WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHOJ
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
The allies continue to make big
gains against the central powers on all
sides.
The Benate naval program includes
16 capital battleships within three
years.
Wilson postpones date of notification
ceremonies until after congress ad
journs. Columbia river basin realty men
hold a meet at Portland and declare
against the "shark."
Three persons in an auto on their
way to a circus in Iowa, run through a
bridge railing and are drowned.
The British government publishes a
list of from 70 to 80 firms in the Unit
ed States with whom residents of the
United Kingdom are forbidden to
trade.
Four persons were killed by the in
tense heat which smothered Chicago
Tuesday, another was killed by light
ning, and three, seeking relief in the
lake, were drowned.
In Volhynia, in the region of Lutsk,
where the troops of the Teutonic allies
have been forced to give ground before
the attacks of the Russians and retire
behind the Lower Lipa river, the Rus
sians continue to press their foes and
are taking additional prisoners.
General Clpriano Castro, ex-president
of Venezuela, and his wife, who
arrived in New York Saturday from
Port of Spain, Trinidad, on the steam
ship Vauban, have been ordered de
ported from the United States by a
special board of inquiry at the Ellis
Island Immigration station.
The new Harahan bridge spanning
the Mississippi river at Memphis, Baid
to be the longest structure on the
river, was opened to traffic this week.
It cost $5,000,000. Including ap
proaches the bridge is three miles
long the bridge proper being 2600 feet.
Construction was started in June, 1913.
The epidemic of infantile paralysis
in New York has been checked, in the
opinion of Health Commissioner Emer
son, who issued a statement in which
he said the diminution in the number
of new cases and deaths indicated that
the health authorities are reaching the
cases earlier and are finding a way to
control them.
William Bothwell, former Seattle
City Controller, and recently a special
officer on the waterfront, was killed,
and W. W. Morris and C. V. Harvey,
members of the prohibition enforce
ment squad of the Seattle police force,
were seriously wounded in a pistol
fight which resulted from a raid on the
FerguHon Bar, in the Ferguson Hotel,
Monday,
The captain of the German subma
rine freighter says German freight
carrying Zeppelins will soon viBit
America.
War's increase of food prices in Eu
rope, as shown by the bureau of labor
statistics, has touched neutrals almost
as heavily as it has the belligerents.
A corporation will be organized by a
group of American bankers, headed by
J. P. Morgan & Co., and Brown Broth
ers & Co., to lend $100,000,000 to the
French government.
William Zjmmer, aged 12 years, was
arrested in New Orleans, charged with
killing his mother. The boy, accord
ing to the police, Baid he shot his
mother because she threatened to beat
him when he returned home after an
unsuccessful Bearch for work.
The engagement is announced of
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, widow of
the late British statesman, and the
Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, rector
of St. Margaret, and canon of West
minster. Before her marriage, Mrs.
Chamberlain was Miss Mary Endicott,
of Massachusetts.
The Socialist newspaper, Tribune,
of Amsterdam, asserts that 55,000
workmen employed in the munition
factories and electrical works in Ber
lin and in an aerodrome at Johanisthal
have gone on strike as a protest
against the prison sentence imposed on
Dr. Karl Liebknecht, Socialist leader,
for participation in the May Day dem
onstration at Berlin.
A boy of 10 was killed and two girl
playmates injured at Portland when
their coaster wagon ran Into a motor
truck.
Russian troops have captured the
town of Mamakhatum, 50 miles west
of Erzerum. on the Tuzulu river, by
assault The retreating Turks set fire
to the town.
The Georgia house refused, 91 to 21,
to adopt a special rule for considera
tion of a suffrage amendment. The
result Is expected to end the fight for
suffrage at this session of the legislature.
