The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-12-23
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-AIl
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.

There are more than 10000 soldier
priests in the French army
Work has progressed so rapidly on
the removal OF the Gaillard slide that
the Panama canal is now open for
tugs and dredges Of light draft
Federal regulation OF insurance com
panies was proposed in a bill intro
duced by Senator Weeks.
L. f. Moody. a rancher Of South
Maybe. Tex swallowed poison and
died instantly. A year ago he married
a manicurist after a courtship OF two
days. He left a note declaring that
his marriage was a failure.
Mrs. Minerva Memby. 80 years old.
wife OF farmer near Joplin, Mo-. per.
ished in fire which destroyed her
home.
Mayor james G. Woodruff u At
lanta, Ca, vetoed a resolution passed
by the city council ordering recall
election Jan. 5. affecting the mayor
and four members OF the police com.
mission.
Worthy Tooley Of Athens. n. Y, and
Ludwig Marquardt OF Kingston. n. Y.
murderers. were put TO death boy cleo
tricity at Sing Sing prison.
David Mccormick Of Peru. Ind. 60
years old. a farmer. fell down stairs
when saving household goods from his
burning home and was burned to
death.
Franklin Newhall. 20 years old. long
known throughout the middle west as
the apple king" is dead in Glencoe
a suburb Of Chicago.
Construction OF another link in the
German canal system has been begun.
Daniel Worcester. SO years old. who
was known as the original Uncle
Tom" OF the dramatization OF Uncle
Toms Cabin is dead at the Vermont
soldiers home.
The Rev. s. D. Lindsay OF Rison.
Ark, was informed that he was worth
100000 as a result OF a patent auto
mobile spring he invented
Mrs. Irwin Savells Of Hopklnsyille.
KY, was burned to death at bonfire
in her yard.
The Driggs-seabury Ordnance com.
pany, AT Sharon. Pa, has closed a con.
tract with the British government for
10000 aeroplane guns.
Secretary Houston and bureau heads
OF the department OF agriculture con.
ferred on the ACCESSIBILITY OF having
the government charter a ship and
send It 10 Chile for nitrate to be sold
TO American farmers.
a commercial traveller IN Glasgow
has been sentenced TO three months
imprisonment for treating his wife to
a drink.
Lieut." Robert Fay. Max Breittng
and their three alleged accomplices.
indicted on five charges Of conspiracy
In connection with German propa.
ganda. pleaded not guilty when ar.
raigned IN the United States district
court In New York.
The business Of the canary breed.
ers OF the HartL mountains. Germany.
has been almost destroyed by the
war. The war has stopped exports
and the domestic trade is almost at a
standstill.
One hundred and ten persons are
reported to have been killed in an e1
plosion In the Belgian munitions fac
tory az Hayre
William NJ. Caddell, 81 years old.
and his daughter Miss Maud Cadden,
q, were buried al double funeral al
lockwood, Tenn. The father was
Killed by train aud the daughter sue.
cumbed 10 snOck.
Exports from the port Of New York
during November exceeded $780, 600.
600. the largest amount in the history
Of the port
The Milwaukee newspapers have
dropped the hyphen from the words
"German-Amorican."
Pope Benedict intends to consecrate
the year In which peace is concluded
as holy year His holiness hopes by
means Of special prayers and pilgrim.
ages to purify the world Of all hatred
and ill.leeling.
Austrian aeroplanes flew over An.
coma. Italy, and dropped bombs Two