The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-06-11
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM EVERYWHERE
Happenings in Our Own and
Other Countries
Briefly Told.

Italians have volunteered for service
In the army.
The total number Of prisoners
taken by Russian armies and interned
in Russia up to April / was 1874 Of
ficers and 605,378 men.
v. B. Gray and John Gill were
drowned and c. V. Root and Clarence
Mullock barely escaped death in the
Platte river, at PANEL, Mo-, when q
motor boat, on trial trip, capsized.
Gov. Hunt OF Arizona has included
the question of capital punishment In
the call for a special session OF the
legislature which has convened. He
proposes to substitute life imprison'
ment for hanging.
Nine of the 10 deputies accused of
murder In the first degree, for having
fired into a crowd of chemical plant
strikers in Roosevelt, N. j., last Janu'
airy, killing two and wounding score
OF strikers, were convicted Of man
slaughter.
Al Jennings, a former train robber
of Oklahoma, and well known in state
politics, was baptized in Glendale.
Cal, after being converted by Rev.
John H. Troy.
Edward Long, while bidding good
bye to his brother Clarence, who was
leaving Terre Haute. Ind, was killed
by Big Four train.
A message to President Wilson in
recognition OF his devotion to the
noblest sentiments of humanity" was
adopted by the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America at
its convention in New York.
A Bucharest dispatch to the Elk
change Telegraph company at Lon
don, Eng, says important negotia-
tons are in progress between Rou-
| mama ana Bulgaria.
George A. Bigaman, Republican can.
didate for city clerk of Vandalia, ILL.,,
at the recent city election, has filed
suit In the county court contesting the
election of Fred Chandler, the Demo
cratic candidate.
The Cologne Gazette says serious
fire has occurred in the prize camp
at Torgau, Prussia, barracks for ,in
termed officers.
The election Of Charles E. Sebas
tan for mayor of Los Angeles is con
ceded by Frederick J. Whiffen's cam
paign managers.
The population Of the city Of Oma
ha was increased by 27,500 when the
proposition OF annexation carried al
special election In Omaha, South
Omaha and Dundee by majority o.
to /.
The crew of the German submarine
that torpedoed and sank the British
battleship Majestic in the Dardanelle'
will drink champagne at the expens,
Of F. B. Maloy, a well-known Pitts
burg financier.
Eighty and onehalf per cent o
s,195 fires In this, Allegheny county
Pa, during the last year were Of in
cendiary origin. while only l per cen
were unavoidable.
One Of the worst outbreaks of pei
iagra in the history Of Arkansas is q
q lumber camp II miles southeast O
Plainview, Montgomery county. o
so white children In the camp, 20 ar
affected
-Four more Minnesota counties haV
gone dry as a result OF the election
The counties are Douglas. Fillmore
Rock and Mobiles.
VI VA ShlNoG
has ordered the arrest OF all person
conducting baseball pools. His actio
followed the conviction OF Williar
Rapp, who was given the maximum
fine for running a pool.
A cigar stub Is thought TO have &c
; fire to the Pana, ILL.,, opera house
which burned. The loss was $4,000
The annual commencement exercise
Of the Pana high school were hel
there.
, Rev. Arthur Mcclure, D. D., head
the manual training department {
the Christian college of Bangkol
= Siam, was struck by an automobile q
he was alighting from street car
San Francisco, Cal, and injured Il
: tally. He bled to death before b
, could be taken to . hospital.
Six foreign miners were buried III
der a fall of slate and earth In mir
No. 9 Of the Jamish Coal company, I
Fairmont, w. Va. Two were take
out dead. Doctors said that two otl
ers might die.
The 0uInins That Does Not Affect The Hs'