The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-11-02

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by q fall from q ladder while doing
rescue work
United States mail will be carried
from Chicago 10 New York by aero
plane, it was announced
A. ]. Johnson, who shot and killed
a street car conductor in Jasper coun-
" and who Was secretly brought 10
the Barton county Jail, tried to XII
himself in his cell BY eating ground
glass and drinking a disinfectant- His
condition is serious
The three-story colonial residence
on the Hayfieid farm. in Fairfax coun-
ty. Va, which was built in 1772 by
George Washington, was destroyed by
fire.
The semiannual meeting of the
board of bishops of the Methodist
church, the administrative body OF the
denomination. opened in Minneapolis.
Mimi. and will continue in session for
a week
Twenty Chicago firemen were over
come in a fire in large grocery and
meat house on Madison street. in the
loop district The loss is placed at
more than $4,000.
worker in a London munition fac
tory on whom one match was found
was fined IS or IA days at Gloucester.
Louis Horowitz, whose hair was
burned off while he was getting a
crude oil" shampoo in New York
City. charged the barber with assault
Magistrate Corrigan. however, ruled
that Horowitz was not assaulted
Convicted OF selling liquor. VIII
Bishop of Atlanta. Ga. asked for a
new trial on the ground that he Is
blind and could not see the witnesses
against him or gather evidence in re-
buttal The court sustained the sen
tence.
What this country needs Is more
pennies. according to the treasury de
partment To this end the Philadel
phia and San Francisco minis are
working "a hours a day and the Den
yer mint 10 hours day to turn them
out.
Loss of a part of the central Illinois
corn crop is now threatened through
an unprecedented shortage of farm
hands. The husking crews which
usually flock from Indiana. Kentuck,
and southern Illinois into the corr
fields at harvest time are missing.
| Students of the Atlanta (Ga.) schoO
for the deaf will receive military train
1 ing. Commands will be conveyed b.
signs
| Circuit Judge w. NJ. Reed called
special session of the grand jury u
investigate the lynching OF two ne
groes in Paducah. KY.
Detectives Finan and Reilly Of Ne,
York arrested James A Brown. b
neved to be one of the principals i
the Matchmaking gang.
A German light cruiser has been TOT
pedoed by British submarine Tn
Gil AthhoAlct oAAc1c
Sir Joseph Beecham, the pater
medicine manufacturer, was foun
dead in his bed at Hampstead.
Eighteen men lost their lives in
explosion in the Roden (Ala-) CO;
mine.
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l. Edward Hines were drowned whe
the vessel was sunk in the Caribbea
, sea 40 miles east of Belize. BIRTHS
Honduras.
Ii is reported that Dr. Bull hassbee
sentenced in Belgium to six years c
the charge of treason DIR. Bull wa
charged with having provided funs
3 for Miss Edith Cavell.
8 Fort Yellowstone army post has bee
3 closed and the troops stationed the
{ ordered to the border.
Chief of Police Charles c. Healy
Z Chicago was indicted by the Octob
p grand jury on q charge Of malfea
3 ance.
A banquet was given in London f
the American commission for relief
Belgium. in celebrating the second a
niversary OF the beginning of Il
D work.
= The Alaskan engineering comm
A sion Is now employing a force of 5
men and "a station men in the rejuv
nation of the Alaska Northern railws
Juarez reports that 500 Villistas
a gagged 1000 Carranzistas in battle ne
chihuahua City and the de facto M
were utterly routed and their CO.
mander slain
: Panama canal authorities have ju
completed and opened to public use
vast drydock at Balboa The new dI
y dock is 1000 feet long and ITO fe
wide.