The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-08
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
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Edlfy and Instruct.

ers, we're shot and fatally wounded by
a negro tenant on the Neil plantation
at Clsrksdale, Miss, when they at
tempted to arrest him for the killing
Of his wife.
|. r. Depont de Nemours & Co. have
filed incorporation papers with the
secretary of state of West Virginia.
They will expend half a million dol
lars in purchasing land and will build
powder factory.
Every male German, Turk and Aus
trian who has not been granted ex-
emption will be required to surrender
to the London police. Austrians I'M
der 81 and Germans under IS will be
interned.
The police at South Bend, Ind, be-
lieve that John McKinstry, 17-year-
old son OF DR.. William B. McKinsary,
who disappeared from his home a
week ago, has been the victim of foul
play.
Miss Clio Davenport, sister OF the
late Homer Davenport, cartoonist, is
dead at Los Angeles as the result Of
an automobile accident.
Otto Engel, an employee of baker
at Sterling, ILL.,, was killed when he
became entangled in bread mixer.
Charles E. Schaff was appointed re-
ceiver for the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railway company.
Mrs. James Ogden, bride of last
June, is dead, the fifth victim Of an
epidemic of typhoid fever at Peters
burg, ILL.,, in the last two weeks.
Pope Benedict Is preparing a cir
cular letter to the belligerents, asking
for a general truce on All Souls day.
approximately 1000 employees of the
United States Cartridge Co.'s plant
at Lowell, Mass, returned to work
after being out two weeks. The COM
pany has submitted the question OF
wages to the state board of arbitra-
ton.
The number of bankruptcies in Ger.
many from July TO September OF this
year was sSl, as compared with 1908
during the same period last year.
A semi-official statement denying
reports that Russia had asked the
Japs to send troops to Europe has
been issued.
Joe Cracraft, rs years old, of Jack
son, Miss, accidentally killed himself
when he was trying TO shoot an owl
Gen. Carranza has issued strict or
ders against violation Of neutrality
laws on the American border
Gen. Alexander H. r. Won Kluck,
after a period of recuperation in the
country, is now fully restored to
health and Is living in his Berlin
home.
Distinguished clergymen Of the
Protestant Episcopal church from
many states participated in the conse-
Grafton services Of the Rev. DR..
Charles Clark Fiske as coadjutor
bishop of the diocese OF central New
York.
Capt Joseph Bernier. the Canadian
arctic explorer, has returned to Que
bee after a trip into the arctic during
which he discovered new land which
has been called Baffin island.
John T. Scott, director OF the fed
eral reserve bank in Dallas, assured a
committee Of the Southern Rice Grow
ers' association that the bank regards
rice as a staple, palcing it in a class
with cotton.
A new worlds record in egg-laying
was established when Lady Byzantine,
a white Leghorn. laid her 2S7th egg
in $50 days at the Delaware college,
Newark. Del.
Four workmen were killed and half
a dozen OF more were injured at Phoe-
nixville, Pa, when a Reading railroad
passenger train ran into score OF
workmen in a tunnel.
John Cameron Miller, Panama canal
employe. was arrested, charged with
being in collision with another man TO
defrsud the Colombian government by
raising the amount Of receipt COW
ering payment on account OF the trans
portation OF mails
President Wilson promised Senator
James of Kentucky to give his sup
port 10 former Representative Stan
ley. Democratic candidate for govern
or Of Kentucky.
An explosion In an ammunition fac
tory at wittenberg. Prussia. Aug. 2s,
killed 242 workmen and injured many
others.
-Four Of the sophomore class or the
Kentucky state university have been
expelled for alleged hazing in cutting
the hair q freshmen.