Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-11-25
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.

Flilh ~ reported wounded IN battl'
with Carranza forces.
Military training In public SCHOOL,
has been approved by the American
Federation Of Labor.
A Douglas fr tree which grew OF
Finney creek In Western Washington
shows il44 annual rings.
Tho British army at the Dardanellei
has resumed the offensive and captured
2s0.yards Of Turkish trenches.
Austria will be told that open boat,
are not considered places Of safety
for passengers Of captured steamships.
Secretary Daniels announces that
plans are being considered for two 80,
000-ton dreadnoughts for the Ameri.
can navy.
II was said by Portland commission
men that Thanksgiving turkeys will
retail at "a TO 2S cents q pound this
season. or about 15 per cent higher
than last year.
English authorities have found II
necessary 10 execute "a Hindus and
sentence 27 others for life for mutiny.
German agents are said TO be respon-
sibia for the trouble.
nepsrts that. Germany Is about to
isa, iSss'harth wIss loan are denied
by the Overseas News Agency. which
says: Germany Is provided with
ample financial means for continuing
the war until this coming spring"
Miss Sophia Rosen, IL years old, the
third anthrax victim In New York
City within the last few months, died
Saturday. The girl 10 believed to
have contracted the disease, which Is
common among animals. by wearing a
fur neckpiece, the skin Of which had
not been properly treated.
The birthplace and former home Of
Walt Whitman. the poet. at Hunting
ton, l.. l., where he absorbed the in
spiration for Leaves Of Grass and
other famous poems. has been sold at
auctionfor $4,000 under foreclosure
proceedings to satisfy note given by
the owner, n farmer.
Az sequel to the report that n flo
tilla Of rs German torpedo boats and
a big cruiser had passed Helsingborg,
Sweden, Wednesday, proceeding into
the Cattegat. dispatch TO the Central
News from Copenhagen says that a
British squadron of cruisers and de-
stroyers has been seen entering the
Cattegat.
The authority of the New York City
board of education to compel parents
to send their children to school in as
good physical condition as possible, is
sustained by the Children's court of
Brooklyn In the first decision Of the
kind In this state. The parents of a
pupil were ordered by the court to
have the boys diseased tonsils re-
moved.
A Copenhagen dispatch to Reuters
Telegram company Of London says
that the copper famine in Germany Is
30 acute that requests equivalent to
demands are now reaching the author
tiles Of the churches to hand over all
the copper. in their possession as a
good example to others. The huge |
copper roofs of the great Cathedral at |
Bremen are being dismantled.
Because of iii health, ex-Chief of
Police Kearney, Of Pendleton, commits
suicide.
A wedding of international interest
took place In Baltimore recently, when
Miss Christine Marburg, daughter of
the former American minister to Bel
yium and Mrs. Theodore Marburg, be-
came the bride Of Jonkheer Alidius
Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van
Starkenborgh- -Stachouwer, of Holland,
an attache Of the Netherlands legation
1t Washington.
According to the Gactea Del Norte.
If Balbao, Spain, a Spanish steamer
With cargo of wire was stopped by
British cruiser and compelled to un-
Dad at Gibraltar before being allowed
% continue on her voyage to Malaga.
The Supreme court Of Wisconsin has
.uled that when once married woman
Is made beneficiary by a life insurance
policy, it cannot be changed without
Ter consent, regardless Of clause in
he policy permitting one to change
he beneficiary at any time. u