The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-11-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER THE WORLD.

During political argument at Mag.
dale. n. NJ. four men were killed.
The United Daughters OF the Con-
federacy, al their national convention
in Dallas. Tex. planned a campaign
TO collect and distribute Sos, OO0, 900
levied on the Confederate states by
the Union during the civil war.
Dr. Irwin J. Henry. As, OF Herminie.
Pa, tainted whit drinking water
from a bucket which had been sunk
in the ground TO catch the output Of
= spring and was d~owned.
G. E Earhart OF Dunnegan, patient
at the state hospital in Nevada. Mo,
was killed by another patient, Henry
Willard OF Butteuield The attack
was made while the night watch was
ia another ward
Federal and state mediators have
settled the strike of 1000 messenger
boys employed by the Western Union
Telegraph Co. A wage increase OF
about % per cent was granted and the
boys viii work fewer hours
Schedules of western railroads pro-
posing increases of 10 per cent per
100 pounds in rates on lumber in car
loads from point of origin in Califor-
mia to destinations in eastern Colo
RADIO have been suspended by the in
terstate commerce commission until
March 3. 1917. pending investigation.
1t was officially announced that the
imperial military tribunal has rejected
the appeal of DR.. Carl Liebknecht, the
Socialist leader. from the sentence i'm
posed upon him by the courtmarual
at Berlin.
The American steamer Willapa,
bound for Bluefields from New York,
sank off the Nicaraguan coast, accord
ing TO a cablegram received by her
agents. Capt Charles Johnson and his
crew OF % men were rescued.
Two masked men slipped into the
little town OF OAotots, Canada, cut the
telephone and telegraph wires leading
~ O0LSAQC NONI1 OffA RON C E4 ana
bound the cashier OF the Merchants
bank OF Canada. blew open the safe,
obtained $1,000 in cash and escaped
in an auto.
Application for an earlier hearing
than usual in the case OF Werner, al
legged German officer. held in Boston
in connection with the dynamiting of
the international bridge at Vanceboro.
Me-. in February. 1915. was filed with
the supreme court.
A report was received from Chihua-
hua City that Edgar Koch. German
consular agent at Parral. either was
killed or was being held for ransom
by villa banditSp
Fire in the cell house of the Kansas
state penitentiary at Leavenworth ne
cessitated the removal Of 800 convicts
to another building.
Emil Tomek, "a, Of Chicago. shot
and killed himself and in falling
crushed his daughter Marie. 8, to
death.
The Manchester (Eng) gas depart
ment figures show that the summer
time law decreased the consumption
OF gas between p. 10. and l a. IN. by
143, 000, 900 cubic feet and saved IL 900
tons of coal
Three were killed and II injured |
when an elevator fell four floors at
the plant of the Florsheim Shoe Co..
at Chicago.
OF 5,549 votes cast in 20 Alaska |
towns. 3,512 were for prohibition and |
2,037 against
The motormen and conductors OF |
the Kansas City Street Railways Co. |
will get an increase Of pay on Nov. |
16 OF per cent.
Two directors to army service who |
were given employment as grave dig |
gers by the Sheffield tEng.) authori- |
ties threw up the jobs. saying they OBJ
jected to death in any form.
The order prohibiting the sale OF |
liquor in Dublin after $3.50 o'clock at
night has been extended until Jan. 8.
1917.
"Bigamy is not so serious IN a wom-
an as in a man." is the way the Old
Bailey recorder put it. and he i'm
posed a penalty of only one day in
prison on a guilty woman
Ma,.,,;, uanri Charles de Breteuil. 1