WORLD'S DOINGS
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.
Italy closes navigation of the Adri
atic sea unless ships are under convoy.
Austrians submarine and sink an
Italian warship. Most of the crew
was saved.
The steamship Minnehaha, loaded
with 15,000 tons of war munitions, is
afire in midocean.
Reports of food shortage and suffer
ing continue to reach the State depart
ment from Mexico.
Germans complain that the French
mistreat prisoners, and reprisals are
said to have begun.
American consuls point to the seri
ous situation in Mexico and urge
Bpeedy action by this government.
Naval officers have taken charge of
the German wireless plant at Sayville,
N. Y., believing neutrality was being
violated.
Canada has increased her war
strength to 150,000 men, which, will be
drawn on by England as the require
ments arise.
Cincinnati is visited by the most se
vere storm in its history. Many lives
are lost and a million dollars' damage
is done to property.
Iowa has unearthed a mysterious
murder committed, it is said, in 1868,
and as a consequence a man aged 70 is
in jail accused of the crime.
President Wilson refuses to consider
or comment on tentative note from
Germany. Until the full text is re
ceived no action will be taken.
Interest in the field maneuvers of
the Orgon militia has been greatly
increased by the indications that the
United States regulars may soon be
sent to Mexico.
The French senate appropriates
$600,000 to be UBed by the minister of
marine in payment for cargoes of neu
tral vessels that have been seized, and
especially of that of the American
steamer Dacia.
Belgians have suddenly adopted the
practice of wearing sprays of ivy as an
expression of loyalty to Belgium and
the allies, as a result of General von
Biasing's order prohibiting the display
of Belgian colors.
Steel mills in the Pittsburg district
have received within the past few days
orders for projectile steel which aggre
gate 75,000 tons. Early in the year
teel of this grade was offered at $31
a ton, but latest sales are Baid to have
been made at $38. This material is to
be sent abroad.
A decree has beed published in Paris
prohibiting the export of gold except
by the Bank of France. This is a pre
cautionary measure taken at the sug
gestion of Minister of Finance Ribot.
It has been found that exported gold
has not been destined always for a
neutral country in settlement of ac
counts. A free outflow might result
In dangerous traflic, according to the
minister.
Turkey sinks French transport in
the Dardanelles.
Twin deer have been born at the
Washington Park, at Portland.
The Liberty Bell is making its first
trip across the continent to San Fran
CISCO.
British report capture of German
tranches on the extreme left line near
Ypres.
Indications point strongly to inter
vention in Mexico by the United
Mates.
San Francisco reports the safest
Fourth of July in its history. No one
was injured.
J. P. Morgan, who was shot by a de
mented would-be assassin, is reported
out of danger.
England has taken over the control
of the sale of liquors in many districts
where war material is being handled,
The American consular agent Bt
Swinenmunde, Prussia, reports that
the American steamship Platuria, from
New York with a cargo of petroleum
consigned to a Swedish port, has been
held up by a German warship and
brought into bwinenmunde.
Italy is reported successful in her
warfare against forces in the Corsa re
gion, having materially advanced and
captured 900.
Frank Holt, who exploded a bomb in
the national rapitol and shot J. P,
Morgan In his home, succeeded in com
mitting suicide in the jail in Mineola,
N. Y.
Sueley Hall, of Medford, Or., drove
a six-passenger car to the summit of
the Crater Lake rim. This is the ear
liest date an automobile has ever
reached the lodge. The snow has
mulled 12 days earlier than ever before.
SUBMARINE FORCES AMERICAN SHIP
TO ACT AS SCREEN FROM VICTIM
Liverpool How an American ship
is alleged to have been used as a shield
by a German submarine for the sink
ing of another vessel is the story re
lated by members of the crew of the
American bark Normandy, which has
arrived here from Gulf port, Miss.
The story is that the Normandy was
itopped by a German submarine 60
miles southwest of Tuskar Rock, off
the southeast coast of Ireland, Friday
night. The captain was called aboard
the submarine, where his papers were
examined and found to show that the
hip was chartered by an American
firm January 5.
