Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-04
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.
The British government has with
drawn It's conscription measure.

The British government has with
drawn its conscription measure.
The Irish rebellion now Affects tn,
entire island, and martial law has beer
declared throughout.
Transcontinental railroads continu,
to show enormous tonnage movements
with resultant gains In earnings.
Two hundred gallons Of spiritou,
liquor Of many sorts, seized In raid
on a pharmacy on jackson street, Sc
attle, were dumped into sewer.
Out Of 1000 California miners exam.
ined by state and Federal sanitary in
spectors, approximately 40 per cent
were found infected with hook worm.
The Japanese government, In consid-
GRAFTON Of the present condition Of
trans-Pacifc trade, has authorized an
increase In freight rates, effective inn
mediately.
Swiss territory has again been vio-
lated by German aeroplane. which
flew over the region Of Porentruy and
was bombardod by Swiss troops along
the frontier.
James w. Gerard, the American
ambassador. and Joseph G. Grew, Sec
retary Of the American embassy, have
left Berlin for German army head
quarters for an audience with Emperor
William.
The Dutch tug Noordzee was sunk
and the steamers Maashanen and
Dubhe damaged by mines, according to
dispatches received in London. The
Norwegian steamer Stromsnaes was
also sunk.
Two hours after engineers, fremen
and trainmcn of the Missouri. Okla
homa a. Gulf railway were called out
on strike, the management conceded
the mems demands and they returned
to work Immediately.
Attired only In his underwear and a
necktie, which was fastened neatly
with diamond pin, Augustus Kaler,
go years old, was taken up late at
night on the streets Of Portland. He
had forgotten where he lived.
Fourteen hundred employees of the
international Harvester company's
twine factory in Chicago, went on
strike, according to leaders, because
several workers, alleged to have been
intoxicated, were sent home by the
foreman.
A Cincinnati streetcar, crowded with |
passengers, became unmanageable, ran
wild on down grade for six blocks,
jumped the track, crashed into tele-
phone pole, which almost demolished
1t, and caused the death Of one woman
and injury to 38 other passengers.
Hundreds of exhibits illustrative of
the methods Of the Federal govern
ment in caring for the lives and prop
erty Of its citizens, are being assem-
bled in Washington, d. c., for the
Safety First special, a 12-coach train
that will make an educational tour
through thousands of cities and towns.
Dutch newspapers say that Ger
man submarine halted two Dutch
steamers off the coast of Scotland,
when British trawler appeared and
killed with its first shot four men who
were standing on the deck of the sub
marine. The trawler then sank the {
submarine with second shell, the en-
tire action lasting.less than ten min
ltes.
The British steamship Parisiana, of 1
1858 tons gross, has been sunk. The /
crew Of the vessel was landed. The
Parisiana left Newport, England, April 1
20, bound for Norfolk. q
The French Line steamship Rocham- s
beau arrives in New York from Bor-
leaux with gun mounted on her
stern. She is the first passenger ship :
% reach this port thus armed. :
Sharp rises in food prices in Dem 9
mark have alarmed the people, who =
ear further increases if the war con- 4
inues. Foods and everyday necessi- /
les are said to be up 80 per cent, with r
he rate of increase growing.
Fred Cozzens, an importer of New
FORK, asserted on his arrival here ! !,
board the French Line steamship :,
that he had witnessed a
he entraining at Marseilles two weeks s
go of force of Japanese soldiers, v
100 strong. s.