Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-04-06
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.

Big German guns continue TO ham
mer ut Verdun.
Tho German reichstag has decided :,
continue Its sea warfare Unrestricted
An investigation into tho cnormoul
increase In the price of gasoline hai
been ordered by the senate.
The municipal woodward Of Portland
10 short one thousand cords Of wood
and no one seems TO know what be
came of II.
Operation Of the prohibition law
since January has increased the
water bills Of the various Seattle ho-
tells from 10 TO 35 per cent, according
TO hotel men.
Flood conditions along the Red River
In North Dakota have been made
worse by heavy fall Of snow and II is
feared the floods Of the spring Of 1904
may be repeated.
Discovery In the Greek island Of
Corfu of an elaborate organization for
providing information and supplies for
submarines is reported In Rome dis
patch TO the Paris Journal.
After killing every one Of the l72
mon In the garrison mt Guerrero, Fran
cisco Villa 10 said TO have moved north
ward. according to unofficial informa-
tion secured by General Funston.
All foot and mouth disease quaran-
tines and restrictions on the shipment
Of livestock are removed by an order
issued by the department Of Agricul-
ture. and the announcement 10 made
that the country is now entirely free
of the scourge.
Two masked robbers attempted to
hold up Seattle bank, but q young
lady student Of the University Of
Washington, who was the only GUS
toner In the bank at the time, argued
and protested with the men until they
had to fee or be captured.
Captain Hans Tauscher, husband Of
Johanna Gadski. the opera singer, and
said TO be an officer In the Germany
navy, was arrested in New York on a
warrant charging him with being con-
cerned in an alleged conspiracy to blow
up the Welland canal in Canada.
The Puget Sound navy yard has been
informed that all large war vessels
will carry aeroplanes and a place for
launching them. Orders have been
received to build launching ways on
the deck of the cruiser West Virginia,
including storage room for five aero
planes.
The Chinese government has signed
an agreement permitting Russia to
construct a railroad in Manchuria. The
will give Russia control in
Northern Manchuria, in compensation
FOR the railway rights granted Japan
N Southern Manchuria. Japan has
in this agreement.
Outlining general policy in COM
,lete accord with the doctrine Of mill
,ary training as the surest means Of
for national defense, Off ,
.ials Of the Portland Railway, Light & ,
'ower company announce plans for the {
ormation Of a company Of National {
suardsmen and division of Naval I
dilitia made up exclusively Of this |
employees. r
Miss Catherine Prehm, editor and c
'ublisher of the Merrill, Ore, Record,
vas arrested in Klamath Falls on
barge Of disturbing the peace by at
empting to horsewhip George Brad
ack, editor and publisher of the Mer- r
i'll Times.
Twelve men at Kelly's Butte, a e
for Portland prisoners, es- 8
aped by saving the bars Of a cell. Q
he exit was only inches square. G
large number of heavy e
'eight prisoners were detained. The
reak was not discovered until day. O
ght. 8
Columbus, Ohio, residents are fleeing r
ne lowlands because of the high water :
! the Scioto.
The senate bill designed to increase NJ
,e number of cadets at West Point 81
as ordered favorably reported by the n,
ouse military committee, with few Il
linor changes.
Turkey has informed the United V
tates 1t was not submarine of the a
ttoman government which sank the ri
ner Persia in the Mediterranean last T
inter with loss Of American life. IL