The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-04-14
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News Condensation Re-
viewed Without Comment--All
Nations Find Something TO
Edlfy and Instruct.

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Edlfy and Instruct.
Miss Elsie Fathers, daughter OF May
or James A. Fathers, and Charles Carr
were killed at South Evansville, is,
when their automobile was struck by
an interurban car.
Ray Biggs of ,Waukesha, Wis, has
placed a piano in the stable back Of
his undertaking establishment at
Waukesha for the sole accommodation
Of his horses.
Andrew Groess of Laclede, Mo, a
grocer, was shot and probably fatally
wounded by William Ausmus, a
farmer.
A motor ambulance unit for the
Russian army, the gift of prominent
Americans, will be formally turned
over to the Russian government.
Mrs. Lillian Dieber and her two
young daughters were suffocated in a
fire which swept the Dieber home in
Detroit.
Five child performers were burned
to death on the stage of the Garrick
theater, at Hereford, England.
A poll of the Republican members
of the New York legislature shows "a
out of 129 favor Hughes for president.
Col. Roosevelt and Senator Root were
hardly mentioned.
Charles Thompson is mining gold in
the back yard of his home in South
Bandon, Ore, following the finding of
three gold nuggets in the craw OF
chicken he cleaned for the family's
dinner.
A big observation balloon which
broke from its moorings at the navy
aviation station, Pensacola, Fla, and
floated away unoccupied, descended at
Argyle, Fla, 100 miles northeast.
Five hundred shell makers in the
plant of the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing company, at Phila-
delphia, are on strike for increased
wages and double pay for Sunday
work and overtime.
Gen. N. /. Ivanoff has retired from
the command of the Russian armies
in volhynia and Galicia.
A bill authorizing the president to
promote Col George A. Dodd to the
grade of brigadier general was intro
duced in congress.
PROBE Menchure, his wife and broth
er-in-law and three children were MUIR
dered at Saskatoon, Canada, their
homes and farm buildings were
burned and their horses and cattle
shot.
Gen. Carranza, head of the de facto
government, issued decree calling
for new issue Of paper money, not
to exceed s50O.0OO,OOO, to substitute
for the present issue,
Lawrence (Kan.) BARRIERS raised the
price of hair cutting to IS cents. Uni
versity Of Kansas students who OBJ
jected were told that the war has
caused raise in prices Of barber sup
plies.
Arthur Thomas of Marion, ILL.,, 80
years old, was killed in a fight and
Brooks Bond, Fl, was arrested. He is
alleged to have killed Thomas with a
blow of his fist.
Benjamin R. Mcclure, lawyer Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was named presiding
bishop of the Reorganized Church Of
Latter Day Saints.
The French government has con-
ferred on Mrs. Edith Wharton, author
ess, the Legion of Honor for her re-
lief work in behalf of French war suf-
ferers.
An Amsterdam dispatch says that
Vice-Admiral Dick, director of the
shipyards department of the German
navy, has been retired on pension.
The German government expropri-
ated coffee. tea and chicory and ap-
pointed commission to regulate their |
The first married men under the |
group system we're called up by the |
British war department. They range
from rs to 80 years of age.
President Wilson plans to occupy |
Shadow Lawn" the summer home in
New Jersey offered him by the people
Of the state.
Military training for pupils in high |
schools in Peoria may become a real
lty as q result Of q resolution author
izine a Doif Of narantal sentimenf Il