The captain of the bark, it was as
serted, was allowed to return to the
Normandy,, but under the threat that
his ship would be destroyed unless he
stood by and obeyed orders. These
orders, it was said, were that he was
to act as a shield for the submarine,
which lay at the side of the bark, hid
ing itself from an approaching vessel.
This vessel proved to be the Russian
steamer Leo. Presently the submarine
submerged and proceeded around the
bow of the Normandy, so the story
went, and 10 minutes later the crew of
the Normandy saw the Leo blown up.
Twenty-five persons were on board,
of whom 11 were drowned, including
three stewardesses.
Thse saved included three Americans
Walter Emery, of North Carolina;
Harry Clark, of Sierra, and Harry
Whitney, of Camden, N. J.
All these three men, when inter
viewed, corroborated the foregoing
Btory. They declared that no oppor-
tunity was given those on board the
Leo for Baving life.
The Leo was bound from Philadel
phia to Manchester with a general car
go.
Edison Will Head American Board
of Invention for Army and Navy
West Orange, N. J. Thomas A.
Edison has accepted an invitation from
Secretary Daniels to head an ad
visory board of civilian inventors for a
bureau of invention and development
to be created in the navy department,
His acceptance will go forward at
once to Washington, where the new
plans await word from the man who
can turn dreams into realities.
Mr. Daniels' idea of utilizing the
inventive genius of Americans in and
out of the military and naval service to
meet conditions of warfare shown in
the conflict on land and sea in Europe
is outlined in a letter written last
Wednesday asking Mr. Edison wheth
er, as a patriotic service to his coun
try, he would undertake the task of
advising the proposed bureau. The
plan is to have several men prominent
in special lines of inventive research
associated in the work.
Among the great problems to be laid
before the investigators the secretary
mentioned submarine warfare, adding
that he felt sure that with Mr. Edi
son's wonderful brain to help them the
officers of the navy would be able "to
meet this new danger with new devices
that will assure peace to our country
by their effectiveness.
New York City Grows.
New York Father Knickerbocker's
population has increased almost half a
million in the last five years. To be
exact, the normal growth of the great
er city from the day the national cen
sus takers finished their work in 1910
until June 13 last, when the state
enumerators started in, was 478,929,
an increase of more than 10 per cent.
According to census supervisors of
Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the
Bronx and Richmond, New York had a
population of 5,245,812 on June 13, as
compared with 4,766,883 in 1910.
French Contribute Gold.
Paris The flow of gold from the
private stocks of the public into the
Bank of France continues. More than
10,000 persons deposited gold at the
bank during Friday and Saturday. Re
cently the Bank of France extended an
invitation to the public to turn in its
private hoards of gold to strengthen
the national reserve. The response
was such that the bank had to desig
nate a half dozen receiving tellers to
take the coin offered.
Trade Balance Continues.
Washington, D. C. A favorable
trade balance of $20,545,773 was
shown by the weekly statement of im
ports and exports at the 13 principal
ports of the United States, issued by
the department of Commerce. The
statement shows $29,896,465 for im
ports and $50,442,243 for exports. The
balance is an increase of more than
$3,000,000 over the first week of last
month and $11,000,000 over last week,
French Outbuy Bond Issue.
Paris The minister of finance, M
Ribot, introduced in the chamber of
deputies a bill raising the limit of the
issue of national defense bonds from
$1,200,000,000, as fixed in the law of
May 18, to $1,400,000,000. Subscrip
tions already have exceeded the prev
ious limit by $30,000,000. The French
public in 11 months has taken $1,680,
000,000 of national bonds.
War Gets 200,000 Horses.
Hinton, W. Va. Fifty men were
added to the force required to handle
the war horses fed and watetfal here
on their way from the West to the At
lantic seaboard. Fully 200,000 horses
have been handled since the European
war began, according to the officers in
charge.
FRENCH SUCCESSFUL
T
Commanding Points Over Plain
of Flanders Heights Won.
BOTH SIDES USING HEAVY ARTILLERY
Night Attacks Spectacular Reports
Say Teutons Lose 120,00 Men
During 120 Days Battle.
Paris After battling 120 days for
the hilly country between Bethune and
Arras, the French forces are in posses
sion of all the eminences looking out
upon the plain of Flanders. Lille,
Douai and Cabrai all are visible from
here.
