Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-26
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHfI'
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Spokane has Is announced candi
dates for three city Offices.
Dead and missing in the recent Gul
storm are now said to number 269.
Germany reports destroying small
British cruiser and destroyer by tor
pedoing In a naval engagement.
Italy. according to reports from
Rome, is making slow but steady prog
ress against Austrians on all fronts.
German submarines sunk the White
Star liner Arabic, an English ship
with loss Of 20 lives, two Of whom
are Americans.
Three British and one Norwegian
steamer were sunk by German sub
marines, in addition to the big liner
Arabic, Thursday.
The chief signal officer at the island
of Stromboli, off the Italian coast, re-
ports the eruption Of large quantity
OF lava from Stromboli volcano. The
lava Is forming lake Of fire between
the craters and the sea.
Companies operating mining proper
ties In the Coeur d'Alenes, especially
those producing zinc, which is in de.
mand for war munitions, are said 10
be employing detectives to guard their
workings, according to Spokane re-
ports.
An evangelist speaking in Portland
declares the prophesies in the Gath
chapter of Matthew have been accur-
ately fulfilled up to the present time,
and that the present generation wall
witness its complete fulfllment and
the return Of the Lord to the world.
Edward Brown, ex-convict, SEN
fenced to four years in San Quentin for
burglary, explained on the witness
stand that certain kind Of whisky is
made regularly within the walls Of
Folsom and San Quentin prisons. The
Juice of potatoes and fruits is used in
preparing the concoction, he said.
Compilations just completed by the
auditing department Of the O.-W. K.
& N. company show that during the
calendar year 1914 the company spent
for wages, taxes, construction and
other purposes incident to the conduct
Of its business in Oregon, Washington
and Idaho. an aggregate Of SIS, $751;
355.92, the equivalent of $50, S92.3O
for each working day of the year.
Because of the delay in shipping,
caused by the war, Baker county, Ore
gon, ranchers barely escaped a disas-
trous grain sack shortage just as the
threshing season was on. Nearly 3O,-
900 sacks had been ordered early from
Calcutta. Farmers we're preparing to
construct temporary bins and wheat
was filing every available receptacle
when 5000 sacks arrived. Nearly 25,-
900 are expected within few days.
The Lausanne Gazette, of Geneva,
says that the English government has
recently placed large orders for am
munition, especially shells, with Swiss
factories, supplying the raw material
to the Swiss through France, and that
Swiss watchmakers by thousands are
engaged in making the more delicate
parts of projectiles. Germany, the
Gazette says, likewise has placed or
ders for munitions with Swiss manu-
facturers.
Carranza is said to be preparing q
reply refusing peace proposals.
Yuan Shi Kai is considering the ad-
visibility Of proclaiming himself en-
peror of China.
Application has been made for the
appointment of receiver for the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad.
A Georgia mob took Leo M. Frank,
serving life sentence for the murder
of Mary Phagan, from Jail and hanged
him.
The executive committee of the Ger
man National Liberal party declares
permanent peace can only be had by q
wide extension of German frontier in
all directions.
A cablegram from Paris announces
the death of Jacques Neyvatte, mem
ber of the French aviation corps. Ney-
waite was formerly newspaper man
ofP hoenix, A riz. He was licensed by
the Aero Club of France in 1908, and
appeared in aerial exhibitions in this
country. He served in the Boer war
as balloonist.