The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-08-03
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation Of Weeks News Pc
viewed Without comment-AI
Nations Find Something to
Edify and instruct.

An "order" was received by HOus-
ton manufacturing company for 1000
1O-gallon kegs OF pickles, or total OF
10000 gallons. for use by the soldiers
on duty along the border
The nomination Of former Gov. Bert
Fernald Of Maine as the Republican
candidate for the United States senate
to succeed the late Edward c. Bur
leigh is assured.
About 500 enlisted men I'm the Cali
foruia national guard have been
turned down for regular army service
IS reason Of physical disabilities.
Panama canal tolls were 81 ,2SG ISL
less than expenses in the year which
ended May 81.
Resignation of the Okuma cabinet in
Japan is said 10 be- imminent Mar
sinai Terauchi b. generally believed TO
BE- slated 60 succeed Count Okuma a.
premier.
The clocks Of Greece have been ad-
yanced 20 minutes. This was in ac-
cordance with a decision of the gov
eminent TO adopt standard eastern
time instead of sun time.
In a fight at Bedfield. S d.. be-
tween a band of 300 members of the
!. ". ". and 200 independents"
three OF the former were wounded
one of them seriously.
James ". CLARK. Scott county QIlD
commissioner and candidate for coro-
ner. was drowned in the Illinois river
at Glasgow.
The federal governments investiga-
tiOn into coal trade conditions opened
in Denver before r.. N.'Hurley. chair
man Of the federal trade commission.
The bodies Of Mrs William Cline
and her son Clark. % years old, were
found in the ruins OF the Chimes home
near Sheeiaburg Ia. Mrs. Chimes
skull had been crushed.
Loss estimated at S1O00.OOO was
caused by fire which destroyed the
three-stOry frame warehouse OF the
Uneda Storage and Van Co. in New
York
Warning has been issued 10 the pub
lie by the department OF agriculture TO
look with extreme suspicion upon any
preparation offered for sale as being
effective for the treatment OF infantile
paralysis.
The army appropriation bill. the
last of the big preparedness measures.
has passed the senate. The bill car
ries appropriations OF approximately
s30s.O0O.OOO.
Six civilians have been executed Dy
the Germans at Client. charged with
war treason"
ORGANIZATION OF all Of the working
men and women Of the United States.
including the systematic collection OF
funds from both employers and EN-
ployes for local anti-tuberculosis cam
paigns. is proposed by the National As
sociation for the Study and Proven
ton Of Tuberculosis.
Sheriff Fred ]. Collins OF Musketon.
Mich. has taken charge of his wife
Sarah. whom he will return to Muske
ton TO face charge of aiding two
prisoners TO escape from the county
Jail.
Lieut.. Otto Parschau, recently given
the decoration of Pour lie Merite for
bringing down his eighth enemy aero
plane. has been killed in an air battle.
Departments Of their plants which
have been closed six months are be
ing opened by Pittsburg dyers. Part
of the dye cargo of the Deutschland
was consigned here.
Robert F. Pruitt. &c years old, OF
Detroit. Mich. climbed TO the top OF
an electric sign on the roof of the Ter
minal hotel. at St Louis. 10 feet
above the sidewalk.
Thirty-ffve persons were injured
when a Midland Valley train ran into
an open switch at Tulsa. Ok, and
crashed head-on into freight train
President Wilson has signed the riy-
ers and harbors bill. carrying an ap-
OF s42.ss6. 0s5.
twenty-five thousand employees in
he mechanical division of the Ford
Motor Car Co. at Dotroit. have begun
4 two weeks vacation, to end Aug z.
William o. Potter. Judge Of the mu-
nicipal court at Marion, Ill. has with |
drawn from the race for the Republic |
an nomination for state senator from
the F1ftieth district.
Everod s. Downing. 81 years old.
pioneer in the development OF che
west. Ii dead at the home OF ibis
daughter in Kansas City.