The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-12-15

resenting the New York City street
car strikers, called upon President
Wilson to ask that the federal govern
ment intervene in the strike.
A blockade of Greece, as a measure
OF reprisal for the riots in Athens, in
which French marines were fired on,
has been officially announced.
The Pittsburg Steel Co., with plants
at Monessen and Glassport, and the
Pittsburg Steel Products Co., sub
sidiary concern, have announced an
increase Of 10 per cent in wages.
Safeblowers are picking on" the
Consumers Coal Co.. Chicago. Eight
times in three weeks the safes of the
company have been blown and each
time the loot has been around 500.
Whether to make them substantial
ly shorter or to add another 30 per
cent TO the cost of stockings was de-
bated by members OF the National.
Association of Hosiery Manufacturers
in Chicago.
Inspection of all exports Is being
instituted by the Japanese govern
ment to prevent Japanese manufac-.
turers from throwing away trade op-
portunities by exporting inferior
goods.
Mrs. Della Wyczas. %. OF Chicago,
was found dead in bed with a bullet
hole in her head and across her body
lay that Of her husbands step-brother,
Charles Wyczas, also dead from
bullet wound.
A gift of 100000 for a building for
the school of business of Columbia
University was announced by the
trustees.
Two masked men entered a Mem
phis bank, covered the cashier with
revolvers and forced him to turn over
sack Of money containing $4,000.
They walked outside, got into a wait
ing automobile and escaped.
Richard Anderson is dead and Fred
Wagner of Waukegan, Ill.,, seriously
III as the result of drinking horse
liniment which they found and mis-
took for whisky.
All employees of the Western Union
Telegraph Co. receiving $4,000 or less
year were voted a cash bonus rang
ing from 6 to per cent of their an
nual wage. Messengers will receive
$50 each.
Suburbanites at Evanston, Ind,
need only bull fights to press them
over the brink of immortality, said
Rev. David H. Jones, condemning all
forms of frivolous amusement, includ-
ing golf and dancing.
Federal officials say that Jack John,
son, the negro ex-champion pugilist, is
In the United States, and that his ar
rest is expected soon. He is wanted
for jumping his bond in q white slave
case.
The body of Stanley d. Bogart, pr.
vate in the Thirty-second Michigan ma
tional guard, who has been missing
since Oct Is, was found in the Rio
Grande river.
Repeal Of those sections of the army
reorganization bill dealing with the
national guard will be asked in a bill
which Senator Borah of Idaho will in.
troduce.
The plebiscite on the sale of the
Danish West Indies to the United
States on Nov. IA results in a major
ity in favor of the retention of the
islands.
Mayor Benjamin Bosse of Evans
vile, Ind, bought 10000 bushels Of
coal from the Dixie mine. near SPOTS.
vile, KY, in an effort to force down
the local price of coal.
For the second time since his dis
appearance, "a years ago. Samuel P.
Baker of New York has been made
the beneficiary under q will.
Penny ante poker with a scent lin
1t, played on a wedding anniversary.
does not constitute gambling in Chi.
cago, according to Judge Courtney.
Charles Johnson, a Kiowa county
(Kan.) farmer. has collected his cleo
ton bets and here is what he has
gathered up: Cash. 5000 in amounts
ranging from IS to SIS, In all IS bets;
22 boxes Of cigars, IS hats, two
trained coon dogs and span Of mules
valued at $3.50.
Jerry, white fox terrier belonging
to H. z. Fletcher, saved his masters
life at Topeka, Kan. By Jumping on
his bed and waking him when the
house caught fire.
&c
Mayor Robert Kiegle Of Sandusky.
O., was arrested in hts office on q Sc
cret Indictment returned by the grand,
Jury. charging neglect Of duty In con-
necuon with criminal cases which he
hears as police Judge.