Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-04-22
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Sixteen thousand Chicago carpen
ters go on strike.
German submarine sinks Dutch
freight ship while at anchor off The
Netherlands.
John Bunny. the noted motion pic.
ture comedian, Ia near death at his
home in Brooklyn.
Two Zeppelins raid English town on
the eastern coast Friday and do con
siderable damage to property.
Ten Tacoma dairies are closed by
health authorities, who claim milk
from tubercular cows was freely sold.
Germany declares Russian invasion
Of Hungary was failure, and that the
Cars army has been brought to a
halt.
Fast melting snow in Arizona wash
out two dams near St Johns and
drown eight persons, besides doing
half million dollars damage to prop
erty.
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont announces
that 500 women of New York will
march to the office of United States
Senator O'Gorman here April 30 to OBJ
tain his views on Woman Suffrage.
The steamer Northern Pacific of the
Great Northern Pacific Steamship
company, sister ship of the Great
Northern, sails on her maiden trip be-
tween San Francisco and Flavel, Or.
William L. Miller, 1O1 years, Of Jop-
lin, Mo, announces his wedding to
Mrs. Nancy B. Pike, 60, and issued a
general invitation to the public to at
tend. Miller was married twice pre-
viously.
P. c. Jenkins, a prominent resident
Of Butler county, Kentucky, was found
guilty in circuit court and sentenced
to four years and one day in the peni-
tertiary on the charge of being con-
nected with night raiding operations
in western Kentucky.
Twelve thousand men employed by
the Calumet C Hecla Mining company,
Calumet, Mich, and subsidiary prop
critics, received an increase OF 10 per
cent in wages. The wage rate in ef-
feet prior to the outbreak of the Euro
pean war is thereby restored.
The British government has offered
full and ample apology" to the Chill
can government for the sinking on
March IA in Chilean territorial waters
of the German cruiser Dresden, the
internment OF which had already been
ordered by the maritime governor of
Cumberland Bay when the British
squadron attacked and sank her.
Select and common councils of Phil
adelphia have decided to allow the his
toric Liberty Bell to be sent to the
Panama-Pacific Exposition. Resolu-
tions providing for its trip across the
continent were unanimously adopted
by both branches. Mayor Blanken-
burg announced that he would sign the
resolutions and only minor details now
remain to complete the arrangements.
Vehemently asserting that he had
nothing to do with the death of Fran
cisco Madero, General Victoriano HUI
erta, ex-provisional president of Mexi-
CO, issued a long signed statement in
New York setting forth what he term
ed his side of the Mexican question.
General Huerta declared that he knew
who was responsible for Madero's
death, but that he was keeping it as a
professional secret"
An attack by the allies on the Ger
mans, is declared to be near.
London gives out the lost list on the
Neuve Chapelle battle as nearly 5000.
The United States is building sub
marine that will Withstand 100-day
dive.
A big copper mine in Josephine
county, Oregon, has been sold for
$3.50, 600.
Spokane policemen are stopping jit-
ney drivers who have not filed $2500 |
bonds, required by recently-passed
ordinance.
A Petrograd dispatch reports that
the Kaiser personally directs defense
Of Hungary and that the Russian ad-
vance is broken.
Six instructors of Willamette uni
versity. Salem, Oregon, have resigned.
The move on the part of the teachers
is said to be voluntary.
Ex-presidents Taft and Roosevelt act
rs honorary pallbearers to the late
Professor Thomas Lounsburg of Yale
college. The two ex-presidents shook
hands formally.
An expressman on the Oregon Elec-
,ric railroad saves life of small child
who was standing on the track at Eu-
gene. The trainman dashed ahead of
he train and jerked the tot to safety.
In the West the French forces ap-
are satisfied with their recent
successes between the Meuse and the
Lorraine frontier and say only that
hey have come in contact with the
German entanglements in this region.
official German reports assert that de-
;ermined attacks by the French have
been repulsed along this sector. /