The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-11-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER THE WORLD.

have been deported from Ghent.
Fire destroyed the Limoilou Roman
Catholic church. Quebec. with prop
erty loss estimated at $50. 900.
Population OF continental United
States on Jan 1. 1917. viii be l02. $685.
sOs and with its outlying possessions
l1S.30s.2s5.
ExQueen Liloukalani OF Hawaii, re-
Gently i'll. is much improved. accord
ing To passengers arriving from Homo
lulu
Clarence Green and Joe Fleischer.
employed at the Rock Island arsenal.
were drowned in the Mississippi while
crossing in skiff.
Scarcity OF coal is responsible for
shutting down of the street car serv-
Ice at Natchez. Miss. according to Of
ncials OF the power company.
William Winters. Newton Frost and
Raymnod j. Snow shot a deer apiece
on their hunting trip in Berkshire
county. Conn.
bandit entered McDowell's Jew
elry store at Arkansas City. Kan. held
Up the only clerk in the store and
escaped with diamonds valued At
$4,000 after locking the clerk in the
vault
Dewie Hanes, IS years old. of Ar
canum. Drake county. retains his title
as the champion boy corn grower OF
Ohio. His yield this year was better
than 17S bushels to the acre.
The discovery recently OF a new
comet by the Rev. Joel HI. MetcaR Of
Winchester. Mass. is announced By
the Harvard college observatory.
The French minister OF war has in
troduced bill by which all civilians
exempted from military duty or mus
tered out as physically unfit. prior to
April 1. 1916. must submit 10 further
medical examination.
Richard Townsend of Chicago
smoked and read and dozed in bed
Then he was awakened to find his
clothes in flames. Hurriedly he
firemen put him out.
Word comes from Belgium that the
German conquerors OF that Inflated
nation have determined to deport the
entire population of many towns. and
those who object are being sent to
prison.
by sitting on the vent of a gasoline
tank while firemen fought flames in
the galley OF his yacht. Capt. Thomas
Condor OF New York saved the craft
from destruction.
To break him. OF the stone-throwing
habit. Judge Lummus of Lynn. Mass.
has ordered Leonard Croder, 10. to
throw 1000 stones.
Jack London. Al. one OF America
best-known authors. is dead at his
Glen Ellen (Cal) ranch. victim of
uremic poisoning. tie was III only
one day.
William Jennings Bryan has given
up attempting To solve economic prob
lens and hereafter will devote HIM
sell To moral issues.
Watching movie in st. Louis.
Guglielmo Anselmina was so much
overcome by the noble conduct of the
heroine and the embarrassing situa-
ton into which the film led her that
he tainted.
Thomas Thompson. Rockville Qnd-)
grocer. has evolved a method of stop
ping burglars. lie suspended a large
sealed bottle of formaldehyde in his
safe When robbers blew the safe
open the fumes of the formaldehyde
drove Gem away.
An express train near Oak Glen
ILL.,. hit an automobile in which James
Molenear. II. and Orrin Coy. Is. were
riding. The machine was torn to
pieces. but the boys were found cling
Ing To the cowcateher. uninjured.
Chicago divinity students have
struck on the high cost of laundry
work and are now wearing flanne
shirts.
Nj. c. Caudell. Louisville mai
clerk. who saved $1,000 out of his sal
AIRY of 800. has ''pyramided" it int
$4,000 in the wheat market
Kate Mulcahey. who served Mrs
John MeCabe as cook for Al years. h
made Mrs. McCabe's heir in a vii
just probated in Carlyle. ILL., Th'
whole estate Is worth about $500. 900
A German submarine torpedoed thu
Greek steamer Starti All the passen
gers and crew except three have beel
saved
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