The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-02-25
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS m A NUTSHELL
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Hi Gill is again nominated for
mayor of Seattle.
The house of commons votes new
credit of 2.082, 900, 900 pounds sterling.
Four hundred lumbermen Of the
Northwest are holding a meeting in
Portland.
A Wenatchee, Wash, couple kept
their wedding secret since October 8
last year.
The French succeed in bringing to
earth a Zeppelin making raid over
that country.
Another Portland Chinaman was shot
in the tong war Monday, and Hop
Sing suspect is in Jail.
Great ava.anches of snow and dirt
in several districts in Germany have
killed IS persons recently.
President Wilson has filed petition
to place his name before the Iowa
voters in the April 10 primaries.
Ex-President Taft declares that
"boss-ridden conventions" produce bet
ter results than primary elections.
Several Portland druggists are under
investigation for the alleged selling of
grain alcohol, which is used as bev-
erage.
Mildred Marek, 81 years old, who
lived near Boise, Ida., was struck over
the heart with batted baseball and
died from the effects.
The Chicago police are momentarily
expecting to capture Jean Crones, the
anarchist accused of poisoning several
hundred banqueters in that city.
William Orpet, University Of Wis
consin junior, is held to the grand jury
in connection with the death of his
former sweetheart, Marion Frances
Lambert.
An entente allies's submarine sue
ceeded in passing through the Dar-
danelles and sinking four ships carry
ing munitions. The visitation caused
a panic in Constantinople.
All the income tax cases before the
Supreme court are disposed of in favor
of the government on the authority of
the original decision, upholding the
constitutionality of the law.
Colonist passenger fares from points
in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and
nearby states to Portland, Seattle, San
Francisco and other points on the Pa
cifc Coast and in Western Canada were
authorized by the Interstate Commerce
commission.
Alaska's trade with the outside
world increased $12, 900, 900 last year,
according to figures made public by
the department of Commerce. The
balance of trade in the territory's
favor was $27, 900, 900. Exports were
valued at $55, 1000, 900 and imports at
$28, 900, 900.
Reports of acute suffering and ap-
peals for immediate relief have reach
ed Natchez, Miss, from Concordia and
Tensas parishes, in Northern Louis
lana, where half dozen towns, not
heard from for several days, were said
to be inundated, with their inhabitants
marooned and in imminent danger.
The steamer Pavlof in Alaskan
waters, sends S. O. S.
Fashion has decreed that the barrel
skirt is correct apparel for this spring.
Fire caused $3.50, 600 damages to the
Inman-Poulsen lumber yards and mill
in Portland.
Sweden asks Uncle Sam to aid in
their protest to England against the
Britons' intercepting mail to that coun-
try.
President Wilson has presented a
list of Americans killed in Mexico in
the last three years, to the senate. The
total is liz.
A bachelor school teacher at Ever
EFT, Wash, has educated at his own
expense, seventeen boys and one girl.
He is an author of some note and from
this fund pays for the schooling, living
on his salary as teacher.
Paper mills in the United States are
operating to capacity and many Of
them are turning away orders, but the
increase in the price of raw materials
and the high price of labor have re-
duced the profits of the business.
Federal detectives are making q
nationwide search for the gang Of an
archists who, it is alleged, is instiga-
tors of the poison plot.
The Umatilla Indians object to the
building Of bridge across the Una
tilla river at their expense, declaring
the bridge is for the benefit of the
white man, and not them.
Sawmill and logging companies de-
clare that by the middle of March
there will be shortage Of unskiIled
labor in these lines. Day labor has
advanced from 50 to s2.25 and will go
to $3.50 per day.