The Hickman courier., 1915-08-12
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News COMBINATIONS NO
viewed Without comment--An
Nations Find Somewhat to
eoify and instruct

Accompanied by her husband she
reached Chicago sunday morning,
Aug /.
Judge Hand. In the United States
district court. denied the motion for
a receiver 10 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 a reversal OF British
policy
Il 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 Seranda dining room "a
a board walk hotel Ro, ,kANay Beach
collapsed
The Danish government il2.OOO.000
s per cent national loan. which has
just closed has proved a failure
Australian casualties In the war up
TO date are 2,5iO killed and lO222
wounded. IL vas officially announced.
-Four girls were drowned at Fiem.
ington. Pa They were Esther
Fisher ~. and Thelma Fiorlss. Is.
Of Pennington. Marion Bower. 49, of
Monument. Pa and Erma Butter
bsugh. Is. OF Cherry Tree. Pa
Beginning Aug POS automobile
rural free delivery routes. distributed
among eight states we're put into oD.
GRAFTON by the postofice department.
American blueiackets and marines
are raRsacking Port al Prince foi
arms
The Valdez Bank and Trust Co has
suspended business. With $4,000 liza
bilities and asssts Of $4,000
German snipsrs now wear greenish
clothing and have their faces and guns
painted so as 10 merge With the coloi
OF the landscape.
4 Constaniinople dispatcn 10 the
Mittag Zeitung Of Berlin reported that
The Wolverine and Mohawk Copper
Mining Company. In paying their
200 employees included an extra
check for per cent Of the total
vases Of June as a bonus
This Is German.American week a.
The Panama.Pscihc exposition
Treasury receipts for July. the first
month Of the new fiscal year. ran
sl6OOO.OOO behind expenditures
Dispatches report an attack by
French ayiators on Strassburg. capt.
tai OF Alsace-Lorraine
Five Geneva. m. girls. two Of them
high school graduates last June. la ~
applied for positions a. Geneva letter
carriers.
After balloting ~ hours without re-
suit. the jury In the case OF George
W Ward charged with killing his
wife, was discharged at Whiteplains,
Mo.
The twoyeArO!d son Of Mrs Elmer
Joseph OF New Haven, III. fell lnta
an open clstem and Was drowned.
one man WAS killed and three 9th
ers we're injured by an explosion In
the experimental bomb proof room
al the United States arsenal al
Frankiord. Pa
The Germans already have begun
using faX Gs u substitute for cotton
In some Of their munitions factories
The unearthing OF great temple al
Muphis, Egypt. Was announced by IA,
University Of Pennsylvania museum
The FIRST daily newspaper to be pub
liEhed la the German language mas ap
peared In Brussels.
Renewed activity Of KatmAi volcano
Alaska Is indicated BY tho presenc,
Of ashes In the air
Mrs. Florence Virgins was KILLED
and Attorney H. w. Peck mortally
wounded when Mrs. Virgins auto
crashed over d concrete bridge anC
into the river at Dallas, Tex.
In the room In which their three
yearold child slept. George w. Cool
Of EndicOtt Neb., murdered his VIII,
and cut his own throat.
Duxbury Reef, the Graveyard o
the Pacific" has caught the Amori
can'Hawaiian steamer Georgian, frou
New York to San Francisco.