Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-12-16
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHELL
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.


capture two burglars shot one and cap
turcd tho other.
Congressional military committees
arc confronted with four army plans
radically differing.
Two men in . fishing launch OH |
South Bond, WASH, were rescued after |
being tossed about for ~ hours.
Burns, Or, offers the Strahorn peo-
pls si25, 600 70 run the main line OF
their proposed railroad through that
city.
President Wilson makes speech
before the Federal Council Of Churches
Of Christ In America, In session ut
Columbus, Ohio.
France will limit herself In the
Balkan states by furnishing S0,ooc
soldiers and no more. She assumes
that England should supply the rest.
Mrs. Ethel Mckenzie. Of California,
who married an Engiishman and there
by was disfranchised, has regained her
vote by her husband applying Tor
naturalization papers.
Tho Democratic state central COM
mittes Of Arkansas ut . meeting at
Little Rock, adopted resolution IN
dorsing consideration Of President VIII
son and expressing belief that no
should be renominated.
Tho German imperial chancellor, In
a speech before tho reichstag. invites
proposals for peace from her enemies,
ard ayows that she has no desire 70
continue fghting and win not DO re-
xponsihle for the wars prelongation.
J. A Zurich, Switzerland, dispatch
states that violent demonstrations In
favor Of peace have taken place IN
Berlin, The police were obliged 70
charge the crowds. The windows OF
stores and cafes were smashed during
the rioting. Soldiers In the crowd took
an active part in the disturbances.
November exports through the New
York port broke all records by exceed
ing $3.50, 900. 900 in value. Foodstnifs.
led by wheat, and explosives, mostly
smokeless powder, tri-nitro-tuluoi,
cordite and gun cotton, formed large
proportion of the exports. The pur-
chases were about equally divided be-
tween England and France.
The custom of marriage by proxy
which has come into vogue during the
war has placed young Partisan wo'
man In a curious situation. She was
married by proxy on November IL tc
Sergeant Joseph Conduche. On De
cember l she was informed officially
that he had been killed on September
%. several weeks before the marriage
Although the marriage 10 invalid II
law. the authorities, taking account o.
Sergeant Conduche's intentions, vii
give widows pension to the woman
The governor Of Oregon pardons TIVE
convicts and paroles nine others.
Fourteen women In Mexico are sho
as Carranza spies, by the Villaistas.
The British press considers Presi
dent Wilson's address as ''by force o
events, war message from beginninI
TO end.
The Democratic National committe
has selected St. Louis as the city 1
which to hold the National convention
June IA, 1915.
. Members Of the reichstag are dc
batting the food situation In that cour
try.> Producers, consumers, dealers
and ministers are blamed.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintent
ent of the Chicago schools, has r.
signed. She has been active In ed'
cational work for 50 years.
The Ford peace ship has asked, .
wireless to Secretary Lansing, tn,
passports be issued 80 that the part
may enter belligerent countries.
The German government conced'
the Socialist wing in the reichstag q
right to advocate terms upon whie
the Germans might accept peace.
Senator Dillingham;, of Vernon
chairman of the former immigratit
commission, introduces a bill in q
senate providing that male aliens ov
16 wears old who cannot read should
excluded from the United States.