Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-09-09
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHfl'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

The three-day regatta opens at As
toria, Ore.
Dogwood trees near Vancouver
Wash, are in bloom for the secont
time this year.
Two Americans were killed by Mex
lean bandits who have been attempt
ing raids in Texas.
Germany offers to submit the Lusi
tania and Arabic claims to The Hagu,
tribunal for adjustment.
The Portland Gas & Coke company
pays per cent on preferred and com.
mon stock for the year ending June 80.
The secretaries of war and navy
have been asked by the President to
outline adequate defense plans for the
nation.
The work Of completing the O.-W.
X. e. N. cutoff from Chambers Prairie
to Olympia, about IL miles, will be
completed at once.
A Portland, Or, druggist was ar
rested and confessed to robbing the
stand Of blind cigar dealer and sell
ling the goods at his own store.
The Georgia grand jury investigat-
ing the lynching of Leo M. Frank re-
ports that 1t can find no clue sufficient
to warrant the indictment Of any one.
Germany is reported as ready to en-
tertain peace negotiations and will
yield Belgium. II is reported also that
the freedom of Poland and Finland will
be asked.
Illinois farmers who were driven
from their fields by floods are finding
recompense by gathering an abundance
of fish which were left imprisoned in
low places when the waters receded.
Silvio Pettirossi, an Argentine avi-
ator, fell from height Of several hun
dred feet into San Francisco Bay late
Friday while giving an exhibition
flight from the Panama-Pacific exposi-
tion.
President Wilson went to a theater
party Friday night for the first time
for more than year. He was per-
suaded to go as a relaxation from the
work he has been doing recently on
foreign problems.
An Amsterdam dispatch says it is
reported that Admiral Won Tirpitz, the
German minister Of marine, will resign
and will be succeeded by Admiral Won
Pohl, now chief of the admiralty staff
and commander of the German battle
fleet.
The Overseas Agency, of Berlin,
says: 1.-THE municipal council elected
by the citizens of Lodz Ia city of Rus
sian Poland now in the hands of the
Germans) has banished the Russian
language, and only Polish and German
will be used"
Eight Albanians were sentenced to
long terms in prison for having COM
municated with Austria by carrier
pigeons. The men involved are Cap
tain Mustapha, of the Albanian bark
Bella Scutarina, who was sentenced to
20 years, and seven members of his
crew, condemned to serve ten years
each.
A 16-year-old girl of Hood River,
Ore, successfully lands a 29-inch fish.
Foreign exchange is reported to
have taken an alarming slump, and
the American banks are bursting |
with gold"
A Portland beauty is soon to become
the bride of Luis C. Abeilli, Bolivian
commissioner at the SAM Francisco
fair.
The greatest favorable trade balance
since March 13 was shown by the
statement of weekly imports and ex-
ports for the week ending August 28.
The favorable balance for the week
was $33, 269, 039. Exports were $780,
311, 764, and imports were $27, 042, 725.
Sir Rodmon Robin, j. H. Howden,
DIR. Montague and G. r. Coldwell, of
Winnipeg, Man., charged by the Math-
ers Royal Commission with conspiracy
to defraud the province, voluntarily
at the city police station.
After a conference with Deputy Chief
Newton they were released on bail of
$50, 900 each, $25, 200 consisting of
bond and two sureties of $12,-
500 each being given.