Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-12-02
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.

~yN' 49, @"t va 1""tts@p H"7 iohh
cd TO dance.
Wilson finished writing bis message
Thanksgiving Day.
London trade unionists refuse &c
work without their customary allot-
ment Of becr.
Detectives In Tacoma frustrated q
scheme TO defraud firm Of grain
brokers OF $1,000.
Fire horses Of Portland, retired by
auto apparatus. will be purchased by
the State National Guard.
II 10 predicted that tho adminiatra.
tion's ship purchase bill will be do
feated In tho next congress.
A mischiovious lad liberated several
mice In Portland moving picture
house. A near-panic followed.
General Villa and his troops are
nearing the border and more trouble 10
expected for the United States.
Representative Witherspoon, Of
Mississippi, known as the little navy"
leader. dies suddenly at his home.
A tornado In thiokly settled farm
Ing community near Hot Springs, Ak,
killed ton and injured about thirty.
Death sentence has been passed upon
G6S rebels In Formosa, and most OF
them have already been carried out.
It 10 reported from Berlin that Rus
sia 10 planning to move on Bulgaria,
but the point Of attack Ia still mys-
terry.
Mexican bandits dynamited a train
on the National Railway and IL Is re-
ported about eighty persons were
killed.
Most Of the Oregon exhibit at the
San Francisco fair, will be permanent.
ly planted In the Chamber Of Com.
merce at Portland.
Jacob s. Coxey, commander of the
historic idle army which stormed
Washington. d. c., In 1894, will run
for the senate from Ohio.
The Democratic National committee
10 planning to hold the presidential
convention much earlier than usual,
probably the first of June.
A man In Seattle kills himself In
crowded street to attract publicity TO
book he had written and expected II
to be published in the newspapers.
Rancher near Prairie City, Or.
gives each OF his three small daugh-
ters cyanide pellets and takes one him
self. All four died from the effects.
Three gold medals will be bestowed
on as many American women by
France, because Of their great devo-
tion to the work of aiding the needy.
Ex-President Taft declared in a
speech before the New York Teachers
association, that he believed the Fed
eral government could and should give
aid to education in the several states. I
France has given order calling youth
of classs Of 1917 to arms. These boys
are from II to 10 years of age, and
the order requires minimum training ,
of FIVE months before entering active
duties. M
A prisoner in a Tacoma jail on a I
charge of smuggling offers to discose
extensive operations Of gang of Ger '
man sympathizers, who he claims set r
fire to Pier ID at Seattle recently and {
also exploded scow-load of dynamite
awaiting shipment to Russia. U
Another munitions plant is blown up /;
at Parry Sound, Ont. +
The British empire capital wealth is t
estimated at $3.50, 900, 600, 900. q
The worlds corn crop Is estimated t
at three and half billion bushels. t
Assistant bank examiner of Califor-
MIA is arrested charged with embezzle-
ment.
Seattle experiences wind velocity of D
"a miles an hour, besides fierce thun- t,
der storm.
Olympia officials are investigating =
an alleged theft of $4,000 from the y
state industrial insurance fund.
The keynote of President Wilson's G
to congress will be prepared CT
ness for war and coast defense. n