The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-04-07
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
uSynsu HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHELL
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

battle cruisers arc 10 be provided by
congress NJ this session.
Tho rapid advance In tho price Of
gasoline spurs congress 70 push its In.
Vestlgatlona ~ 10 tho cause.
Six thousand out Of 10. sigma
lures ON a recall petition In San Fran
eisco have been declared fraudulent.
Chang Chow Fu. ono Of tho largest
cities In China. has declared lie indie
pondenee Of tho government OF Yuan
Shl KAi.
A I2,O0O-ton Russian transport with
troops and war materials aboard swaA
sunk BY Turkish submarine In tho
Black sea on March 80.
A Salem. Ore. woman allghtlng
from buggy. tripped on tho lnprobe.
which caused her 10 fall head first on
the eurbing. killing her instantly.
University Of Oregon students Of
Journalism take entire charge Of tho
editorial and reportoriai departments
of the Eugene Daily Guard for ono
week.
Lloyds reports that tho British bark
Bengairn has been sunk by sub.
marine. Part Of tho crew were picked
up. Il IL said tho vessel was not
armed.
Constnnsinople dispatches say that
the Turkish troops on the Caucasian
front have received considerable rein
forcementa and that the Russian
Offensive has been checked. Reccntly
the only sighting has been among small
detachmenta.
President Wilson plAna 20 occupy
shadow Lawn" the summer home ~
New Jersey offered him by the people
of the state. ~ soon a. congress ad'
Iourns. In case congress Ia In sessior
during the summer no probably will
spend week-ends theFe before adjourn
ment,
A clash between Haitien bandits ant
pollce In Northeast Haiti 10 reported
10 the Navy department BY Admiral
Caperton. United States forces were
not involved In the fighting. Ono 20
liceman was killed and three wounded,
while tho outlaws lost several killed
and number captured.
A Hayas dispatch from Athens sayl
the Bulgarian government has notiiiet
Greece that II haa given orders fol
evacuation Of points on Greek territor,
occupied by Bulgarian troopa. bnl
Raria assured Greece Of the intention
% do everything poasible TO maintaii
friendly relations between tho two ma
tiona.
Owing TO strike among the dairy
mon who supply Chicago with milk. I
IL said there IA only three-day suppl,
cf milk FOR tl.c babies. The dalrymei
are ondeavoring 10 force the dlstrib
utors to pay more for their product
by holding back 1000, 1000 quarts
day, and Of this SOC. 600 quarts arr
being fed 70 the pigs.
An account Of the torpedoing Of tn
Franco Russian hospital ahip Portnga
IN the Black Sea March 80, with tn
loss or many lives. including those O
Red Croas officials and Sisters of Char
ity. was cahied from Petrograd 20 tn
Russian embassy at Washington an'
probably will be filed with the Stat
department for its information. Th'
Turkish government has officially do
MED that any Of It's submarines mad
the attack, and II II assumed In allie
diplomatic quarters here that the Port
ugal was the victim Of an Austrial
craft.
The municipal woodward Of Portlan'
n short one thousand cords Of wood
and no one seems to know what be
camo Of II.
Two masked robbers attempted =
hold up Seattle bank, but younl
lady student OF the University Q
Washington, who was the only Gus
toner In the bank at the time, argue
and protested with the men until the
had to fee or be captured.
Captain Hans ihuscner, nuspahu y
Johanna Gadski. the opera singer. an
said to be an officer In the German
navy. was arrested in New York on
warrant charging him with being cor
cerned in an alleged conspiracy to blo'
up the Welland canal In Canada.
An investigation into the enormou
increase In the price Of gasoline ha
been ordered by the senate
After killing every one OF the II
men In the garrison at Guerrero, Frar
claco Villa is said TO have moved nortl
ward, according TO unofficial informs
tion secured by General Funston.
All foot and mouth disease quarai
tines and restrictions on the shipmer
Of livestock are removed by an ords
issued by the department Of Agricu
ture. and the announcement Is mad
that the country Is now entirely frs
Of the scourge.