Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-11-18
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.

II 10 reported that Villas men are
deserting at the rate OF 100 day.
The use Of whipped cream for any
purpose has been barred In Germany.
A naval aeroplane has been success
fully launched from the deck OF q bat
tleship ut sea.
Draft of m initiative petition for
the repeal of oregon's Sunday closing
law has been filed with the secretary
of state.
A Nationalist member Of parliament
openly charges Lord Kitchener and
Field Marshal Sir John French with
gross incompetency.
The National Guard association OF
the United States refuses to endorse
President Wilson's plans for q CONT
mental army Of 400, 900.
Thomas Kelly, millionaire con-
tractor of Chicago. has been extradited
TO Canada for alleged fraud In con-
struction Of parliament buildings.
On account Of the restrictions on the
use Of meat which, have gone into
effect in Germany, England believes
her enemy is.in dire straits for food.
Mrs. Margaret X. Armour, aged 80,
widow of s. B. Armour, the packer,
died In Kansas City Friday. Since her
husband's death Mrs. Armour'has been
active In charitable campaigns.
What is believed to be q piece OF
: time fuse was found among the cargo
of the steamer Rio Lagos, which start
: ed from New York for Queenstown,
and was forced to putin at Halifax
with her sugar cargo on fire.
A petrified tree, probably Is or 20
feet in length and eight inches in di-
ameter, and standing upright l6 feet
below the surface Of the crest OF hill,
was uncovered in Portland, Or, by la
borers making a cut on Upper Drive,
,, near Montgomery Drive.
A Vienna dispatch received in Am
, sterdam asserts that the Nieue Weinez
!. Journal, of Vienna, has been sup.
, pressed for one week for criticising
, the censorship. Fifty-five Austrian
provincial papers have been suppressed
within month for discussing food
: conditions.
!. American railroads are confronted
Q with one of the most serious car short
0 ages of recent years, owing to the
huge grain crop of this country ane
Canada, and the heavy tonnage from
n steel and munition plants, coupled witt
a the inability of the railroads to ge
Q new cars fast enough.
> The executive committee of thu
70 PRESBYTERIAN general assembly outlines
an emergency message on prepared
ness" for extraordinary conditions ex
IT pected to follow the close of the Euro
IS pean war, which is to be sent to 10,
le 600 pastors, President Wilson and 40,
1t 600 other elders ofsthe denomination
!, Expenditures of ISL, 700, 900 by tn
!. Union Pacific system and the O.-W. X
!. & N. for ties and other equipment an
= = in the reconstruction of the main lin
- of the O..W. r. & N. between Bls
!. !. locks and Coyote, Or, was announce
u in Tacoma by J. P. O'Brien, vice pres
ident. For the first time the road
n have placed orders for Douglas fir tie
II in the Northwest.
l Because they say they feel the lif
q. of the Indian race depends on clea
habits of the young men of this ger
=. GRAFTON, SO boys in Cushman School
- Tacoma, WASH, have voluntaril
signed pledge to abstain from t.
bacco in any form. Two weeks ag
the 83 boys and II more pledged then
:, selves to abstain forever from intox
" eating liquors. The II who did nj
sign the tobacco pledge have nevt
=. =, used tobacco.
er. Latest reports say only 225 wei
Id saved out of the steamer Ancona's pa
lp. sengers and crew of 428.
uy Lord Northcliffe predicts crisis
:. 20 America, after the European war
~ over.
ret It is declared that America is fl
behind other nations in giving aid
the Belgians.
,S A large meteor falls near Ell Ce
80 @ tro, CAL, causing shock similar
81 an earthquake.