Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-07-20
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.

A boy Of 10 was killed and two girl
playmates Injured at Portland when
their coaster wagon ran into motor
truck.
British authorities say they have
proof that two additional German
dreadnaughts were sunk In the Jutland
battle.
The captain of the German subma-
rine freighter says German freight
carrying Zeppelins will soon visit
America.
Wars increase Of food prices In Eu-
rope, M shown by the bureau Of labor
statistics, has touched neutrals almost
as heavily AZ II has the belligerents.
Russian troops have captured the
town of Mamakhatum, 80 miles west
Of Erzerum. on the Tuzulu river. by
assault. The retreating Turks set fire
to the town.
BY the overturning Of an automobile
on Prospect road, few miles from
San Jose, CAL, Dorothy Parker. 10. a
daughter Of painless" Parker. dem
tist, was killed.
A corporation will be organized by
group Of American bankers, headed by
j. p. Morgan Il Co., and Brown Broth
ers Il Co., to lend 500. 900. 900 TO the
French government.
The Georgia house refused, 81 TO 2I,
to adopt special rule for considers
tion of a suffrage amendment. The
result In expected TO end the fight for
suffrage at this session Of the legisla-
ture.
Four men were killed, one is missing
and more than score Of others were
more or less injured by an explosion Of
800 pounds Of nitroglycerine In the
mixing house of the Du Pont powder
plant in Naskell. N. j.
William thinner. aged IL years. was
arrested In New Orleans, charged with
killing his mother. The boy, accord
ing to the police, said he shot his
mother because she threatened TO beat
him when he returned home after an
unsuccessful search for work.
The engagement is announced Of
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, widow Of
the late British statesman. and the
Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, rector
of st. Margaret, and canon of West
minister. Before her marriage, Mrs.
Chamberlain was Miss Mary Endicott,
of Massachusetts.
Lester Stillwell, IL years old, was
killed by man-eating shark while
bathing in an arm Of Raritan bay near
Matawan, N. J. Stanley Fisher, "a
years old, who went to his aid, was 80
badly injured in struggle with the
sea monster that he died while being
taken to Long Branch hospital.
The Bethlehem Steel company plans
to spend 100000, 900 in improvements
and extensions to its plants, according
to E. G. Grace, president, in addition
to $40, 600, 900 which 1t was said would
be spent at the plants Of the Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland Steel companies,
recently acquired by the Bethlehem.
The Socialist newspaper, Tribune,
of Amsterdam, asserts that $4,000
workmen employed in the munition
factories and electrical works in Ber-
lin and in an aerodrome at Johanisthal
have gone on strike as protest
against the prison sentence imposed on
DIR. Karl Liebknecht, Socialist leader,
for participation in the May Day dem
onstration at Berlin.
The Dagens Nyheder, at Copenha-
gen, announces that a sea battle is
believed to have occurred in the Baltic
outside of Haefringe on Sunday night.
Violent cannonading was heard from |
several points on the coast and 1t is
that the German and Russian
squadrons clashed.
A cherry tree at White Salmon,
WASH, yields 1911 pounds of fruit.
The Union Pacific decides to cut the
lumber freight to Eastern points s
cents, making the tariff as cents per
hundred pounds, instead of 80 cents.
The change is due September l.
General Smuts, in command of the
British forces in German East Africa,
has occupied Tanga, according to a
statement issued by the war Office.
The Germans offered only slight resist
ance.