The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-02-18
NEWS Of 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-An
Nations Find Something. to
Edlfy and instruct.

Lindley NJ. Garrison, former secre-
tary of war, said that when his sue
cessOr was appointed he would help
the new secretary become acquainted
with his duties.
Marjorie Sterrett, the Brooklyn girl
who started a contribution to build
battleship for the United States navy,
has received letter from Josephus
Daniels, returning her 1O-cent contri.
button.
Miss Nora Evans, 55, and Levi
Walker, 70, retired farmer OF Pana,
ILL.,, were secretly married in Spring
| field, Ill.
Jewelry valued at $4,000 was stolen
from the travelling case of Ira Rosen.
travelling for Buffalo, N. Y, con-
Germ.
A jury at Princeton, Ind, brought
in verdict of life sentence against
Bert Hope, charged with killing his
aged mother, rs, Nov. 5.
| About rs st0keFs at the John A.
Roebling Sons plant, Trenton, N. j.,
refused to go to work because their
demands for more pay and shorter
hours had been declined, and as re-
suit the plant, employing about 5000
men, was closed.
Crossed wires caused a $4,000 fire
in the forge department of the Can
ada Car and Foundry company, at
Montreal.
The Kansas oil inspection fee law
was held TO be unconstitutional by the
Kansas supreme court because the
fees are in excess of the amount nee
essary to pay for the inspection.
William Huss, young farmer of
Danbury, Ia, is dead as the result of
being shot by his wife with a shotgun
she believed to be empty.
The new flood control committee of
the house left for weeks tour of in.
spection in the Mississippi flood dis
trict. They will go first to Cairo and
will proceed through the flooded area
by boat.
Marvin Harris, a negro, accused of
killing an aged farmer, was lynched
near Macon, Ga.
A joint resolution authorizing the
submission of a woman suffrage
amendment to the state constitution
was adopted by the Oklahoma house
of representatives.
Miss Hazel Scott, who has been liv-
ing in Des Moines several months, was
arrested and will be taken back to
Princeton, Mo-, to face charge Of
having murdered her baby.
Shipments Of liquor from outside the
state to any person in Mississippi will
be limited to one quart of whisky and
"a pints of beer each is days if the
house concurs in the senate bill
Newspapers report that the Russian
government has decided to issue a
new loan of 2,OOO,OOO,OOO rubles at 5
per cent.
President Wilson has commuted to
two years the fiveyear sentence of w.
P. Phillips, an officer of the Vinita
(0k) National bank, for making false
entries in report to the comptroller
of the currency.
A resolution to authorize President
Wilson to negotiate with Mexico for
the purchase Of Lower California was
presented to the house by Representa-
tive Randall Of California.
Frederick w. Jordan, formerly a
member of Company E of the First
Missouri Engineers in the Civil War,
is dead at the national military home,
Danville, III.
The first snow of the season fell in
Paris Feb. 10.
The scarcity of rubber elastic has
caused all the garter and suspender
factories In Austria Hungary to close
down, as well as most OF those in Ger.
many.
The English board Of trade Is tax
Ing steps to mobilize a sufficient num-
Der of women to work the land in or.
der to meet. the shortage Of agricul.
tural labor.
The senate has passed the bill al
lowing senators and congressman to
appoint three naval cadets instead of
two.
Announcement Of a 8 per cent in
crease In wages for its 1000 en-
ployes was made by the American
Iron and Steel Manufacturing com
pany at Lebanon. Pa.
A string Of pearls said BY New York
newspapers TO be worth $1,000. 600 and
rnufaf~frw "a cara. ,.-,r $1,000 .a.M-