Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-18
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.

Senator Cummins, Of Iowa, presi-
Dental candidate, 10 touring the North
west.
A small band OF Mexican outlaws
kill another American on ranch near
Mercedes. Tex.
Tickets for the Republican National
convention at Chicago next month are
now selling at six for $1,000.
A Minneapolis mother Of six com
mits suicide. that her life insurance Of
$1,000 may revert to the benefit Of her
children.
Colonel Goethals has announced that
he would resign July !. 1t 10 reported
that he will not resign II there 10
trouble with Germany.
A four-day dust storm, the worst
ever experienced In Northwestern Min
nesota, has abated with clear sky
and chilly wave from the Northwest.
Colonel Roosevelt has formally en-
tGtSu tho fhee ioi tuo PtcnioDhS'ni
nomination In the Chicago conventions.
He expresses desire TO run on unit
ed ticket"
Survivors Of the steamer Roanoke.
which sunk of the Southern California
coast, declare the vessel was over
loaded, which caused the disaster In
which some 80 persons were lost.
Announcement OF n 10 per cent in
crease In wages for Its factory en-
ployes, effective May 8. was announced
by the Victor Talking Machine com
pany, of Philadelphia. Several thou
sand workmsn are affected.
After almost two weeks Of discus
sion the conference Of Generals Scott,
Funston and Obregon over American
troop dispositions In Mexico came to
an end Friday night without any agree
ment. The whole matter was referred
back to the American and do facto
governments to be settled through
diplomatic channels.
Three Hawarden High School girls
- Edna Borman, Neva johnson and
Marjorie Fairbrother---w were drowned
in the Big Sioux river near Hawarden,
Ia, when boat in which were five
pupils and teacher was carried over
dam. One girl clung to the boat,
the teacher and the other pupil held
to the dam, and these three were
rescued. The bodies Of the girls were
recovered.
"Shave yourself, no BARRIERS, no
tips, no waste Of time. All the COM
forts Of home. Step inside" reads a
sign above the "shaveteria," or bar
berless barber shop, first Of its kind in
the world 30 far as known in Chicago,
which came into existence recently,
taking its place with the horseless car
riage and the waiterless restaurant.
Judging from the rush Of patronage,
says dispatch, crying need has been
answered. It is a tremendous time
saver.
Seventy-five thousand dollars worth
Of liquor was seized by the Seattle po-
lice Friday in the most sweeping raid
made since the statewide prohibition
law went into effect January /. Two
large warehouses and nine drugstores
were searched, but no arrests were
made, and none of the liquor was de-
stroyed. The police obtained war
rants for the search Of IL places Of
business where liquor was suspected to
be stored, and in the first five places
searched seized $25, 900 worth Of
liquor.
A robber enters the National bank
at Francis, Okla, covers the cashier
with a revolver and fled with about
$4,000. After an exchange Of shots
with pursuing posse, the robber
forced the driver Of one of the posses
automobiles to take him in and, with
revolver held at the drivers head, dis
appeared in the hills.
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes has
been invited to deliver Fourth of
July oration at Salem. Ore.
The munitions liner Cymric is re-
ported torpedoed off the west coast of
ireland, and is in sinking condition.
President Wilson's approval Of the
nomination of Louis Brandeis for the
Supreme Court bench, in letter to
the senate, declares the charges
against Mr.. Brandeis are "intrinsi-
cally incredible to anyone who knows
him."