The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-06-25
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condensatlons Re-
viewed Without comment-All
Nations Find Somewhat to
Edlfy and Instruct.


light when the body of 2-month-olC
girl baby was washed ashore from the
damage canal near Lemont, Ill.
Minister Of Munitions Lloyd-G George
announced in commons that the gov
eminent is sending "a prominent bust
ness man" to the United States to dis
cuss the whole subject of American
and Canadian war contracts.
Joseph H. Peterson, attorney-gen
eral of Idaho. was acquitted Of q
charge of completely in embezzle
ments from the state treasury.
The proposed employment Of WON
en- as bus and tram car conductors
for Birmingham, Eng, has been aban
doned.
The reconstruction of the district of
Colon, Panama Zone, which was de.
stroyed in the great conflagration of
April 30, has begun.
Plans are announced by the Ford
Motor Car company to establish a
plant on the Detroit river below River
Rouge, to manufacture all the steel
which 1t will use for making parts for
automobiles.
Mabel Hammond, aged 26, died in
Harlan, Kan, as the result Of stom-
och ailment. She weighed 800 pounds.
President Wilson will announce his
selection of successor to former Sec
rotary of State Bryan upon his return,
shortly after July 4, from his vacation
trip to Cornish, N. H.
Because the purchase contract was
not ready to be submitted, the board
of directors of the Detroit United Rail-
ways company adjourned until June
80.
The Nashville, Tenn, scandal over
the disappearance of the city books
had new sensation when 1t became
known that ]. B. West, Jr, assistant
treasurer, was unaccounted for and
his whereabouts unknown.
The American dollar is now worth
more than 100 cents. The drop in
sterling exchange to $4.76% makes
the American bill represent a value Of
$1.02A in English coin.
The British press bureau issued an
official denial of report current in
the United States that the British bat
tleship Agamemnon was sunk at the
Dardanelles.
Mrs. Frank Betz was hit by an in
terurban car at Harrisburg, H., and
killed instantly. This was the first
serious accident since the street car
system was installed.
Carrying 800 refugees from Mexico.
the United States transport Buford is
at quarantine.
The Illinois house passed, 104 to /,
the Lyle bill, a substitute for the pres
emit child delinquency act. The bill
provides a fine of 5000, Imprisonment
in jail for one year or both, for per-
sons taking a male child under II
years of age or female child under
IS into resorts, policy shops, pool
rooms, saloons or gambling rooms.
Sam Stephens, negro. was taken
from the Stephens county (Ga.) jail
by mob OF more than 100 armed
men and hanged to nearby tree.
Gov. Dunno re-appointed Or. C. ST.
Clair Drake secretary of the state
board of health.
Miss Harriet A. Graham has been
retired on a pension by the board Of
education of Pittsburg, Pa, after So
years service in the schools.
The supreme court held as consti-
tutional an Illinois law compelling
railroads to furnish cars within rea-
sonable time after freight is offered.
Pope Benedict has informed Austria
that should hostile air raid result in
damage to church property in Rome
or to residences OF dignitaries the
Vatican would consider II grave in
cident.
Miss Mona McAdoo, daughter Of the
secretary Of the treasury, has return
ed to New York from France, where
she has been nursing wounded sol
diers.
The british steamer Toftwood from
Galveston. May 10. via Newport News,
May "a. for Havre, has arrived at
with fire in her cargo.
An investigation into the boiler ex-
plosion on the torpedo boat destroyer
Bailey in Chesapeake bay. four miles
out Of Annapolis. was ordered by the
navy department
Anti-war riots are reported TO have
broken cut in Constantinople. Ger
man soldiers were attacked IN the
streets b. Turks.