The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-02-24
NEWS Or THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
weeks News COMBINATIONS Re.
viewed Without comment--All
Nations Find Something TO
edify and Instruct.


edlfy and Instruct.
The military authorities N Canada
have given authorization for the rails.
ing OF an American battalion.
Mayor J. 4. Lightfoot Of Ash Grove,
No, % years old. is dead OF heart
trouble at his home in Ash Grove.
The BRAZILIAN steamer Tropeiro 70
Gently has been purchased by a Brit.
ish company and will be- renamed tho
Edith Cavell. IN memory Of the Eng.
lish nurse executed by the Germans
in Belgium.
s. A. Walden. a Confederate vet
ernn OF Murfreesboro. Tenn. who
wrote that he was co years old, but
not too old TO fight, sent President
Wilson a sword made Of cedar from
the Stone River battlefield. "a eyi.
dence Of his interest In preparedness.
Five Swiss delegates to the Ford
peace conference at stockholm were
named.
An appropriation OF s7s.25O. 900 for
the Prussian state railroads is pro
vlded IN a bill introduced in the Prus
sian diet
Sweden has warned her citizens no,
10 embark on armed merchant YES
sells, the state department was mott
fled.
Mitchell Dallas. q clerk in the Lon.
don home office. pleaded guilty at the
Old Bailey and Joachim AltAni was
found guilty OF oonspiring 10 obtain
money In connection with the issue
Of passports to aliens.
Mrs. Joseph r. Mcdonald, widow OF
Joseph +. Mcdonald. former United
States senator from Indiana, is dead
She WAS so years old.
II is officially stated that the nego.
uAtions by which the Spanish gov.
eminent proposed 10 acquire Austro.
German vessels lnterned In Spanish
ports have ended successfully.
More than 800 students Of the Uni
versity OF Minnesota were ordered
yacclnated. following the discovery
that a junior law student was suffer
ing from smallpox.
San Mateo county. Cal. which for
three years has placed women ON
grand iuries. went bksk to the old or.
der Of things and drow a list Of 30
men.
Corporal Frank J. Harrington. 81
years old. Of the Fourth United States
infantry. was found dead at Fort
Brown, Tex, his body pierced by .
rifle bullet.
More than 100 communities
throughout the country are preparing
to observe Baby week March to II.
Three thousand laborers in the
wire. brass and copper mills Of the
American Brars company. Ansonia,
Conn, are on strike for an increase
In wages
W S Roberts, 80 years old. Of Ma
riettA, o.. fell while carrying two cans
Of nitroglycerin and was blown to
pieces by the explosion which fol
lowed.
New equipment. mostly rolling
stock, 70 cost between 100000 and
100000, mas been ordered by The
Southern Pacific company for use on
the compsnys Pacific system.
Gov. BIlbo Of Mississippi signed a
bill limiting the amount of liquor any
one person may import into the state
to one quart of whisky. "a pints OF
beer or two quarts OF light wine every
10 days.
The reference Of II. J. Tenant, par.
liamentary undorsecretary OF war, TO
Winston Spencer Churchill. rs "Col.
Churchill" In the house OF commons,
"a the first public intimation Of his
promotion.
The Japanese steamer Kenkon Maru
No. IL. from Marseilles 10 Baltimore,
foundered In storm In the Atlantic
About rs stokers at the John A.
Roebllng Sons plant, Trenton. N. j..
refused TO 30 TO work because their
demands for more pay and shorter
hours had been declined. and as a re-
sui; the plant, employing about 5000
men, was closed.
The first call for the married men
who enlisted under the Derby scheme.
the London Daily Mail says, will be
issued in about month.
The body Of Adolph Pegoud. tho
brother OF the celebrated aviator who
was killed in action six months ago,
was found hanging from a tree in the
vicinity OF Versailles.