Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-04-08
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Aoru hiLCncHcF, VI EHKlhnu, M
prohibited the use Of liquor in hi
household during the war.
Secretary Bryan has ordered a cas-
Of Oregon loganberry Juice for tabl
use instead Of grape juice.
Villa and Zapata have agreed ;
the neutrality Of Mexico City. but tn
consent Of Carranza Is lacking.
A rate expert declares some Of tn
railroads asking for rate increases ar,
already accumulating surplus.
The United States begins an investi
CATION into the death Of an American
on torpedoed British liner.
Ten thousand men returned TO worl
In the steel mills and factories of Chi
cago Heights, n suburb Of Chicago.
An anarchist on trial for placing
bombs in New York church declared
that detective forced him to do thu
work and directed 1t.
A man arrested for vagrancy in Sar
Francisco had $4,000 in bills in hir
pocket and proved himself to be the
owner Of buildings worth $780, 900.
Coast artillery companies at Fort
Winfield Scott, San Francisco, made
from 30 to 100 per cent at ranges OF
1000 yards, approximately four miles.
A writer in the London Daily Mail
declares that dogs of the German dasc-
hund variety are being treated shame
fully in England, out Of pure prejudice.
The British steamship Seven Seas
and the French steamship Emma were
torpedoed by German submarines off
Beachy Head. In the English Channel,
Thursday.
A commander of German subma-
rine says the service is improving rap
idly with experience and practice, and
the ring around England Is becoming
tighter every day.
Warships of the allies keep up an
incessant bombardment of the Dar-
danelles. to prevent the Turks from
repairing their damaged forts and to
protect minesweepers.
The Russky Slovoe, OF Petrograd,
prints note intimating that the Rus
sian government has been approached
through neutral channels with over
lures from Austria for a separate
peace without Germany's knowledge.
An Austrian steamer. loaded with
arms and ammunition, on Its way from
Semlin to Panosova, both ports on the
Danube river, struck mine in the
river and was blown up. Serbian ar
til!ery completed the destruction of the
ship and cargo.
German prisoners of war in French
camps receive the same rations as
their French guards, with the excep-
tion Of little less meat, and are in
good spirits and well satisfied with
their treatment. They all believe
Germany is bound to win.
The French government is still buy
ing horses in Eastern Oregon.
All efforts to raise the submarine
F-4, in the Honolulu harbor have
failed.
Salem, Ore., has a $4,000 fire
which destroys large fruit plant and
its contents.
-Four persons drown at Seattle when
an automobile skids and runs into the
Duwamish river.
1t is rumored that the Germans en-
trenched near Brussels will abandon
their lines on account of the fall of
Przemysl.
Part of the U. S. feet that will pass
through the Panama canal at its form
al dedication, will visit Portland as
we'll as other Pacific Coast harbors.
Governor Hunt, of Arizona, has de-
cided that he was becoming too stout
and forthwith decided on outdoor exer-
cise-7mowing the lawns of the capitol
grounds every day. The chosen hour
is noon, indicating that luncheon has
been taken off the governors schedule
Of meals.
A. L. Flynn, of Cottage Grove. Ore,
is puzzle to medical science. He has
lived for months with pulse beat of
30 a minute, that would mean certain
leath to normal persons. During Mr..
Flynn's illness his pulse beat was as
low as 13 minute, remaining that
way for several days and missing
,ften.
At a British cabinet meeting re-
,ently there was every reason to be-
ieve that it considered the liquor ques- ,
ion, and the stamping out of the evil,
which is now one of the greatest prob
ems of the nation. There still is I
much talk of prohibition, but it is not {
generally believed that this course will
,e adopted, although it is conceded {
hat some step of drastic and uni {
1ersal character will soon be taken. il