The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-11-10

brought squarely home to the inter
state commerce commission when the
members found the elevators in their
building were not running because of
lack Of fuel.
An additional $15,O0O,OOO in gold
was received by ]. P. Morgan & Co.
from Canada. Total imports from all
sources thus far this year aggregate
1866, 100000.
Two American aviators have been
killed near Nancy, according to dis
patch from that city. II is reported
that the aeroplane containing the
Americans capsized while flying over
Boudonbille plateau.
Ollie Du Brow, blackface come
dian, shot and probably MORALLY
wounded Leslie Nash, "a years old,
while Nash was at the stage entrance
OF a vaudeville theater in San An
tonic, Tex.
The treasury departments con
science fund" was enriched by con-
tribution of 1920 from a navy seaman
1t was for bale of serge taken by
the seaman when he left his ship in
New York in 1904.
An earthquake Of almost two hours
duration and quite severe was dis
closed on the Georgetown university
seismograph records. Its center was
$500 miles from Washington.
The navy department has awarded
a contract for the construction of a
drydock for dreadnaughts at the Nor
folk (va.) naval station to the George
Leary Construction Co. of New York
City for $2.412.5S4.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Walsh of Kens-
more, o., were burned to death in the
wreck of their car when IL overturned
while being run at high speed near
Drakesburg.
Hewitt H. Langsdale, chairman of
the Easton (Md.) utilities commission,
was shot and killed in his office by
his son Bryan. The shooting was re-
ported as accidental, but young Langs-
dale was lodged in Jail.
Approximately 100000 automobile
licenses have been issued by the Of
flee of the secretary of state of ILL
nois since Jan. /. This is 10000 more
than were issued during the entire
year of 1915.
The treasurer of Contracosta coun-
ty. ILL.,, received from the Charles
Hardness estate $594,11S inheritance
tax. The property left was Standard
Oil stocks, and a brother, Edward
Hardness of New York, was sole bene-
ficlary.
There is one private soldier at the
front whose life is safeguarded by
every officer in his regiment This
soldier is genius" a paper says.
Before he was called up he used to
mix drinks at one of the bestknown
cafes in Picadilly."
A number of women, believed to be
members of the Mrs. Pankhurst's So
cial and Political union, participated
in disturbance in Whitehall street
London. They smashed several win.
dows with bricks on which they had
written Down With Gray"
Chicago robbers left no finger
prints in looting the safe of E. H.
Koop & Co, of $1,000. They wore
gloves except when handling the ex.
plosive, when they used paper, and
made it valueless to the finger-print
experts by rolling. crinkling it up.
The Oakland club of the Pacific
Coast league has been sued for $10, 00D
damages by Miss Beatrice Silva, who
alleges in her complaint that a foul
ball broke her nose and blackened
her eye
Elmer Carlson, Is years old, boy
leader of a Chicago band of hold-up
men and burglars. stepped in front OF
bullet intended for the man he and
his associates intended to rob and
was killed.
The Berlin National Zeitung asserts
that the submarine liner Deutschland
at the end of August began her sec.
ond transatlantic voyage under the
name of Weser, but that she failed to
arrive in America. The U-5S, the pa.
per says. has searched vainly for the
Deutschland.
John Lowe. 40 years old. a well-to-
do farmer OF Pana, ILL.,, was shot in
the ankle by a boy whom he ordered
off his farm. where he was hunting,
and died Of gangrene.
A proposal has been made by the
Russian minister Of finance to re-
place medals and decorations made OF
gold and silver by others of less val
liable metals. In 1915 gold and silver
of a value Of over s2,500,00O were
used for these purposes.
Henry Hole. aged 20. 81 feet tall.
son of August HOLE of New Salem. N.
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