Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-10
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.

Roofs Of two large Seattle churches
collapsed under tho weight Of snow.
German officials have seized all tex
tile products suitable for army or navy
use.
The Premier Of Russia, Jean l..
Goremykin, has resigned on account
Of III health.
Paris reporters find Colonel House,
special agent OF President Wilson. .
regular Sphinx.
A Constantinople dispatch reports
the suicide Of Crown Prince Yussof
Izeddin. alleging III health M the
cause.
Portland theaters enjoy an immense
patronage from people who were un-
able TO get home during the snow
blockade.
The crew of the Takata Maru, which
col!,ded with tho tank ship Silver
Shell. has been saved, but the steamer
was abandoned In sinking condition.
+. A. Taylor, a Southern Pacific en-
gineer, died In the baggage car OF his
train near Watsonville, CAL, from the
nervous shock caused by running into
harrow caught on the track.
Tho country home Of Archibald
Rogers, Standard OIL millionaire, at
Hyde Park, on the Hudson, was en-
tered by burglars and silverware and
many valuable sporting trophies stolen.
London cable dispatches from Bata-
via report that floods are continuing In
Central Java. Thus far 120, 900 ma
tive house have been wrecked. many
cattle drowned and many miles Of rail-
way destroyed.
Great Britain has promised the
United States to permit the prompt
transportation from Rotterdam OF q
large quantity Of, sugar beet seed
bought In Austria for sugar beet farms
In Utah. This is expected to make
the United States independent Of the
European supply. !.
Miss Minnie B. Werner, who fell 10
stories from a window Of the Trans
portation building In Chicago, has re-
covered consciou sness. Her first words
were: II must be hard to kill" Ply
sicians believe the girl will recover.
She owes her eisca pc to the fact that
she fell on top Of covered auto truck.
The Canadian Pacific, the Canadian
Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific
railroads announced at Calgary that on
instructions from the Dominion gov
ernment officials, an embargo has been
placed on shipments Of rolled oats from
Canada to the United States. The
ruling applies to al special mill prod
ucts manufactured from oats.
The missing K.-5 submarine Is re-
ported in her regular course of the
coast of Florida. 2
Many sections Of the Middle West
are experiencing floods and much dam
age to property 10 reported.
President Wilton declares the U. s.
navy Is prepared for immediate war,
but 1t is inadequate in size.
Pheasants driven by hunger are
swarming Portland Heights. and are
being fed by streetcar men and resi-
dents.
A negro attacks an auto party near
Buffalo, N. Y, killing mother and son
and seriously wounding the daughter.
Rohharu vvaa tho rsntfval
Every employe Of the Bunker Hill
& Sullivan Mining Co.. OF Kellogg,
Idaho, above and below the surface,
will receive an increase ,pf wages OF
approximately 30 cents "a day II the
price of lead keeps up. 1t 10 known
that the company for soine time has
been contemplating this advance.
Canada will send 10000 more men
to the front in Europe.
Many lootees are caught by U. 8.
marines in tho fiood-stricken disticts
of California.
Senator Reed, of Missouri attacks
Roosevelt in th, senate by declaring
"It is happy thing for this country
that there has been insistence on
American rights, and equally fortunate
that there has not been some hot
headed, importunate demagogue In the
White House."