The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-04-14

Two thousand Of the 5000 miners IN
the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas val
leys who struck for the recognition Of
the newly formed union gained their
point and have returned to work.
Fragments, supposedly Of a torpedo,
which were discovered on the cross
channel steamer Sussex have been for
warded to Washington by Ambassador
Page.
The tank steamer San Cristobal was
destroyed by fire at Puerta, Mexico.
Representatives Of the United Mine
Workers and the mine operators in
Iowa and Missouri met in Des Moines
to formulate new wage scale.
The municipal gas plant established
about 90 years ago was formally rele-
gated to the scrap heap on April l.
The increasing use of natural product
and electricity was assigned as the
reason for dismantling.
Five hundred candy manufacturers
have petitioned the interstate com
merce commission for a general read
justment of rates to all points west Of
the Mississippi river.
Joseph Black, negro, was taken
from Jail at Kingston, N. G., and
lynched by mob. He was the father
of William Black, 1G years old,
charged with an attempted attack on
young white girl
About $50 sick American troopers
have been brought back from the
front in Mexico, suffering from vari-
Gus ills due to the climatic conditions
of the Sierra Madre.
The taxation committee OF the
reichstag has fixed the amount of the
increases in the postal taxes recently
proposed.
Resolutions calling upon delegates
to work against any presidential cam
didate mot in accord with our inter-
ests" were passed at the New Jersey
convention of the German-American
alliance.
Simplified spelling of II words rec
commended by the National Education-
al association was adopted by the
Philadelphia North American. The
words are tho, altho, thru, thruout,
thoro, thoroly, thorofare, program,
prolog, catalog, pedagog and decalog.
Fifteen hundred unorganizsd miners
employed in 10 collisries in the Allie
gheny valley are on strike for an
eight-hour day.
Passenger traffic on the railroads
has decreased throughout the country,
largely on account of the use of auto
mobiles, according to L. F. Loree,
president of the Delaware & Hudson
Railroad company.
Howard Chandler Christy, New York
artist OF note, filed suit to divorce
Mabelle Thompson Christy.
While police were searching the
home of Or. H. Brooks of Memphis,
Tenn, for a burglar, the 15-year-old
son, Henry P. Brooks, mistook Police
man w. Gresham for a burglar and
shot him.
Angered over his wife's suit TO d.
vorce him and forced to pay allmony
while 1t was pending William Brown,
meat cutter at Losand. ILL.,, entered
his wife's boarding house, shot her
twice and then killed himself.
Walter H. Page, American ambassa-
dor to England, announced that an
analysis OF the fragments of torpedo
found in the hull of the channel liner
Sussex proved conclusively that the
device was of German origin.
The French bark Bourbaki, which
left San Francisco on Oct. 26 for Fps
wich, has arrived in tow and leaking,
having struck mine.
Strong gains for the drys were
made in many Nebraska towns and
villages at the recent election. Re-
turns indicate that IL places changed
from wet to dry and three from dry to
wet.
The senate bill for an armor plate
factory was fayorably reported by the
house naval committee by a vote OF
16 to 6.
Clarence Hudson, alias Ernest Schil-
Ter, the German sympathizer, who sim
gle-handed captured the British liner
Matoppo at sea and compelled the
crew to do his bidding, has been de-
clared insane.
One thousand miners employed by
the Ellsworth Galleries company and
by the Pittsburg Westmoreland Coal
company, at Acme, have quit work.
They demand an increase of 10 per
cent.
DR.. Pierre Roux, director of the
Pasteur institute, announced to the
Academy of Science the discovery OF
q serum for the treatment and pre-