The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-01-28

" ANNh AbAAos
Petitions to place President Wilson's
name on the Minnesota presidential
primary ballot were filed with the
secretary of state and the name will
go on the ballot
A resolution indorsing President
Wilson's preparedness program was
voted down, 6S to 81, in the lower
house of the Mississippi legislature.
La Sale hotel boys, at Chicago,
are paging the Hobbies for tall, digni-
fled looking man who left two-foot
pet alligator in the hotel.
Cyclone" Davis, representative
from Texas, wants someone to write
death March of the Republic"
Tabitha, the Albany capitol cat, COB
bled down six white state laboratory
mice, containing several million pneu-
monia germs.
Dispatches from Amsterdam state
that the danger continues to grow in
the flooded districts of the provinces
of North Holland
The Ellenrod mill, at Rochdale, the
largest cotton spinning mill in Lanca-
shire, have been partly destroyed by
fire.
A membership on the Minneapolis
or Duluth boards of trade is property
and can be taxed, the supreme court
held in the case of Roberts vs.
County of Hennepin.
Chile's ratification of the peace CON-
missions treaty was presented to the
department by the Chilean ambassa.
dor, Eduardo Suarez Mujica.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the Brit
ish suffragist leader detained by New
York immigration authorities, was or
dered admitted to the United States
Internationally.
II was not German submarine that
sank the liner Persia, according to
the German government.
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Seven Austrian aeroplanes flew over
Ancona, dropping several bombs. No
great property damage was done, but
one man was killed and several in.
jured
The receipts of iron ore at Buffalo
in the year 1915 were the greatest
ever recorded-5,32S,6 COS tons, against
5,2OS, 4SO in 1913, the next best sea-
son.
Harold M. Mech, Republican, was
elected mayor of Middletown, Conn,
defeating James F. Connery, Demo
crat.
The greater part of the extensive
dollhouse establishment of John
Bauscher, Freeport, ILL.,, was destroyed
by fire.
Fearing assassination, King Com
stantine of Greece has doubled the
strength Of his bodyguard.
The Spanish steamship Belgica has
been sunk at sea. Twenty-three men,
bers of the crew were picked up.
Prince Eitel Frederick, son of the
kaiser, is reported by Swiss newspa-
pers to have been sent to Athens ty
the German government on special
mission to King Constantine.
Frank Quinn and j. ]. Beal, Okla
homa farmers. who we're convicted in
the federal courts of intimidating ne
groes and preventing their voting,
were pardoned by President Wilson.
An increase in pay for $4,000 opera
tives in virtually all of the textile CEN
tiers of Rhode Island is assured.
Two American women are being de-
tained at Monastir by the Bulgarians
They are Mrs. Walter Farwell, Chr
cago newspaper correspondent, and
Miss Mitchell.
Edith Forman, Belle Forman and
Alma Colby, young ladies, we're killed
when a Rock Island passenger train
struck Forman's automobile at Alva,
Neb.
The residence OF President James
and other University of Illinois
buildings were threatened when fire
destroyed the coed store in Cham
paign, adjoining the campus. Dam
age of $4,000 was done.
A young woman answering the de-
scription of Sister Rita Vincent, the
23-year-old nun who mysteriously dis
appeared from the Convent Joseph
villa. Philadelphia. two weeks ago.
was found in a girls home at Balti-
more.
A Copenhagen dispatch says the
steamer Kiev, bound from Copenhagen
for Liverpool. has been captured by
German destroyer and taken to port.