Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-09-16
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHH'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Lloyd George says British workmen
are not yet doing their best.
Berlin declines TO grant indemnity
for lives Of Americans lost on the
Arabic, but offers to arbitrate.
A wealthy New York widow was
murdered In her own home and robbed
OF about $40, 900 In cash and jewels.
Raiding Zeppelins reached the hotel
district In the heart OF London, killing
20 and doing much damage with
bombs.
The bodies of thirteen men taken
from the hull Of the wrecked sub
marine F-4 are on their way to San
Francisco on the. steamer Supply.
Official circles in Washington be-
lievo that diplomatic relations with
Germany will be severed without no
ticc upon any further invasion Of the
rights Of American citizens.
One enlisted man was killed and two
injured In an explosion on the de-
stroyer Decatur at the Cavite navy
yard, Philippine Islands. according to
a cabled report to the Navy depart
ment.
At meeting OF the Women's Home
stead association mt Boston Mrs.
Charlotte Smith, the president, de-
manded law requiring that girl stem
ographers be kept in wire cages while
at work.
General Friedrich Won Bernhard has
been assigned to field command at
his own request by Emperor William,
and Ia now at the front. He IL one of
the best military writers Of
Germany.
A prize Berkshire hog raised by the
Delaware College experimental farm,
Newark, Del, known officially as Duke
of Sussex Sixth, was sold for $1,000 In
cash--the worlds record price for
registered porker--to G. II. Carter, Of
Westchester. Pa.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph company says: "A
Zeppelin which left Brussels in the
direction of Antwerp lost propeller
over Stcckem, and later fell and was
entirely destroyed by an explosion.
The members of the crew were killed.
Ambassador Penfeld, at Vienna,
has been instructed by cable to inform
the Austro- Hungarian government that
DR.. Constantin Dumba no longer is
acceptable as envoy to the United
States and to ask for his recall. Am
bassador Penfield was instructed that
Mr.. Dumba has admitted that he pro-
posed to his government plans to insti-
gate strikes in American manufactur-
ing plants engaged in the production
of munitions of war. The informa-
tion reached this government through
a copy of letter of the ambassador to
his government. The bearer was an
American citizen named Archibald,
who was travelling under an American
passport. The ambassador has admit
ted that he employed Archibald to bear
official dispatches to his government.
A dividend from Coeur d'Alene
mines amounting to $6,699, S79 has
been declared.
Judge Willis S. Knowles, of Rhode
Island, is shot from ambush In his
home in that state.
Italy has declared cotton contraband
of war, Rome dispatch to the Havas
News Agency announces.
An earthquake in Central America
has detroyed Jutiapa. The city had
population Of about $4,000.
Three jailbreakers at Pendleton,
Ore, were captured by the sheriff,
who was soon on their trail.
A British squadron. bombarded all
the positions along the Belgian coast
as far as Ostend Wednesday.
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam,
superintendent of the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, has been removed.
An unskilled laborer with family
of five, living in New York City, can
not maintain for his family standard
of living consistent with American
ideas on wage of less than $840
year, according to a report of the bu-
reau of standards of the board of es-
Inmates.