Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-02
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHELL
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

The Portuguese navy seizes 80 In
termed German ships.
Ex-senator Root, Of New York, 10
expected 10 announce his support TO
Roosevelt for tho presidency.
Seattle lumbermen purchase big
Canadian sRwmill that has been idle
for IS months and will run II TO full
capacity.
A crazy MonteneRrin runs amuck In
Seattle and stabs six persons before hc
10 overpowered. One OF his victims is
seriously wounded.
A Portland school girl, aged IL, was
knocked down and killed by a large
auto truck, as she was on her way TO
rehearsal Of q school play.
Admiral Winslow, testifying before
the naval committee, states that one
big battieship could rout the whole Pa
cific feet, of which he 10 commander.
Two robbers hold up and rob a
Northern Pacific train near Seattle and
escape with much booty. The safe
was dynamited and the passengers In
timidated by pistol shots.
Six ministers Of White Plains, N.
r., drew sealed lots from hat which
will instruct them at which church
they are to preach and upon what sub
ject. The envelopes are not TO be
opened until Sunday morning.
During friendly sparring bout be-
tween William Hildebrandt and Au-
gust Naisei, both II years Of age, at
the Thirteenth District school, Gin
cinnati, Hildebrandt was struck on the
Jaw. He died few minutes later.
John r. Gillies, deposed claim agent
Of the Washington State Industrial In
surance commission. was found guilty
of grand larceny in connection with
tho looting Of the industrial insurance
fund Of several thousand dollars by
means of false accident claims.
In response to agitation by the news
papers urging England's ministers TO
set the country an example Of econ
omy, preferably by accepting reduc-
tion In their salaries, 1t is announced
the ministers have agreed for the fu-
ture to accept one-quarter OF their sal
aries In the form of five per cent ex-
chequer bonds.
When the big British steamer Tai
thybius, Of the Blue Funnel line,
docked at the Smith Cove terminal in
Seattle, every approach to the wharf
was closely guarded by policemen and
special watchmen employed as the re-
suit Of an anonymous threat that the
liners $8, 500,000 cargo had been
marked for destruction by alleged Ger
man spies.
President Wilson, at the end Of two
days of agitation in congress for action
warning Americans off armed mer-
chantmen, wrote letter to Senator
Stone, chairman of the Senate foreign
relations committee, saying that he
could not consent to the abridgement
of the rights of American citizens in
any respect. "The honor and self
respect of the Nation are involved, "
he said. "We covet peace and shall
preserve it at any cost but the loss OF
honor"
Hi Gill is again nominated for
mayor Of Seattle.
A Wenatchee, WASH, couple kept
their wedding a secret since October 8
last year.
The French succeed in bringing tc
earth Zeppelin making raid over
that country.
Another Portland Chinaman was shot
in the tong war Monday, and a HoI
Sing suspect is in jail.
Great ava.anches of snow and dirt
in several districts in Germany have
killed 55 persons recently.
The house of commons votes new
credit of 2. 082, 600, 900 pounds sterling
Four hundred lumbermen of tht
Northwest are holding meeting il
Portland.
Alaska's. trade with the outside
world increased $12, 900, 900 last year
according to figures made public b!
the department of Commerce. Th'
balance Of trade in the territory
favor was $27, 1000, 600. Exports wer'
valued at $50, 100000 and imports a
$28, 900, 600.