PRESIDENT SIGNS RURAL CREDITS
Bill CREATING 12 LAND BANKS
Washington, D. C President Wil
son signed Monday the rural credits
bill passed recently by congress. He
used two pens, afterward giving one
to Senator Fletcher, of Florida, who
will present it to the Southern Com
mercial Congress. Several memberB
of the house and senate were present,
among them David Lubin, one of the
originators of the National grange,
the Framers' Educational and Cooper
ative congress and the National Coun
cil of Farmers' cooperative associa
tions. The President delivered a brief
address.
"I cannot go through the simple
ceremony of signing this bill without
expressing the feeling that I have in
signing it," he said. "It is a feeling
not only of profound satifsaction, but
of real gratitude that we have com
pleted this piece of legislation, which
I hope will be immensely beneficial to
the farmers of the country.
"The farmers, it seems to me, have
occupied hitherto a singular position
of disadvantage. They have not had
the same freedom to get credit on
their real estate that others have had
who were in manufacturing and com
mercial enterprises, and while they
have sustained our life, they did not in
the same degree with some others
share in the benefits of that life.
"Therefore, this bill, along with the
very liberal provisions of the Federal
reserve act, put them upon an equality
with all others who have genuine
assets and makes credit of the country
available to them.
"I look forward to the benefits of
this bill, not with extravagant expec
tations, with confident expectations
that it will be of very wide-reaching
benefit, and, incidentally, it will be of
advantage to the investing community,
for I can imagine no more satisfac
tory and solid investment than this
system will afford those who have
money to use."
Commission Denies Rehearing
In Astoria Rate Decision
Washington, D. C. The order of
the Interstate Commerce commission
in the Astoria rate case promulgated
February 19, will become operative on
or before September 15, the commis
sion Tuesday having deneid the motion
of the railroads for a rehearing.
As originally drawn the Astoria rate
decision was to have gone into effect
May 1, but its operation was suspend
ed when the carriers no March 19 filed
a motion for rehearing. When that
motion was filed the commission tem
porarily suspended its order until it
could investigate the grounds upon
which rehearing was asked.
That investigation has since been
made, and the order of the commission
is indication that it finds the grounds
insufficient to justify a modification of
its original order. In denying the pe
tition for rehearing the commission
does not state the grounds of its action
and makes no statement of the case
whatever, merely entering its order.
American Navy Has Longest Range
Anti-Air Craft Guns in World
Washington, D. C. Construction of
enough high-powered anti-aircraft guns
to supply all active battleships and
cruisers of the navy haB been com
pleted, it was announced Tuesday by
Secretary DanielB. The new weapons
is believed by navy experts to be the
longest range guns of that type in the
world.
The new gun is a three-inch, 50 cali
ber weapon that will throw a shell 27,
000 feet in air at an angle of 90 de
grees. On each ship one will be
mounted forward and one aft, with an
all-round fire so that the pair can
sweep the skies in any direction.
Suffrage School Opens.
Washington, D. C. Women who
desire to become active suffrage work
ers, but who feel that they are not
qualified to take up the varied duties
of lobbyists, organizers or stump
speakers, need not despair. There is
a way out for them now, as they can
learn all that is necesBary to be full
fledged suffragists at the "suffrage
school," which has just been opened
here by women of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage. Miss
Maud Younger, of San Francisco, is
head of the new school.
Guns Thunder on Vardar.
Paris The war office has given out
the following statement covering the
operations of the army of the Orient
from July 1 to July 16 ;
"East of the Vardar artillery ac
tions, often intense, have occurred
daily on the front. Advance post en
gagements of little importance took
place July 7 north of Kalinoko, 10 kil
ometers south of Lake Doiran. "West
of the Vardar our patrols and light de
tachments have had frequent skirm
ishes with the enemy, who always was
obliged to retreat."
Bootleggers to Be Shot.
Charleston, W. Va. Police officers
employed by the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad in West Virginia have been
ordered to carry rifles as well as revol
vers to resist efforts of bootleggers and
their agents to bring liquors into this
state.
These officers have also been instruc
ted to work in squads of four or singly
or In pairs. The orders resulted from
the Increased numbers of attempts to
violate the state prohibition laws.
