The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1914-12-10
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Dispatches From Our Own ard For
sisn Countries Are Here Given
IN Short Messr Tor
susy Readers
Richard w. Croker. former lesdes
u TammAny Hall. was married 70
NESS Bula Bsston Edmondson.
member az the Cherokee Indian tribe
lie IL rs years old and she 10 ~.
President Wllsoa, with Francis
sayre. his sonIn-law. and Prof. STOCK
ton Anon. his brotherin'lav. went up
Petersburg mountain. from the sum
mat az which he coald look into New
York aad Vermont.
The memory Of Franklin Fierce. the
only New Hampshire man ever elect
Cd president Of the United States,
was honored by the dedication Of
memorial statue In the state house
park
The New Jersey Progressive state
committee a. a meeting declared In
favor ~ maintaining the party ana
re~fflrmed allegiance 10 Theodore
Roosevelt
Jossph smith, the aged president Of
the Mormon church, Is thought 10 be
dying At his home In independents,
No. and all of his sons and dangh-
,srs have beea telesraphsd TO cone
home nj once.
That rs per osnt Of The pupfis m
the grammar grades In ils pubic
schools cut u iSS can sing an ordi'
nary hymn At sight " disclosed In .
report By the federal bureau of edn
cation
The American consul st sfms has
established White Cross hesdquAr-
tiers where the refugees of all nations
will BE- able 10 obtain relief and where
clothing will be distributed.
The United States battleship Mfchi-
gan went aground On the tail OF the
Horseshoe. near the hghtship just on
Cape Henry. according 10 radio
message to the navy yard.
| col Robert =. Besih, past con-
rnandsrin-ohief Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic. died At his home In Phil
azelphiA. Ne was rs years old.
The greatest wheat area In tho
worlds history viii be planted for tho
1918 harvest a. q result Of the Euro
peAn war. in the opinion Of Charles N.
DauEherty. statistical sxpert Of tho
department Of agriculture.
Five convscts escaped from the tur-
pentine camp at Canoe Ala. In ID
Gambia county. after shooting Walter
carmack. q guard. 10 death and knock
ing smother guard unconscious.
J. W. Kennedy. 20 years old. BE-
issyea TO be the lArt survivor in OKLA
hona of the Mexican war OF is<b. died
az Hobart. Ok He was born In smith
villa Tenn.
sA~sin BERTHE" Br4rey Of Webster
county, Mo-. was shot and killed at
Niangua By Edgar Bartlett Bartlett
was brought To Springfield 10 avert
violence feared because Of the sheriirs
popularity
Creditors Of the dofunct Ia Sale
Street Trust and savings bank OF Chi
oago. OF which former Senator WI.
liam Lorimsr vas president. ultimate
~ viii receive absut 30 per cent 90
their claims
Kirby CsAy. n years old. collapsed
altar beng vhippsd BY his teacher In
school At Brookhavsn, Miss. and died
few minutes later. The coroner
found that death had rssuhed from
heart disesse.
Congress Will not DO anything much
much Of tho coming session except To
pass appropriation biils." declared
Speaker Clsrk a. he was leaving
Washington for New nagisnd TO al
speaking engagements.
A bomb from q German airship fei
In front Of The American consulate ~
waraw. breaking the windows Of the
consulate but iniuriAG no one within
according 10 a Telegram frou Ameri
cen Ambassador MAryS al PetfoGfAa
One hundred thousand cellars hai
been so aside BY Pittsbnrg and n,
council will spend ti.Oee.oes II nsces
saFy TO provide work for the unem
ployed Of that city.
Uncle Joe Patterson ~ Losansport
Ind. geosebons rrssnestioator, pre-
diets that he ceminE winter will be I
mid one. He aays that the bsns thu