The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1916-02-04
NEWS NOTES.

LOUISVILLE ana q Orotnef OF aired
Brandeis. of Louisville, was appoint
ed by President Wilson to succeed
Justice Lamar on the Supreme
bench. The choice was q surprise
to the Senate. OF late Mr.. Brandeis.
who lives in Boston. has devoted
much time TO the Zionist movement
1t was the first time a Jew ever had
been named for the Supreme Court
A detachment of United States
marines has been sent to the flooded
Otay Valley. in California. to check
looting. United States cavalry are
patroling Coronado Strand and turn
ing back people from the flooded dis
trict. The Morena dam, guarding
one unit of the San Diego water sys-
TEN, is reported have broken. Tween
" bodies have been recovered in
Hickman, with levees collapsed.
800 people homeless and appealing
for Government and State aid. is
but one of many cities and districts
of the Lower Ohio and Middle Mis-
sissippi Valleys flood stricken as
consequence of the heavy rainfall of
the past several days.
the San Diego district
Senator James, of Kentucky, as
President Wilson's personal repre-
sentative, addressed New York Hun
garians, who adopted resolutions
pledging their loyalty to the United
States. The President sent a tele-
gram expressing confidence in them.
Brig. Gen. Mills, before the Mill
tary Committees, suggested the fed
eraliZation of the militia as a basis
of increase in the army. The Post
Office Appropriation Bill as reproted
to the House provides a substantial
increase for the rural route service.
At least fifty persons are be-
lieved to have been drowned when
the lower dam of the San Diego,
Cal, water system in the Otay Val
ley broke under the heavy pressure
of the flood waters. All wires are
down and the roads are impossible.
The United States has made prep
arations for immediate war so far as
the navy is concerned, but the army
as at present constituted is not large
enough for the duties of peace, Presi-
dent Wilson declared in an address
at the Auditorium in Chicago.
The arrest of five men in connec-
ton with the $4,000 Chicago bank
robbery of Thursday, and the con-
fession of one of the prisoners, was
followed by alleged disclosures that
criminals had been imported into
Chicago to discredit the police.
| In appealing for thrift and econo-
my in helping posterity to bear the
burdens of the present war, Si1
Herbert L. Samuel declared the ma,
tional income was only $4,000.
100000 a year, while the war i:
costing about e 1,80O,000,O00
The L. & N. Railroad Company i!
said to be planning to furnish thr,
fast train service between Louisvill,
and McRoberts, in the far Eastern
Kentucky coal fields near the Vir
ginia border, probably in the mex
sixty days.
At preparedness" banquet o
the Illinois Bankers Association
Chicago, George w. Perkins declared
the people of America are mental,
unprepared, and said the publ
, must be educated.
Apparently pleased with his visi
) to Berlin, where he had conference
with German officials, Col. Edwar
M. House, personal representative O
President Wilson, has. departed TO
Switzerland.
Officials of the du Pont Powde
: Company denied that any of the re
cent fires and explosions at the va
5 deaths and injuries had been cause
by spies.
The British Foreign Office mad
f, public a German note charging tina
French and English soldiers had eS
posed prisoners to German fire. TIL
charges were circumstantially dc
l MED.
l The House Contest Committee re
ported in favor of seating S. {
Dobbs, Democrat, and unseatin
l Uncle Bill" Allen, Republican, {
Clinton and Wayne counties.
The Government report of farl
stock on hand in Kentucky Januar
shows a decrease of 1000 horse
and mules since January /, 1911.
due to the demands of war.
The battleships Texas and w,
~ oming of the Atlantic fleet talked b
wireless telephone to one anothe
/, 1t was the first time this had bee
attempted between ships.
Tho drninict ration Chin pill /