Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-17
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.

Germans capture large section Of
French trenches In Artois.
Portland citizens have raised fund
Of over si3, 900 for the relief OF suffer-
ing jews In Europe.
The Willamette river at Portland
reaches l9-foot stage and floods all
waterfront Easements.
The customs officials at San Fran
cisco have seized totem pole that
bears nude pictures and is otherwise
indecent.
A lone robber near Cheyenne, Wyo.,
enters Union Pacific train and re-
leves 80 passengers Of their valuables
and escapes.
Secretary Of War Garrison resigns
from President Wilson's cabinet be-
cause Of difference In opinions over
the defense program.
A liquid which bursts into flame
when poured on paper Is believed TO
have been used by incendiaries who
set fire TO the Ottawa. Can. parlia-
ment building.
The Turkish expedition against
Egypt appears 70 have been postponed,
pending completion of the railroad
which 10 being constructed 20 the
Egyptian frontier.
Twenty members Of the Elks Club
at Fort Dodge, Ia, were trapped In
the club rooms and were rescued with
ladders by the fire department. when
gas explosion In three-story building
caused damage amounting TO sos. 900.
The Navajo Indians are dancing
their war dance and threatening 10 at
tack white settlers in Northeastern
Arizona, in retaliation for the Staying
Of one Of their number recently by po-
licemen. according to two cowboys
from Utah.
According to the decision Of the Ma
tional Association Of Merchant Tailors,
the ideal Americans measurement
should be, height, s feet 6 inches;
chest. 38 inches; waist, 33h inches;
hips, 39S inches; thigh, 21a inches;
calf. i4f inches; head measure, one
eighth of the full length Of the body;
legs straight and feet arched.
Germany and Austria, through their
embassies IN Washington, have notified
the United States of their intention
to treat armed merchantmen as war
ships after March /. That date was
fixed to give the entente allies time to
signify their intentions toward the re-
cent note Of the United States pro
posing the disarmament OF all mer-
chantmen.
Two hundred of a distinguished list
of 400 banqueters who attended
dinner given to Chicago's new Cath
olic archbishop, Most Reverend George
William Munderlein, were taken i'll OF
ptomaine poisoning after the soup
course. The archbishop did not par
take Of the soup, nor did Governor
Dunno, who was among those present.
and both escaped.
New York murders during 1915 were
246. in 1914, 257.
Large rebel forces, of China have
been defeated at Ping Shan.
Washington's stand on the Lusitania
case with Germany is, unaltered.
Colonel Hepburn, ex-representative
from Iowa, dies of heart trouble.
Evening dress this season is to be
wine colored with lavender vests.
German raider captures British liner
Orissa bound from Chile to Liverpool.
An air mai, route from Fairbanks to
Brooks, Alaska, is proposed to the
Ppstoffce; department.
Colonel House, President Wilson's
personal advisor, who visited Euro
pean belligerents, is returning home.
Liner Harvard in dense fog in San
Francisco bay, rams steamer Excel |
sior, which sinks. No lives were lost. |
A war correspondent declares Ger
many lis instigating revolutions in the
Far East, hoping to keep japan from
aiding her allies. Ers IS Il
! Prince Oscar of Prussia, fifth son Of |
Emperor William, has been slightly |
wounded in the head and on the upper
part of the thigh by shell splinters
during the fighting in the eastern war
theater. ~