The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-08-06

John odell and w. 0. Ruch. at
Beaumont Tex, attempting to save
Tom Nicholson, from asphyxiation in
an empty 500 barrel cypress oil tank,
were overcome and all three died.
A report circulated in the finan-
cial districts stated that the Westing-
house Electric Company has actual
orders on dts books which total be
tween $60,000,O0O and $70,000,O00.
The Wolverine and Mohawk Copper
Mining Company, in paying their
1900 employees, included an extra
check for per cent of the total
wages of June as a bonus.
Queen Mary has personally bought
respirators of the most approved type
for every member of the household
at Buckingham Palace.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is sick
and being taken East on a fast train.
Accompanied by her husband she
reached Chicago Sunday morning,
Aug. /.
Judge Hand, in the United States
district court, denied the motion for
a receiver TO take over the business
Of the American and 10 Cent Stores.
American dispatches to the London
newspapers say that the recent init
nation to the American Government
that England will send another note
soon indicates q reversal of British
policy.
Il have no political aspirations
whatever, looking to the holding of
office in the future" said William ].
Bryan in a speech at Portland, Ore.
After balloting IL hours without re-
suit, the jury in the case of George
w. Ward, charged with killing his
wife, was discharged at Whiteplains,
Mo.
-Four girls were drowned at Flem-
ington, Pa. They were: Esther
Fisher, 20, and Thelma Floruss, 10,
Of Pennington; Marion Bower, 10, Of
Monument, Pa, and Erma Butter.
baugh, Is, Of Cherry Tree, Pa.
General Muller, one of the leaders
of the Boer revolt, was sentenced to
two years Imprisonment for treason.
A double electrocution took place
at the Eddyville, KY, penitentiary,
when Turner Graham, "a years old,
and VIII Lane, 23, negro wife muir
derer, were executed.
A man was killed by lightning in a
hollow tree, at Terre Haute, Ind,
where he sought shelter during a
storm. He is believed to be Roy
DhNiS VI ElllnBndHl, Ill.
The Wharton National Bank at
Wharton, Tex, was closed by order
of the comptroller of the currency.
Illinois Central Chicago to Cairo
passenger train was derailed Just
south of Anna, Ill.,, July 80
During the past two weeks the
Italians have advanced five miles
along the entire Isonzo front The
Austrian losses are estimated at 80.
00e.
]. M. Cockrell, Chicago agricultural
commissioner Of the Rock Island. has
been employed as manager of the
farm development bureau of the Mem.
phis, Tennessee, Business Mems Club
and will resign the Chicago position
Aug. Is.
A cablegram reports an unprece-
dented heat wave sweeping over
Southeastern Alaska. SO intense is
the heat that beach residents are tow
ing small icebergs broken off the
Taku glacier to anchorage near their
cabins in order to cool the atmos-
phere.
The dedicatory exercises Of the
government experimental creamery
we're held at Grove City, Pa.
A Russian ukase Issued calls to
colors men born in 1896.
Wish" Sheppard, a negro, charged
with attacking Miss Mildred Clark, IA
years old, daughter of Enoch Clark,
a fredericksburg. Md. farmer, July is,
was found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged.
The Swedish army is now the
largest and most efficient in the
country's history. Since the outbreak
OF the war the army has been almost
doubled.
Charged with recruiting soldiers for
the villista army here in violation Of
American neutrality laws. Manuel de
Icaza, VILLA consul here. was arrested