The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-08-11
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.

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Thirty-two cases of cholera are re.
ported in Yokohama.
Oregon crops this year are estimated
to be worth $50. 18l. 730.
Forty thousand pounds of wool il
sold at Eugene, Ore, at approximately
40 cents per pound.
A humming bird kills two canaries
at Oregon City, having entered the
cage for the purpose.
Columbia Beach, resort near Port
land, has been closed by the health au-
thorities, who allege insanitary condi-
tions exist there.
The Portland chamber of commerce
proposes a tax Of one mill for the pur-
pose Of substituting shipowners to enter
the port Of Portland.
Charles E. Hughes makes his first
campaign speech at Detroit. Other
speeches will be made in leading cities
Of the West on the initial trip.
The strong Turkish force which at
tackled the British at Romani, 22 miles
east Of the Suez canal, on August A.,
was defeated and put to flight by a
counter-attack.
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Robert F. Wagner, Of New York,
for governor, and Calvin J. Huston,
Of Yates county, for lieutenant COVER
nor, was the ticket agreed on at con-
ference in New York City of 15 prom
inent Democrats.
Two earthquakes were recorded by
the seismograph at the University of
Santa Clara. CAL, the first at II 40
o'clock Monday morning, lasting for
about 15 minutes, registering an am
plitude Of 80 millimeters.
A great fire in forest near Savona,
Italy, along front of nearly three
miles is reported in Havas dispatch
from Rome. Two thousand soldiers
bsve been sent to fight the fire, the
cause Of which is unknown.
The city Of Brussels has refused to
pay the fine Of s, 600, 900 marks i'm
posed by the Germans in consequence
Of the demonstration which took place
at the Belgian capital on July 81, the
national fete day. A serious crisis is
expected.
DIR. Eva Harding, Of Topeka, Kan,
a suffragist leader, has won the Demo-
cratic nomination for repr esentative in
congress in the First district over
Rev. H. ]. Corwine, in the recent
statewide primary. DIR. Harding,
whose majority was sos, is the only
woman congressional candidate in the
state for the coming election.
The proposition to submit consti-
tutional amendment for statewide
prohibition received a favorable ma
jority Of 2103 votes in the July 20
Texas primary, according to the COM
plete and official canvass of a sub-com-
mittee Of the State Democratic Exec
utive committee. The total vote was:
For. 174, ABS; against, 172, 1872.
Offers Of 81 per bushel for North
western wheat are refused.
One child in every five dies of infan-
tile paralysis in New York.
The State department declines to
stand behind American bankers who
were negotiating loan to China.
Sir Roger Easement, the instigator
of the Irish revolution, was hanged
in London Thursday for high treason.
Frank West, two-year-old son Of F.
A. West, Of Prosser, Wash, was
drowned in the Sunnyside canal. The
body was recovered after having been
carried through two miles of wood
stave pipe.
The supreme lodge of Knights Of
Pythias in session at Portland last
week. elected John ]. Brown, Of Van
dalia, Ill, supreme chancellor and
Charles s. Davis, Of Denver, vice
chancellor.
National Guardsmen, relieved from
duty on the border for disability, re-
turned to Oakland, CAL, to find their
armery had been looted of $500 in
clothing by burglars, who had cleaned
out every locker.
An attempt by Bulgarian soldiers to
seize an island in the Roumanian
waters of the Danube river close to
the town Of Giurgevo has caused a
sensation there, according to reports
received by Bucharest newspapers.
Should the great railroad strike now
pending be declared, all traffic would
be stopped on 1885 roads, with the ex-
eeption of mail and troop trains.
The Serbian government has decided
TO conyoke the Serbian parliament.
King Peter Of Serbia and the Greek
government have been advised Of this
intention.
The garment strike which virtually
has paralyzed the women's suit and
cloak industry in New York for nearly
four months. was declared settled at
. general meeting Of the strike com
mittee.