The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-08-03


pageant depicting the entry of
me Mormons into Utah nearly 60
years ago and into Mexico in 1884
Was presented before Gen. Pershing
and his staff at Colonia Juarez by the
Mormon colony.
tuberculosis has caused the dis
charge Of 10000 soldiers from the
French army up to April ] OF this
year
After being held up since January
on objection Of Senator Hitchcock.
the nomination of Thomas 8 Allen as
United States attorney for Nebraska
has been confirmed by the senate.
Judge and Mrs. Fl. A. Miller Of Leb-
anon, III. celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary.
With practically only one county miss
ing. the totals tabulated in the recent
Texas primary showed an increased
lead in favor Of the submission OF a
prohibition amendment The figures
We're: For, 1906; against. 154,72O.
Charles S. Hamlin Of Massachusetts.
governor Of the federal reserve bank.
was nominated for another term by
President Wilson.
Great Britain IS not firing Of the
war: on the contrary. the country has
never been more hopeful and united.
said Lord Derby. undersecretary for
war, in an interview.
A meteor. the unburied part OF
which is as large a. five-room house
fell on farm 20 miles west OF Hot
Springs. Ark.
The Standard oil Co OF Louisiana
mas announced 1-cent reduction ia
the price OF gasoline at all Arkansas
stations.
President Wilson has issued an ex-
ecutiVe order giving free rent. fuel
and electric current 10 federal en-
ployes in the Panama canal zone.
William Smith was shot and in
stantly killed on the porch OF his
home at Blue Grove. Tex Alfred
Smith. 20 years old. his son. Is under
arrest
A strike Of Memphis street railway
employees Is settled An agreement
was signed providing for recognition
OF the Garments union
Rain has fallen at Atlanta, Ga,
every day for % days. breaking wealth.
er bureau records.
Although more than 453 $50 900 pas
sengers were carried on lines of the
Pennsylvania railroad during the last
two and One-half years. a statement
says no one was killed.
The Prairie Oil and Gas Co has
posted a price OF $145 for midconti-
nent crude. which is a cut of 10 cents.
English is to be the only language
taught in the primary grades OF the
parochial schools OF the Catholic arch
diocese of Chicago.
Mrs. Robert Moore. who admitted
that she killed her husband with an
AK May 81, is free following her ac-
quittal of a murder charge She
crushed her husbands skull In a cabin
at Bannack. Mont
Wandering along the street in her
sleep, Miss Carrie Goodman, 35 years
old. was struck by freight train on
the Nickle Plate road and Killed. She
was teacher in the public schools at
Cleveland, o.
S. H. B. Mueller of Quincy met
death by drowning at Hannibal. Mo-
Sir William Ramsay. GO, eminent an
a chemist, is dead at his residence,
Beechocroft. Hazlemere, Buck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lahm were in
stantly killed by a switch engine near
Evergreen Park. H.. in view of sew
eral hundred fellow picnickers.
A high official at the vatican states
that the holy see Is absolutely impair
tial in its attitude in the present war.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the Eng
fish suffragist leader. who since Jan.
Is has been touring this country in
the interest of destitute Seryians. has
left Ia the steamship Saxonia for Liv
erpool-
Negotiations have been completed
between the United States and Den
mark for the purchase of the Danish
West Indies. The United States, il is
said, Will pay $25,0OO.O00 for the Is
lands.
William Sulzer, former governor Of
New York, has announced that he had
agreed TO accept the presidential nom
nation of the new American party,
which holds its first national conyen-
ton in Minneapolis next Tuesday.
Tonnage oil ocean-going merchant
Vessels oeins built or ordered In The
United States July l was 100000. or
one-fourth greater than that of vessels
under construction in German yards.