The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-05-21

Resolutions expressing confidence
In President Wilson were adopted at
the closing session of the annual con.
Vention of the Illinois Council of the
United Commercial Travellers at
Springfield, Ill.
The Indiana division of the Travel
ers' Protective association in annual
convention at Indianapolis, voted to
send a message to President Wilson
approving his stand in the Lusitania
situation
Oscar Wilde's son, Cyril, is among
those reported killed at the front He
went under the name of Capt. Hal
| land.
Live stock sanitary commissioners
from states west of the Mississippi,
met in Kansas City, Mo-, in an effort
to standardize the shipping regulations
of live stock between states and lift
the quarantine resulting from the foot
and mouth disease that are hamper
ing interstate shipments.
An Athens dispatch states that the
illness of King Constantine is taking
its normal course His majesty is suf.
fering from an attack of pleurisy.
The grand council of Illinois, United
Commercial Travellers, has held its
nineteenth convention in Springfield.
DR.. John c. Acheson has been i'm
augurated as president of the Penn
sylvania College of Women.
Angered because the Rev. Frank
Merrithew knelt down in the street at
Grizzly, ILL.,, and publicly prayed for
him after upbraiding him, Louis Gibbs
kicked the pastor in the back. The
pastor now wants $4,000 damages.
The Theodore Roosevelt-W. Barnes
trial has revealed new type of wit |
ness. He is known as the c. o. D. va
riety Several ex-legislators have re-
fused to take the stand before their
mileage fee of cents a mile and at.
tendance fees of so cents were paid
by Barnes.
The Tenth Irish army division has
been completed and has left for the
front.
Despite rough weather, the search
for missing victims of the Lusitania
disaster continues.
Sonora Emilia Aguila De Huerta,
wife of Gen. Victoriano Huerta, three
married daughters and their hus.
bands, several grandchildren. tutors
and ferdinand Gil, adviser and inter.
prefer for the party arrived at New
York from Spain to join Gen. Huerta.
Feeling that there was not the una.
nimity of sentiment among the people
which should be present in case the
country decides to go to war, the Ital-
ian cabinet resigned in body.
After being out 80 minutes, a jury
at Richmond, Mo-, in the trial of
Frank H. Werries, who was charged
with killing Andrew Wilson, found
that Werries acted in self-defense.
By unanimous vote, the striking mo-
tormen and conductors of the Detroit
United Railway agreed to a plan for
settlement of the labor trouble.
Chicago pays $140,OOO,0OO annually
for intoxicating liquors, according to
a manual issued by the Dry Chicago
federation. which has opened a cam
paign to abolish saloons.
One thousand blueiackets from the
Atlantic fleet, now at New York, went
to Paterson, N. j., to hear Billy Sun
day. Three hundred of them hit the
trail"
Orders have been issued to all the
wardens of the Pennsylvania depart
ment of fisheries to install the newly
improved state law prohibiting unnat-
foreign-horn residents from
fishing. A similar law prevents them
from hunting.
The body Of Frank Maier, As, a
farmer worth $4,000, was found. with
the throat cut, by neighbors. 1t was
lying on the floor of his home. A
razor lay near the body.
The pope has expressde the utmost
horror over the Lusitania disaster and
hopes some method will be found for
averting similar catastrophes in the
future
Secretary Of tSate Bryan announced
hat the state department had been of.
Totally notified that the Japanese ultt
natum had been accepted by China
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Her skull crushed by the blows OF 9
hammer, Mrs. Sina Orr. 81 years old
xife OF a retired farmer from vinita