WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHQi
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Thirty-two cases of cholera are re
ported in Yokohama.
Oregon crops this year are estimated
to be worth 130,181,730.
Forty thousand pounds of wool is
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, a 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 subsidizing shipowners to enter
the port of Portland.
Charles E. Hughes makes his first
campaign npeech at Detroit. Other
speeches will be made in leading cities
of the West on the initial trip.
The strong Turkish force which at
tacked the British at Romani, 22 miles
east of the Suez canal, on August 4,
was defeated and put to flight by a
counter-attack.
Robert F. Wagner, f New York,
for governor, and Calvin J. Huston,
of Yates county, for lieutenant gover
nor, was the ticket agreed on at a con
ference in New York City of 16 prom
inent Democrats.
Two earthquakes were recorded by
the seismograph at the University of
Santa Clara. Cat., the first at 11:40
o'clock Monday morning, lasting for
about 15 minutes, registering an am
plitude of 80 millimeters.
A great Are in a forest near Savona,
Italy, along a front of nearly three
miles is reported in a Havas dispatch
from Rome. Two thousand soldiers
have been sent to fight the Are,, the
cause of which la unknown.
The city of Brussels has refused to
pay the fine of 5,000,000 marks im
posed by the Germans in consequence
of the demonstration which took place
at the Belgian capital on July 21, the
national fete day. A Berioua crisis is
expected.
Dr. Eva Harding, of Topeka, Kan.,
a suffragist leader, has won the Demo
cratic nomination for repiesentative In
congress in the First district over
Rev. H. J. Corwine, in the recent
state-wide primary. Dr. , Harding,
whose majority was 608, is the only
woman congressional candidate in the
state for the coming election.
The proposition to submit a consti
tutional amendment for state-wide
prohibition received a favorable ma
jority of 2108 votes in the July 22
Texas primary, according to the com
plete and official canvass of a sub-committee
of the State Democratic Exec
utive committee. The total vote was:
For, 174,435; against, 172,332.
Offers of (1 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 a loan to China.
Sir Roger Casement, 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 Sunnyslde 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 J. Brown, of Van
dalia, 111., 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
armory had been looted of $1500 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 1285 roads, with the ex
ception of mail and troop trains.
The Serbian government has decided
to convoke the Serbian parliament.
King Peter of Serbia and the Greek
government have been adviBed of this
intention.
The garment strike which virtually
has paralyzed the women's suit and
cloak industry In New York for nearly
four months, waa declared settled at
a general meeting of the strike committee.
ITALIANS JOIN ATTACK ON
CENTRAL POWERS EASTERN FRONI
London The Italians have struck a
heavy blow in the great allied offen
sive. Assailing the Isonzo line, on
the 60-mile front from Tolmino to the
Adriatic, Cadorna'g troops have cap
tured the Gorizia bridgehead and
bagged more than 10,000 Austrians
With the third year of the war just
begun, the Teuton lines are being bat
tered in three huge drives. The Rus
sian attack gains momentum, the allies
on the Western front have launched a
new combined offensive and now the
Italians have joined in the attack.
London sees in Cadorna's offensive
one of the most significant and encour
aging signs Bince the war began. Not
only does it give evidence of the regu
larity and the solidarity of the allies'
schedule in the advance, but it shatters
all prospect of an Austrian offensive
on the Trentino front.
The Italian successes have created a
serious menace to Trieste and prepared
the way for an invasion of Austria. In
fierce fighting in the last two days,
Cadorna's men captured Monte Sabo
tino, north of Gorizia, and Monte San
Michele, on the Carso plateau, lying to
the south. This gives them control of
Gorizia bridgehead, one of the most
important of the Austrian defenses
along the Isonzo.
Child Labor Bill is Passed by
Senate; Only 12 Votes Opposed
Washington, D. C. The senate late
Tuesday passed the bill to prevent in
terstate commerce in products of child
labor. The vote was 52 to 12. The
measure, already passed by the house,
was brought to a vote in the Benate
upon the insistence of the Preisdent
after the Democratic senate caucus
once had decided to defer its consider
ation until next December.
Opposition to the measure had come
chiefly from Southern cotton mill own
ers and the group of Southern Demo
crats who voted against it and fought
in caucus and maintained their posi
tion during the senate debate on the
ground that the regulation proposed
is unconstitutional and would inter
fere with the rights of the states.