Every position along the broad na
tional road between Arras and Bethune
has been won except Souchez, and last
night another quarter-mile of trenches
in the Souchez web was torn away,
The attack was made under parachute
rocket lights, the French burning
bluish white and the Germans greenish
white, covering the scene of the des
perate conflict with a ghastly glow.
The most desperate fighting has been
along the short 10-mile front from
Arras to Aix Noulette, which began
March 9 with the taking of a few hun
dred yards of trenches on the water
shed of Notre Dame de Lorette, where
there are the ruins of an old Merovin
gian military road. Every day since
then some section of the German
trenches have been taken, lost or re
taken.
Each side has been employing for
midable artillery, both of small and
heavy caliber, the French guns being
somewhat the more numerous and
served with unlimited quantities of
high-explosive Bhels.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press went through five or six miles of
the trenches formerly held by the Ger
mans and reconstructed by the French
Upward of 100,000 Germans have
fallen or been captured in these
trenches, according to the French offi
cial count, since the second week of
March. The French losses, the cor
respondent was confidentially informed,
while serious, have been much smaller
than those of the Germans. There are
thickets of little crosses made of twigs
tied together marking graves between
the trenches. Some of these graves
have been torn up by the shell fire.
Two-cent Rate Causes Railroads to
Withdraw Many Public Privileges
Chicago W. J. Cannon, assistant
general passenger agent of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad,
continuing his testimony in the west
ern passenger rate hearing here, said
the two-cent fare laws had wiped out
the practice of granting special rates
to fairs, conventions and resorts where
the hauls are short ones.
"Experience," he said "has proved
that the institution of reductions like
tourists fares has generally stimulated
travel and as a large percentage is
carried on regular trains the railroads
can afford to make Buch reductions.
Tourist fares of all characters are open
to the public and necessarily reduced
the average rate per mile. Homeseek
ers' fares, which apply to round-trip
tickets, have been made for many
years to the West, Southwest and
Northwest, and the demand continues.
"The carriers are vitally interested in
inducing settlers to take up or pur
chase land.
Experience shows that the bargain
rate principle of granting such con
cessions on certain days is a factor of
consequence in accomplishing the de
sired result."
Pacific Trade Growing.
San Francisco Big increases in im
ports and exports through the San
Francisco customs office for the year
ended June 30 are shown by the annual
report of the collector. During the last
six months the increase in exports over
the same period last year is about two
thirds. Exports for the last six months
were $39,573,826; same period in 1914
$24,326,152. Other figures for the
year ended June 30, 1915, are: Ex
ports 1915, $79,731,766; exports 1914,
$62,535,648; imports 1915, $76,068,
028; Imports 1914, $66,394,389.
Vatican's Lights Dimmed.
Rome, via Paris. German Zeppe
lins, according to reports received in
Rome, have been transported to the
coast of the Austrian Adriatic sea.
Their object, it is said, is to reach
Rome. The Italian government has
notified the Vatican and the Pope has
ordered that the lights of the apostolic
palace be dimmed or extinguished at
an early hour. The Pope also gave in
structions for the removal of art treas
ures from places exposed to damage.
60 Passengers Held Up.
Los Angeles Fifty passengers on a
westbound Pacific electric interurban
car were held up and robbed late Sun
day night by two masked men about
a mite west of Pomona. The robbers
poked their guns under the nose of the
conductor when he was throwing the
switch. The robbers then went
through the car and took money and
jewelry amounting to about $200 and
scaped.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS j
Wheat Bluestem, $1.08; fortyfold,
$1.04; club, $1.03; red Fife, 93c; red
Russian, 95c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $25.50 ton.
Barley No. 1 feed, $22.50 ton.
Bran $24 ton; shorts, $24.
Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $27
27.50 ton; shorts, $28 28.50; rolled
barley, $25.5026.50.
Corn Whole, $36 ton; cracked, $37.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $16
17 ton; alfalfa, $12.5013.50.
Vegetables Cucumbers, Oregon,
4075c dozen; artichokes, 75c; toma
toes, $1.50 per box; cabbage, lllc
pound; head lettuce, $1 crate; spinach,
5c pound; rhubarb, 23c; peas, 24c;
beans, 2J3c; green corn, 4075c
dozen.
