Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
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 Berlin dispatch states that tn,
Reichstag has passed the budget at al
stages. The new war credit of r.
10000, Q, 900 marks has been adopted.
A decree of divorce is granted to
Mrs. Claude Grahame- White. in Lon,
don, formerly Miss Dorothy Taylor, OF
New York, from her husband. the avi.
ator.
Senator Borah of Idaho, writes the
Mexican plank for the Republican
party. He was asked by Senator
Lodge to do this because of his we'll
known views of President Wilson'S
Mexican policy,
On account Of the general strike the
Norway government has passed law
prohibiting the sale or importation of
strong liquors, wine and beer, and the
shipment of liquors throughout the
country. The police also have been
ordered to prevent the serving of wine
and beer in restaurants.
American marines and Haitien
gendarmes killed the revolutionary
chiefs. Welellus and Codio. and nine of
their men in a fight near Fonds Yer
retes Sunday. No mention of Ameri-
can casualties is made in the State de-
partment dispatch reporting the Incl
dnet.
George E. Sanders, vice president
and general manager of the Oregon
Utah Sugar company, announced the
sale of the Grants Pass sugar factory
of the company, now under eonstrue-
tion at Grants Pass, Or, TO the Utah
Idaho Sugar company, Of Salt Lake
City.
Checks for the Austrains all along
the line of their attack in the Southern
Tyrol are reported by the Italian war
Office. The important Conni Zugna
position in the Adige valley is still
firmly held, while near Campo Mulo.
northeast Of Asiago, an Italian counter
attack was notably successful.
A bill pending in the house to give
exclusive fishing rights TO persons III
ing surveys ON trap sites was attacked
by Delegate Wiekersham. of Alaska.
as putting the Pacific salmon industry
into the hands of trust. A combina-
tion already has surveyed all salmon
trap sites. Wiekersham declared.
A defeat for the Russians attempt
ing to advance on Bagdad is reported
by the Turkish war Office. Near
Khanikin, about IS miles northeast Of
on May 81. says the state
ment. ''the Russians were outmaneuv-
cred by the Turks and their enveloping
dispersed and put to flight" I"
Fort vaux. one of the verdun de-
fsnses, has been captured by the Ger
man troops, according to the official
statement issued from the Berlin
What remained of the
French garrison finally surrendered.
and an attempt to relieve the fort
resulted in the capture by the
Germans of roo unwounded prisoners.
The Hawley Pulp 4 Paper company.
Of Oregon City. announces change in
its mills from the two-shift to the |
plan. More than so more
men viii be employed under the new
Russian forces have won great sue
eesses along the front from the Pripet
to the Roumanian frontier,
according TO an official announcement
from Petrograd. Ii is stated that the
Russians took Is. 600 prisoners.
The British destroyer Acasta, which
the Germans reported they had sunk.
has arrived at northeast coast port
under tow of another destroyer. The
she'll which put her out Of action. after
she had been in the thick of the fight
ing for 90 minutes. exploded in the
engine-room. killing i've men
One hundred and eight precincts out
Of total Of 2297 in the state Of Iowa
give for suffrage S0Ss. against. II. 0Sa.
The U. S. Supreme court holds that
snterurhan electric ears, crossing state
lines. are ameaAhle to the safety ap-
plianee set. although they move for
part Of the route in city service
Conviction Of the Spokane & Inland
Empire Railrosd company. operating
from Spokane TO CoeGr d'Alsns. Idaho.
for failure to comply with the aet. was
apheld and s $3.50 fine imposed.
Every state in the Union is repre-
sented among the lT00 men who have
arrived at the first PlattSburg. N. Y,
ssmp Of military instruction
only the signature Of President VIII !
soa is now lacking to complete the 1
insl enactment Of the Oregon and Cal 4
foSnia lsnd-grsnt law, the house h2v-
ng ratified the conference report.
The suit brought by George ], Gould |
md other trustees Of the estate Of Jay
Gould to recover 81. tai. 600 from the
=, Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern !
,silwsy was Dismissed by Federal
ln6ge Hand