Eleven Democrats from the South
voted for it.
To expedite consideration of the
measure in conference, senate con
ferees were appointed immediately
after the original vote was taken. The
only amendment adopted would extend
the bill's provisions to bar all products
of establishments employing children
from interstate commerce. The bouse
meausre was directed only against
those on which child labor actually had
been employed.
Amendments to make the prohibi
tion apply only to children under 14
who could not read or write, to make
it apply to children on farms and to
postpone its effective date for two
years were voted down.
The bill as passed would prohibit in
terstate commerce in the product of
any mine or quarry in which children
under 16 years of age have been em
ployed, or in the product of any mill,
cannery, workshop, factory or manu
facturing establishment in which chil
dren under 14 have been employed, or
in which children between 14 and 16
have been employed more than eight
hours a day, more than six days a
week, before 6 a. m. or after 7 in the
evening. It would take effect after
enactment.
In the closing hours of debate Sena
tor Tillman denounced Southern cotton
mill owners opposing the bill said that,
while he believed it unconstitutional,
he waa tempted to support it because
of the selfish interests fighting it. He
also declared congress was too much
influenced by the attitude of labor interests.
Crop Outlook Poorer,
Washington, D. C Falling off in
crop prospects amounting to many mil
lions of dollars' loss to farmers
of the country were Indicated in the
Department of Agriculture's August
report, which forecast declines in indi
cated production in almost every im
portant crop from the forecasts report
ed in July.
Wheat showed a loss of 105,000,000
bushels, corn 89,000,000 bushels, bar
ley 11,000,000 bushels, and there were
decreases in rye, white and sweet po
tatoes, flax, apples and peaches. A
heavy reduction of the indicated pro
duction of cotton prevoiusly had been
reported.
Nickel Loaf is Costly.
Salt Lake City A five-cent loaf of
bread is an economic waste, in the
opinion of C. N. Power, of Pueblo,
Colo., who Wednesday addressed the
convention here of the Master Bakers
of the United States. He discussed the
"10-cent loaf and why."
Efficiency, declared Mr. Power, de
manded the baking of 10-cent loaves of
bread rather than the 5-cent size. He
estimated the cost of baking 1000
loaves of bread at 5 cents per loaf is
$3.55 more than the cost of baking the
same flour into 500 10-cent loaves.
Petrograd Rioters Slain.
Berlin Twenty-eight persons were
killed and more than 100 wounded in
Petrograd during serious disorders
which took place there July 30 because
of almost complete exhaustion of the
food supply, according to Stockholm
reports given out Wednesday by the
Overseas News agency.
Many houses and shops were looted
during the disturbances which were
finally repressed by the military, the
advices said.
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saves thousands of persons during the
hot spell in Chicago. Parts of the
lake front swarms with women bathers
till late hours of the night. It is the
RAILROAD STRIKE
SEEMS INEVITABLE
Congress is Urged to Take Immediate
Action to Forestall Trouble.
National Chamber of Commerce Be
lieves Arbitration is Futile
Wilson Much Concerned.
Washington, D. C Officials of the
Federal government, including Presi
dent Wilson, are closely watching de
velopments in the controversy between
225 railway systems and their 400,000
employes, and are preparing to offer
every possible aid in effecting an
agreement and avoiding a strike.
Thursday the President forwarded to
the Labor department an appeal he had
received from the Chamber of Com
merce of fne United States declaring a
Btrike inevitable "unless some strong
measures of intervention are speedily
introduced" and urging an inquiry.
Acting Secretary of Labor Post said
he was in close touch with the situa
tion, but had not decided whether ac
tion by the department would be nec
essary. The Federal board of mediation and
conciliation, which is authorized by
law to attempt to avert Btrikes on
railroads, also is keeping watch of de
velopments, and its officials expect to
be called on as Boon as the strike vote,
now being counted, has been complete
ly canvassed. They said that nothing
could be done at present
Copies of the chamber's appeal to
President Wilson were forwarded to
chairmen of the congressional com
merce committees and the representa
tives of the railroads and employes.
Harry Wheeler, chairman of the
chamber's committee on railroads, Baid
he had recently attended a meeting of
representatives of the employers and
employes in New York, and that as a
result his conviction was deepened that
an amicable settlement waa remote.
