The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-01-14

Mr.. and Mrs. James Hepburn were
buried at GreenYille, Ill.,, in one grave.
Hepburn, who was n years old. died
on Saturday evening and Mrs. Hep
burn, rs, died Monday.
William burst, rs, said to be the
sole survivor Of the crew Of the Moni-
tor, which engaged the Merrimac in
the historic battle at Hampton Roads,
is dead at Philadelphia OF pneumonia.
Arch Eckersall, his wife and four
children were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed their home at
Salmon, Idaho.
A wage increase approximating 5
per cent will go into effect in the
Lockwood cotton mills at Waterville,
Me-, Jan. II.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Tex
as Oil company. at North Birming-
ham, Ala, causing a loss estimated
at 325O,OOO.
The national prohibition convention
will be held at the Auditorium in St
Paul June 10, instead OF at Mime
apolis, the place originally set by the
national executive committee at Chi
cago.
President Wilson was asked to set
aside day as Jewish relief day, on
which contributions should be raised
for suffering Jews In the war zone.
The will of the late Thomas L.
Shevlin Of Minneapolis has been filed
for probate. The entire estate OF
$S,g00,000 is left to the widow and
two children.
w. w. Venable, Democrat, has a.
comfortable lead over his five oppo-
nents In the special election OF Tues
day in the Fifth Mississippi congress
sional district for successor to the
late Representative Samuel A. Wither-
spoon.
B. W. A. Henson, a retired farmer
near Wichita, Kan, was arrested on
a charge of Staying his wife and his
son who went to his mothers assist
ance when she was attacked.
Twenty-Five laborers had a hard
time easing Giovanni de Blaze, weigh
ing 500 pounds, into his grave In New
York after 10 pallbearers strained to
get the casket there.
Eli H. Redman of Terre Haute, Ind,
who served several months tn prison,
was formally disbarred from the court
in which he once presided.
Eleven Chinese members of the
British freight steamer Veturia mu-
tinted at the dock at Hoken, N. J.,
and drove the chief officer from the
ship.
Matthew w. Pinkerton, for "a years
head of the Pinkerton United States
Detective agency, Is dead at Chicago.
He was born ct Mount Eaton, O., In
1852.
Fearing punishment because they
had played hockey. Toney Delay and
Dominick Antonacci, each IL years
old, Of Riverton, ILL.,. kept secret for a
day the fact that their playmate, Jack
Jannessee, had fallen through thin ice
in Mud lake, near Riverton.
Hundreds of popular periodicals
have been withdrawn from news stand
sale at Spokane, Wash, because Of
the statewide prohibition law forbid
ding the advertising of liquors.
Paris reports that another Italian
liner has been sunk by mine or sub
marine in the Adriatic. II was load.
ed with foodstuffs on the way to the
starving Servians.
A Harlequin duck. on one leg of
which is metal tag bearing the
words "22, Berlin Zoo" was killed
near Hesvener. Ok.
Miss Catherine Goggin, secretary OF
the Chicago Teachers federation, was
accidentally killed by an automobile
truck.
Henry Ford has returned to Detroit,
but he avoided a delegation OF citi-
zens who had planned to welcome
him and present him with a floral
piece.
Under the terms of the will OF To
masso Salvini, the actor, who died at
Rome, sums ranging from $1,000 to
$4,000 are beQueathed to institutions
of charity and art OF Florence.
The board OF army engineers In q
report to congress recommends the
Improvement of the Missouri river
from Kansas City to the Mississippi.
The project calls for total appropri-
alton Of about s20.O0o.OOo.
Miss Anna Franklin Of Paris, Ill.
inserted an ad In matrimonial paper