The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-09-10

The White House has made public
telegram from the american De
tense Society" of New York pledging
J unremitting support to President VIII
sons call for a definite defense pro
gram.
A japanese exposition has been
opened at Santiago, Chile.
The interstate commerce commits
sion announced it had postponed the
date making effective its order in the
anthracite coal case from Oct. / to
Dec. /.
An explosion during experiments at
Milwaukee to find a process of manu-
featuring potash killed DR.. Frederick
C. Gillen.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Elk
change Telegraph company says 1t is
reported that Admiral Won Tirpitz, the
German minister of marine, will re-
sign and will be succeeded by Admiral
Won Pohl
Announcement of the adoption OF
an eight-hour day by the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey has been
made. twenty-five thousand workers
are affected.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
gram company from Athens says:
Travellers arriving from Constantine
pie announce that Turks have burned
the town of Ismid and massacred a
large number OF the Armenian In
habitants."
The National Old Trails highway,
from Washington to San Francisco,
has been marked from Kansas City to
the Pacific coast
Municipal Councillor Cherioux OF
Paris has asked the council to name a
street alongside the aviation field at
Issy-les-Moulineaux after Adolphe Pc
goud. the famous aviator.
Final tabulations, compiled and
made public by the coroners office
show that S12 persons lost their lives
when the steamer Eastland, with 2, 500
on board, capsized in the Chicago riv.
er July "a.
Former Secretary Bryan'e eldest
daughter, who is the wife OF Capt.
Reginald Owen of the British army,
Is preparing to go to Egypt to be
near her husband.
A lone highwayman at the point Of
revolver held up Albert Clayton,
Henry w. Barger and John B. Farris,
in separate automobiles in a lonely
spot near bridge in a road south of
Nation, Ill.
Six persons were killed and several
others injured in freight wreck on
the Winston-Salem branch of the Nor.
folk & Western railroad.
Word was received OF the death by
accidental poisoning OF Mrs. Fannie
d. White of Shelbyville, Ill. Her
death is said to have been the result
of carelessness Of drug clerk.
Four negroes we're killed by tor.
nado at Marshalville, Ga. The proper
ty loss is heavy, but no estimates are
available.
II is stated that British submarine.
after threading its way through the
Gulf OF Ismid, landed a party to dyna-
mite the railroad bridge at Gebiz, 2s
miles southeast of Constantinople.
The body OF George Younker was
found dead in bed at his home in
Salem, Ill. On a stand in the room
was bottle which had contained car
bolic acid.
Former President Roosevelt depart
ed for northern Quebec, where for a
month he viii fish and hunt. in CON-
pany with his friend, DR.. Alexander
Lambert.
Two hundred people, including many
women and children, were killed in a
train wreck several days ago, 200
miles east of Mexico City.
Life guards in motor boat shot and
hauled up on the Dreamland pier at
New York a 14-foot shark, Weighing
500 pounds.
Col. A. d. Frederick, u. S. A., who is
experimenting arrangements for the
civilian military officers school to be
held at Fort Sheridan Sept. 20, said
that applicants were not coming in as
fast as they should.
w. G. Miller, an Ice manufacturer,
his wife and son, years old, we're
/ killed at lola Kan. when n Santa Fe