"I am assured," he added, "there will
be no modification of the attitude of
the roads. Neither is it expected that
the representatives of the men, with
the new powerful strike vote in their
hands, will recede from the position
which they have taken heretofore."
Shark Startle Newport.
Newport, Or. Beach bathers were
starteld Thursday when they heard of
the capture of a shark at the Devil's
Punchbowl, 10 miles north of Newport
Their fears were dispelled later, how
ever, when it was learned that it was
a sand shark and not one of the man
eating species. The shark was washed
ashore while Carl Shoemaker, state
game warden, was visiting the bowl.
He killed it and brought it to Newport
where it is now on display. Two years
ago a man-eating shark, 25 feet long,
was killed off Yaquina Bay.
Fruit Basket Bill Passed.
Washington, D. C. "The honest
grape, fruit and berry basket bill," by
Representative Reavia, of Nebraska,
prescribing dimensions for standard
baskets for interstate shipment of
grapes, small fruits and berries, was
passed Thursday by the house. Grape
growers of New York and Southern
and Western small fruit and berry
raisers advocated its passage for pro
tection against competitors using un
dersized containers.
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the great heat of the day. The cus
tom may now be so well estabilshed
that night bathing will become a reg
ular feature of the summer.
ACTIVITY OF ALLEGED SPIES AT
PANAMA CANAL IS INVESTIGATED
Washington, D. C. Activities of
persons suspected of being spies em
ployed by foreign governments to ac
quire information regarding the nature
and extent of the defenses of the Pan
ama canal have made the administra
tion decide to request congress to sup
plant the existing laws against im
proper acquistion of knowledge of mil
itary and naval plans and fortifica
tions. , Representatives of the department
of Justice and the War and Navy de
partments have been in conference on
the subject, and it is expected that they
will agree on some drastic legislation
to be submitted to congress.
It is possible that the scope of the
conference may be extended beyond
the original ideas of a mere protection
of the secrets of the American coast
defenses to cover generally such at
tempts as have been common since the
beginning of the present war to de
stroy powder and ammunition plants,
on which the United States govern
ment must rely in time of trouble.
Several of the military powers of
the world are believed to have ' under
taken to obtain information as to the
character of the defenses of the Pana
ma canal. The latest incident to ex
cite suspicion is the operations of a
little Japanese power vessel, ostensi
bly a fishing launch, which sought to
obtain a permit for pearl fishing in the
waters of Panama bay and vicinity.
The canal authorities have been
warned that this craft appeared to
have been making surveyB and that
these were not confined to the water
but extended to the isthmus proper.
While these operatious may have
been perfectly innocent in intent and
only such soundings were made and
bearings taken as might be incident to
the pursuit of pearl fisheries, the canal
zone authorities have regarded the
matter as of sufficient importance to
warrant investigation and report to
Washington. Meanwhile, licenses have
been withheld until some general line
of policy can be formulated to govern
all such cases.
Bottle Tells Zeppelin's Fate.
Berlin Extracts from letters found
last February in a bottle picked up in
the Skageraak, containing last mes
sages from the commander and crew of
the Zeppelin L-19, wrecked in the
North Sea, have been given out The
writings included the final report of
the Zeppelin's commander, written an
hour before the airship went down.
The greater part of the extracts consist
of personal messages to members of
the victims' families. One of them
says "an English trawler came along
this morning, but refused to save us."
British Save Suez Canal.
London The Turkish army of 13,
000 soldiers which attacked British
positions on August 4 at Romani, 22
miles east of the Suez canal, has been
thoroughly defeated, according to the
latest official statement. The Turks
are now in full retreat and were hotly
pursued for 18 miles by British troops.
The number of unuXmnded Turks
captured was 3145. Among the pris
oners were 70 Germans, including 36
officers. A complete battery of Ger
man guns was also taken.
Hughes' Auto Searched.
Niargra Falls. Charles E. Hughes,
en route to Detroit spent Sunday here.
At his request there was no public re
ception. During the automobile ride in Can
ada, at a lonely spot a Canadian sol
dier, with fixed bayonet ordered the
driver to halt and searched the car for
explosives. The soldier, when told of
Mr. Hughes' identity, replied with a
grin that he was sorry, but Canadian
military rules made no exception.
