The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-05-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
:! BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News Condensation Re-
viewed Without comment-Ai
Nations Find Something to
EdIfy and instruct.

Thread and filament Of practical
disable kind can be made from the
stalks of the common lupine, le
gume very plentiful in Germany and
belonging to the alfalfa family.
Reilly M. Smith, former deputy
United States marshal at East st.
Louis, who was convicted Of murder
in the second degree in the Omaha
courts, was released under parole to
his wife.
Plans for the second annual mill
tary training camp for high school
boys at the Culver military academy,
which will be held May 10 to 20, have
been announced. Six hundred boys
from the high schools Of the central
west states will be admitted this year
to the camp, which last year was lin
tied to 200 boys from Indiana.
The trial Of Deputy Sheriffs Johns
and Wiley and Policeman Salazar for
the murder of Mrs. John Savage Bates
was set by Judge Smith for May % at
Tucson, Ariz.
Derailment of a train by crocodile
lying across the tracks near Tela,
Honduras, caused the death of Henry
Kinard Smith, civil engineer, %, sson
of the late Bishop Coke Smith Of the
Southern Methodist church.
British casualties for April are
slightly In excess of those in March.
The total from all fields Of operation
is 1885 officers and 1926 men.
The faculty OF Dartmouth college
has recommended that credit toward
degree be given to undergraduates
who attend military training camp
next summer.
Harry G. Hawker made worlds
altitude record in an aeroplane at
Brooklands, England. Hawker ascend
ed to a height Of 24,40S feet.
George Zeller is in the hospital at
Decatur, ILL.,, from a bullet wound in
flicted by a holdup man.
Winston Churchill was elected pres
ident and Theodore Roosevelt vice
president of the Authors league at
the annual meeting.
From figures furnished by the New
York chamber of commerce, the Brit
ish have lost 1886 merchant vessels
since the beginning Of the war.
Notices were posted in the mills Of
J. & P. Coats, Ltd, thread manufac-
turers at Pawtucket, r. l., announc-
ing an increase of rs per cent in the
wages of $500 employees, effective
May 1.
Miss Martha H. Andrews, mem
Der Of an old New York family, who
died in February, bequeathed the bulk
OF her estate, valued at $1,000, 900. to
religious, educational and charitable
institutions.
Mrs. Julia c. Marsh, whose divorce
proceedings against her husband, For
rest Marsh. an investment broker Of
New York, are in charge Of referee,
committed suicide by inhaling gas. s
May 21 is to be observed by hum
dreds of churches throughout the
country as Humane Sunday"
The week of May 1920 is to be
known as BE Kind to Animals
Week."
Determined to aid in checking the
theft of automobiles in Illinois, the
state board Of pardons has announced
that hereafter such offenders viii be
required to serve the full time Of any
indeterminate sentence.
Bar silver was quoted at TN cents
an ounce, the highest price in almost
a decade.
The Norwegian steamship strom-
macs. bound for Lubbock, Germany,
with . cargo Of herring from Norway,
has been blown up and sunk off Gjed-
ser, Denmark.
The price-cutting war Of the Chi
cage taxicab companies has resulted
In a further reduction OF the rates.
Japanese swordsmiths have received
orders to supply 5000 Of their best
swords to the entente allies.
Pope Benedict has expressed his
disapproval Of the political disturb
ances in southern Ireland and has ca
hled TO Dublin for particulars.
The bank at Alicia, Ark. was robbed
By gypsies. While they engaged the
attention Of the cashier a 7-yearold
girl seized the money and gave Il to =
companion who fed on horseback.