Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-12-30
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.

The Federal baseball league has quit.
Seized opium" valued $3.50, 900 at
San Francisco, proves to be bogus
goods.
The French make considerable gain
st Hartmans- Weilerkopf, and capture
1900 Germans.
Canada will raise total Of $50, 900
men for Engalnd; $4,000 have al
ready gone oversees.
II is estimated that the Federal gov
ernment will lose $3.50, 900 in revenue
when Oregon goes dry.
Eighty-five thousand pupils of the
Chicago schools are absent because of
an epidemic of influenza.
The barkentine S. N. Castle is In
distress of the coast Of Washington,
with six feet Of water in her hold.
According to dispatch an Austrian
submarine has been captured by two
torpedo boats, presumably Italian.
Nine Portland lawyers win dam
age suit for $40 started by a woman
over possession Of a hen and eleven
chicks.
A large number of cannon hidden by
the Serbs in their flight from Aus
tria-Hungary, have been recovered by
the latter.
Voluntary retirement..of the British |
In Gailipoli is denied by the Turks.
who claim the English were defeated
by their troops.
The Washington board of parole are
Withholding the freedom Of paroled
eonvicts until after January LIST, when
the state goes dry.
Fifteen hundred men working on the
Alaska railroad are icebound and win
be compelled to live through the win
ter on canned goods.
Members of the Ford peace party are
reported experiencing an epidemic of
grippe, MIR. Ford himself being unable
TO appear at meeting in Christiania.
The Roach Timber company Of Mus I
catine, La, has raised $500, 900 by
trust deed and viii build logging /
railroad to its holdings near Sutherlin,
Ore. c
Twenty-six food dealers of Washing =
ton, d. c., charged with raising prices !
on eatables DUNG the first few months :
OF the war, pleaded guilty and were :
fined SIS each.
A Central News dispatch from Am
sterdam says that Count Zeppelin, :
builder of dirigibles, has been elected II
Q member Of the first chamber of
Wuerttemberg.
The movement for an increase of
taxation by the German states has
begun with Baden, where the Diet has C
just passed bill increasing the in &C
come tax 20 per cent on incomes above 81
24O0 marks. OF
Mime. Sarah Bernhardt, the famous ps
actress, is reported dying in Paris. &c
Great Britain now demands enlist :. !;
ment Of her eligibles to full strength. ne
Samuel Gompers, president Of the iy
American Federation of Labor, gave pt
considerable evidence before the grand
jury investigating the activities of the qt
Labor's National Peace Council in TO "a
menting strikes Of employees in muni- IN
tion plants. ga
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According to figures announced in tn
London the number of casualties in ce
Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria and Wurtem- tit
burg up to November 80 were 2,524,- th
$50. OF this number ABA, 22S men
were killed or died of their wounds, at
864, 1913 were severely wounded, 27,674 fir,
died of disease and 381, 149 were miss- be
Ing. Naval casualties were not in tai
ciuded in these figures. tn
The Northern hemisphere produced
In 1915 $3.50, 00O,0 bushels of
wheat, an increase Of 1914 per cent.
An Athens dispatch to Reuters Io'
Telegram company says that British All
submarine has sunk the German an
steamer Leros and other craft in the oc'
Sea Of Marmora. coz
The nitro-glycerin plant of the Aetna .l' .a'
Powder company at Fayville, ILL.,, was .a' sa'
,lown up when 5000 pounds of nitro f. f.
.lycerin exploded. The explosion was ,.I ..s
ue to chemical reaction. ~ ~.
One woman is killed in Klamath be
ounty, Oregon, and one man wounded no
q fued over ownership of piece of
roperty.
It is announced from Teheran, that n.
be Russians have occupied the town A.,
{ Kum, 80 miles southwest of Te- 90;
eran, after great battle. The op- 80. a.
osing force was completely defeated. in n
The National Tidende, of Copen- of
agen, prints statement Of Dane fer
ON Constantinople that the Krupps
orks outside Constantinople have mo
zen destroyed by bombs dropped by the
ritish airmen. ne