ELOOD DAMAGE IN
CAROLINAS LARGE
Hundreds Homeless and Many Persons
Believed Drowned.
STREAMS ARE RISING RAPIDLY
Property Loss Is $10,000,000 Rail
ways and Telegraph Lines De
moralizedFive Perish.
Atlanta, Ga. Serious floods in North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia
Sunday caused five known deaths, rend
ered hundreds homeless and damaged
property and crops to the extent of
$10,000,000, according to early esti
mate, and demoralized railway, tele
graph and telephone communication.
Following the hurricane that struck
the South Atlantic coast Thursday, un
precedented rains have fallen, driving
rivers and smaller streams from their
banks and imperilling many lives.
The French Broad river has broken
from its course near Aahevilie, flood
ing factories and homes in the lower
part of the city. At Biltmore three
persons Captain G. C. Lipe, Miss
Nellie Lipe and Mrs. Leo Mulholland
were' drowned when the Lipe house
was flooded. The Vanderbiit estate
at Biltmore was not damaged.
Two persons were drowned at Ashe
ville while trying to get food to flood
refugees in the second story of the
Glenn Rock hotel.
Throughout Western Carolina the
situation is reported serious. Two
dams at HenderBonville collapsed, re
leasing great volumes of water, and
fears are felt for the big dam at Lake
Toxaway.
The Southern Railway bridge over
the Catawba river at Belmont, N. C,
HaB been washed away, carrying 10 or
12 workmen into the river. Whether
they were drowned has not been
learned.
Charlotte, N. C. Eighteen men, 14
of whom are construction officials and
employes of the Southern Railway, and
four linemen of the Western Union
Telegraph company, were missing Sun
day night and are believed to be either
drowned or marooned in trees on the
Catawba river about 12 miles from
Charlotte. The river is rising rapidly.
One Slain, One Wounded in Tacoma
Strike Battle; Two Shot in Seattle
Tacoma, Wash. Rangval Leinann,
a strikebreaker, was shot and killed
and Sam Jones, a union longhsoreman,
sustained a probably fatal gunshot
wound in a pitched battle Sunday,
when union men attacked an automo
bile carrying nonunion workers to the
Milwaukee docks.
Four men were in the automobile re
turning from the city to the docks
when they were ambushed near the
Eleventh-street bridge by about 15
strikers. The latter began hurling
bricks at the occupants of the auto
mobile and when the drivers put on
more speed a shot rang out.
Leinann, who had a revolver but
who had not been able to use it, ac
cording to the others in the car, fell
over dead. One of the other occu
pants, which one the police have not
been able to learn, picked up the dead
man's gun and returned the fire,
wounding James.
The adtomobile turned and sped for
the central police station with the body
of the strikebreaker, while the strik
ers, who had a car standing near the
scene of the shooting, rushed James to
a hospital.
Seattle, Wash. Two men were Bhot,
but not dangerously wounded, and a
third was severely beaten, during a
fight between 16 non-union longshore
men and strike sympathizers at the
Pike Place Public Market Saturday
night. Several other men received
less serious injuries.
F. A. Webb, a butter and egg deal
er, in the market, was struck in the leg
by a stray bullet. William Clarke, a
unoin longshoreman, was shot in the
leg. O. W. Bridgefarmer, a special
policeman employed as a guard at Pier
6, was seriously beaten and kicked.
Train Kills Three in Auto.
Tacoma, Wash Three persons were
killed and two injured when a Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul passenger train
crashed into an automobile on a rail
road crossing near Sumner about 8:30
o'clock Sunday night. The dead are:
John Coginske, Mrs. John Coginake
and Ed Able. The injured are: An
drew Coginske, fractured ribs and
scalp wounds, and C. E. Carlson, su
perficial injures about the head. All
are from South Tacoma and were re
turning to the city from a day's outing
when the accident occurred.
Flames Threaten Athens.
