The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-29
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president and the response by Edison
being made on telegraph instruments.
Joaquin oyaben. director of the avi-
alton school connected with the ma
rlne arsenal at La Plata. Argentina,
was killed making flight.
Roger Bresnahan, Chicago baseball
leader. was injured when the automo-
bile he was driving collided with a
buggy.
A London firm Of glass manufacture
ers, which has plant at Maubeuge,
France, received the following cable
message: "The chimney of our Maui
beuge works has been destroyed by a
Zeppelin dashing into 1t. All the oc-
cupants of the Zeppelin were killed"
The Brazilian chamber OF deputies
has approved. by vote of 1903 to 5,
the arbitration treaty signed last May
between Argentina, Chile and Brazil
Joseph Hillstrom, a Swedish sub
ject. convicted of murder at Salt Lake
City, was resentenced to be put to
death Friday, Nov. /.
More aliens departed from the
United States in August than arrived.
Aliens to a total of 41,737 departed,
while 27,41S arrived.
Felix Decori. President Poincare's
secretary-general, died suddenly at
the Elysee palace.
George William Foote, we'll known
as free thinker, is dead In London.
Louis Wade, prominent merchant,
shot and killed his wife at Ocean
Springs, Miss, and then committed
suicide.
The Arkansas supreme court sus-
tanned Gov. Hays veto of the measure
appropriating $656,OOO by the last leg
islature.
Gen. Venustiano Carranza, first
chief of the constitutionalists, an
nounced that he would be candidate
for the presidency of Mexico.
AT the request Of Kansas City, Mo-,
Louisville has relinquished an option
on Billy Sunday, the evangelist, who
will hold a meeting there next May
and June.
Bulgaria notified the United States
that the port of Dedeagatch has been
closed and that merchant vessels can
not enter between sunset and sunrise.
Admissible liquids. and oils and 9TH
er similar articles may now be sent
by international parcel post from the
United States to Dutch Guiana, Hong
kong. Leeward Islands, Mexico, New
Zealand, Panama and Sweden.
]. P. Morgan & Co. received a ship
ment Of British sovereigns worth ap-
proximately $25.OOO.OOO. 1t was
learned that the coins win be melted
into bars and credited to the British
government.
Prize stock was placed on exhibit
ton at the opening of the Panama
Pacific exposition cattle show.
There are approximately $4,000 Brit
lsh prisoners of war In Germany.
Six men held up and robbed a West
Shore train in Haverstraw. N. Y, and
then escaped in an automobile.
II was announced her. that Rich
mond (va.) financiers, acting for the
United States Steel corporation, have
an option on the Tredegar Iron Works
plant. The price is said to be
5000. 900.
A contest is about to be waged be-
tween the liquor interests and the dry
element for the control of Boonville.
Mo-, one of the last strongholds of the
liquor interests in that part Of the
state.
Sir John A. Simon. home secretary,
announced in parliament that the gov
eminent has no intention Of interning
Bulgarians at present. Notwithstanding
the fact that England has declared
war against Bulgaria.
Fourteen men were killed when the
powder house at the Granite Mountain
mine OF Che North Butte (Mont. com.
pany blew up.
John NJ. Rose. a prominent lawyer
of Little Rock, Ark. committed sui.
eide. He was the eldest son Of the
late Judge q. NJ. Rose, a member OF
the Hague peace conference.
Reports come from the Dalles, 81
miles north Of Mount Hood. that
smoke was seen issuirg from the