Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-12-09
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.

Northwest lumber mills receive big
orders for railroad ties.
A combination OF six million farmers
of the United States is proposed In n
meeting In Chicago.
Senator Borah. Of Idaho. declined TO
permit his name 10 appear on the Min
nesota state primary ballot as candi-
date for the presidency.
Ohio G. Barber. millionaire match
manufacturer Of Arkon. Ohio. aged rs.
sometimes called the Match King"
married Miss Mary +. Orr. aged ~,
for IL years his private secretary.
Lamont M. Bowers, Of Binghamp-
ton. N. Y, until recently manager OF
the Colorado Fuel a. iron company.
will resign on January ] $50. 600
post with the Rockefeller interests be-
cause he believes that men past 60 are
"either foolish or irritable. Mr..
Bowers 10 past 20.
Reports received by the London
board of trade during November tell OF
the sinking Of 63 British steamers.
with total net tonnage Of 6l.O72,
with the loss Of 646 lives. In the
same period. the loss was reported OF
35 British sailing vessels OF 4s77 net
tonnage with six lives.
William o'Keefe, a pioneer theat-
rical manager and actor. known all
over the Northwest, shot himself
shortly after midnight on the steps OF
the county jail In Helena, Mont. dying
instantly. o'Keefe, who was 6b years
of age and a bachelor, left pathetic
note, declaring his efforts TO give up
liquor had resulted in torture.
John II. Fahey, president Of the
Chamber of Commerce Of the United
States, told President Wilson that bus
mess men want congress TO establish
non-partisan tariff commission and pro-
vide means to strengthen the merchant
marine. Mr.. Fahey declared there
was great need for more ships TO carry
the exports OF the United States.
Official announcement that the Amer
lean steamship Hooking had been re-
QUESTIONED by the British government
without the formality Of prize court
proceedings, was received by the State
department In dispatch from Halifax,
where the ship was being detained
since she was seized by British war
ship while on the way from New York
to Norfolk.
Three high officials and subordinate
officers Of the Hamburg g-American line
were found guilty in the Federal Dis
trict Court Of New York Of having
violated the laws Of the United States
In sending coal and other supplies 70
German cruisers in the South Atlantic
In the first few months of the Euro
pean war. The jury returned YER
dict of guilty on each Of two indict.
ments. The specific charge against
the defendants was conspiracy to de-
ceive and defraud the United States
The maximum penalty for each indict.
ment is two years. imprisonment ane
$40, 900 fine.
Senator Works, of California, will
not seek reelection in 1917.
The reichstag is considering bill Il
tax war profits and incomes.
The French government Is reportet
seeking large loan in England.
Nineteen miners are killed by an ex
plosion in mine at Boomer, W. Va.
A police census Of Greater New
York gives that city 5,253,8SS inhab
itants.
Winston Churchill, who has gone u
the front for England, will soon b
made a general.
Two hundred and twenty acres o
wheat land near La Grande, Ore, wa
sold for SIG, 900 cash.
Jane Adams, settlement worker an
noted peace advocate, has been sent
a Chicago hospital. Her Illness is re
ported as not serious.
Shipbuilders at Hoquiam, Wash
are constructing one Of the larges
schooners on the Coast, which wi
transport lumber when finished.
A collie, locked out of the house
Binghampton, N. Y, leaps through
window and alarms the occupants
time to save themselves from death 0
fire.