The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-28

The Chicago 4 Alton railroad Is Inn
porting gangs of Mexicans for work
upon the roadbed
Two young women and one man
were drowned in the Ohio river and a
child struck by lightning and killed
near Louisville during a local storm.
Florrie Tyler of Rotterdam, Eng,
has completed her school attendance
for period extending over eight and
one-half years with record of not
having missed single day.
Field communication on the border
is to be facilitated by the adoption Of
motor cycles for the transportation Of
wireless sets and the utilization Of
the motor for the operation Of the
dynamo.
A high official at the vatican states
that the holy see is absolutely impair
tial in its attitude in the present war.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lahm we're In
stantly killed by a switch engine near
Evergreen Park, H., in view of sew
eral hundred fellow picnickers.
A jury has acquitted c. G. Stafford,
charged with embezzling $3.50 from
the Minnesota Avenue bank of Kan
sas City, Kan.
Government auditors announced
that the value of the bullion and coins
in the Philadelphia MINI aggregated
$3S0,201 .767 at the close of their an
nual inventory.
Atlanta, Ga, was selected as the
1917 convention city for the Interna-
tional Association of Rotary Clubs
over Kansas City and Salt Lake City.
Count Lewis Douglas is dead at
Lysekil Baths, Sweden. He was grand
marshal Of the kingdom and chief OF
the Swedish court.
Joseph Decker, active in chamber Of
commerce work at Valparaiso, Ind,
superintended the digging OF his own
grave, which will be entirely lined
with concrete
1t has been learned that Robert
Bacon, former ambassador to France.
and DR.. A. P. Strong OF the Harvard
medical school left Columbus, N. NJ,
for Gen. Pershing's headquarters in
Mexico.
The Sioux City Daily News has been
sold at auction to Gov. Arthur Capper
of Kansas for $4,000.
A contract has been signed by the
municipality of Bogota, Colombia, and
a New York financial concern under
which Bogota will borrow 100000.
The Germans will commence the
manufacture of synthetic rubber on
large scale next month.
One man was killed, one probably
fatally stabbed and several hurt in
fight between union sympathizers and
employees of the Memphis (Tenn.)
Street Railway Co.
One hundred and sixty laborers at
the Malleable Castings Co., Toledo,
O., struck because of excessive heat.
Four passersby in the street oppo-
site his locksmith shop at Newark, N.
j., were shot and seriously wounded
recently by Salvatore Castronova, So
years old, an inventor, who suddenly
had gone insane, before he set fire to
his clothing and burned to death.
Two Swedish flight lieutenants,
and Krues, were killed at
Stockholm. Their machine fell from
height of 800 feet.
While his mother was hanging the
family washing on fire escape at
Michael Cigian, 20 months
old, toddled out behind her and fell
three floors to the sidewalk and was
killed.
Carl G. Morse and J. 4. Barnes
pleaded guilty before Judge Latshaw
In the criminal court at Kansas City
10 obtaining a motor car under false
pretenses. They were sent up for
three years each.
A naval court Of inquiry into the
Of the naval collier Hector,
abandoned off Charleston, has begun
hearing at the Charleston navy yard.
An executive order was signed by
he president allowing all veterans OF
he civil war in the service Of the fed
sral government leave with pay to at
end the Grand Army encampment at
Kansas City on Aug. rs to Sept. 3.
A dispatch from Constantinople re-
ports that great enthusiasm has been
aroused by the arrival at the Turkish
,apital of German dirigible balloon
If the Schuette-Lanz type.
Coal operators and miners confer.
ing in Kansas City on q twoyear
wage contract for the $4,000 coal min
RS Of Missouri. Arkansas, Oklahoma
md Kansas agreed upon two of the