The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-11-09


building were not running because OF
lack of fuel.
An additional sl5.O00.O0O in gold
was received by j p. Morgan & Co
from Canada. Total imports from all
sources thus far this year aggregate
$365.OOo.OOO-
Two American ayiators have been
killed near Nancy. according TO dis
patch from that city. II is reported
that the aeropiane containing the
Americans capsized while flying over
Boudonbille plateau.
Ollie Du Brow. a blackface come
dian. shot and probably mortaliy
wounded Leslie Nash. "a years old.
while Nash was at the stage entrance
OF a vaudeville theater in San An
tonic. Tex.
The treasury departments con
science fund" was enriched by con-
tribution of $3.50 from navy seaman
IL was for a bale of serge taken by
the seaman when he left his ship in
New York in 1904.
An earthquake of almost two hours
duration and quite severe was dis
closed on the Georgetown university
seismograph records. It's center was
$500 miles from Washington
The navy department has awarded
a contract for the construction OF
drydock for dreadnaughts at the Nor
folk (va.) naval station TO the George
City for s2.412.594-
Mr. and Mrs. H. o. Walsh OF Kens-
more. o.. were burned TO death in the
wreck OF their car when IL overturned
while being run at high speed near
Drakesburg.
Hewitt III. Langsdaie. chairman Of
the Easton (Md.) utilities commission.
was shot and killed in his office by
ported as accidental. but young Langs-
dale was lodged in JAIL
approximately 250.O0o automobile
licenses have been issued by the Of
flee of the secretary of state of ILL
nois since jan l. This Is 10000 more
than were issued during the entire
year of 1915
The treasurer of Contracosta coun-
ty. ILL.,. received from the Charles
Hardness estate s594.11S Inheritance
tax. The property left was Standard
Oil stocks. and a brother. Edward
Hardness OF New York. was sole bene
ficiary.
There is one private soldier at the
front whose life Is safeguarded by
every officer in his regiment This
soldier is a genius" a paper says.
Before he was called unbe used to
mix drinks at one of the best-knowr
cafes in Picadilly."
A number of women, believed to be
members of the Mrs. Pankhurst's So
cial and Political union. participated
in a disturbance in Whitehall street.
London. They smashed several win
dows with bricks on which they had
written Down With Gray"
Chicago robbers left no finger
prints in looting the safe of Z. II.
Koop x Co. of $1,000. They wore
gloves except when handling the ex-
plosive. when they used paper. and
made IL valueless to the finger-print
experts by rolling. crinkling it up
The Oakland club of the Pacific
Coast league has been sued for $4,000
damages by Miss Beatrice Silva. who
alleges in her complaint that foul
ball broke her nose and blackened
her eye.
Elmer Carlson. Is years old, boy
leader OF Chicago band of hold-up
men and burglars. stepped in front of
a bullet intended for the man he and
his associates intended to rob and
was killed.
The Berlin National Zeitung asserts
that the submarine liner Deutschland
at the end of August began her sec
ond transatlantic voyage under the
name of Weser. but that she failed TO
arrive In America The U-53. the pa
per says. has searched vainly for the
Deutschland
John Lowe. 40 years old. a well-to-
do farmer of Pana, H.. was shot in
the ankle by boy whom he ordered
off his farm. where he was hunting.
and died of gangrene.
A proposal has been made by the
Russian minister of finance to re-
place medals and decorations made OF
gold and silver by others of less VAL
liable metals. In 1915 gold and silver
of value Of over $2.500.000 we're
used for these purposes.
Henry Hole. aged 20. 6I5 feet tall.
son of August Hole of New Salen. N.
d.. was taken off the train by the po-
lice after he had run away from
home because his father had gwen
him whipping. Hole returned h.