Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-08
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.

The mayor OF Boise. Idaho has beer
ousted by recall.
Austrian troops are aiding the Ger
mans In the Verdun battle.
Carranza's note demanding with
drawal of American troops 10 consid-
cred offensive nc Washington
Twenty persons were killed or
wounded In an outbreak at Maracaibo,
Venezuela, against General Garcia,
who has been appointed president Of
the state Of Zulia.
The planting Of 600 acres Of land In
the Sutherlin, Ore, district to sugar
beets has been completed and the
growing crop is considered one Of the
best prospects in the Northwest.
Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, OF Los
Angeles, has been elected president Of
the General Federation Of Women's
Clubs by large majority, defeating
Mrs. Samuel b. Sheath. OF Tifiin. o.
A resolution asking the President to
report on the restrictions imposed by
the belligerent nations on importations
of food supplies for suffering inhab-
itants Of Poland was adopted by the
senate.
Contracts totaling $3.50, 600 and in
volving approximately 5000 tons Of
cherries, goosebcrries. Strawberries,
loganberries, apples, pears and prunes,
have been made by the Salem. Ore,
Fruit Union.
A Berlin dispatch to the Copenhagen
Politiken says that the court which
conducted the preliminary examination
Of DIR. Karl Liebknecht, the Socialist
leader, decided that he should be pun
ished for treason.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung says it is
reported, although not confirmed, that
King Victor Emmanuel and his special
staff have departed from the Italian
general headquarters at Udine on ac-
count Of the Austrian offensive and re-
tired to Venice.
Priority of invention of the hydro
aeroplane was awarded by the District
Supreme Court Of Washington, ID. c.,
to Albert S. Janin against Glenn II.
Curtiss, on the ground that Janin had
established date of conception three
years ahead Of Curtiss.
Pierre Dreyfus, son of Commandant
Alfred Dreyfus, Of the famous "Drey-
fus Affair" who has been serving on
the Verdun front as second lieutenant
in the artillery, has just been cited in
the orders Of the day for having par
ticularly distinguished himself during
the violent engagements of February
26, 27 and 28" in the battle of Verdun.
Representatives in congress from
woman suffrage states at a special
hearing before the house judiciary
committee insisted on report on the
Susan B. Anthony amendment for
woman suffrage, so that the issue may
be squarely voted on. A number Of
members opposing suffrage left the
room, and the committee was confront
ed with no quorum.
William Annett and W. G. Reddy,
who had been prospecting and trapping
on the Arctic Ocean for years, arrived
at Dawson and enlisted in the Cana
dian army for service in Europe. Set
ting out months ago, the men tramped
for hundreds of miles across ice and
through snow from the Arctic shores
to Fort Yukon, and there awaited the
first steamer to Dawson.
Beginning June and henceforth
during the continuance of the war and
until peace is declared all places Ii
censed for the sale of liquor in the
province Of British Columbia must
close at 10 o'clock p. m. and must not
open until IL O'Clock next morning,
except in the case of Saturday. when
they must close at 10 p. m. and remain
shut until IL a. m. Monday.
The United States cruiser Tennessee
has arrived at Santo Domingo from
Norfolk with several hundred marines
to reinforce the American forces now
engaged in policing the republic.
Attended by members of the Yale
Corporation, the faculties of the vari-
,ous departments. members of the stu
dent body, and distinguished alumni,
the funeral of Rev. Timothy Dwight,
ex-president of Yale University, was
held Wednesday from Battle chapel on
the college campus.