The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-08-06

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Mexico City and Vara Cruz have
been blown up with dynamite and
more than 200 persons killed.
The loss Of life in Canton, China,
due to fire and flood, is estimated in
tens of thousands, according to re-
port from Admiral .Winterhalter.
Fire which for time threatened to
! wipe out the manufacturing district
Of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was brought
under control, with a loss of $4,000.
Charles Raynard, passenger on
the Holland-American liner Rotter-
dam, was arrested by the British au-
thorities on board the liner on a
charge of travelling under false pass.
port.
Health Commissioner Robertson of
Chicago started a campaign to pre-
vein an epidemic of typhoid as a re-
suit of the Eastland disaster. He
prescribes typhoid vaccination.
AS the result of a physical test,
Russell Smith, son Of Prof. George w.
Smith, of Du Quoin, ILL.,, has been de-
clared to be the strongest student in
the naval academy at Annapolis.
Kate Masterson, a brilliant author
and journalist, was committed to
Bellevue, New York, hospital for OBJ
servation.
Five thousand dollars each for the
first ten dirigible balloons destroyed
is the prize offered British airmen by
Baron Michelham.
Adolph Blau, private banker in
Scranton, Pa, was arrested on com
plant of the police chief on war.
rant which charges embezlement of
100000.
Finnish steamers Leo and Urania
have been sunk in the Baltic Sea.
The Urania struck a mine. The Leo
was sunk by a German submarine.
Eleven men and five women we're
killed.
President Wilson has commuted to
life Imprisonment the sentence i'm.
posed at Milwaukee, Wis, on James
Waupoose, an Indian, who pleaded
guilty of murder of an Indian woman.
Three children Of w. r. Grimes,
farmer of Temple, Tex, we're beaten
to death with a hammer. Grimes and
his wife were beaten into unconscious.
ness.
Eleven foreign-built steamers, pur-
chased with German capital. are to
be granted American registry.
An Austrian cruiser and four de-
stroyers bombarded the Singaglia Pc.
saro railway. running parallel to the
Adriatic seacoast.
Theodore Roosevelt's life won't be
worth 10 cents" II, after Aug. 10, he
makes any move to "embroil the
United States in war with Germany"
according to threatening letters
mailed to him at San Diego, Cal.
The Morning Posts Budapest cor
respondent estimates that the calling
up of the last landsturm class In Aus
tria-Hungary will add 100000 men to
the army.
Charges that his home in FL Paso,
Tex, has been violated without scru-
pie" by federal agents and a request
for guarantee for his home and family
in future we're made by Gen. Victo-
riano Huerta, in q message to Chief
Justice White Of the supreme court
The annual green corn dance Of the
Kiowa and Apache Indians is being
held near Fort Cobb. Ok.
In a telegram from Amsterdam the
Morning Post correspondent says:
The city OF Antwerp was fined $780,
600 francs Cs50,O0o) for popular dem
onstration held here on Belgian fete
day"
Mrs. Harriet Boyce of San Francisco
and her daughter. Margaret. whose
stage name is Adele Boyer. have been
pardoned by the LinGau. Germany.
authorities after being sentenced to
prison for insulting German officers.
Eight hundred Seventh Day Adven-
lists. camped at Dalworth. Tex, ex-
pect the second coming OF Christ"
as soon as the allies capture Constan-
tinope.
A blaze Of mysterious origin did
5000, 900 damage to sheds containing
large stores Of government supplies
at Belfast.
The strike Of 1900 iongshoremen