The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-03-17
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.

Vice President Marshall celebrated
his 62nd birthday Tuesday, March IA.
The Germans again attack the forts
near Verdun with the hope of gaining
the city.
Michael Damphoffer, aged 101 years,
dies in the Home for the Aged at Van
couver, Wash.
The report that Germany has offered
to buy the Danish West Indies for
$40, 600, 900, is denied.
Villa and his followers have taken a
sudden twist eastward and are declared
to be seeking new goal.
The Aero Club of America has Of
fered services of men and machines to
aid the U. S. capture Villa.
General Carranza's army is gather
ing in Northern Mexico to aid the
United States in capturing Villa.
Two Mexican editors at Los Angeles
are held to trial accused of using the
U. S. mails to incite revolt and mur-
der.
Seven women prisoners in the Jail at
San Francisco make their escape
through vacant room and descend a
ladder.
A New jersey grand jury refused to
indict woman who killed her husband
because he was beating her with a
razor strop.
Germany has requested Bulgaria to
send two divisions to the French front,
but owing to the attitude of Roumania
it is refused.
The government laboratory at Mad
ison, Wis, finds grain alcohol cheaper
than gasoline, and the director pre-
diets its general use as substitute.
Manitoba, Canada, votes 2 to / for
prohibition. When the law goes into
effect May 81, 200 bars, AZ wholesale
houses and seven licensed clubs will 20
out of business.
Senators Borah and Chamberlain
urge congress to act quickly on the
national defense program, declaring
same to be necessary, now that the
punitive expedition in Mexico may de-
velop into serious proportions.
Keith E. Dalrymple, missing for
eight years and heir to $400, 600. was
found i'll in a Missouri hospital and
taken to his home in Pennsylvania to
claim his fortune. Proceedings to de-
clare him legally dead have been drop
ped.
General Alvaro Obregon has been
appointed minister of war of Mexico,
and General Candido Aguilar minister
of foreign affairs. Many foreigners
are leaving the city and there is an
undercurrent of excitement among all
classes.
Chew Chong, 25-year-old Oriental,
was shot and killed in Chinese room
ing house in Oakland, Cal. The po-
lice think the murder was another
move in the tong war now being waged
in Pacific Coast cities.
The names of all persons arrested
for intoxication in Aberdeen, WASH,
and the places where they obtained
their liquor hereafter will be published
by Chief of Police Schmidts, according
to an announcement made by him.
DR.. ]. B. Lloyd, of the government
health service at Tacoma, Wash, who
is supervising the campaign of rat
catching in that city on an extensive
scale, says tests are now being made
from rats caught during the past week
as to evidence of bubonic plague.
While crossing Birch lake, Is miles
east of Mesaba, Mimi, William C. Taft
was attacked by seven timber wolves.
With pocket knife as his only
weapon Mr.. Taft killed two of the
animals and was himself severely
scratched before two companions with
rifles came to his assistance and drove
off the wolves.
Failure Of the machine guns to work
at the crucial time when most needed
at the beginning of the fighting be-
tween the Villa bandits and the Thir-
teenth Cavalry at Columbus, N. NJ, is
the reason given for the escape of the
Villa band and also for the relatively
small Inaa arnono thax., ...o-J:- -