Green Fruits Cherries, 4 10c
pound; cantaloupes, $2 2.75 crate;
loganberries, 75c; raspberries, $1
1.10; currants, 75c$l ; apricots, $1
1.35 box; peaches, 75c$l; watermel
ons, l21c pound; plums, $1.25 box;
new apples, $1.752.50.
Potatoes New, lljc pound.
Onions Yellow, $1 1.50; red,
$1.75 sack.
Eggs Oregon ranch, buying prices;
No. 1, 24c dozen; No. 2, 20c; No. 3,
15c. Jobbing prices : No. 1, 26c.
Poultry Hens, 10c pound; broilers,
1820c; turkeys, nominal; ducks, old,
10c; young 1520c; geese nominal.
Butter Creamery prints, plain
wrappers, 29c pound; cartons, 30c;
cukes, ordinary, 23 24c; fancy, 25
25Jc.
Veal Fancy, 10Jllc pound,
Pork Block, 10c pound.
Hops 1915 contracts, nominal; 1914
crop, 1212Jc pound.
Hides Salted hides, 14Jc pound;
salted kip, 15c; salted calf 18c; green
hides 13c; green kip, 15c; green calf,
ic; ary niaeB, Z4c; ary cair, ZBc.
Wool Eastern Oregon, medium, 25
28c pound; Eastern Oregon, fine,
18 21ic; valley, 26 30c; mohair,
new clip, 3031c pound.
Cascara bark Old and new, 44Jc,
Pelts Dry long-wooled pelts, 15ic;
dry, short-wooled pelts, lljc; dry
shearlings, each, 1015c; salted shear-
lings, each, 1525c; dry goat, long
hair, each, 13c; dry goat, Bhearlings,
each, 1020c; salted long-wool pelts,
May, $12 each.
Grain Bags In car lots, 8i8jc; in
less than car lots, about c more.
Cattle Best steers, $77.25; good,
$6.757; medium, $6.506.75; choice
cows, $66.25; good, $5.756; heif
ers, $4.756.75; bulls, $3.505; stags,
$56.50.
Hogs Light, $7.507.60; heavy,
$6.757.
Sheep Wethers, $5 5.50; ewes,
$34.60; lambs, $5.606.80.
Australia Demands More Butter,
The strong California export demand
for butter is keeping the Portland mar
ket very firm and a higher range of
prices for cubes in the near future is
probable. The belief prevails in the
trade that the 1,500,000 pounds of but
ter already shipped from San Francisco
to Australia will find its way later to
England. It is the understanding here
that Australia butter shippers con
tracted to supply the British govern
ment with a large quantity of butter
to make up for the deficiency in Dan
ish shipments, and, being unable to
complete the contract because of the
Australian drouth, they have turned to
the Pacific Coast for a supply. What
puzzles the trade is why the American
butter, if intended for England, is not
sent direct to London instead of by
way of Sydney.
Egg buying prices were unchanged
with the opening of the week. The
poultry and dressed meat markets were
quiet and unchanged.
Demand for Fruit Is Renewed.
That retailers of Portland sold up
closely on the holiday rush was indi
cated by the good demand for fruit and
vegetables on Front street this week.
Watermelons were quoted lower at
IS to 2 cents loose and 21 cents crated.
Cantaloupes were firm at last week's
prices. Oregon peaches were steady
at 75 cents to $1 and California peaches
at 90 cents to $1. Among the receipts
was a mixed car of California apples,
peaches and plums.
There was a good-sized shipment of
strawberries from Eastern Washington
points, but there was not much demand
for them. Raspberries sold readily at
$1 to $1.10. Loganberries were quiet
at 75 cents.
A lot of fancy green corn arrived
from the Imperial Valley and was put
on sale at 75 cents a dozen.
' WaterJFamlne Is Feared.
Ellensburg Charles E. Hewitt.Jof
North Yakima, water commissioner of
Kittitas and Yakima counties, after
going over water conditions in the val
leys, sounds a general warning for all
ranchers to be economical in their use
of water. "The reclamation is releas
ing 2,000 acre feet of water every day
in an effort to keep the ditches sup
plied," said Mr. Hewitt. "This is cut
ting into the storage at a fast rate and
unless there is co-operation among the
ranchers there is danger of a critical
condition in late summer."
