The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-21
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
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Sixteen hundred tons OF tears ar
rived at New York on the French
steamer Vile Du Havre. The vessels
cargo consisted of Spanish onions.
G. w. Fettes and his brother Peter
were shot and seriously wounded by
two armed robbers who entered their
grocery store at Los Angeles.
American sheep raisers will receive
about $75,OOO,OOO for this years wool
crop. Average prices during June
were 1871 cents a pound, higher than
for many years.
Miss Leona Foster was killed, Rex
Wise's back broken and Clyde Grove
was internally injured when their au-
tomobile, racing with an interurban
car, turned turtle and rolled 40 feet
into the side of dwelling at Webb
City, Mo.
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Gov. Capper of Kansas telegraphed
to the department Of justice an appeal
for clemency for Robert H. Stroud,
sentenced to die July 81 for killing
guard at the Fort Leavenworth prison.
Augustine Chapp, a young Mexican,
angered at the alleged refusal of Julia
Mendez to marry him, went to the
girls home, near Rosita, Tex, shot
and killed her with rifle and then
killed himself.
In common pleas court at Zanes-
vile, O., the divorce case of Howard
Chandler Christy, the artist, against
his wife, Maybelle Christy, was dis
missed upon request of Christy's law
yers.
A nonresident hunting license for
Virginia, the first ever issued in this
state, was sent to President Wilson.
A $40 fee which accompanied the
presidents application was returned.
Walter M. SchiIling, 10. a six.foot
athlete, has announced, in an adver-
tisement at Bayonne, N. j.. that he is
for sale. He will sell himself into
slavery for his keep. u have got to
eat" he declares.
The pope Is continuing his efforts
for peace and with this purpose has
sent instructions to all bishops to de-
vote the last Sunday of the second
year of the war to q general COM
munion of children.
Three Mexican residents of Colum-
bus, N. NJ, have been arrested,
charged with concealing dynamite and
fuses about their houses in violation
of the law.
Charles Rock, As, proprietor of a
woodenware mill in st. Louis, shot
and killed his wife Minnie, AZ, in front
Of their home.
Dining and Longing cars on the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
are to be equipped with soda foun-
tains.
Lieut.. Col. Arthur Hamilton Lee, Sec
rotary to the minister of munitions,
has been created a knight commander
Of the bath.
Betrus Fisher of Pekin, ILL.,, dropped
dead as a result of the heat, which
registered 100
Evelyn Schubert, Is months old, was
drowned in three inches of water In
front of her home in Chicago.
Loss of the American fishing schoon-
er Caviara, owned by Sanders & Co.,
Pensacola, during a storm off the
Mexican coast near Progreso on July
s, was reported to the state depart
| ment.
The house bill appropriating $780,
900 for the relief Of needy American
refugees from Mexico was passed by
the senate.
Rosa Luxembourg, principal editor Of
the Berlin Socialist newspaper, Vor-
waerts. has been arrested at her home
in Berlin.
A park exclusively for women was
established by the Kansas City park
hoard.
Transfers to new posts of IL Ameri-
can consuls IN Europe and elsewhere
were announced by the state depart
ment
-Four cars Of Battery A, Indiana ma
tional guard, were deralled near Straf-
ford. Mo. Damage to equipment was
slight. There were no injuries.
Three young sons Of Ferdinand Eek
els were killed and his wife and two
other small sons were seriously in
iured when little gas plant in Eek.
els hotel at Dorothy, N. J.. exploded.
Wheat Is being threshed at Abilene,
KAN BY electric power. Nine wheat
growers organized an outfit and win
get current.