Taris The fire which destroyed the
summer residence of King Constantine
of Greece, situated at Tatoi, on the
outskirts of Athens, is still raging in
the forest in which the royal chateau
stood. A Havas dispatch from Athens
says it is feared the flames will reach
the city. Among those who lost their
lives in the fire were Colonel de la
Parts, of the engineers; M. Chryssos
pathis, the head of the royal secret
service and 20 soldiers.
GERMAN 2ND LINE
FALLS TO BRITISH
forces Advance One Mile On front of
four Miles, Holding All Gains.
COUNTER ATTACKS REPULSED
Northern France Along Somme Is
Scene of Fighting Victory On
French National Fete Day.
London Fierce counter attacks
made by the Germans in an effort to
reconquer some of the ground captured
by the British in Saturday's drive
were completely crushed by the Brit
ish fire, according to the official state
ment issued by the war office. The
text follows :
"It is now possible to give fuller de
tails of the action begun at daybreak.
Having driven the enemy back step by
step to his second Bystem of defense,
the period from July 11 to July 12 was
mainly spent by our troops in bom
barding formidable enemy positions
and in making other necessary prepar
ations for further advance.
"Saturday morning, after an intense
bombardment, the assault was launch
ed at 3 :25 a. m. The enemy was driv
en from his trenches on the whole
front of attack and many prisoners fell
into our hands.
"Fierce fighting continued all day,
as a result of which we have steadiiy
increased our gains and now are in
possession of the enemy's second posi
tion from Bazentin-le-Petit to Longue
val, both villages inclusive, and in the
whole of the Trones wood.
"In the Trones wood we released a
party of the Royal West Kent regi
ment, which, separated from our
troops in the recent fighting and sur
rounded by Germans, had held out in
the northern end of the wood for 48
hours.
"Two determined counter attacks on
our new positions were crushed by our
fire. Later in the day, after a fierce
counter attack, the Germans succeeded
in capturing the village of Bazentin-le-Petit,
but were at once driven out
again by our infantry. The whole vil
lage is once more in our hands."
London Appropriately, on the day
of the French national fete, when ev
ery Londoner wore in his buttonhole a
tri-color ribbon in honor of his allies,
came the stirring news of the success
ful British attack on the German sec
ond line, which opened before dawn
and carried a number of new positions.
On a front of four miles the British
have advanced to a depth of a mile and
have held all positions gained in spite
of violent counter-attacks.
The strategic importance of the
British successes is marked by the
straightening of their line in conform
ity with that of the French, who had
hitherto advanced at a much greater
speed than their allies. The brevity of
the preliminary bombardment, coupled
with the statements of press corre
spondents at the front, that the Brit
ish losses were comparatively small,
lend support to unofficial statements
that the German second line was much
less strongly fortified than their first
defenses, v
Big U. S. Collier With 142
Aboard Sinks-All Are Saved
Charleston, S. C. - The big naval
collier Hector, carrying 60 marines, in
addition to her crew of 70 men and 12
officers, Bank off Charleston late Fri
day, according to a report from Cap
tain Hunt, of the tug Vigilant, which
tried to go to the Hector's assistance.
Officials at the navy yard here an
nounced that the crew had been taken
off in boats. A wireless message has
been sent out asking all vessels to be
on the lookout for the boats.
Charleston, S. C All the 142 men
who abandoned the large naval collier
Hector when she grounded Friday
night are; safe aboard the tug Wil
mington and the lighthouse tender Cy
press, the Charleston navy yard an
nounced early Saturday.
Onions Worth $350,000.
Walla Walla, Wash.-Walla Walla
valley will export $350,000 worth of
onions this summer, according to the
estimate of growers and shippers. It
is considered there will be at least 600
cars in the fields this summer, which
will be 'sold for export trade. The
onion crop this year will be the largest
single vegetable crop to be raised in
the valley.