(Wheat Not Badly Hurt.
Eltopia, Wash. The damage Satur
day night from a wind of hurricane
proportions did not shatter the stand
ing wheat as much as was feared. The
early grain probably will be damaged
from three to five bushels an acre.
Turkey red and bluestem and the late
sown Fife were not hurt materially.
The wind blew down several windmill
towers throughout the district, and but
for prompt action a large grain ware
house her would have been leveled.
BERLIN NOTE MAKES
PROMISE OF SAFETY
American Passenger Ships May
Sail Freely in War Zone.
OFFICIAL GUARANTEES ASKED OF U. S.
German Reply Makes Conditions for
Travel Under Own Flag or On
Neutral Passenger Ships.
Berlin, via London Germany's
offer, embodied in the reply to the
United States note regarding the sink
ing of the Lusitania and submarine
warfare, was delivered to James W.
Gerard, the American ambassador,
Saturday night. Its essential features
are:
First, reiterated assurances that
American ships engaged in legitimate
trade will not be interfered with nor
the lives of Americans upon neutral
ships be endangered.
Second, that German submarines
will be instructed to allow American
passenger ships to pass freely and
safely, Germany entertaining in re
turn confident hope that the American
government will see that these ships
do not carry contraband; such ships to
be provided with distinguishing marks
and their arrival announced a reason
able time in advance.
The same privilege is extended to a
reasonable number of neutral passen
ger ships under the American flag and
should the number of ships thus avail
able for passenger service prove inade
quate Germany is willing to permit
America to place four hostile passen
ger steamers under the American flag
to ply between North America and
Europe under the same conditions.
German Reply Viewed Here As
Quite Likely to Bring Crisis
Washington, D. C. Arrival of the
press translation of the German note
confirmed impressions which have been
current in official quarters for several
days that Germany would refuse to
give the assurances asked for by the
United States that the lives of Ameri
cans traveling the high seas on un
armed ships of any nationality be not
endangered.
The press copy arrived too late to be
read by many officials, and those who
saw it Baid they could not comment
until the official text from Ambassa
dor Gerard had arrived.
Assumption of liability for the loss
of Americans in the Lusitania tragedy
was considered to have been wholly
evaded by Germany, and the chief
principle for which the United States
announced that it would omit "no word
or act" to see observed was viewed as
having been passed over lightly.
The general feeling that the note
would be unsatisfactory and bring to a
crisis the friendly relations that have
existed between the United States and
Germany developed more strongly in
official quarters.
Steamer Minnehaha Arrives in Port
After Terrific Explosion and Fire
Halifax, N. S. A bomb placed
aboard the Atlantic transport liner
Minnehaha, probably while she lay at
her pier in New York, caused the ex
plosion and fire at sea, in the opinion
of the officers of the steamer, which
put in here for examination Saturday
with the fire still unextinguished.
The explosion occurred in No. 3
hold, and was of terrific force, shaking
the vessel from stem to stern. Those
of the crew who were forward at the
time were stunned by the shock and
two sailors were hurled into the air,
Flames followed, and for two days and
nightB the crew battled to save the
ship.
There is no doubt in the minds of
the officers that Erich Muenter, alias
Frank Holt, or confederates, were re
sponsible for the explosion, which oc
curred at 4:15 o'clock on the afternoon
of July 7, the date on which Muenter
predicted that some vessel, as to the
name of which he appeared uncertain,
would be destroyed.
London's Assent Lacking.
Washington, D. C Germany's pro
posals of last February for the reopen
ing of her cable communications with
the United States failed because they
were conditioned on the consent of
Great Britain and the London foreign
office, which never replied to the ne
gotiations communicated by the United
states. State department official
made this explanation in the light of a
published assertion by Herr von Jagow,
who laid stress on the lack of cable
communication as a means of an ex
change of views on submarine warfare.
Liner's Sinking Forecast.
