The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1914-10-01


9 at O'Clock. Il was announced BY
President h b johnson Of the Ameri.
cun League. and member of the Ma.
tional Commission
President Wilson signed the trade
commission bill BE announced sew.
eral weeks ago that he would not ap.
point the members of the commission
until the December session Of con.
Eress
The Chilean minister ~ finance an.
nounced that although Chile was ex
| perlencing hnencial difficulties owing
TO the European war. the emission Of
paper currency would not be IN.
creasd
David A. Gates % Little Rock,
state tax commissioner. was in Pine
Bluff comforting With the Jefferson
county equalization board. and urged
that the assessments OF river bottom
land be- raised.
Nathan Brown. a negro. was iynched
by a mob near Rochelle, Ca, for shoot.
ing to death Edward Rountree. a farm
overseer. The negro was caught after
an all.day chase with hloodhounds.
Capt Benjamin Watkins, second In.
fantryl. was found dead at the Fort
Shafter target range Indications
were that he had shot himself
Strong efforts are being made 10
patch up the differences between Gen
Carranza and Gen. villa. Leading con
stitntionslist officials are bringing
pressure to bear both at Mexico CITY
and at chihuahua City
Democratic state convention At Bur.
linEton, VI. nominated Charles d.
Watson Of 81. Adams 10 succeed
United States Senator W p. billing.
ham. Republican. rejecting an attemp,
10 have II endorse the Progressive and
Prohibition nominee Charles A.
Prouty
After night Of muttering and rum.
bling, Lassen Peak in California ct.
Flooded IN a sharp thunderclap which
rocked the houses at Macombsr Flat.
distant nine miles from the mountain.
The next conference OF state gov.
ernors will be held Nov. 10 10 IL The
FIRST four days sessions viii be- held
at Madison. Wis, and the hfth in NIL.
waukee
The common pleas court Of Jersey
City, ~ j.. dismissed the complaint
made last July against the Standard
OH Co. Of New Jersey. under which
the company vas charged with dis.
eriminatioH and endsayoring to es-
tablish a monopoly In gasoline
The bureau of insular affairs Of the
war department has received from
Manila notice that the privilege OF
cutting timber on a public forest tract
on Luzon Island will be awarded Nov.
IL. next, to the best bidder The tract
embraces about $50. 900 acres
Interstate passenger fares, in both |
eastern and western territories, are to
DO increased by the railroads in the
immediate future The new rates will
be hred on a basis Of "a cents mile.
but In particular cases will vary
slightly.
Two hundred United Brethren
churches are represented In Bloom.
ington, Ill., al the siKty.ninth annual
convention OF the Illinois conference.
The convention will continue over
next Sunday
Rather than pay his wife allmOny
40 fhNAfalAt NFilfNhho iaFHltf OF
Santa Rosa. Cal, murdered her In the
corridor OF the superior court and
committed suicide with the same re-.
volyer. The court had just granted
Mrs. McI.ain allmony In divorce pro
ccedings
The rivers and harbors bill was
rccommitted to the commerce com
mittee Of the senate with instructions
10 the committee TO cut the total OF
appropriations from t34.OOO.0Oo TO a
sum not exceeding s2O.OOG.OOO. The
motion TO recommlt was made after
another day OF filibustering.
The governments suit for the disso-
luton Of the Eastman Kodak com
pany, at Buffalo. n. Y. because Of al
legged violations OF the Sherman anti