The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-05-05

Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, noted
Brooklyn pastor, has been sued for
Islander in the sum of $4,000 by his
nephew, Harry M. Hills of Portland,
Ore.
While John H. Busch of Wakefield,
Mass, was picking at souvenir shell
from the battlesbip Maine the shell
exploded and killed him and injured
his young son.
The funeral Of Mrs. John Barr Nc.
Cutcheon, mother of John T. McCutchs
con, the cartoonist the novelist, was
held at Lafayette. Ind.
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Hugo, the tallest man in the world,
Is dead in New York with pneumonia.
He was s feet inches tall.
John Peterson Of New York built
the detachable motorboat Exaspera-
ton in the front room OF his apart
ment. II is 10 feet long and feet
wide. He will launch 1t from his sec
ond-story window.
Two fugitives Joe and Dave Smith,
who resisted arrest by a sheriff's
posse, were slain when they opened
fire on the officers at Murkogee, Ok.
I kill myself because I have
stopped to kiss the degraded woman
who has wrecked my life," wrote
Ralph Lane, 2S, who committed sui
eide at New Orleans.
Fire in the business district Of
Washington, D. c., destroyed the gen.
eral office of the Southern railway.
A robber held up and bound Cashier
A. Walter Koehler of the Copperfield
(Utah) State bank and took $4,000 in
cash.
Billy Sunday has closed HIS eight
weeks campaign in Baltimore, and
among the trail hitters was Home
Run" Baker of the New York Ameri-
can league baseball team.
The Postal Telegraph company was
fined $1,000 in the criminal court in
Butte, Mont, on conviction of trans.
hitting information on which racing
bets were made.
To test the new Florida law making
1t illegal for white persons to teach
negroes, three nuns were placed I'M
der technical arrest. The charges
were brought by several negroes.
Contraband cocaine valued at more
than $4,000 was found in the coal
bunkers of the United States army
transport Logan.
Senator Shafroth Of Colorado made
a strong plea In the senate for action
on woman's suffrage during this SEES
sion.
Military training will be an elective
course next fall at Throop College of
Technology, in California.
A British coal and oil station ia to
be established on Tanning island, an
English possession in the mid-Pacific.
The New York police are searching
for Miss Doris Ponty, Sunday school
teacher, who has been missing from
her home since April 2.
The Japanese government has re-
paid to the American Red Cross 1896
expended last summer for the relief Of
the destitute on the island of Rota, in
the Pacific Ladrone islands.
There were at least 6SS Industrial
accidents in New York state in every
working day from July /, 1914, to Jan.
l. 1915, according to Commissioner
Archer of the state Industrial com.
mission.
The state department was advised
that British Ambassador Spring-Rice
had received an anonymous letter
threatening his life II Sir Roger Case
ment received Ill treatment at the
hands of the British government.
A petition asking the appointment
Of receiver for the Guardian Trust
company, capitalized at s2,5OO,OOO, has
been filed in the Kansas City federal
court by attorneys representing mi
nority stockholders of Chicago.
Scores OF letters have been received
from residents Of Florida at the state
department telling of attempts of al
legged German spies to obtain infor-
nation regarding the coast fortifica-
lions Of the state.
War bread has just appeared on
breakfast tables In Holland for the
first time.
F1urries Of snow fell In central Ten
IS on the 2sth, when the temperature
reached 40 degrees.
The army bin. the first OF the ads
ministration's preparedness measures.
is being revised by the Joint congress
sional conferees.
Fred Bisseil Of Lansing, Kan, who