WILSON CAMPAIGN TO OPEN
SEPTEMBER 1; SPEAKERS
ASSIGNED
Washington, D. C A decision to
launch the Democratic National cam
paign soon after September 1, regard
less of whether congress still is in ses
sion then, was reached at a conference
Monday between President Wilson,
Vance C. McCormick, chairman of the
Democratic National committee, and
Homer S. Cummings, the committee's
vice chairman. The two Democratic
leaders took luncheon with the Presi
dent and remained with him four
hours, going over minutely the cam
paign plans.
While no date was set for the notifi
cation ceremonies, Chairman McCor
mick said that if congress remained in
session after September 1, notification
might take place before adjournment.
Under such circumstances the Presi
dent will go to Shadow Lawn, N. J.,
for the occasion, and return imme
diately afterward to Washington.
Invitations sent to the President to
speak in various parts of the country
were considered at the conference
Monday. Mr. WilBon will make no
definite engagements, however, until
a date for the adjournment of congress
is agreed on. He already has promised
to go to Hodginsville, Ky., September
4, to speak at Lincoln memorial exer
cises, and has made a tentative en
gagement to visit St. Louis September
19, 20 or 21, to address an organiza
tion of underwriters. The Hodgins
ville speech, however, will be of a
non- political character.
Chairman McCormick said he plan
ned to have the Democratic campaign
in full swing by September 15. Mr.
Cummings, who is chairman of the
speakers' bureau at Democratic Na
tional headquarters, told the President
of the progress made in assigning
speakers to the various states.
Farm Loan Board Organizes;
Pacific Coast Trip Outlined
Washington, D. C. Organization of
the new farm loan board, which is to
administer the new rural credits sys
tem, was perfected here Monday with
the induction into office of its four ap
pointive members, the designation by
President Wilson of an active head and
the selection of a secretary. The
board will meet again soon to consider
how it may be best to obtain informa
tion on which to base its first import
ant work, division of the country into
12 land bank districts with a federal
land bank in each.
At a short session afterward, W. W.
Flannagan, of Montclair, N. J., was
chosen secretary of the board. Mr.
Flannagan has been secretary of the
joint committee which investigated
rural credits in Europe and drafted the
present law.
The board also discussed the itiner
ary for its trip to the Pacific Coast
and went over the applications and
recommendations of 40 cities for fed
eral loan banks. No route for the
trip was determined on, but it is prob
able the board will go West through
northern states and return to Wash
ington through the South. Hearings
will be held in Washington also, but
no date has been chosen for them.
New York Car Strike Ends.
New York The strike on the sur
face railway lines here, which threat
ened to extend to the subway and ele
vated systems, and thus completely tie
up transportation facilities in Greater
New York, virtually came to an end
Monday night Directors of the New
York Railways company and the Third
Avenue Railway company, the two
principal lines affected, voted, after
being deadlocked for 12 hours, to ac
cept a plan of settlement proposed by
Mayor Mitchel and Oscar S. Straus,
chairman of the Public Service com
mission, after represetatives of the
strikers had agreed to it.
Pact Made With, Persia.
Petrograd Great Britain and Rus
sia have just concluded an understand
ing with Persia strengthening the
friendly relations between the three
countries, according to the semi-official
Russian news agency from Teheran.
"A solution mutually favorable to all
the parties has been found for ques
tions relating to the financial and mili
tary organizaton of Persia, " Bays the
correspondent "As regards the mili
tary organization, it will be effected
in North Persia by the development of
Persian brigades and in South Persia
by the formation of sufficiently strong
contingents."
Strange Warship is Met.
Marshfield, Or. Captain H. M.
Michaelson, of the steam schooner
Hardy, reported Monday that off Rogue
River at 2:30 a. m. his ship was ac
costed by either a torpedo boat de
stroyer or a cruiser. First Mate J.
Swanson said the craft had four stacks.
The Hardy was proceeding north in
the face of a northwest wind, about
10 miles off shore, when the war craft
came up from the rear and hugged
close enough to hail. Mate Swanson
could not understand the halloo and
at that the craft pulled away.
Wilson to Visit Portland.
Los Angeles Plans have been made
for the reception and entertainment of
President Woodrow Wilson in Los An
geles on October 16, according to Ben
jamin F. Groves, secretary of the Dem
ocratic County Central committee.
