The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-09-08
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.

for Our Busy Readers.
About 5000 men marched in Port
lands Labor Day parade, Monday.
The Third infantry Of the Oregon
National guard, arrived at camp
Withycombe Tuesday from duty on the
border.
1t is announced officially that Dar-es-
Salaam, the chief town of German
East Africa, has surrendered to the
British.
From Klamath Falls, Oregon, it is
reported that labor is so scarce that
one of the lumber mills was obliged to
discontinue its night shift.
Less than fifty per cent Of the school
children of Portland were in attend
ance on the first day of school, owing
to the fact that it was Labor Day.
The Argentine government has
reached no final decision as to its reply
to the representations of the entente
allies that merchant summaries of a
belligerent nation should be treated as
warships.
With more than 1000 people from
all sections Of Douglas county, Oregon,
in attendance, the Rod and Gun Club
Of Riddle held its fourth annual veni-
son barbecue under the most favorable
conditions Monday.
The collapse of a portion of the
bleacher seats at the Welsh White
lightweight championship fight at
Colorado Springs. Monday precipitated
200 spectators to the ground and in
jured at least 100, several seriously.
Another clash between Chinese and
Japanese troops is officially reported
from Chaoyanwpo, Mongolia, and has
led to the dispatch Of heavy Japanese
reinforcements. It is contended that
the Chinese attacked the Japanese
while the Japanese were advancing to
mediate between the Chinese and Mon
golians.
Athens - Seizing the opportunity
offered by the presence at Piraeus,
within gunshot of Athens, of large
feet Of the entente nations, Premier
Zaimis has assumed unobtrusively what
amounts virtually to dictatorial pow
ers. All is now in readiness for the
final act to end the neutrality of
Greece.
Officers and men of the German air.
ship destroyed Saturday night while
raiding England, will be buried with
full military honors in London. De-
tails of the funeral have not been set
tied but the bodies probably will be
put in separate graves in churchyard
near the spot where they were found
after the airship fell.
Rioting, an outgrowth Of strike
of street railway trainmen in progress
in Ell Paso. Texas, followed Labor
Day parade Monday. The rioters at
tackled several streetcars being oper-
ated by strikebreakers in the down.
town streets, wrecked the cars and
beat the trainmen. A dozen persons
were arrested on charges of melting
riot and and it is estimated that at
least 30 persons were injured in the
street fighting.
John P. st. John, candidate for
the Presidency on the Prohibition
ticket in 1884, twice governor of Kan
sas, and one Of the most widely known
temperance advocates in the United
States, died at Olathe, Kan, aged S3.
At a secret session Of the Chinese
parliament, Premier Tuan Chi Jul, re-
plying to inquiries about the recent
clash between Chinese and Japanese
troops in Eastern Mongolia, said the
Japanese were the aggressors and fred
the first shots.
The price Of platinum jumped $40 an
ounce in two days, the quotations now
running from $50 to $86 an ounce.
Scarcity of the metal because Of the
war embargo set two years ago on
platinum from Russia, together with
the beginning Of the Christmas holiday
demand from jewelers., was attributed
as reasons.
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