Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-01
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.

Methodists retain ban on dancing
cards and theaters.
With tremendous losses the German
make large gains at Verdun.
Women's clubs are planning an in
ternational congress for 1920.
Vigorous notes have been sent boil
France and England on the subject o
interference with mails.
The Paris Temps In an editoria
again goes on record as not favorins
any idea Of peace negotiations.
One hundred and sixteen Texas mill
tiamen who failed TO respond to thu
call for service on the border will b,
courtmartialed.
Eggs shipped from Eugene, Ore. Il
England. rctailed there at 96 cents 4
dozen. The shipper received net re
turn Of 1892 per case.
The deepest May snow in the re
membrance Of pioneers Of the Hoot
River Valley now lies In the forests
around Lost Lake. Oregon.
Mayor Joseph McCaskey, Of Wilke
son, coal mining town near Tacoma
WASH, has resigned following his con
viction Of having violated the dry.lav
by selling liquor in his drugstore.
The German and Austrian consuIs al
canea, Island Of Crete, left that city
with their families and the consulate
stats on May "a for Athens, according
to Havas dispatch from Athens.
A new company has>been organized
to establish large shipyards at Van
couver, Wash, contracts have beer
made for four large motor schooners,
and options given for three others.
Victor Carlstrom. bearing a message
from the Aero Club Of America tc
President Wilson and carrying Alan r.
Hawley. president of the club. as a
passenger, few from New York tc
Washington. 220 miles, in three hours
and seven minutes.
Exports Of merchandise from the
port Of New York during April
amounted to $184. 75l, ,946, compared
with $135. 1876, 523 in April year ago.
Imports for that month increased also,
amounting to sl15, 200, 462, compared
with $92, 252, 029 in April, 1915.
An unconfrmed report received at
Fargo, N. d., said 10 persons had been
killed at Rogers. N. d., in the storm
which swept Southeastern North Da-
kota. Rogers was cut off completely
from the outside world, all telephone
and telegraph wires being down.
The German authorities have offered
to allow General Leman, the defender
of Liege, to go to Switzerland, accord
ing to news dispatch. Because the
permission was granted on the ground
of his III health and age, the General
rejected the offer, saying that he did
not wish to admit that he was unfit to
fight for his country.
The resignation Of Charles Ware as
general manager of the Union Pacific
was announced Tuesday at the COM
pany's headquarters. No reason is
given.
London underwriters charge 30 per
cent to insure against declaration OF
peace between Great Britain and Ger
many before January /. The rate in
dicates that in the underwriters opin-
ion the prospects for an early peace
are better than two months ago, when
the rate for the same risk was only 30
per cent.
It is officially announced from Dub
lin that in addition to the sentence of
death imposed on jeremiah G. Lynch,
American, a similar sentence was i'm
posed upon Peter Gallighan, but that
this sentence was commuted to five
years. penal servitude. A number of
other persons also were sentenced to
various terms of Imprisonment.
More than 1900 French, including 81
officers, 16 machine guns and eight
cannon, were captured in q German
assault on the Verdun front in the re-
gion of Deadman's hill, the German
war Office announced Tuesday.
President Poincare has conferred the
war cross on Queen Elizabeth of Bel
gium as an expression Of "the admira-
tion of the people for the magnificent
courage and untiring devotion to the
wounded which she has never ceased to
show under the enemy's fire. ("