The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-01-28
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Of four surviving real Daughters of
the Americai Revolution, is dead at
her home in Oakley township, Macon
county, III.
President Poincare and Albert
Thomas, under secretary for war,
were present at the trials at Satury
Camp of the newly invented trench
cannon and bullet.proof shields.
Mrs. Joseph Tumulty, wife OF the
secretary to the president, was ope-
rated on for appendicitis.
The submarine HIS, which ran
aground on a mud flat at San Diego,
was pulled off by the mother ship
Cheyenne.
A bill introduced In the Cuban con-
gress provides a credit of $4,000 for
the entertainment of Col. Roosevelt
during his forthcoming visit.
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Bank drafts with an estimated
value of $4,000 and small amount
of money were in mail pouch stolen
and rifled at Newton, Ia, after the
outbound mail left the postoffice.
The 6-year-old son OF Charles Lig-
get OF Gaskins City, ILL.,, was badly
injured by the explosion of dyna-
mite cap which he had placed on
stove. The sight of one eye was de-
stroyed.
Twenty-four hogs and 16 cattle in
fected with the foot and mouth dis
ease we're discovered on the farm of
A. ]. Houcks, Taylorville, Ill. The ami
mails were killed.
Col Roosevelt In letter asks that
his name not be used in the Mime
sofa primaries.
The burning gas we'll at Sinton,
Tex, owned by ]. M. Guffey Of Pitts
burg, Pa, and associates, has become
a volcano" The crater has widened
to circumference of 100 feet and
around 1t is piled a cone of mud more
than 80 feet high.
Petitions were circulated in Rock
Island churches seeking to get the To-
cal option proposition on the ballot
at the spring election.
Second Iowa district Republicans at
an informal meeting pledged the sup
port of the district to Senator A. B.
Cummins of Iowa for the Republican
presidential nomination.
Richardson, Alaska, reported 80 de-
grees below zero. Other points report
ed from 40 to so degrees below.
China's poppy growers, whose busi-
ness soon will be wiped out, are re-
sponsible for the recent outbreaks &C.
cording to Wang Shih Young, editor
of the Shanghai Shin Wen.
The 81 convicts who escaped from
the Arkansas penitentiary, are said
to have been found barricaded in the
hills near Moscow, heavily armed with
guns and ammunition stolen from
gun store.
The Texas branch Of the Congress
sional Union for Woman's Suffrage
was organized at a gathering Of prom
inent Texas women. Mrs. Harris Mas
terson Of Houston was elected presi-
dent
The half yearly statement Of the
American Locomotive Co. shows an
increase in gross earnings Of $685..
$50 for the last six months. The com
pany had untitled orders amounting
to s52,24O,O00.
The total booty of the Teutonie
allies during IL months of war is
summed up in Vienna as follows:
s'Nearly 100000 prisoners, 10000
guns, 10000 machine guns, while 40.
600 square kilometers Of enemy ter
ritory has been occupied"
The house OF representatives has
adopted a resolution revising the zeal.
endar Wednesday rule" so as to speed
up its work.
Seventeen oil experts have left
Pittsburg for Colombia, South Amer
lea, to explore in the interior of that
country, which is said to be the rich
est in oil in the world.
Because the building is believed to
be unsafe, 400 pupils Of the Henry
Clay school. at Hegewisch. ILL.,, went
on a strike.
A report compiled by the harbor
master and Just made public, shows
that Seattle's export trade to vladi-
yostok in 1915 was ss.s12,5S3. com
pared with s152.2sI in 1914.
The entire village Of Louise, Miss
was destroyed by fire The Methodist
church was the only building left
standing.