The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-14
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
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Viewed Without commeht-All
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.

The Illinois Christian Endeavor
union elected the following officers
President, E. P. Peiner, Chicago; first
Sice-president, /. w. Bingaman, Quin-
ny; second Vice-president, G. F. Baum.
CART, Chicago; secretary, Miss Geneva
Doran, Chicago; treasurer, B. A. Book
man, Freeport; statistical secretary,
Miss Janet Weir. Chicago.
A decision making the Central Trust
Co. Of Illinois liable for $1,250,000,
with interest from Oct. q, 1912, in
connection with the failure of the La
Sale Street Savings bank, was rem
dered by Judge Frederick A. Smith.
A bill introduced by Representative
Campbell of Kansas would make it
unlawful for any person, company,
corporation, press association, news
association or newspaper publication
to publish or transmit any false re-
port or rumor.
Three young sons OF Ferdinand Eek
els we're killed and his wife and two
other small sons were seriously in
jured when a little gas plant in Eek
els hotel at Dorothy, N. j., exploded,
Gottlieb Ahrens of Nashville, ILL.,, a
blacksmith, noticed that bees had
transformed one of the chimneys Of
his residence into beehive.
The German steamer Dorita, of
1853 tons gross, has been sunk by a
Russian submarine off Oernskoeld,
Sweden. The crew was saved.
The body of the young woman who
was mysteriously shot to death in the
Pontiac hotel, in st. Louis, was identi-
fled by relatives at the morgue as
Miss Bertha Louise Elrod, 20 years
old, of Bend, Mo.
The ends of heavily charged feed
cable supplying electric current to
New York Central trains, coiled
around three persons when It sudden
ly snapped, killing one of them and
probably MORALLY injuring another.
Four cars of Battery A, Indiana ma
tional guard, were derailed near STRAIT
ford, Mo. Damage to equipment was
slight. There were no injuries.
The long battle between Vernon and
North Vernon, Ind, for the courthouse
of the county will be fought out final
ly at the polls Sept. &c.
Before the war the deaths in Lon
don numbered 1888, and in the like
period since hostilities began the num-
Der was 1O4,571.
Advocates of the lay-president plan
were victorious in the election of Of
ficers of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union of America. H. B. 0sgood of
Chicago was chosen president.
An imperial ukase has been issued
suspending the sittings of the duma
until Nov. IA.
President Wilson has signed the
Hay resolution to provide for bringing
members of the national guard into
the regular army service.
Emil r. Beckert, an inventor and
president of a Chicago manufacturing
concern, killed himself in a downtown
hotel by shooting.
A battle to break the will of John
r. Mclean was set in motion in the
district supreme court at Washington
by his son. Edward Beale Mclean.
The senate foreign relations COM
mittee decided not to recommend the
passage of Senator Marines resolu-
ton which would require the presi-
dent to intercede with Great Britain
On behalf of Sir Roger Easement.
A fireman was killed and two other
trainmen were injured when north
bound Gulf & Ship Island passenger
train was wrecked near Bond, Miss.
Within two weeks congress will be
asked to authorize an issue Of war
bonds to finance military activities
growing out of the Mexican situation.
David Lloyd-George has been ap-
pointed secretary for war in the Eng
lish cabinet.
The Southern Pacific Co. has an
nounced an increase Of wages Of Is
cents a day for 5000 section hands,
excepting Mexicans and Chinese.
The Rev. Henry NJ. Cox. so, and
Miss Dorothy E. Wilson, 13, were
drowned in Caldwell lake, near Hob
bington. N. J.. when their canoe cap
si5ed. =