The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-05-12

ing a gale and was captured by a
cruiser, which towed her northward.
We are 80 salty the South sea island
cannibals will not eat us, bemoaned
DR.. Charles Woodward before the IL
linois State Eclectic society in an adj
dress decrying too free use Of salt
Giles w. Trask Of Frankfort, Ind,
wealthy farmer and elevator owner,
confessed that he killed Mrs. Alice A.
Evans, fortune teller known as Nine.
Rand.
Sir Douglas Mawson, the Antarctic
explorer. has sailed for Liverpool on
the steamer Orduna He will organ
lie a relief expedition for the rescue
of the shackleton party.
Five hogs infected with the foot and
mouth disease were found on the
Houck farm, at Taylorville, ILL.,, by DR..
A. d. Bullock Of the United States in
spection bureau.
Eight thousand miners at the Pan
ther Creek Valley collieries of the Lee
high Coal and Navigation company
quit work, following disagreement
over the time of starting work.
The best instrumental musicians
and singers in Illinois gathered at
Jacksonville for a four days musical
convention.
Two vessels under charter by the
American commission for the relief of
Belgium, the Swedish steamship Frid-
land and the British steamer Hendon
Hall, were sunk within two days.
A meat supply depot belonging to q
foreign corporation with a large capt.
tai was taken over by the Mexican
government on orders from the secre.
tary of the interior.
Sheriff White of Murphysboro, ILL.,,
refused to say how many persons he
would invite to the hanging of Elston
Scott and the governor has granted q
fourth reprieve to Scott to July IA.
The town hall at Lille, France, one
of the most famous structures OF its
kind in Europe, was destroyed by fire.
The New York police are searching
for Miss Doris Ponty, Sunday school
teacher, who has been missing from
her home since April 2.
Frank B. Thayer, a graduate of
oberlin college, Oberlin, o., and Wis
consin university, has been appointed
an instructor In journalism In Kansas
university.
From Dec. 81, 1915, to March, 1916,
deposits in national and state banks
increased $15.71S,S17.2S, according to
w. W. Bowman, secretary OF the Kan
sas Bankers association.
DR.. Il. H. TreEona, 20 years old, OF
Gibson City, his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Mclean, 60, and Miss Gertrude Shaw,
40, were instantly killed at Garter, Ill,
when Wabash train struck their au-
tomobile.
Passport" champion Jersey milk
or Of the United States, owned by
former Congressman Joseph c. Sibley
OF Franklin. Pa, is dead. Her record
was 19,694S pounds of milk a year.
Edward M. Hall, a stockman, is
dead from burns received in an I'M
successful attempt to rescue his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, and her
maid, Miss Alma Shaw, when the Hall
country home at Carthage burned.
Suicide is only death, but q good
cigar is a smoke So thought Richard
Kuhlman Of Chicago. who postponed
his Jump from third-story window
when Leroy T. Steward asked him to
nave smoke.
Miss Sophia Brauer. 81 years old,
OF Murphysboro. ILL.,. burned herself to |
death. She touched a match to her
clothing, which had been saturated
with coal oil. She had been lame since
childhood.
This week will see the beginning OF |
work on the long-talkedof mine near
Bush, H.. on the $4,000 acres Of coal
lands owned by the Western Coal and
Mining company.
The Postal Telegraph company was
fined $1,000 in the criminal court in
Butte, Mont, on conviction OF trans
information on which racing
bets were made.
A new searchlight was tried out in |
the New York navy yard. The lens is
five feet and the range Is 10 miles.
President Wilson has received an
appeal TO intervene in the cases Of |
Mexicans recently convicted OF muir
der in connection with the villa raid |
on Columbus, N. NJ.
The postoffice and q general store
at Lakenan, No. vas entered and |
robbed OF q small sum Of money.