The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-08-04
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.

During July 28 and 20, the Russians
captured 80, 900 Germans.
The supreme lodge of Knights Of
| Pythias is in session at Portland.
One hundred and eighty-four persons
lose their lives in the forest fire in On
tario.
German aircraft make raid on the
English coast, dropping bombs at sew
eral points.
Winston Churchill, former first lord
of the British admiralty, declares Eng
land was saved by her navy.
The German submarine Deutschland,
preparing to leave American waters,
fears an accident" in Chesapeake
bay.
Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria,
contracted a severe cold while in
specting troops and is confined to his
bed.
Mrs. Sarah Barr, one of the oldest
white women in California died Tues
day at Monrovia, near Los Angeles,
aged 1902.
The heat wave that has enveloped
Chicago and the Middle West, was
broken Monday by stiff breeze from
the North.
England positively refuses to permit
medicines for American Red Cross So
cieties to pass the allies lines into
Germany or Austria.
The committee on industrial pre-
paredness Of the naval consulting
board has completed survey of the
resources in case Of war.
The U. S. court at Norfolk, Va, has
rendered decision which gives back
to English owners the prize ship Ap-
pam, captured by the Germans.
The failure of the Pope's appeals to
the warning nations for peace was ad-
mitted by the Pontiff in addressing a
delegation Of thesyouth of Rome.
During quarrel between two en-
ployes Of the Union Meat company at
Portland, one man was knocked into a
vat of boiling water and cooked alive.
Striking employees of the three large
packing houses in East st. Louis have
voted to accept the concessions made
by the employers and to return to
work Tuesday. About 4500 men are
involved.
Henry Edward Duke, a barister and
Unionist member of Parliament for
Exeter, was appointed to be the new
chief secretary of ireland in succession
to Augustine Birrell. The new chief
secretary will have seat in the Brit
ish cabinet.
Nineteen days with the thermometer
averaging SO degrees was the record
of the hot spell in Chicago. The high
est temperature was 1902; the lowest
81. A total of 1926 deaths occurred.
including 176 babies; 26O0 prostra-
tions were reported, and 800 horses
dropped dead in the streets.
An aviator at San Diego, CAL, sends
wireless messages at ten-minute inter-
walls during flight.
Mathematicians at Aberdeen, WASH,
have figured out that by shaving your
self three times week for so years,
providing you take the money saved
from BARRIERS and place it at compound
interest, fortune of $11, 100 will
have been accumulated.
B. F. Finn, SO years old, of the Nc
Kenzie River region, Lane county,
Oregon, claiming to have been the
original Of Mark Twain's character,
"Huckleberry" Finn, has lost his
case in court for the cancellation of a
deed conveying the old Finn place.
The severity Of the fighting since
the beginning of the present offensive
on the Western front is indicated by
the list of casualties among officers,
issued by the London war office, show
ing for the first three weeks of July
1108 killed, 1884 wounded and 491
missing.
Nearly $70O, 900, 600 for national de-
fense in the fiscal year 1917 Is the ag-
gregate Of proposed appropriations in
the senate with passage of the army
appropriation bill carrying in round
numbers 1914, 900, 900. This grand
total for preparedness still is subject
to revision, however.
Senator Borah, Of Idaho, has been
selected as Western manager Of the
Republican campaign.
Eight persons are arrested in San
Francisco, as parties to the placing Of
the bomb on the street which exploded
during the preparedness parade, kill
ing eight people and iniuring 40.
Evangelist "Billy" Sunday will
make the opening speech for the anti
saloon league in Portland, which plans
TO make Oregon absolutely" dry.
Sunday is reported to have refused
an offer Of sI50.000 to appear in the
movies.