The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-10-06
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
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For 80 successive years H. P. Hart
OF Roby county, ILL.,, 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.
Corporal George Highbee Of the
United States army shot and killed his
young wife on the street at Alva, Ok,
and then ended his own life.
James ]. Drakeford, United States
internal revenue agent for the Spring
field district of Illinois, has been APP
pointed internal revenue agent for the
entire state Of Texas.
Emperor Lidji Jeassu Of Abyssinia
has been deposed at Adds Ababa. Lid
il is 20 years old and a grandson OF
Emperor Menelik.
Both houses OF the Danish parlia.
ment passed the bill providing for
plebicite on the sale OF the Danish
West Indies to the United States.
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.
Confidential reports reaching Wash
ington from official sources tell of
widespread distrust of Japanese trade
methods.
Temporary insanity induced by the
bite OF scorpion is believed to have
caused the suicide OF Sergt. William
Santee OF company X, Third New
York infantry.
Because OF the discovery OF case
OF infantile paralysis on John D. Rock
efeller's estate at Pocantico Hills, II
Is likely the estate will be placed I'M
der quarantine.
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.
Two of three negroes charged with
numbering deputy sheriff who
sought to prevent Jail delivery were
lynched at Nowata, Ok.
The smallest public school in the
world, at ely, Pa, containing desk
room for IL pupils. is seeking teach
er. This year only two pupils will at
tend.
Charles Fixmer was S25 ahead when
he left Chicago dice game. AS he
departed two hold.up men relieved
him Of the money.
Arthur Carter, negro chauffeur,
ran down four little girls in Argsnta,
Ark, killing one Of them.
Mrs. Annie Smith, rs years old, is
in jail at Nashville. Ark, charged with
murder, and her husband, John Smith,
is detained as an accessory, following
the killing Of C. s. Ledford, 80 years
old.
Practical tests. designed to show
the individual efficiency of naval Of
ficers qualifying for promotion, are to
supersede the old system OF written
examinations.
Palmer Bosworth, IA years old, Of
Tampa, Fla, is dead Of injuries re-
ceiyed during football game.
Legal time in Great Britain was put
back one hour, beginning at a. m.
Oct. /.
Branches OF the Deutsche Asiatic
bank at Yokohama and Kobe have
been closed and are now under guard
of Japanese soldiers.
The United States submarine LII
was launched at Long Beach, Cal, by
the California shipbuilding Co.
Allen o. Tomlinson, an official of
the Tomhnson Chair Co. Of Pine
Ridge. s. c., was found shot to death
in his room in a Chicago hotel.
Robert Augustus Hemingway, promi-
nent in Chicago society circles, was
killed in a fall from a yacht at Sara
sofa, Fla.
The cost OF woman's clothes was
given as the reason why several NIL
lion men don't get married by Rev.
Franklin w. Swift Of the GaliIee Bap-
fist church, Chicago.
The price OF flour is now at the
highest level since the civil war.
Standard patents bring Ss1O a barrel,
an increase Of s. over a year ago.
DR.. Wellington Koo. minister 10 the
United States. has sent his resigna-
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