The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-11-19

cago.
The Standard Oil company OF Kan
sas has declared quarterly dividend
of So a share, payable Dec. Is.
The Handelsblad learns from Brus-
sells that two citizens of Cambria were
executed as spies on Nov. /.
Herman Rider, publisher, left a
net estate of about $1,000. His will
was executed in 1914 and beQueathed
all to his widow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Schooner of
Mt Sterling, Ill, and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Diss of Maryville, Mo-, cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver.
saries together.
Sixteen hundred Italian reservists
sailed from New York for Naples on
the Italian liner Taormina, a sister
ship Of the Ancona. The Taormina
also carried loo passengers.
|
Col Heussler, Swiss military
statistician, calculates the total losses
in killed in the present war at
100000.
According to message, the kaiser
passed through Sofia, where he WIS.,
tied King Ferdinand for two days.
After the visit the German emperor
left for Constantinople.
Mrs. T. T. Taylor and her 10-year-
old daughter were drowned in St
Francis river at Wise Ferry, Ark,
when the skiff in which they were
seeking to cross the river sank.
Fire in the Chicago, Burlington G
Quincy shipyards at Aurora, ILL.,, de-
stroyed a warehouse filled with huge
casks of gas, causing loss estimated
at $4,000.
Cardinal Mercier, archbishop Of Ma
lines, Belgium, arrived at Lucerne,
Switzerland, on parole Cardinal Mer-
cier aroused the ire of the Germans
by his pastoral letter of Christmas.
1914.
The Swiss government has prohib-
tied the expectation of fresh milk.
Maj. Gen. Weed has announced that
military camp of instruction for
civilians would be established in
North Carolina early next year SINH
lar to that conducted at Plattsburg,
N. ~, last summer.
Gen. Geronimo Villareal, Mexican,
was indicted by a United States grand
jury at Laredo for bringing women
into this country for immoral pur-
poses.
-Four Chattanooga (Tenn.) men have
been indicted here for defrauding the
government by shipping whisky in
collins from this city
An Increase in wages to 1900 en-
ployes was announced by the Yale q
Towne Manufacturing company STAN.
ford. Conn., makers of builders hard.
ware.
Forty-seven orphans marched out OF
the German Lutheran orphans home
at Indianapolis in their nighties when
a fire was discovered.
The charred bodies OF the three
small children Of M. D. Tiller were
found in the ruins Of a barn on the
farm OF their father in Boyd county.
KY according to a report reaching
here. 1t is the supposition that the
children accidentally set fire to the
barn.
A bill TO give greater measure OF
self-government to the Philippines
VIII be made part of the administra-
ton program for the next session Of
congress.
An express train CARRYING $50. 900
gallons OF petrol to fill war orders.
will leave the Pacific coast for New
York every "a hours until the Panama
canal is reopened.
Upward Of 5O.OOO.O0 pounds Of vege-
tables have been purchased BY Belle
vile. Ontario. corporation to be con-
centrated and shipped to France to
feed soldiers.
Statewide prohibition was defeated
in Ohio Nov. by majority of 55.412.
according to official returns from the
So counties Of the state made public
here. In 1914 voters rejected the pro-
hibition amendment by . majority of
s4,152.
When Fred Miller OF Galesburg.
ILL.,, IS years old, began to undo the
wrappings of package he found on
the sidewalk II exploded, killing him
almost instantly.
DR.. Booker 7. Washington. princi-
pal Of Tuskogee. Ala, institute, is In
a hospital suffering from a serious
nervous breakdown. His condition is
critical