The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-08-18
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation OF Weeks News Re
viewed Without comment-All
Nations Find Something to
Edlfy and Instruct.

Mrs. AuOlphuS A. Laws OF
Centralia, H., was fined S715 for al
lowing her 20.month.old baby girl to
run outdoors without clothing of any
kind
Carrie, Il, and James, 10, children
Of w. Y. Mccormick of Golconda, H.,
were recently drowned at a bathing
beach in the Ohio river.
President Wilson has signed the
agricultural appropriation bill, carry
ing approximately $27,0OO,OOO
DR., Eva Harding, suffragist candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
in the First District, Kansas, has been
defeated by Rev. II. J. Corwine by
majority of 327 votes.
The Atlantic feet championship
trophies for gunnery and battle eff
cheney during the year were awarded
to the battleship Texas.
According to a telegram from Buch-
Arrest the number killed in the explo-
sion in the powder factory at Dudesti
was lis. Early reports stated that
only 20 were killed
Maj. Robert N. VIM, U. s. A., chief
hospital surgeon with the national
guardsmen at Eagle Pass, Tex, is
dead after few days illness of pneu-
monia.
The government of Colombia has re-
guested the Swiss governmtnt to send
three Swiss officers for a period OF
three years to reorganize the Colon
bian army along Swiss lines.
DR.. Max Baff, psychologist Of Clark
College, Worcester, has discovered
why girls kiss soldiers in uniform. He
says: ut is the uniform the girls ad-
mire and not the soldier"
A Lloyd's dispatch from Barcelona
says the Italian steamship San Sebas-
tiano, 4,O43 tors, has been sunk by
a submarine off Cape San Sebastian.
Truman Coats, laborer Of Havana,
H., and his sister, Miss Australia
Coats, of Mason City, Ia, have been
notified they are two of IA heirs to a
100000 estate near Chicago
Americans are smoking more and
more cigarettes. During the first half
Of this year, according to statistics
issued, American manufacturers have
marketed s,754,OO0.O0 cigarettes, COM
pared with 6,333,OOO,O0O in the same
period last year.
The Saow Green fair, held in Lin
colnshire, England, without break for
500 years, was abandoned this year on
account of the war.
Depositors of the defunct La Sale
Street Trust and Savings Bank, OF
which William Lorimer was president,
after waiting two years. will get 25
per cent dividend soon.
Andre Godin, the Psychologist and
poet. has been killed in France by an
aerial torpedo as he was leaving
communication trench at the back of
the French lines.
knights OF Pythias brought to
close their supreme convention in
Portland, Ore, after sessions extend
ing 10 days John ]. Brown of Van
dalia, H.. was installed as supreme
chancellor.
In a pistol fight with two suspected
robbers, Ernest Keller, chief of police
at Drumwright, Ok, was killed.
Secretary Daniels, in an address at
the annual meeting Of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Society Of America,
expressed the belief that the day is
coming when total abstinence will pre-
vail In America"
A. B. Stickney, founder of the Chi
eago Great Western, and constructor
OF other lines, is dead after an illness
Of four weeks.
After a struggle shark seven and a |
half feet long and Weighing 225 pounds |
was hooked and shot In the bathing |
center Of Rockaway Beach.
The Portuguese congress was ap-
prised that England would loaR sums !
sufficient to cover the cost Of partici-
patton in the war
What is said to be the FIRST union |
Of letter carriers in the United States |
has been organized in Chicago with |
over 200 members.
James Augustus Pecos. last survi- /
vor Of the Pecos Indians, who in 1914 |
abandoned the Peeos Puebla near
Santa Re and went to Juarez to live. /
Is dead.
Henri Regnaults famous paintine,
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