The first car of new onions has al
ready gone out over the Northern Pa
cific, for Canada. They are worth
from $600 to $700 a carload.
Wool to Bring Seventy-five Million.
Washington, D. C American sheep
raisers will receive about $75,000,000
for this year's wool crop, the depart
ment of Agriculture announced Satur
day. Average prices during June were
28.7 cents a pound, higher than for
many years. The average weight of
a fleece of wool is 6.92 pounds, and the
country annually produces about 37,
000,000 fleeces. The weight of fleeces
has been increasing year by year, ac
cording to department figures.
NEW PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION
URGED BY JOHN M. PARKER
New Orleans A statement and call
to "the patriotic men and women of
America," to hold a new National con
vention of the Progressive party in
Chicago on August 6 and nominate
candidates for President and Vice Pres
ident and continue the party's exist
ence as a distinct political organiza
tion, was issued Monday by John M.
Parker, Vice Presidential nominee of
the Progressive convention held in Chi
cago last June. He urges the Progres
sives "eternally to bury" the "bull
moose," which, he asserts, "led his
loyal followers into the wilderness,"
and to adopt in its place the American
eagle as the emblem of the party.
Mr. Parker does not mention Col
onel Roosevelt or any other Progres
sive leaders or any candidates by
name. He declares, however, that the
Progressives had supposed its leaders
to be "red-blooded Americans, who
Represents Carranza.
Eliseo Arrodondo, ambassador desig
nate from General Carranza's Mexican
government to the United States, is
very busy right now in the negotia
tions which Secretary Lansing has
opened up with the Mexicans to settle
the border trouble. This snapshot
shows him on one of his rare visits to
the secretary of state.
promised with their 'life blood' to stay
with the party had been deserted by a
large part of its officers, who could not
stand the acid test. He charges that
the leaders, for "steam roller reasons,
have elected to be steam rolled," and
that the time has come when every
party working for human welfare and
the future of America should unite
against both dominant parties. In
connection with the Republican party
the statement indirectly refers to
Charles E. Hughes, Republican candi
date for President, as "a splendid
man" selected by the Republicans "as
the man behind which they hope again
to secure control of state and nation. "
Increased Northwest Lumber Rates
Refused by Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C. Increases rang
ing from 1 to 8 cents a hundred pounds
on lumber from the Pacific Northwest
to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas
were disapproved by the Interstate
Commerce commission Monday on the
ground that they were not justified on
he ground of uniformity. The in
creased rates held unreasonable are
those filed to become effective January
6, 1916, and suspended by the commis
sion. v
The commission also cites the con
tention of shippers that were these in
creases to become operative California
lumber and particularly California
shingles would be able largely to ab
sorb the New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Texas markets to the exclusion of lum
ber products from the Northwest.
Penny Holds Up Rifles.
Albany, Or. Because a 1-cent reve
nue stamp was missing from a ship
ping receipt, the Albany Civilians'
Rifle Club will be delayed about 10
days in receiving its supply of rifles
for target practice. President Stell
macher, of the club, received word
several days ago that the rifles would
be shipped from the United States ar
senal at Benicia, Cal. Word came
that the shipment could not be made
until a 1-cent revenue stamp was sent
for the shipping receipt. The stamp
was sent at once.
Berlin Beer-Drinking Hit.
Amsterdam, via London A protest
against the consumption of barley for
the making of beer is made in a letter
to Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg,
signed by 80,000 members of Good
Templar Lodges in Germany.
The letter points out the "gigantic
waste of bread material," in the use
of large quantities of barley for the
production of beer. It urges that here
after beer be only supplied on bread
tickets.
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FOREIGN TRADE IN
YEAR 6 BILLIONS
Export Trade Twice That of Imports
During Same Period.
ALL FORMER RECORDS BROKEN
Munitions of War for Twelve Months
Predominating Factor Steel
and Iron Take Big Jump.
