The Bolivar County Democrat., 1916-06-17
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
>IAPP sNiNes IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
CONDENSATION Of Weeks News Re.
viewed Without Comment-AlI
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.

NeWeo Wi1nout Comment-AlI
Nations Find Something to
sdify and Instruct.
statement from the German ad-
miralty says that in May Sc vessels
flying the flag OF the entente nations.
with an aggregate tonnage of 11S.5OO.
were destroyed.
letter from Arthur T. Morey, gen
eral attorney for the Commonwealth
Steel Co, endorsing the workmen's S
compensation bill, was filed in the
house by Representative Igoe of St.
Louis.
Police Commissioner Arthur Woods
of New York City was married to Miss
Helen Morgan Hamilton, granddaugh-
ter of the late j. Pierpont Morgan.
Il have swallowed a toothbrush" !"
said Solomon Garnett to friends who
came to see him while he was a pa
tient in the local hospital. They be-
lieved he was "jollying" them, but
after his death five-inch brush was
removed at the autopsy.
Ollie Cooley, 2S years old, of Bevier,
No, married, was making repairs on
fence and accidentally cut his hand
with a saw blade. He died in three
days from the effects of blood poison
ing which set in.
A dispatch from Amsterdam says
that Maj. Raynal, who commanded the
French troops in Fort Vaux, on the
Verdun front, which was compelled to
surrender, has arrived at Mainz, Ger
many, a prisoner.
1t cost the suffragists of the coun-
try 100000 to get a suffrage plank in
the Republican and Progressive party
platforms That is the estimate given
out by the parade committee
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, at the closing of its convention
in Detroit, chose San Antonio, Tex,
for its next convention, which will be
held in 1919.
Walter S. Halliwell of Kansas City
carries box of pet bees with him
wherever he goes. Every day one Of
these bees obligingly stings Halliwell.
He says this has cured him of rheuma-
tism.
Francis Long, Indian fighter, eX-
plorer and official weather forecaster
in New York for many years, is dead
at his home after a stroke of apo
plexy.
Exports of the United States in
April were $399,000,000 and imports
100000, as compared with ex-
ports in April, 1915, of 294,000,000
and imports of $l6O.00O,O0o.
John Grant Lyman of New York
was sentenced to 18 months in the
Atlanta penitentiary after his convic-
ton on the charge Of using the mails
to defraud.
There have been no funerals in Liv-
erpool for two days, due to strike of
the undertakers assistants.
Preparations are being made to re-
move the Greek government from Ath-
ems to Larissa.
Lieut. r. c. Sufley, U. S. N, was
killed when his aeroplane fell 5000
feet, landing on Santa Rosa Island,
Fla.
Mrs. Arthur Stors and Mrs. Edith
Bartlett of Omaha were killed and
Mrs. Nellie Hart and Miss Lillian Jen-
sen, the latter of Audubon, were fatal
ly injured when train hit their auto
at Council Bluffs.
Smoking cigarettes as they mount
ed the scaffold, two of the Mexican
bandits who rode with Villa in the
Columbus massacre paid for the crime
with their lives at Deming, N. M.
Five thousand potters returned to
work in the tableware potteries at
East Liverpool.
The steamship Denmark has been
chartered to go to the relief of Donald
B. MacMillan's Crocker Land expedi-
ton.
Charged with refusing to call doc
tor at childbirth, Luther M. Ivy, 20,
of Paducah, KY, was arrested on
warrant sworn out by his father-in-
law.
Two thousand union longshoremen
at Boston have been granted wage in
creases averaging more than rs per
cent
Splash week" will be observed in
New York from July 3 to 10, when
school children will be given unusual
opportunities to learn how to swim.
Jonas Walter Aylsworth, AZ, chem
ist and inventor of the microscopic
device for the X-ray, for 26 years as
sociated with Thomas A. Edison, is
dead at his home.
Mrs. Claude Grahame White, former
ly Miss Dorothy Taylor of New York,