Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-07
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTsHH'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

The allies, are making fierce fgh
for the second German line In the West
The Southern Pacific 10 sending 40,
cars to various numbering points II
Oregon In response TO demands.
Another slide has blocked the Pana
ma canal and the opening Of the ditcl
will be delayed until October 10.
Nearly three score persons lost theil
lives In hurricane which also causet
immense property damage ut New Or,
leans.
William Steele, aged 81. and Mrs
Arleta Golden, aged 7S, obtained Z
marriage license and were married a,
Salem, Or.
A catch OF 1853 walruses is reported
by the steamer Corwin. The hides are
In great demand In Eastern ammuni.
tion factories for Furnishing shrapnel
cases.
Saskatchewan, Canada, farmers won
first and second prizes In competition
for the best bushel Of wheat at the
international Soil Products Exposition
at Denver.
A Portland, Oregon, man, in fit Of
laughter, dislodged his false teeth and
the artificial masticators lodged in his
throat. 1t required a physician to re-
move the molars.
Three liners have been added to the
feet Of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Steam
ship company and will be put into the
trans-Pacific trade between Pacific
Coast points and the Orient.
A heavy hail storm practically ruin
ed the winter apple crop in the vicin-
ity Of Roswell, N. M. The damage is
estimated at $500, 900. Packing was
to have begun soon in the larger ORCH
ards.
The inclusion Of the Missouri, Kan
sas a. Texas railroad, which recently
went into receivership, makes the
mileage Of railways in the United
States in the hands Of receivers greater
than ever before.
A semi-official dispatch received at
Amsterdam from Berlin says all the
subscriptions to the third German war
loan, which amounted to 10000, 000,-
900 marks ($3. 600, 600, ,000, represent
new money. No conversions are in
cluded.
The London Morning Posts Berne
correspondent says he learns from
Munich that T. st. John Gaffney, the
American consul general in Munich,
after comforting with Sir Roger Case
ment, has decided to resign and 60 on
a lecture tour in the United States on
behalf Of Germany.
Coreans in Hawaii are training with
wooden guns, in the hope of being
able to free Corea from Japan, accord
ing to Miss Sadie e. Barrett, mis-
sionary to Hawaii, who addressed the
National Convention Of the Women's
Home Missionary Society of the Meth
odist Episcopal church in Seattle.
Germany declares she sees the goal
Of her ambitions.
The British admiralty has loaned a
number Of submarines to the Russians.
United States sends artillery to
border to repel further raids
Of bandits.
The Washington government has
made final request that DR.. Dumba
be recalled.
BY the will Of John G. Watmough,
Of Philadelphia, his hired girl falls
heir to 100000
A Walla Walla, Wash, girl takes
dose Of poison for headache, in dark,
which proves fatal.
For the first time in history, Chinese
are competitors of the
European yards. A steamship COM
pany of Drammen has ordered three
steamers to be delivered in Copen-
hagen in 1916 and 1917. The placing
Of this order in China is due to the
unusual pressure in the home yards.
The Munich Post, according to the
Overseas News Agency, has received a
report from Switzerland that Pope
Benedict is preparing circular letter
TO the belligerents asking for gen.
sral truce on All Souls day. The Pom
Tiff asked that the truce be dedicated
70 the memory Of the soldiers who
nave perished in the war.