The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-06-09
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.

One hundred and eight precincts out
of total of 2297 in the state of lows
give for suffrage S069, against, II, 062
Every state in the Union is repre-
sented among the 100 men who have
arrived at the first Plattsburg, N. Y,
camp of military instruction.
| Only the signature of President Will.
son is now lacking to complete the
final enactment of the Oregon and Cal.
ifornia land-grant law, the house hav-
ing ratified the conference report.
The suit brought by George J. Gould
and other trustees of the estate of Jay
Gould to recover S1,741, 900 from the
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
railway was dismissed by Federal
Judge Hand.
The Hawley Pulp & Paper company,
of Oregon City, announces change in
its mills from the two-shift to the
three-shift plan. More than go more
men will be employed under the new
arrangement.
Russian forces have won great sue
cesses along the front from the Pripet
marshes to the Roumanian frontier,
according to an official announcement
from Petrograd. 1t is stated that the
Russians took 1000 prisoners.
The U. S. Supreme court interpreted
the Harrison Federal Drug Act of
1914, making it unlawful for any per-
son not registered under the law to
have opium in his possession, as apply
ing only to those who deal in the drug
and not to those who use it.
Possible danger that the present
strike Of the Butte Workingmen' s
Union might spread to the mines was
dissipated when the electricians in the
employ of the mining companies met
and determined not to go out in sym
pathy with the smaller unions of the
city under any circumstances.
The British destroyer Acasta, which
the Germans reported they had sunk,
has arrived at a northeast coast port
under tow of another destroyer. The
shell which put her out of action, after
she had been in the thick of the fight
ing for 40 minutes, exploded in the
engine-room, killing five men.
The U. S. Supreme court holds that
interurban electric cars, crossing state
lines, are amenable to the safety ap-
pliance act, although they move for a
part of the route in city service.
Conviction Of the Spokane & Inland
Empire Railroad company, operating
from Spokane to Occur d'Alene, Idaho,
for failure to comply with the act, was
upheld and $500 fine imposed.
A Reuter- dispatch form Zurich says
that members of the German Land
sturm, class of 1917, who are living
abroad, have been ordered to return
home Immediately. The Landsturm
is home defense force which in
cludes, in addition to trained soldiers
between the ages of 80 and 45, all
those between the ages of II and SO
who have received no military train
ing.
Progress toward the completion of
the new automobile consolidation,
which embraces the WHY'S Overland,
the Hudson and the Chalmers automo-
bile companies, as well as allied con-
Germs, including the Autolite company,
was announced Wednesday. The new
company, probably will bear the cor
porate title of the American Motors
company, with $40, 100000 of pre-
ferred stock.
A Berlin dispatch to the Copenhagen
Politiken says that the court which
conducted the preliminary examination
of DR.. Karl Liebknecht, the Socialist
leader, decided that he should be pun
ished for treason.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung says it is
reported, although not confirmed, that
King Victor Emmanuel and his special
staff have departed from the Italian
general headquarters at Udine on ac-
count of the Austrian offensive and re-
tired to Venice.
Pierre Dreyfus, son Of Commandant
Alfred Dreyfus, of the famous "Drey-
fus Affair."" who has been serving on
the Verdun front as second lieutenant
in the artillery, has just been cited in
the orders of the day for having "par-
ticularly distinguished himself during
the violent engagements of February
rs, 27 and 28' in the battle of Verdun.
Twenty persons were killed or
wounded in an outbreak at Maracaibo,
Venezuela, against General Garcia,
who has been appointed president of
the state of Zulia.
The planting of 600 acres of land in
the Sutherlin, 0re., district to sugar
beets has been completed and the
growing crop is considered one of the
best prospects in the Northwest.
Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, of Los
Angeles, has been elected president of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs by large majority, defeating
Mrs. Samuel B. Sheath, Of Tiffin, o.