Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-07-22
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.

Heavy rains in Northwestern Obi,
are causing alarm. -
Omaha is visited by severe storm
which did much. damage.
Austria denies the report that tn,
Italian navy sunk many of the former
ships.
A postoffice clerk mt Wallace, Idaho
has confessed to robbing the safe oi
$4,000.
Oregon wins grand prize for the bes,
collection Of minerals at the Panama.
Pacific exposition.
At st. Johns, N. F., cod fishermen
report fish. plentiful but scarcity OF
salt caused by. the European war.
Welsh miners In the Rhondda dis
trict, which furnish coal for the Brit
ish navy, voted to to go on strike.
Polk and Yamhill counties, in Ore
gon, are quarantined because Of
rapidly-spreading rabies among stock.
Valdez, Alaska, an important sea-
port, is visited by $500, 900 fire,
which wiped ont the main part Of the
city.
All Washington and Oregon give
hearty reception'to the Liberty Bell on
It's journey from Philadelphia to San
Francisco.
Germany makes formal answer to
the United States in which regrets for
attack on the steamer Nebraskan is
expressed.
An ex-Philadelphian. residing in Al
bany, Or, saw the Liberty Bell for
the first time when it passed through
that city recently.
1t is reported from Washington that
Turkey 10 expected to enter protest
against the United States for shipment
of war munitions to the allies.
The health department of New York
City reports that in the past ten years
milk drinking has increased 80 per
cent, while saloons have materially de-
creased.
For trying to sell to butchers the
meat Of cow that had died from
milk fever" William Richterich, a
dairyman Of Hillsdale, Oregon, was
fined 500.
The Motion Picture Exhibitors as
sociation in session in San Francisco
pledges itself to start a campaign to
defeat all attempts at censoring film
dramas in the United States.
The French are arming their troops
with short knife for use in trench |
warfare, thus displacing the bayonet,
which, when fixed in the rife, is too
long a weapon to give man free play
in the narrow trenches.
The so-called treasure murder"
case at Bedford, Ia, in which four
aged men were accused of having COM
mitted murder nearly half a century
ago, were dropped after Bates Hunts
man, the defendant, whose hearing
was in progress, was set free by JUS
tice Sawyer.
The 1915 national convention of the
Elks will be held in Baltimore.
An Italian merchantmen used the
Greek flag to avoid German subma-
rines.
Colonel Alden ]. Blethen, editor and
publisher of the Seattle Times, dies
after a long illness.
The German Crown Princes advance
against the French is said to have
been materially checked.
Villa is reported to have penetrated
the lines of the Carranzaistas and COM
pletely isolated Vera Cruz.
Views of the American press on the
German reply to the recent note are
said to be surprising to Berlin.
Many parts of the Canary Islands
are shaken by earthquake shocks and
damage is reported.
An aviator at height of 1900 feet
at Spokane succeeded in landing safely
after being upside down with a broken
plane.
For experimental purposes the U. S. 6
Navy department has bought several I
torpedo nets to hang around battle {
ships and protect them from torpedo
attacks. Secretary Daniels said these
we're of the same type as those en- '
oloyed by the European navies. lc