, ,ants nov bpaheI when news of Rou-
,nan;a,a entrance into the war was re-
oa;nad
Il
Jonn ~. ohoop' Sup1ii'9
s;hs h-nLan n ON arto wreck at DAN
u;ile nj
A fire in the Snoqualmie iorest re-
serve on the Whltecnuck river' near
the Cascades, IS again beyond controi,
after Deing reported uhoer coh'iol
President wilson IS preparing
message to congress this week on tne
nationwide railroad strike siutation
and advising measures with which TO
adjust the difficulties.
The endemic of infantile paralysis
in New York is on the wane according
to statistics OF the health department.
One day showed ~ cases were ais-
missed from hospitals and 80 aomitteo.
Cant Jobn Astor of England. and
.on of Raron William Waldorf Astor.
formerlv of New York. marries Lady
Charles Mercer Marine, widow OF Lord
Marine, who was killed early IN the
war.
Tho San Francisco chamber of COM
marca and the ITnion Iron Works have
joat their fipht in the United States
District court to forestall inauguration
of higher transcontinental freight
rates to and from Pacific Coast ports
September ].
The German emperor has ordered
nostnonement until after the war of
tbe execution of all sentences imposed
for The punishment of French pris-
oners both civilian and military, on
account Of acts committed up to Sep
tember l of this year.
DESIGNS for a 9. 9.5-inch howitzer have
been virtually completed and U. S.
armv officers believe the gun a more
powerful and better weapon in every
wav than the 11-inch and 12-inch guns
of similar tvpe now in use abroad. 1t
will have a range of nearly ten miles.
h.,e o,noes uoro +akan
from each loaf of bread baked Wednes-
dav bv San Francisco bakers to be sold
for ( cents. and doughnuts were
raised from IL to is cents dozen, as
also were snails, rolls and buns. Here
tofore the b-cent ioaVes nave "eigleo
Id ounces.
Suit for 81. 500, 900 against an al
legged cement combine seeking absolute
control or the ruin of the Oregon Port.
land Cement company, Of Oswego, is
filed in the Federal court at Portland
by Aman Moore, largest individua
stockholder, vice president and treas
urer. in the name Of the company.
u.;a. ronaro, oonard Wood com
,.aad;ur tha arnv,a Eastern depart
ment has been appointed head of ,
Joint army and navy board, to pas
Judgment on the radio-controlled tor
pedo. provision for the purchase O
which from the inventor, John Hay
Hammond Jr.. has been made in con
gress.
A.. A,n..;.., Mav;.
conferees to settle border question
will meet during the first week Of Sep
tember somewhere along the Ne'
hi'siaie sA'''
Patricia Burke, a noted Caiifornl
beauty, is another American girl wh
has married an English title. She
NV ow .~s;od W. ~ tha Esrl of Cottenba,
;eTa.sa. n - ~ Arn,st A. 1s
in l' o
Russian forces opsrallhs q SUI
ern turkish Arnenia nav Ieoeeup,o
Musn, captured py .he iulAs on %. a.
gust O. says an omcia. announoenen n:.
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