The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-03-31


IN Calcutta for a new hospital for
tropical diseases.
The price OF beer in Austria-Hun-
gary has been raised for the third
time since the war started.
-Four babies were burned to death
last week in = fire In New York
day nursery.
Bodies of the sailors of Admiral
Cervera's fleet who we're captured
during the Standardization war and
died in the naval hospital at Ports.
mouth, N. H.. will be removed to
Spain az a mark of respect to the
Spanish government.
During the mine-sweepiRg practice
by Greek naval vessels in the bay of
Eleusis this week, obstacles we're en-
countered which are Thought to be the
Persian galleys of Xerxes' fleet
Two thousand panes of glass we're
shattered when a mine which drlfted
ashore off Gudhjem exploded.
Military training for boys In the
public schools of Hoboken, N. J., will
begin Immediately.
The house education committee
voted unanimously to take no action
on pending bills to reopen the north
pole controversy. DR.. Frederick A.
Cook asked the committee to investi-
gate his claims.
A romance ended in a Chicago court
when Charles Robinson divorced Val
ala Bernicia Winton Robinson, daugh-
ter of former Mayor o. r. Winton Of
East st. Louis, and heiress to his
100000 estate.
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, editor OF
the Los Angeles Times, is seriously
III with pneumonia.
Mrs. Thomas Nelson and her sister,
Miss Clara Matthews, are dead at vi
emma, Mo-, as a result of poison mys-
teriously administered.
The first submarine strike" on rec
ord has occurred on a Batavier Line
steamship when the crew refused to
sail because the ship was not con-
voyed for protection from submarines.
The Prince of Wales has arrived In
Egypt on appointment as staff cap
tain.
James F, Walker, 81 years old. and
his wife, 60 years old, we're asphyxi-
ated at Springfield, Mo.
Musical instruments az a means of
inspiring sub-normal children soon
will be tried in classes for such chill
dren Of the Chicago public schools.
-
David Lloyd-George, minister of mu-
nitions, speaking in the house of com.
mons, confirmed the report that Japan
had been invited to take part In the
Paris economic conference.
The death sentence imposed upon
Mrs. Ida Ball Warren, the first wom-
an ever sentenced in North Carolina
to die in the electric chair, was COM
mutei to life imprisonment.
Because Of extra expenditures for
the Mexican expedition and the cost
of recruiting the army up to 10000,
Secretary Of War Baker submitted
urgent deficiency estimates of $S,S7O,-
094 to the house.
In telegram sent to President Will
son the Aero Club of America offered
for army use in Mexico two high
power aeroplanes, which the club says
excel in every way the army flying
equipment
Judge Brewer, at Danville, ILL.,, sem
fenced big John" Murphy, alias Wal
ter Murphy, to hang April IA for the
murder of Louis Roumas, Big Four
track laborer, Nov. 9. 1915.
Turkish soldiers have evacuated Err
zingan, according to information re-
ceived here.
Daniel G. Patterson, formerly rail-
road man at Greensboro, N. O., shot
and killed his four children while
they slept and then killed himself. He
is believed to have been temporarily
inrane.
Daniel s. Hoan, Social-Democratic
candidate for mayor of Milwaukee,
leads Mayor Gerhard A. Bading, nom
partisan, by 5,367 votes
James Howard Grace of Ell Paso
and his mother and sister OF Chicago
will receive the bulk of the estate OF
$1,7s0.0 900 Of Edward Grace, according
to the terms of the will Just filed.
Two hundred public schools in the
City of Mexico opened after being
closed since November, owing to the
epidemic of typhus.
Three motor water wagons, said to
be the first ever used By the United
States army, win be in service in the
campaign against villa IN few DAYS.