The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-19
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News COMBINATIONS Re
viewed Without comment--Ah
Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and instruct

The German ship Steinbeck. which
has been loading lumber at Belling-
ham and which is interned at Eagle
Harbor, has been sold to American
shippers.
An eight.hour day with the same
wages heretofore paid for ~ hours
work will be granted TO all employees
OF the Gulf Refining Co at the Port
Arthur and Fort Worth refineries.
The bonus proposition recently
made by the Locomobile Co. OF Amer
lea 10 its employees was rejected at q
meeting Of 500 employees.
Wargrave Church, which was de-
stroyed by fire by militant suffragists
June l. 1914. Is being rebuilt In
restoring the tower the discovery has
been made that the present casing OF
red brick covers the original Norman
tower.
King George sanctioned the estah-
lishment Of medal TO be known a.
the naval general service medal This
will be awarded for service In minor
naval wa-like operations.
Gov. Walsh % Massachusetts, an.
nounced that he would be cAndi-
date for denomination for Q third
term.
Alexander Schroeder, portrait
painter Of New York City. Is dead
as a result of eating toadstools which
he had mistaken for mushrooms.
The Atlantic fleet Is again TO be put
TO the test Of protecting the eastern
seaboard from invasion by supposed
foreign fleet
Hiram Maxim is credited with hav.
ing invented a simple and inexpensive
continuance to protect soldiers from
the effects Of deadly gases employed
In battle.
The Kaiser has been challenged to
fight duel. His wouldbe opponent is
Lord Northbourne. 20 years old.
Clarence Terry. 30 years old. is dead
and three other men are wounded as
the result of shooting ARRAY at
Cherry Valley. Mo-, iron mines
The Rockford a Interurban Co. OF.
fered Its capital stock to the city
council.
Capt Percy Archer Give a member
OF parliament for Herefordshire. has
been seriously wounded In Flanders.
The American consul at Cork re-
ports that the body Of NJ. w. Harvey,
a Lusitania passenger. washed ashore
on small island off the Irish coast.
The Guggenheims' American Smelt.
ing and Refining Company returned to
the federal government $ll2, IS in
money and returned to government
entry s.476 acres Of valuable coal land
the company had operated under false
entry.
Three convicts have escaped from
the federal prison At Leayenworth,
Kan.
Hugo Kempff. 60. founder OF the re-
ligious sect knows as Government by
God" killed himself by inhaling illu.
minating gas at his home on Garden
street. haywood, N. j.
Villas forces In Durango have suf
fered severe defeat and are retiring
toward Torreon.
@. q. Stafford. former cashier OF a
state bank In Kansas City. Kan, was
arrested In connection with the EN-.
bezzlement from the bank Of $4,000
Actual work OF raising the Eastland
has begun. The hulk OF the ship has
been pumped dry and divers went un.
deneath the vessel to attach chains
and hawsers.
Roumania continues her prepare.
tons for war. having already called
10 the colors three moro classes OF
reserves than were summoned for the
Balkan mobilization of 1918.
American farmers are harvesting
the greatest wheat crop ever grown
IN any one country. II may reach
1000. 100000 bushels.
German losses 10 date total 2.17s,-
$50. The casualty lists gives the total
OF Prussian losses at 1.641. 669, and
for the Bavarian. Saon and Wurtem-
burg troops 537.11l
Gen. GOethals announced that he
had sent his resignation as governor
OF the Canal zone to Washington to
take effect on the first OF November.
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