The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-07-23


court at Cassville, Mo-, quashed the
information filed in the case Of Con-
gresham Jacob Meeker in which
criminal libel was charged.
The Jewish Chronicle announces
that the Hon. Beatrice Stanley, who is
the youngest daughter of Lord Shelf
field, has adopted the Jewish faith.
Five persons were killed as a result
OF the bursting of a shell in an ann
munition factory at Vergeroux,
France.
The German government will issue
an order prohibiting the export of all
beer.
Richard Ross Perry, a lawyer and
writer of some note on legal affairs,
shot himself and died in a hospital at
Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Sarah Cowell Lemoyne, one of
the best-known actresses of the past
century, Is dead at Lake Placid, N. Y,
after short illness.
The American Red Cross will estab,
fish baby hospital in Serbia. About
$4,000 already has been contributed.
DR.. Louise Taylor and DR.. Catherine
H. Travis of New Britain, Conn, will
take charge.
Gen. Carranza says Gen. Gonzales
had completely routed the Zapata
army in an engagement at Confer,
practically clearing the valley of
Zapatistas.'
Henry Clay Crenshaw, 70 years old,
one Of the last of the Quantrell gang,
Is dead at the hospital in Kansas
City.
Unaccompanied by guards, David
Essacson, convicted Of swindling. left
New York to serve a sentence of a
year and day in the federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta, Ga.
A Berlin dispatch published here
says that martial law will be declared
throughout Germany in order to sup
press the socialist agitation for ter
minating the war.
Believing that her husband had
ceased to love her, Mrs. Inez Manship
OF Philadelphia, with her two small
children in her arms, turned on all the
gas jets in her home and the three
we're found dead by the husband.
Mary White, Atna Creech and Mary
Jane Wilson, mountain girls, II to 10
years old, are under arrest near
Whitesburg, KY, charged with run
ming moonshine still.
A Central News dispatch from Am,
sterdam says: Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg is engaged in prepare
tons for something that will surprise |
the world and may decide the war"
BY unanimous vote, the bill Of |
rights committee of the New York
constitutional convention decided
against proposals to abolish the death
penalty.
Henry Field. grandson Of the late
Marshall Field, has been promoted in
the ranks of the British army for dis
tinguished service.
The Illinois division OF the Dixie
highway has been formally dedicated.
Joseph @. Cannon threw the first
shovelful Of dirt.
Another effort to save Charles Beck.
er has failed. Chief Justice Bartlett
of the court of appeals has rejected an
appeal from Becker's counsel.
A raise of three cents an hour In pay
Of Chicago street car employees, an
nounced, win cost the companies ap-
proximately s1.17O.OOO year.
President Wilson's daughter Mar.
garet has joined the chautauqua sum-
mer school She win deliver several
lectures during the season.
A Little Rock. Ark, jury found Mrs.
Mollie washburn. IS. guilty Of first
degree murder, for shooting and kiln.
ing J. Fl. Suth. So, carpenter, June S.
She was sentenced to life imprison-
ment
Eight white and AZ negro muleteers,
survivors Of the British steamer Ar
menian. torpedoed by a German sub
marine, arrived at Newport News. Va,
on the British steamer winnifredian.
Two negroes, suspected Of having
aided Peter Jackson. we're lynched
near Hawkinsville by a posse Of eiu-
sns.
Several great turf fires have broken
out in Germany southwest Of Hanover
and war prisoners and German troops
have been sent to aght the flames