The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-05-07
Weeks NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
TOLD HERE.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
O'spatches From Our Own and Fer.
eign Countries Are Here Given
IN Short Meter for
Busy RsaderG

An arbitration award advanced to
some extent the rates of pay OF $4,000
locomotive engineers, firemen and
hostlers employed on the 100000
miles Of the lines of 9S western rail
roads in the United States.
Included In the latest list of officers
killed at the front is the name of Brig
adler General Riddell, commander Of
the Northumberland fusiIliers' bri-
gade.
The body OF Hunter Brooke, Jr., AZ
years old, wealthy resident OF Gar
den City, Long Island, and a member
of prominent family was found in
cemetery at Media, Pa, with a bullet
wound in the mouth.
After forcing a neighbor woman to
write his will, Harvey Gilgert of Violo,
Ill, 30 years old, shot and killed him
self in the womanS presence.
The first eight months of operation
Of the Panama canal has not yielded
= profit to the government. From July
], 1914, to March l, 1918, the canal
showed loss of &261,O9S
The PanaoP Pacific exposition, at
San Francisco, will be the objective
point Of a 10,000-mile cruise of the
Annapolis midshipmen this summer.
The Pan-American financial confer
ence will be opened at Washington
May "a with an address of welcome
by President Wilson.
Clyde Slower, the negro slayer Of
theGardner brothers Of Springfield,
Mass, has been found guilty of muir
der in the first degree and sentenced
TO be hanged.
Sixty-four vessels of the United
States navy will take part in the ma
val review that win be held at New
York May IS.
Two labor bills were recommended
for passage by the industrial affairs
commission Of the Illinois house, the
Mccormick. bill. limiting the number
Of working hours for women to nine,
and the Kane bill, providing for one
days rest In every seven
II is announced that Jesus college,
At Oxford, England, has decided to
bar alcoholic beverages while the war
continues. Similar action has been
taken by 0riel.
Ida Bonora, ballet dancer Of Milan,
Italy, known In private life as Mrs.
Mari Lambardi, wife of the grand
opera impresario, is dead at Portland,
Ore, from poison taken after she
learned her husband had dropped
dead.
Secretary Houston has started west
TO visit national forests, to observe to
what extent their timber, forage, graz
ing and water power resources are
being developed.
Miss Alexandra Legeray. a member
OF Cossack regiment, has been pro-
NOTED to lieutenant.
A long series of alleged discrimina-
lions against soldiers and sailors at |
public amusement places in Washing |
Ton eliminated in a police court trial |
in which the owner of a dancing |
school was fined $40 because he re-
fused to admit a trooper In uniform |
from Fort Myer.
Geraldine Farrar of the Metropcli- |
tan opera company has signed con-
tract to act for motion picture YER
sions OF some operas In which she
has sung.
Two firemen were seriously injured
and nine others overcome by smoke
when the St Paul (Minn.) public IL
brary practically was destroyed by |
fire.
The United States army transport
Buford has left for Colon with 413
passengers. all officers and men Of
the army.
A dry nation by 1920 was the pre-
.diction Of Oliver w. Stewart, former
member OF the Illinois legislature,
who closed the campaign Of the flying
squadron In Hannibal. Mo-, with an
address before $500 persons.
Charles BuInham. IS. OF Arden. NJ
T., was fatally burned when he STUN
bed against the railing OF the steps
of his home and ignited boz Of
matches in his pocket
At the point Of hat pin Miss Anna
goldsmith. Is. OF New York. took two
yoang men 10 police station for pass
sng remarks about her new hat
The trawier Envoy. which was sup
posed to have been sunk By q German
Submarine. vas brought safely into the