The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-02-18
Weeks NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
TOLD HERE.
FROM AROUND the PLANET

dispatches From Our Own and For
s'en Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter for
eusy Readers.
JACK johnson. the negro pugillst.
faces arrest In Cuba II he lands. This
information came from 4 source close
70 the government
Emma Schuckman, II years old,
tangoed TO death at 4 dance In os.
trander's hall, Louisville. KY. drop
ping dead Of heart disease In the
midst OF q dance with hundreds Of
couples on the floor
An ammunition factory outside Of
stockholm. Sweden. was the scene Of
an explosion which resulted In the
death OF five persons
A resolution TO create out Of the
Panhandle OF West Texas u new state
named jefferson was reported to the
state senate.
Utah's new state capitol was occu.
pied when the legislature and the gov.
ernor moved TO their quarters in the
building. The building will be com.
pletsd June l. at a cost OF $4,000 900
Told that she had tuberculosis. Mrs.
John Rahel killed herself with a rifle
on her farm in Edgar county. Ill.
where she went as q bride three
months ago.
81 Louis, New York. Philadelphia,
Chicago, Minneapolis. Milwaukee.
New Orleans. Dallas and Kansas City
are white slave markets. where gypsy
girls and white girls, the latter stolen.
are sold for sums ranging from $500
TO $500. This issthe statement made
iy William +. Fitch. special investi
gator for the department OF Justice.
Beer rauons for chickens Increases
the yield OF eggs. according to Read
Ing pa hotel keeper, whose daugh-
ter has been feeding chickens beer
She says IL hens last month produced
2si eggs.
The city council OF Des Moines, la.
refused TO grant the saloon keepers a
renewal OF their licenses. This means
that the 50 saloons will close their
doors.
A special interurban car employ.
ment bureau was run from Dallas.
Tex. north nearly TO the Oklahoma
line. II carried men out of work who
were looking for jobs.
Sheriff Henry Wagster was shot and
instantly killed and Constable p Knox
badly wounded In Trenton, Tenn. by
Sam Taylor. who had escaped from
the workhouse.
Three unmasked bandits held up
Cashier VIII oDonnell OF tie State
Exchange bank At Yates Center, Kan,
locked him in the vault and escaped
with $500 cash.
In q decision affecting union labor
and all California cities the supreme
court held that the San Francisco
board OF supervisors had no right to
resolve that all city printing must be
done by union shops.
The death OF Remus Chandler. a ne.
gro. who had been taken TO hospital.
increased the number OF victims Of
the explosion In the Carlisle (W Val
mine Of the New River Coal Co. to q.
Robert Lincoln Lee, 81 years old.
prominent In society and in athletic
circles. shot himself In the head with
a revolver At a New York hospita
where he had been a patient
G. Hunter Raine. former president
OF the Mercantile Bank and Trust
company OF Memphis, Tenn, entered
a plea Of guilty to charges OF using
the mails to defraud in the federal
court.
Premier Asquith. speaking In the
house OF commons. said that British
casualties In all ranks In the western
arena OF the war from the beginning
OF hostilities to Feb. I. amounted &c
approximately 100000 men.
Much excitement was caused at 81.
Johns. N. b.. by what appeared to be
an attempt to blow up the suspension
bridge over the ST. John river be.
tween that city and Fairyille A
waichman on the bridge discovered a
nitroglycerine bomb al the base OF