The President is to dedicate the
Elephant dam near El Paso, Tex., and
it has been arranged for him to come
to Los Angeles en route to San Fran
cisco, Portland, Or., and Seattle, it
was stated.
IMMAfiF TO WHFAT
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SENDS PRICES UP
Reports of Hail, Black Rust and Blight
Cause of Sudden Advance.
SPRING CROP BADLY AFFECTED
Most Damage in North Dakota, Min
nesota and Manitoba Orders
Cancelled by Merchants.
Chicago Hail, black rust and blight
damage to the spring wheat crop of
the Northwest caused an advance of 4
cents a bushel on the Chicago board of
trade Saturday. A 6-cent advance was
scored Thursday. At the high record
prices were 33 cents higher than the
low point in June. September closed
at $1,341. December at $1,381, and
May at $1.43.
Reports reached the trade that in
some sections of North Dakota and
Southern Manitoba the crop had been
ruined by hail Wednesday night and
Thursday. Several large insurance
companies with headquarters in Chi
cago received messages saying that
the crop was a total loss.
Most of the hail damage was in the
northern part of North Dakota. The
crop in Bottineau county is ruined.
Mercantile companies in that section
have cancelled all orders for future de
livery. Even orders for such necessi
ties as shoes and stoves have been can
celled. Ordinarily a 33-cent advanc in the
price of wheat in a little more than a
month brings fortunes to many of the
big operators on the board of trade.
That has not been true during the;
present rise. Nearly all of the big lo
cal traders have been fighting the mar
ket, or rather fighting the damage re
ports, and prices have gone up without
their aid.
Even the Northwest, where the
damage was taking place, was a seller
of wheat in this market until a few
days ago. That caused the belief that
the damage reports were exaggerated
by the market bulls.
Some of the board's exporters have
made large winnings, and a coterie of .
Wall-street grain men, who are said to
have large holdings of wheat under
$1.20 a bushel, are credited with prof
its of around $2,000,000.
The disaster in the Northwest has
proved a blessing to the winter wheat
growers. Thirty days ago they wele
able to get only $1 a bushel for their
grain. Now the price is a third
higher.
Shackleton Fails to Rescue His
Men From Elephant Island
London Sir Ernest Shackleton has
again failed to rescue the main body
of his Antarctic expedition left on Ele
phant island, says the Daily Chronicle,
and has returned to the Falkland is
lands. ,
Sir Ernest returned on board the
steamer Emma, says a Reuter dispatch
from Port Stanley. The ship was
forced back by heavy gales and ice and
it was found impossi ble to get near
Elephant island through the pack ice.
The ship was badly damaged, the en
gines were damaged, and the Emma
was obliged to proceed under sail.
Sir Ernest, the correspondent adds,
recognizes that it is useless to force a
passage with a light ship and he is
waiting for the steamer Discovery to
come from England.
French Retake Tnree-Mile Strip
From Germans at Verdun
London Joffre's men are masters
now of a bloodstained strip of ground
three miles long and about a mile deep
just north of Verdun, which they have
won from the Germans in one of the
most hotly-fought and bloody battles
of the long struggle on the Meuse. At
the close of three days of their offen
sive they have conquered ground
which it took the Crown Prince's army
more than four weeks to wrest from
them.
Fishing Pact May Pass.
Washington, D. C. Senator Lane,
who has been stoutly opposing the bill
heretofore passed by the house ratify
ing the compact between the states of
Oregon and Washington, under which
they propose to exercise joint jurisdic
tion! over fisheries in the Columbia
river, is showing signs of relenting.
If he does this the bill will pass, as
Senator Lane alone has prevented its
passage on several occasions. The fail
ure of the opposing fishermen to file
initiative petitions robbed Senator
Lane of his chief ground of opposition.
Five-Cent Loaf Decried.
Chicago The 5-cent loaf of bread
must go. This is the cry with which
400 Chicago bakers departed Saturday
for Salt Lake City, Utah, to attend the
annual convention of the National As
sociation of Master Bakers and to at
tempt to persuade that body that 10
cents is the lowest price at which a
fair-sized loaf of bread can be sold
with profit '
In the party were scores of bakers
from Eastern cities.