Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-05-20
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
1.-Two News items From All Nations,
Pacific Northwest and Our Own
Commonwealth Condensed for
Our Many Busy Readers.

The National Congress Of Mothers II
In session at Portland.
Wenatchee, WASH, apples are sci.
ling In Germany for $8 a box.
Because Of anti-German riots II
England, German subjects ask Ameri'
can aid.
The Italian cabinet has resigned al
result Of disagreement over the Eu.
ropean war question.
Lightning strikes tree near Lebanon,
Ore. and kills 20 goats that were
seeking shelter there.
Baptists in session at Houston, Tex,
unanimously decide to support Presi-
dent Wilson in the war crisis.
Austro-G Germans capture 1d3, 800 Rus
SLAMS, 90 cannon, 255 machine guns
In the recent battles in Galicia.
Portland, Ore, Is sprinkling coal oil
on all nearby lakes, pools and ponds,
In order to destroy the mosquito pest.
The national committee of the So
cialist party adopted peace program,
but met with considerable opposition
In doing 80.
The Turks sink English battleship
Goliath in the Dardanelles, with loss
Of 500 men. The Sultan loses three
ships Of minor Importance.
Unitea-~states government sends
note Of protest TO Germany concerning
the sinking Of the Lusitania and other
vessels conveying Americans.
The cold from which King Constan-
tine has been suffering for the past
week has turned into pleurisy, says
Reuters Athens correspondent.
A high German government official
declares that the steamship Mauretania
will meet the same fate as the Lusi-
tania il their submarines can reach her.
At the annual school exhibit at
Baker, Ore, 25 girls in the domestic
science department made more than
1000 doughnuts and distributed them
to the visitors.
Treasury experts of the United
States declare that in the event Of war
with Germany financial aid to the ex-
tent Of a billion dollars could be made
without embarrassment or distress to
business interests.
William d. Haywood, secretary
treasurer of the l. w. w., declares
before the Federal Industrial Relations
committee that "implacable warfare"
against capital must be waged until it
ends in confscation of the means of
production.
John d. Rockefeller wins an import
ant decision in his fight to prevent the
collection of taxes on $311, 900, 900
worth of property in Cuyahoga county,
New York. The taxes, with penal
ties for non-payment when due, now
amount to about 81, 500, 600.
James Morrison Darnell, Kenosha,
Wis, minister, was found guilty of
violating the Mann white slave act.
Darnell was charged with transporting
Ruth Zoper from Owatonna, Minn., to
Kenosha. The judge in charging the
jury said the case hinged on whether
Darnell and Ruth Zoper were married.
Seward, Alaska, is visited by
500, 900 fire.
Neutrals in Italy are hopeful that
their country will keep out of the war.
Anti German riots are occurring in
London and have gotten beyond control
of the peace officers.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, and
the wizard of electricity" is to pay
Portland visit in July.
1t is reported that Clarence Fisher,
an American ranch foreman in Mex
leo, was brutally murdered by Mexican
bandits.
President Wilson's draft of note to
Germany on the sinking of the Lusi-
tania is unanimously approved by the
cabinet.
A deputation of prominent German
residents and business men called on
the Lord Mayor of Bradford, England.
and handed him a written protest
against the ''inhuman methods en-
ployed by the German government in
waging war against non-combatants,
including women and children, which
have eliminated in the sinking of the
Lusitania.