The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-05-26
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHELL
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

A Greek collier was sunk Thursda,
by an Austrian submarine. Twenty
seven members Of the crew wer'
picked up by French torpedo boat.
The resignation Of Charles Ware Al
general manager Of the Union Pacific
was announced Tuesday at the com
pany's headquarters. No reason y
given.
The Swedish steamer Rosalinn. 81
tons, from Copenhagen for Stugsund
In ballast. has been sunk by mine OF
the Stockholm Skerries. The crew
was saved.
BY q vote Of so to 81. the house Il
committee Of the whole has adopted Al
amendment to grant suffrage to ths
women Of Porto Rico. II was proposes
by Republican Leader Mann.
Notices Of contests from the Sixth
Seventh and Fourteenth districts o.
Texas. involving four delegates TO th'
Republican National convention are re
ceived by Secretary Reynolds.
The battleship Nebraska left th'
navy yard at Boston Tuesday under
orders TO proceed TO Mexico. She vii
take on a complement Of apprentice
seamen ut Newport. X. l., On routs.
Victor Carlstrom, In a i60-horse'
power biplane. flew from Newport
News. Va, TO the Sheepshoad Bay
speedway, In Now York City. Tues
day, distance Of 4i6 miles. in -four
hours and one minute.
More than 1900 French. including 81
officers. le machine guns and eight
cannon, were captured In a German
assault on the Verdun front In the 70
gion Of Deadman's hill, the German
war Office announced Tuesday.
President Poincare has conferred the
war cross on Queen Elizabeth Of Bel
gium as an expression Of ''the admira.
tion Of the people for the magnificent
courage and untiring devotion TO the
wounded which she has never ceased e
show under the enemy's are. /"
London underwriters charge so pei
cent to insure against declaration Of
peace between Great Britain and Ger
many before January l. The rate In.
aicates that in the underwritors' opin-
ION the prospects for an early peace
are better than two months ago, when
the rate for the same risk was only 81
per cent.
Ii Ia officially announced from Dub.
lin that In addition TO the sentence Of
death imposed on Jeremiah G. Lynch,
American, n similar sentence was I'm
posed upon Peter Gallighnn, but that
this sentence was comnuted to hvs
years penal servitude. A number Of
other persons also were sentenced e
various terms Of imprisonment.
Nine residents Of Pacific county,
Wash. were arraigncd Wednesday be.
fore Judge Cushman In the United
States District court at Tacoma, on In
dictments returned by the Federal
grand jury last Saturday. charging
conspiracy against Mrs. Margaret Ross
and sons. The defendants arc tho al,
legged nightriders who are accused Of
having forcibly restrained Mrs. koaa
and her sons from exercising theii
rights as settlers on the public domain
The.administration's five-year navy
program was rejected by a house com
mittee.
The Northwestern railroad at 0maha
has announced an increase OF s pei
cent In wages Of some classes OF en-.
ployes.
A San Francisco judge has decided
that IL iB az much q crime for q woman
TO desert her dependent children III
for a man 70 desert his family.
-Four mice. whose ancestors had beer
inoculated with tumor germs for II
years, took up their residence In the
Crocker cancer research laboratory At
Columbia University, New York,
where they have been brought from
London to be safe from wars ravages.
Estimates Of the governments re-
ceipts and expenditures for the re.
mainder Of the current fiscal year and
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1877,
tend 10 show that much less new reve.
nue. will have TO be raised TO meet the
bill for preparedness and other large
contemplated expenditures than had
been supposed.
An earthquake Of particular violence
has occurred along the Adriatic coast
Of Italy. At eczema dozen persons
were injured. Interior districts were
also badly shaken.
A handbag containing six $40 billl
was found In q bundle Of clothing BY
Salvation Army workers in Portland.
Upon returning the money to its owner
they received $40 bill az reward.
Sergeant Furman, a member Of the
machine gun company Of the Twenty
third Infantry, was shot and killed on
Mexican soil mile and half east OF
Juarez by Mexican customs guards.
Gypsies up-to-date - IA motor cars
full Of them-the band numbering 100
members, left Eugene, Ore, en- route
from San Diego to Minneapolis.
It is generally believed that the vote
of credit which Premier Asquith will
ask from Parliament room will be for
$500, 900, 600. This will bring the
total thus granted to R2,SS2, 900, 0O0.
The German ambassador to the
United States has issued orders to all
German residents TO cease violations
Of American laws in their efforts to