Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-27
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.

Oregon Hopgrowers association 70.
port selling 5000 bales Of hops.
A new Oregon Republican club 1,
organized In Portland with 500 mem.
bers.
A total Of eleven lives were lost
during recent severe storms In South,
crn California.
Berlin announces that superior Rus
sian forces were repulsed In hand-to-
hand fighting In the BeBsarabian from
tier trenches.
Promises that the English conscrip-
tion measure will be enforced without
severity, brings loud applause In the
house Of commons.
War issues cause hot debate In the
senate, Hoke Smith leading In a severe
arraignment Of Englapd's attitude
toward neutral shipping.
A British submarine has gone ashore
of Holland. according to an announce
ment made by the official press bureau.
There was no loss Of life.
Roosevelt wants immediate action
In construction of half dozen 'for-
midable fighting ships" adeqate army
and universal military service.
A wealthy Spokane realty dealer
was found guilty Of selling intoxicants
IN violation Of the liquor law and was
fined $3.50 and ten days in jail.
The Greek king 10 bitter toward the
entente powers for attempting TO force
his country into the war. He declares
the neutrality Of his country was vio-
lated like that Of Belgium.
Tho house committee favorably re-
ports the Spanish American war PEN
sion bill which grants, IL passed, $12
per month to every widow Of soldier
either volunteer or regular.
Seattle millionaires whose resi-
dences were raided by the sheriff for
violations Of the Prohibition law, will
turn against him by attacking his
legal status as regards searching pri-
vate residences.
General Luis Herrera, In supreme
command OF the Carranza forces Mt
chihuahua City, Mexico, late Friday
night fatty denied the truth Of the re-
port of the capture Of General Villa at
the San Geronimo ranch.
An attack by the British with the
use Of smoke bombs on the German
positions north Of Frelinghein, In
Northern France, is announced in an
official statement by the German army
headquarters. It is declared the at
tack was beaten Off with heavy loss TO
the British.
The Mothers Council, of Dallas,
Tex, voted to submit bids for the bar
privileges of the State Fair of Texas.
Half million persons visit the fair
annually and the saloon man who gets
the liquor selling right pays from
$4,000 to $4,000. The Mothers Council
will raise fund to buy the saloon
right and publicly burn the contract,
II their plans succeed.
Ford peace board Is reported near
complete disruption.
A 80 per cent dividend is declared
by the Standard Oil company Of Cali
fornia.
Lord Derby of England declares
the British army is sufficient to win
the war.
Floods in Southern California are
continuing to do considerable damage
to property.
Restoration of the Manchu dynasty,
which ruled China before the establish
ment of the republic, has been pro-
claimed by the leaders of an uprising
in Eastern Mongolia. A brigade Of
Chinese troops ia marching on Huihua-
chen to attack the Mongolians.
Montenegro makes complete sur
render to Austria who will have full
supervision of that country.
A Polander was refused his natural
ization papers when he declared he
would not take up arms in defense of
the United States.
Katherine Kelly, aged 10, and
Gladys Edgerly, aged 8, of Seattle,
were probably fatally injured when
they were thrown from their sled after
coasting down a steep hill and crashed
into concrete wall.