The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-11-17


tired Of receiving campaign letters
that he resigned as a citizen.
Roy Turner, who was arrested in
Denver, pleaded guilty in the district
court at Ellsworth, Kan, to the muir
der of B. M. Bushong at Wilson.
The name of the armored cruiser
Maryland will be changed to Fred
erick on Dec. l, after the city in that
state. One of the four new battle
ships will take the name of Maryland.
Deer Is cheap" was the inscription
over a stock of prime wartime venh
son, which was selling in Leadennail
market, London. at ~ cents pound.
Speaker Champ Clark for president
in 1920 was the slogan sounded in
Washington when his reelection to
congress for the twelfth time was as
sured.
The city council offered a $500 re-
ward for the capture and conviction
of the unknown negro who entered
the homes of two Hannibal business
men, slashed the throat of Miss Ida
Flynn and later cut Miss Margaret
Clayton.
An assassin probably fatally wound
ed DR.. J. A. Kleinschmidt in Aledo,
Ill. DR.. Kleinschmidt said he did not
know who attacked him nor why.
approximately $500 clear Havana
cigarmakers quit work at Tampa,
Fla, joining 1900 who struck for an
increase of SO per 1000 on cigars.
The price of the London Times will
be increased to seven cents Nov. 80,
and other important daily newspapers
probably will follow suit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes
have leased their Washington resi-
dence, at Sixteenth and V streets,
Washington, to Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Lombard of Lugano, Switzerland.
A campaign to raise $1O,O00,OOO for
the relief of Jewish war sufferers will
be inaugurated at a meeting to be
held in Carnegie hall, New York, on
Dec. II.
Schools at Thompson, H.. have been
ordered closed, due to smallpox, and
general vaccination is to be forced,
The United Daughters Of the Con-
federacy, at their national convention
In Dallas, Tex. planaed campaign
to collect and distribute $6S,0O0,OOO
levied ON the Confederate states by
the Union during the civil war.
DR.. Irwin ]. Henry, 46, Of Herminie,
Pa, tainted whit drinking water
from a bucket which had been sunk
in the ground to catch the output Of
q spring and was drowned.
A report was received from Chihua-
hua City that Edgar Koch. German
consular agent at Parral, either was
killed or was being held for iaasom
by villa bandits.
Emil Tomek. "a. OF Chicago, SHOT
and killed himself and In falling
crushed his daughter Marie, 8. to
death.
The Manchester (Eng.) gas depart.
ment figures show that the summer
time law decreased the consumption
Of gas between p. IN. and / a. m. by
IL, 100000 cubic feet and saved 11,eQQ
tons Of coal.
Three were killed and IL injured
when an elevator fell four floors at
the plant of the Florsheim Shoe Co.,
at Chicago.
OF 5,549 votes cast In rs Alaska
towns. s.5I2 were for prohibition and
2 ,0S7 against.
The motormen and conductors Of
The Kansas City Street Railways Co. |
viii get an increase Of pay on Nov.
le OF per cent.
Two directors to army service who
were given employment IS grave dig
gers by the Sheffield (Eng) suthori- !
ties threw up the Jobs. saying they OBJ |
jected to death in any form.
The order prohibiting the sale OF
liquor In Dublin after $50 o'clock at
night has been extended until Jan. ..
1917.
"BIgamy Is not 30 serious in won.
IN as In : man." Is the way the Old !
Bailey recorder put II. ana be i'm
posed q penalty Of only one day in
prison on q guilty woman.
Fire in the cell house Of the Kansas
state penitentiary AZ Leavenvorth ne
cessitated the removal Of 800 ecavict5
to another building.