Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-05-27
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.

Foreign exchange quotations declin
at New York.
A black rust scare sends up whea
prices on the Chicago market.
Roumanians engage in demonstra
tions against the Austro-Germans.
General Leonard Wood declares tina
danger Of invasion of America is in
creasing.
Patriotism is at fever heat in Rom,
over the entry Of Italy into the Euro
pean war.
Ten days run at the Cornucopi,
mine, in Eastern Oregon, gave an out
put Of 500, 900.
The Italian parliament has con
ferred on the cabinet full power to act
in the war question.
A French trawler was torpedoed ant
literally blown to pieces by subma.
rine, only her captain escaping.
Great Britain denies that Americans
are suffering any injustice by the de-
tention of American ships and cargoes.
Riga, a Russian port on the Baltic,
is reported captured by the Germans
and big naval battle is said to have
been fought.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., denies
having had anything to do with direct.
ing the Colorado operators movss
against the coal strikers.
A fruit steamer on the Atlantic
coast reports having sighted the "at-
tacking fleet" of the American navy,
which is engaged in practice maneu-
vers.
Advices from Mitylene confirm the
destruction Of the Turkish forts at
Kilid Bahr, on the Dardanelles,. and
state that the bombardment of other
forts still continues.
A senior student in the mining de-
partment of the University of Cali
fornia has invented process for elm
ipation of the poisonous gases given
off in copper smelling.
Food has become SO scarce in Mexico
City that the inhabitants are facing
starvation, and General Carranza has
been appealed to by the international
committee there. The American Red
Cross society also has been asked to
take steps to relieve the situation.
The crews of the British trawlers
Chrysolite and Crimond, which had
been sunk by Germans, landed in Scot
land. The captain of the latter de-
clares the German commander forced
him at the point of a revolver to cut
the waste pipes on his vessel to facili-
tate her sinking.
A royal decree issued by King Hum
bert provides that all foreigners resi-
dent in Rome must register their
names, addresses, etc.. within three
lays, on pain of arrest and fine. If it
Is discovered that any person has given
false information, he may be punished
BY fine, Imprisonment, or expulsion
rom the kingdom.
A new gold strike is reported from
Nome.
Heavy rains check battles in Flan-
lers and France.
Lord Kitchener asks England for
100, 900 more men.
Shocks of slight earthquake in
Cast Portland are reported.
Spokane is visited by a $3.50, 900 |
ire which burned wholesale grocery
louse.
At a conference of Western gov
rnors at Seattle strong plea is made
or stronger coast defense.
Resignation of the veteran sailor,
ord Fisher, has forced crisis which
1ill result in the reorganization of the
British cabinet.
An entire German army corps is
loved from France to the frontier of
'ussia and that country now looks to
he allies for aid.
Washington hears that German sub
larine warfare in the war zone is to
e abandoned until after Berlin replies
, the American note.
Atlantic feet, five miles long, passes
efore President Wilson in the annual
lspection parade in New York. The
eet goes to sea for maneuvering pur-
oses. u