The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-02-11

Coal company.
Manuel Medinavietia, former chief
of staff to Francisco villa at Juarez,
was admitted to the United States by
immigration authorities after a three
days hearing.
The American steamship Ausable.
from Galveston for Esbjerg, Denmark,
taken into Kirkwall Jan. IA, has been
released.
A fall of IL inches killed Andrew
Myers at Terrell, Tex. He was alight-
Ing from his automobile when mis-
step threw him to the ground, break.
ing his neck
The department of internal reve-
nue. announced that total taxes for
the six months ending with Decem-
ber 1915, amounted to sos, 800, 008,
an increase of S32,017712.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
been compelled to interrupt her trip
in the flooded regions, owing to an
attack OF mumps.
One hundred soldiers were killed by
the wrecking of a German ammuni
ton train en- route from Lide to Smor-
gen.
NJ Longuet, a French Socialist dep
uty, who addressed the British labor
conference, on being questioned re-
garding the French losses said that
100000 soldiers had been killed,
100000 wounded and 100000 had
been taken prisoners.
The extraordinary raipdity with
which the United States supreme
court has progressed during its pres
ent term has resulted in the court
being forced to take an indefinite ad-
journment.
The two American soldiers who
swan across the Rio Grande and
were captured by armed Mexicans
have been delivered to the United
States authorities.
AT meeting here IS Nebraska
leaders of the Progressive party de-
cided to nominate full state, con-
gressional and presidential electoral
ticket.
Charles Douglass, a negro held in
the Greensburg, Pa, Jail under SEN
tence of death, attacked his guard and
beat him into insensibility. He then
took the keys and escaped with two
other prisoners.
The United States has notified
Great Britain of its objection to the
application of the trading with the
enemy act in manner affecting
American trade.
The 700 employees OF the Davis &
Furber Machine company of North
Andover, Mass, who struck last week
for an advance In wages, voted to ac-
cept the companys offer of 10 per
cent increase.
Fifty funerals waited at the gates
of Calvary cemetery, New York,
while cemetery officials settled a
strike of 300 grave-diggers.
The split in Danville, ILL.,, over the
wet and dry issue was overshadowed
by the city council in passing unani-
mously an ordinance for a bond issue
of $250,000 to erect municipal light
plant.
SUPERINTENDENT BREASTED of the
navy told the house naval committee
that he had recently searched the
country in vain for 100 ounces of
| quinine for the American marines at
Haiti, and that he had to pay "a an.
ounce for it instead Of the customary
| 30 cents.
Payments on the third German war
loan have been completed, the last
installment having been due Jan. %.
The total was 12,160,OOO,OOO marks
| ($3,O4O, 900, OOO).
Aviator Burnside at Ithaca, N. Y,
averaged IS miles an hour in making
speed trials in Thomas aeroplane
built especially for government use.
A Liverpool message to the Elk.
change Telegraph company gives a
report that the Dominion liner Morse
man has been sunk.
The Belgian Count de Prelles de la
Nieppe has been arrested at the in
stance of the Belgian authorities at
Calais, charged with frauds involving
several million francs.
A. C. Lowther, tax collector and
city clerk of Wsycross, Ga, in let
ter to Mayor Beaton, has confessed
he is short approximately $1,000.
BY vote Of Isl to 81 congress
passed the Shackleford bill authoriz-
ing an appropriation by the federal
government of s25.O0OOOo to aid the