The Bolivar County Democrat., 1916-02-12
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News Combinations No
viewed Without Comment-Ai
Nations Find Something TO
Edify and instruct

All rumors OF the Ill health Of EN-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria are
unfounded He Is declared to be in
perfect health.
A. B. Davis, Judge Of the Thirty-sixth
judicial circuit court at Chillicothe,
Mo-, granted a temporary injunction
against the Wabash and Rock Island
railroads and the American, Adams
and Wells Fargo express companies,
restraining them from carrying liquor
into Daviess county.
In letter Admiral Dewey described
the coast of Long Island as "the most
unprotected and most easily attacked
portion of the coast Of the United
States" Admiral Dewey said that only
powerful navy could prevent an In
vasion
Too much water defeated the drys in
Sugar Creek township, near Terre
Haute, Ind, when prohibition vote
was taken. The floods marooned the
dry voters.
Otto Ruehle, Socialist member Of the
reichstag. has followed the example of
DR.. Karl Liebnecht by withdrawing
from the Socialist group in the reich
stag.
Lieut.. George Codere Of the Canad-
ian expeditionary force was sentenced
to death at Winchester, England, on
the charge of having murdered Sergt.
Ozanne of his regiment.
Thomas Hoffman, a former Confed-
crate soldier. was found dead in bed at
the home of his sister, Mrs. G. w. Bos-
ley. at Montgomery City. Mo.
Robert B. Briggs. 81 years old, in
charge of the United States weather
bureau at Phoenix, Ariz., is dead, fol-
lowing a five days illness. During the
recent storm and floods in Arizona he
was constantly at his post.
James Wilson Guiteau, a brother of
Charles ]. Guiteau, who assassinated
President Garfield, is dead at his
home in Dobbs Ferry.
Fire in the heart of the business dis
trict of Toledo, O., caused damage esti-
mated at $1O6,OOO.
Two women were killed in mysteri-
GUS assault in the home of G. W. st.
Clair, railroad worker, at Mingus,
Tex. Mrs. St. Clair and Mrs. Will Will
kins were beaten to death with an iron
bar. No clews.
George Burch of Bonham, Tex. just
coughed himself out of an illness OF
IL years duration. Physicians said
his coughing spells were due to tuber-
culosis. But he coughed up a collar
button swallowed when a boy and Is
getting we'll.
Three men were drowned at the wa
terworks lake at Forum. Ok. when
they were trying to rescue Miss Stella
Anderson, who went through the Ice.
Robert H. Perry, 103 years old, said
to be the oldest Arkansan, Is dead at
his home at Conway. He was too old
for service in the civil war.
A general battle over the possession
Of land in the Kentucky mountains, in
which one man was killed and three
others badly wounded, was reported
from Floyd county.
Roumania has called to the colors
all members Of the class OF 1916.
Harold L. Severey, the youth who
shot four persons, one mortally, in AL
bany, was committed to Matteawan
state hospital for the criminal insane
by County Judge Addington.
A wireless dispatch reports that u
French cruiser had arrived off the Vlr-
ginia capes and was patrolling there
to prevent the Appam from escaping
from Newport News.
Sixteen persons were killed and As
injured in wreck Of the Calais ex-
press at Saint Denis, Paris suburb.
Augustin Beauchamp, years old,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. August Beau
champ, Escanaba, Wis, has been
asleep for a wee kand all efforts Of
physicians and others to awaken him
have proved futile.
The Rockefeller foundation has do
mated $22,S0O for carrying on surveys
of the care of the insane in 16 states
this year.
The national aeroplane fund being
raised for the development Of coun-
try-wide aerial reserve for the ma
tional guard and naval militia has
passed the $350.000 mark.
Two negroes drowned in the Missis-
sippi just north Of Cairo. one while
trying to save two mules and the other
while salvaging household effects.
The office Of the Socialist paper, the
Worker, at Glasgow. were entered by
the police and the plant seized. The
premises have been closed.