Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-12
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.
Germans finally take Warsaw.

Germans finally take Warsaw.
Germany makes apology to Norwa!
for sinking steamship Minerva.
Five hundred Austrian troops on
train were burned TO death when Ital
ians shelled it.
A comet, long dead" is reported
to be coming back and will cause
meteor shower.
Wheat yield In the Palouss country
Washington, reaches an average Of be
tween 35 and 40 bushels TO the acre.
Bursting OF dam In Erie, Pa. re.
suited In the death Of 20 persons anG
property and crop damage Of nearly
$1,000, 900.
A threatened strike among the
Krupp gun workers in Germany has
been averted by the government grant.
ing all demands.
To strengthen the gold reserves for
exchange purposes in England, the
treasury has instructed the postoffice
and all public departments to use notes
instead of gold whenever possible
when making cash payments.
Pursuant to an invitation from the
United States to the South American
diplomats TO aid in attempting set
tlement Of Mexico's war, a conference
was held at which II was decided to
give that country one more chance be-
fore definite steps be taken.
Salt consumed In the United States
amounted to 9,99s, $40. $50 pounds dur
ing 1914, an increase Of 4l,575, 800
pounds over that consumed In 1918.
That amount, announced by the Geo
logical Survey, would mean per cap
ita consumption of almost 100 pounds
for the year. Sugars per capita con-
sumption during 1914 was so. IA pounds.
The American forces from the bat
tIeship Connecticut have occupied,
without striking a blow, the national
fort of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which
dominates the town. A proclamation
has been posted in all quarters, signed
by the president Of the revolutionary
committee, protesting against the mis-
use Of force against friendly people.
Members of the executive council of
the B'nai Birth in session at Atlantic
City, N. j., declared the condition of
the Jews in Russia has not been inn
proved, and that Jews were being used
as shields by Russian soldiers in the
trenches.
Great Britain in answering Amer
ica's notes on the subject of blockad-
ing neutral ports advises that her
course in this respect will not be
and recites that during the
war of the rebellion the United States
exercised similar rights.
Taller, darker women, clothed in
more sensible dress, hung from the
will typify the "eugenic
woman" of the future, DR.. A. ]. Reed,
professor of hygiene in the Normal
School Of Physical Education at Battle
Creek, Mich, predicted in an address
before the Second international Con-
ference on Race Betterment at the
Panama Pacific exposition.
Reports from Simla say interces-
sional services are being held in the
churches, mosques and temples
throughout India, all sections of the
British and Indian communities par
Numerous patriotic meet
ings also have been organized by In
1ian citizens. 1t is estimated that
S5, 900, 900 has been subscribed to the
British war loan through Bombay and
Calcutta.
Nine hundred and eighty-one persons
ost their lives in the steamer Eastlsnd
disaster, according to final figures
given out by the Western Electric
after completing the check
ing of its employees and friends who
boarded the vessel. The identified
lead number 83S, unidentified dead
,wo, and the final list of missing 141.
In 40-mile gale which ragged on
Lake Ontario Wednesday, the worst in
several years, according to the weather
bureau, the freight steamer Alexan-
iria, of the Canada Steamship lines,
IAN ashore. The surf was too heavy
to permit the launching of boat, but
Captain Bloomfield and his crew, %
nen all told, leaped into the breakers
wearing life preservers and were
ragged ashore by an amateur life
Iaving brigade. |