The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-10-12

Printing Trades association for the
.'ugliest girl" 10 lead the grand march
AT the printers ball Thursday night
has failed thus far.
Because a druggist put too mueh
strychnine in medicine for Cherub, her
pet dog. which died as a result, Mrs.
John Arbuckle of Chicago has brought
suit for $3.50
Three persons are dead as the re-
suit of a collision between an automo-
bile and Big Four train at Paris, III.
The dead are: Mrs. Lena Baber, G.
Il. Baber and Miss Exia Baber.
Escape Of two convicts from the
honor gang" working outside Sing
Sing prison stirred the Mutual Wei
fare league, a convicts' organization,
TO offer rewards of $1O0 each for their
arrest
A German village is being con-
structed by the interned sailors of the
Kronprinz Wilhelm in corner of the
Philadelphia navy yard.
A young French girl has offered TO
sacrifice one OF her eyes 10 restore
sight of her blind soldier fiance. Il
Is possible. scientists say. to graft the
human cornea 20 another cornea.
Mrs. Mary Forge. 10, of New York,
who recently said she felt good for 10
years more of life, is dead as a result
OF the accidental opening of a gas jet
In Ser room.
With third case of infantile pa
ralysis discovered at Webster. Ia,
both central schools were closed.
A Zurich dispatch asserts that the
kaiser has personally appealed to
President Wilson TO end the war. but
that the president has refused TO in
tervene.
Edwin d. Edenborn has just re-
ceived letter which was mailed 10
his father 81 years ago at Willow
Grove, Pa.
After a conference with President
Wilson Henry Ford of Detroit said he
most likely would not contribute to
the Wilson campaign fund.
Adolph Kausal musician, of Chicago,
is d single man because his wife was
so anxious TO hold his love that she
put lore powders in his food and even
in his shoes. Kausal told the judge
the powders ruined his stomach
Mrs. James F. Rogan of New York
say while she was i'll in bed her hus.
band sat around the house and figured
on the disposition of the insurance
money he would get when death
claimed her. She got a divorce.
William Lafferty. Ga years old OF
Burlington, Ia, and Miss Eva L. Wild
er, 10, obtained a marriage license in
Bloomington, Ill.
Masked men supposedly members
of the Dairymen's league, have seized
10000 quarts of milk destined for
New York and dumped it into the
bitches in the Mohawk valley.
Joseph Schultz lost his life for a
dime. He was entertaining spectators
at the new Field museum by sliding
100 feet down rope at 10 cents a
slide when he dropped to the ground.
President Wilson has let it be known
that he will make peace the big issue
in his future speeches.
Corporal George Highbee of the
TTnffad ch nd Iii ~
young wife on the street at Alya, Ok,
and then ended his own life.
Because OF the discovery of a case
of infantile paralysis on John d. Rock
efellers estate at Pocantico Hills, it
is likely the estate will be placed un-
der quarantine.
A boy, the twenty-fourth child. has
been born to Mr.. and Mrs. Patsy De-
Reinso of Waterbury, Conn.
For 80 successive years II. P. Hart
of Roby county. H.. was elected presi-
dent of the Christian County Sunday
School association. At the fifty-fifth
annual convention in Rosemond, H.,
county fellow workers gave him an
automobile.
The war department has ordered the
Thirty-third regiment of infantry and
batteries A and b of the field artillery
of Michigan TO the border.
Senator James p. Clark. 62, OF
Arkansas is dead at his home in Little
Rock of apoplexy.
t. W. NJ. Boone, president of the
American National bank, which failed
at Fort Smith, Ark, was found guilty
on an indictment charging falsifica-
ton.
Alma Sofian, 2 years old, is dead IN
Chicago because her parents rolled her
and tapped her on the back instead of
going for a doctor when a peanut
lodged in her throat.