The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-10-19


opening OF the war up TO Oct ~ as
the result of mines and submarines,
are III vessels, of total OF zSooo0
tons.
Adam Schubert, a millionaire fafiH
er and land owner of Lorain county
o.. burned his country home. failed Ia
an attempt to hang himself and enoeo
his life by cutting his throat
Popular use OF the term "highbro"
to express scorn of intellectual THINGS
is condemned by President John H.
Hibben of Princeton university
Willys-Overland stockholders VIII
get a cash quarterly dividend of ST.
100000 on Nov. l.
The joint war committee OF the
British Red Cross and Order OF 81
John. controlling the biggest "as
charity fund in existence. applied ior
registration under the war eharHles
Ct
Charles E. Hughes has registered
for the November election. the nrst
time in six years.
Sequtada Ito. president Of the Togo
Steamship Co. OF Japan, will spend
week in Panama studying conditions
City Commissioner j. p. Ramsey or
Springfield, Mo-. was injured serious
ly when a street car crashed into q
jitney.
The sinking of the Italian steam
ship Alberto Treves is reported in a
dispatch from Corunna. She struck
reef in a fog.
Crude oil producers have announced
an increase OF 10 cents a barrel for
the higher-priced grades and cents
for heavy oil.
Judge T. Ryan OF st. Joseph. after
hearing evidence. ordered Oscar ID.
Mcdaniel. charged with numbering his
wife, admitted to $4,000 bail.
For the first time in the history Of
the Baptist church in Missouri. the
state organization is now out Of debt
and has surplus OF $500.
| The first national convention or
anti-suffragists in America will be
held in Boston Dec. 6.
Marshal Count Terauchi. new Japa-
nese premier. has completed his cabi-
net with the statesman Motono as
foreign minister.
Armed policemen are guarding the
Bayonne IN j. plant of the Stand
| ard Oil Co, where a strike was called
which was said TO affect more than
5000 men ThsRtrikers ask increases
of from 20 to 80 per cent.
C. Beutelscacher. former ambassa-
dor to Venezuela under the Mckinley
administration. is dead at Delaware.
o.. from cancer.
Thomas Mott Osborne's resignation
as warden of Sing Sing. n. Y. was
announced by James NJ. Carter. state
superintendent of prisons.
The Danish submarine Dykkeren
was sunk after being in collision with
a Norwegian steamer. The crew Of
the submarine was saved.
Mrs. LAWN Laning. wife of the cash
Ter of the First National bank of Pc
tersburg. III. ended her life by shoot
ing.
A new sort OF sugar, obtained from
the Palmyra palm. which grows abun-
dainty in the northern districts of
Ceylon. will shortly be placed on the
market at London.
/ When Max Bloom, a diamond mer-
chant, went to the bank he found his
wallet missing. II contained S25. ZOO
in diamonds and 81. 500 in currency
Suddenly going insane. George Bry-
an of Kansas City with an ak crushed
the skulls OF his two small children,
George and Lucille. then shot and
killed himself.
Warren X Billings, convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Myrtle Van Loo, in
connection with the preparedness day
parade bomb explosion at San Fran
cisco, was sentenced TO life imprison-
ment.
| Compiled figures show that there
are in Russia 100000 pounds OF
cereals remaining from last years
crops.
When Mrs Lula Snyder obtained a
divorce from @. E. Snyder in Fort
Worth court it was her fourth one-
Charles Smith. negro. accused OF
shooting and wounding Deputy Sher-
III b. A English, was captured and
lynehed by a mob near Sandersville.
Ca
Candidate Hughes has made q curt
denial OF charges made by Norman
Hapgood that there is an understand
ing between himself and German prop