The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-11-03

Harry Thaw is a campaigner. The
one-time frequenter of the White Way
and the slayer Of Stanford White is
out to beat Almet NJ jerks for the
place of chief justice of the court Of
appeals in New York.
The question Of wages and hours Of
labor will be the first thing taken up
by the joint subcommittee of congress
when 1t meets Nov. 20 to take up its
inquiry into the railroad situation,
Senator Newlands, chairman, has de-
clared.
Jens Jensen, a fisherman, residing
at Blind Slough, Ore, was burned,
probably fatally, by the explosion OF
coal oil at his home. With his clothes
in flames, Jensen rushed from the
house and jumped in a well, from
which he was rescued.
Two young women were killed in q
fire which wrecked factory on East
Houston street, New York, causing
property damage estimated at
500, 900.
When Icy Weisman told the Judge
that he did not steal the duck found
under his coat the duck said "quack,
quack." And. as the Judge felt that
way about 1t. too, Izzy was held for
trial in New York.
Edgar W. Foster was found guilty of
the murder of Bertha KubevisE and
her 5-year-old son, Of whom he was
the father, and his punishment was
fixed at life Imprisonment.
w. d. Synman, a commandant in the
Boer army in the war with Great Brit
ain, who came to this country shortly
before the war ended and who later
went to Mexico, is dead from append
citis.
Ninteen dead is the result Of an ex-
plosion in the Marvel (Ala) mine of
the Roden Coal Co. One was killed
by q fall from a ladder while doing
rescue work.
United States mail will be carried
from Chicago to New York by aero
plane, it was announced.
A. J. Johnson, who shot and killed
street car conductor in Jasper coun-
ty and who was secretly brought to
the Barton county Jail, tried to kill
himself in his cell by eating ground
glass and drinking disinfectant. His
condition is serious.
The three-story colonial residence
on the Hayfield farm, in Fairfax coun-
ty, Va, which was built In 1772 by
George Washington, was destroyed by
fire.
The semi-annual meeting Of the
board of bishops OF the Methodist
church, the administrative body OF the
denomination. opened in Minneapolis,
Mimi, and will continue in session for
week.
Twenty Chicago firemen we're over
come in fire in large grocery and
meat house on Madison street, In the
loop district. The loss is placed at
more than 10000.
A worker in a London munition fac
tory on whom one match was found
was fined SIS or IA days at Gloucester
Louis Horowltz, whose hair was
burned off while he was getting a
crude oil" shampoo in New York
City, charged the barber with assault.
Magistrate Corrigan, however. ruled
that Horowitz was not assaulted.
Convicted of selling liquor. viii
Bishop Of Atlanta, Ca, asked for a
new trial on the ground that he is
blind and could not see the witnesses
against him or gather evidence in re-
buttal. The court sustained the SEN
tence.
What this country needs is more
pennies, according to the treasury de-
pattment. To this end the Philadel-
phia and San Francisco minis are
working "a hours a day and the Den
yer mint 16 hours day to turn them
out.
Loss OF a part OF the central Illinois
corn crop is now threatened through
an unprecedented shortage Of farm
hands. The husking crews which
usually flock from Indiana, Kentucky
and southern Illinois into the corn
fields at harvest time are missing.
Eighteen men lost their lives in an
explosion In the Roden (Ala.) coal
mine.
Sir Joseph Beecham. tAe patent
medicine manufacturer. was found
dead In his bed at Hampstead.
Sixteen Of the crew Of the steamship
L. Edward Hines were drowned when
the vessel was sunk In the Caribbean
sea As miles east Of Belize. British
Honduras.
Il IL reported that DR.. Bull has been
sentenced In Belgium TO six years on
the charge Of treason. DR.. Bull was