Washington, D. C Sir Cecil Spring
Rice, the British ambassador, formally
called the attention of the State de
partment to the Fatherland, a German
paper published in New York, pointing
out that it forecast the sinking of the
Lusitania and predicted internal ex
plosions on ships sailing from the
United States for the allied nations.
Without making any request, the am
bassador declared it indicated "guilty
foreknowledge of crime."
BIG STORMS VISIT
4 CENTRAL STATES
Homes and Churches in Many
Towns Are Demolished.
RE THAN 30 FATALITIES REPORTED
Wind and Heavy Rains Sweep Over
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio Two Boats Sink.
Chicago Heavy property damage
and loss of life is the toll thus far ex
acted by tornadoes and cloud bursts
sweeping eastward Thursday from the
Missouri river valley through Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Late reports from St. Louis say
seven persons are believed to have
been killed during the storm at St.
Charles, Mo., and that a woman and
child who entered a church just before
it was demolished had not been ac
counted for at midnight.
Mrs. Thomas Slattery and her two
children were killed when their home
at Dardenne was wrecked, according
to reports from there. Wentzville and
Gilmore each reported one man killed.
Tornadoes swept districts northwest
of St. Louis, blowing part of a Wa
bash train from the track and partly
wrecking several hundred residences
at St. Charles. First reports from
Lawrenceville, 111., said two persons
were killed there.
Exceptionally l heavy rains were re
ported from all sections of the affected
territory.
Nine Are Reported Dead.
St. Louis A tornado and cloudburst
which swept St. Louis and St. Charles
counties late Thursday caused damar
which may aggregate half a million
dollars, isolated several small towns
and deluged parts of this terriotry
with four inches of rain in half an
hour.
St. Charles suffered most from the
tornado, an area of more than 100
square blockB being damaged.
. St. Charles Borromeo's Catholic
Church was wrecked, the storm tear
ing down the east and west walls and
cracking the south wall so that it
crurnbled to the ground.
A wall and part of the roof of the
roof of St. Joseph's Hospital were
torn away. The patients, though
panic-stricken, were removed to safety.
Seven persons are known to have
been killed during the storm.
Twenty in Ohio Valley Killed.
Cincinnati A score of persons are
believed to have lost their lives and
many more are known to have been in
jured, some seriously, as a result of
one of the most severe wind and rain
storms ever experienced in this sec
tion of the Ohio valley.
Two Ohio River towboats were sunk,
more than 25 houses were completely
wrecked, steeples of churches were
lifted from their fastenings, and many
other houses were damaged by the
high winds. Plate glass windows all
over the city were broken, while tele
graph and telephone communication
of the city was completely paralyzed
for several hours after the storm.
Berlin Denies Censorship.
Berlin, by wireless to Sayville, N.
Y. The report that the German au
thorities had opened and censored mail
on the Swedish steamships Bjoern and
Torsten was denied officially by the
German government Thursday.
The entire mail on the Torsten, offi
cials declare, was mailed to the Swed
ish authorities untouched. Some sus
pected mail bags on the Bjoern were
investigated and found to contain scis
sors for cutting barbed wire. These
packages, addressed to the British
government, were confiscated.
Two Dead at Lawrenceville.
Terre Haute, Indiana Lawrence
ville, 111., 50 miles south of here, was
visited by a heavy wind storm late
Thursday.
Two persons were reported to have
been killed and more than 60 houses
destroyed. It was estimated the dam
age would exceed half a million dol
lars. Clara Riley, 17 years old, was killed,
and her father, William Riley, was in
jured fatally when their brick resi
dence collapsed after being struck by
lightning.
Emden To Be Refloated.
Sydne, N. S. W. The department of
defense has awarded a contract for the
salving of the German cruiser Emden,
which ws sunk off Cocos island in the
Indian Ocean by the Australian cruiser
Sydney. The contractors said the
raider could be floated easily and
would be here by Christmas. The
Emden will be exhibited. Recruiting
in Victoria has been highly successful
and New South Wales is about to be
gin a new campaign for men.
Jpn and Russia Allied.
Honlolulu, T. H. A new alliance
between Japan and Russia is reported
by Tokio dispatches to Japanese pa
pers here to be Imminent Advices
received here say that the elder states
men are completing details of the re
ported alliance and that It is in nearly
final fom.