Washington, D. C The country's
foreign trade during the fiscal year
ending with last month reached a tota'
of $6,525,000,000, exceeding by many
millions all previous records, according
to preliminary figures announced
Thursday by the Commerce depart
ment. Exports were valued at $4,
345,000,000 and imports at $2,180,
000,000. The figures are based on complete
returns for the first 11 months of the
year and estimates for June.
The war munitions trade was the
predominating factor in estabishing
the new exports record. Iron and
steel exports jumped from $226, 000, 000
in the previous fiscall year to $618,
000,000, and explosives from $41,000,
000 to $473,000,000. In 1914 the ex
plosives exports amounted to only $6,
000,000. Raw cotton exported during the fis
cal year was valued at $370,000,000,
compared to $376,000,000 the year
previous; wheat and flour, $314,000,
000, compared to $428,000,000; meats,
$270,000,000, compared to $206,000,
000; copper manufactures, $170,000,
000 compared to $109,000,000; miner
al oils, $165,000,000, compared to
$134,000,000; brass and manufac
tures, $126,000,000, compared to $21,
000,000; automobiles and parts, $123,
000,000, compared to $68,000,000;
chemicalB, $123,000,000, compared to
$46,000,000; cotton manufactures,
$112,000,000, compared to $72,000,
000. Principal imports were: Sugar,
$206,000,000, compared to $174,000,
000 in the fiscal year 1915; rubber and
its substitutes, $159,000,000, compared
to $87,000,000; hides and skins, $157,
000,000, compared to $104,000,000;
raw wool, $145,000,000, compared to
$68,000,000; raw silk, $122,000,000,
compared to $81,000,000; coffee,
$117,000,000, compared to $107,000,
000, and chemicals and drugs, $108,
000,000 compared to $84,000,000.
Infantile Paralysis Germ May Be
Isolated, Medical Men Declare
New York While Health Commis
sioner Emerson declined Thursday to
discuss the report that a New York,
physician has succeeded in isolating
the germ of infantile paralysis, great
importance was attached by medical
men to the meeting of physicians to be
held at once, which will be devoted to
a discuussion of the disease which has
cost more than 250 lives in this city
since the epidemic began.
Among the speakers will be Dr.
Simon Flexner, of Rockefeller Found
ation, who is devoting his energies to
a study of infantile paralysis. It was
Bemi-ofncially admitted that scientists
have progressed so far that they are
testing a culture in which they believe
they will find traces of tho germ and
ultimately isolate it.
There was a feeling of optimism in
the health department, not only be
cause there were fewer cases reported,
but because all agencies combating the
epidemic are in complete co-operation.
Goethals Allowed to Go.
Washington, D. C President Wil
son Thursday agreed to accept the res
ignation of Major General Goethals as
governor of the Panama canal at an
early date, to be fixed by the general.
General Goethals called at the White
House and again urged his deBire to
resign the governorship and retire
from the active list of the army, now
that his work of building the canal had
been finished. Colonel Chester Hard
ing, now engineer of maintenance in
the canal zone, probably will be ap
pointed governor.
Cost of Living Recedes.
Washington, D. C The cost of liv
ing, after rising steadily since 907,
except in 1911, took a downward trend
during 1915. A report by the bureau
of Labor, issued Thursday, analyzing
retail prices of 29 articles of food,
shows that relative retail prices during
1915 averaged one point lower than in
1914, Meats, lard and egga averaged
from 1 to 9 per cent lower, while po
tatoes were 22 per cent lower. Wheat,
flour, corn meal and granulated sugar
were higher than in 1914, flour being
20 per cent and sugar 11 per cent.
Germans Hold Canadians.
Ottawa, Ont Canadian prisoners
in Germany were sentenced to a year
in jail by the Germans for refusing to
make war munitions, according to a
letter received here from Corporal
Daniel A. Simmons, formerly a prison
er in Germany and now transferred to
the internment camp in Switzerland.
Corporal Simmons writes that
Corporal Harry Hogarth is one of
those who refused to make munitions
of war.