Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-11-04
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.

bonuses and national aid for babies.
Twenty-one children were killed In
n Catholic school fire at Peabody.
Mass.
by tho death OF an uncle. clifford
Pinchot. OF u. y. forestry fame. be.
comes heir 10 s250.000.
Spokane women will make war In
every way possible against tin sol.
diers" and military toys OF all kinds.
Mrs. John Azevedo. wife OF San
Rafael. Cal. dairyman, gave birth TO
her 18th child In 13 years Friday. The
newest Aseyedo In husky l0.pound
boy.
II Ia reported In New York that the
nix German officers who escaped from
the interned cruiser Kronprinz VII.
helm have been captured by British
warBhip,
Germans deny that death sentences
have been passed on any Belgians or
others In Belgium recently. and dc.
clare that no one 10 on trial for espion.
age or treason.
Fire. believed TO have been of In.
cendiary origin. destroyed pier and
caused 100000 loss at Seattle. The
pier was owned by British agents and
contained war stores.
II. II. Hatley. prominent farmer OF
the Ewartsviiie district near Pullman.
Wash. II tho proud father OF 10.
pound son. making 20 children OF
whom Mr.. Hatiey, who has passed his
76th milestone. In the father.
Fresh air cars. windowiess and un.
heated. are 10 be operated on chica.
go's elevated railway system for the
benefit of passengers who are out.of.
doors devotees. The cars probably
will be run on half.hour schedules.
only one coach TO train TO be un.
heated. II will be marked fresh air
car"
The Los Angeles police force has
set the pace for other police bodies
OF the country by tho addition OF a
balioon.shaped aircraft that will be
used to chase criminals. The police
tried out the craft In flight from
Monrovia and over the city and easily
followed speeding automobilist
through the streets.
The United States bonded ware
house on piers 81 and 3b OF the Balti.
more a. Ohio railroad at Locust Point,
Baltimore. Md. was destroyed by fire.
Records were. destroyed and estimates
of the value of the contents OF the
warehouse varied between 100000
and 100000. The building and piers
were valued at $4,000.
Abandonment OF iittle.used street.
car lines, 80 that the copper might be
obtained for war purposes had been
ordered by the municipality OF Kiel,
Germany, according to a Reuter- dis
patch from Copenhagen, which de-
clares that the work of tearing up
three streets for this purpose has be-
gun and 5000 metres of cable weighing
approximately 1000 kilos (nearly sew
en- tons) will thus be available.
Greek frontier guards we're attacked
by Austrians and Bulgarians. but re-
pulsed the enemy with heavy losses.
The proposed plan TO make all Cali
fornia state officers strictly non-parti-
san was beaten In state election by
10000 majority.
A report has reached London that
Prince Won Buelow, former German
chancellor, will shortly submit to Pres
ident Wilson and King Alphonoso, OF
Spain, an outline of the conditions on
which Germany might be disposed to
discuss terms Of peace.
Winter has set in In the Russian
war theater, according to the London
Times Petrograd correspondent, who
says snow has been falling for three
days and the roads are frozen so hard
that there is no foothold for horses.
The conditions, the correspondent
adds, are thus worse than In the rainy
season.
Twenty.four of the 48 big 36-inch
projectors that have formed an i'm
portant element OF the Panama-Pacific
exposition illumination system have
been sold to the Russian government
and are to be shipped at once to Euro
pean battlefields, 1t was announced in
San Francisco. The price paid is
placed at $4,000.
Drastic action by officials Of Kan
sas City, Kan, to prohibit illegal sale
of beer by breweries was taken We'd
nesday when three drivers were ar
rested and sentenced to Jail and the
beer trucks confiscated. The drivers
were fined $500 each and sent to jail
for six months. More than 100 cases
a