The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-08-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
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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. 49,.
rs ~
An eight-hour day with the same
wages heretofore paid for II 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 to its employees was rejected at a
Aeeting of 800 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.
The boy who plays "hooky" from
school is defective mentally, accord
ing to DR.. Ernest B. Hoag of the Los
Angeles juvenile court.
President Wilson has signed an
executive order creating the Big Lake
Reserve in Northeastern Arkansas for
the protection of native birds.
King George sanctioned the estab-
lishment of medal to be known as
the naval general service medal. This
will be awarded for service in minor
naval warlike operations.
Gov. Walsh Of Massachusetts an
nounced that he would be a candi-
date for denomination for a third
term.
Alexander Schroeder, q 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
10 the test OF protecting the eastern
seaboard from invasion by a supposed
foreign fleet.
The Danish government $12,O00,00C
per cent national loan, which has
just closed has proved failure.
Australian casualties In the war W
to date are 2,61O killed and 1922:
wounded, it was officially announced
Beginning Aug. 2 20S automobile
rural free delivery routes, distributed
among eight states were put into op
Grafton by the postoffice department
American bluejackets and marines
are ransacking Port au Prince FOL
arms.
The Valdez Bank and Trust Co. has
suspended business, with $4,000 liza
bilities and assets Of $4,000.
German snipers now wear greenist
clothing and have their faces and guns
painted so as to merge with the color
Of the landscape.
This is German-American week al
the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Dispatches report an attack by
French eviators on Strassburg, CAPT
tai of AlsaceLorraine.
The two-year-old son of Mrs. Elmer
Joseph Of New Haven, ILL.,, fell into
an open cistern and was drowned.
One man was killed and three 9th
ers were injured by an explosion in
the experimental bomb proof" room
at the United States arsenal al
Frankford. Pa.
The Germans already have begun
using fax as a substitute for cotton
in some of their munitions factories
The unearthing OF great temple Al
Muphis. Egypt. was announced by the
University Of Pennsylvania museum
The first daily newspaper 10 be pub
llshed in the German language has ap
peared in Brussels.
Renewed activity OF Katmai volcano
Alaska, is indicated by the presence
of ashes in the air.
Mrs. Florence Virgins was killed
and Attorney H. W. Peck MORALLY
wounded when Mrs. Virgins auto
crashed over a concrete bridge and
into the river at Dallas. Tex.
In the room in which their three
year-old child slept, George w. Cool
OF Endicott. Neb., murdered his win
and cut his own throat.
Duxbury Reef. the Graveyard O
the Psoifie,- has caught the Amer
can-Hswaiisn steamer Georgian, fron
New York TO san Franriscn-