The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-12
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condsnsatlons no
viewed Without commsnt-Ah
Nations Find Somewhat 10
Edify and Instruct

reached chicago sunday mofhlhki
Aug |.
Judge Hand. In tho United states
district court. denied the motion for
a receiver to take over the business
Of the American and 10 Cent Stores
American dispatches To the London
newspapers say that the recent init.
nation TO the American Government
that England will send another note
soon indicates reversal OF British
policy
\ have no political aspirations
whatever looking TO the holding OF
office In the future. said William ].
Bryan In a speech at Portland. ore
Nine persons were injured when the
supports OF 'eranda dining room u
a board walk hotel RooAawAy Beach
collapsed.
The Danish government tl2O00,O0O
per cent national loan, which haI
Just closed has proved failure.
Australian casualties In the war up
to date are 2,6iO killed and 1929
wounded. II was officially announced
Four girls were drowned at Flem.
ington. Pa They were Esther
Fisher. 20. and Thelma Floruss. 10.
Of Pennington. Marion Bower. ~. Of
Monument. Pa, and Errna Butter
baugh. Is. Of Cherry Tree Pa
Beginning Aug. POS automobile
rural free delivery routes. distributed
among eight states were put into op.
GRAFTON by the postofiice department.
American bluejackets and marines
are raRsaoking Port al Prince foi
arms
The Valdez Bank and Trust Co. hA.
suspended business. With $4,000 liza
bilities and Assets OF $4,000
German Shippers now wear greenish
clothing and have their faces and guns
painted so as to merge With the ooloi
OF the landscape.
4 Constantinople dispatcn to the
Mittag Zeitung Of Berlin reported that
The Wolverine and Mohawk Copper
Mining Company. In paying uheli
1900 employees. Included an extra
check for per cent Of the total
vases OF June as bonus.
This is German.American week al
the Panama. Pacific exposition
Treasury receipts for July, the first
month OF the new fiscal year. rAI
$4,000. 900 behind expenditures.
Dispatches report an attack BY
French ayiators on Strassburg. capt
tai OF Alsace-Lorraine
Five Geneva, III, girls. two Of then
high school graduates last June, haSa
applied for positions AZ Geneva lsttsi
carriers.
After balloting " hours without re
suit. the jury In the case Of Georg,
w Ward, charged with killing All
wife. was discharged At Whiteplains
Mo.
The two-yearold son Of Mrs Elme
Joseph Of New Haven, H.. fell int
an open clsten and Was drowned.
One man Was killed and three 9th
ers we're injured by an explosion Il
the experimental bomb proof room
at the United States arsenal a
Frankford. Pa
The Germans already have begui
using fax as n substitute for cotto
In some OF their munitions factories
The unearthing OF a great temple d
Muphis, Egypt, vas announced BY "a
University Of Pennsylvania museum
The FIRST daily newspaper to be pul
lished Ia the German language mas Al
peared In Brussels.
Renewed activity Of KatmAi yolcan
Alaska, Is Indicated BY the presenC
Of ashes In the air.
Mrs. Florence Virgins was kille
and Attorney II. w. Peck MORTAL
wounded when Mrs. Virgins aut
crashed over concrete bridge an
into the river at Dallas, Tex.
In the room In which their thre
yearold child slept. George W. Coo
Of Endicott, Neb.. murdered his vii
and cut his own throat.
Duxbury Reef. the Graveyard
the Pacific" has caught the Amor
can.Hawaiian steamer Georgian. tro
New York 10 San Francisco.