The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-06-22

| iNll merchants AnAN unless upper MIS-
sissippi river cities furnished more
river freight the Sueckfus line OF
steamboats, between St Paul and ST.
Louis would b. abandoned
The house concluded debate on the
fortifioations Sin but deferred a vote
because OF the absence Of many mem.
bsrs az the national cony entionI
German newspapers state that the
British cruiser Hampshire. on which
ord Kitchener and his staff were lost,
WIS sunk by n German submarine.
Announcement was made that VII
liam Marconi will bring out shortly a
new device which should put AN end
10 danger Of collisions between ships
In darkness or log.
The brain OF Dr J William White.
the late professor emeritus uf the Uni.
verslty of PeGAsylNania, weighed 90
l'S ounces. a. compared 70 a. ounoss
the weight Of the average brain.
Members " the Illinois deep water
way commission flied petition for =
writ Of mAndsmus to compel State
Treasurer Andrew Russell and Audi.
tor James J. Brady to pay them their
salaries.
c. A. Phelan, traiRmsster II the Chi
cago division OF the Illinois Central
railroad resigned to become manager
Of the a y n. a. railway at LlSrriseR
Arb.
President Wilson sent 20 the senate
= report u Secretary Lansing ssyinx
that American citizens and their prop
erty In Dublin we're being protected
under International law.
The American Medical association
opened It's si1ty.seyenth annual CON
yeauon In Detroit with thousands %
physicians aud surgeons from all parts
q The world la attendance. Dr. Al
bert Vanderyeer IL pr,sldent
Charles Messsr. barber. who with .
razor slashed and killed Ernest Pitts.
a tailor, in a barber shop in the Wash.
ington hotel, Kansas City. after .
quarrel May 3. has been captured.
Crowds OF civilians have reported
for duty AZ the military training camp
which has opened At Fort sam Hous
ton. Tex. The enrolment is $50.
James Harding. %. OF Sterling. III,
is dead. he was married SIX tunes
and has 81 living descendants.
School and college work will be dis
cussed at the annual meeting OF the
National Education association in New
York July 3
Three federal Judges have upheld
GeorgiA's new prohibition lau in do
cision declaring oonnscated two car.
loads Of whisky seized BY a Georgis
shsrff.
81 have swallowed a toothbrush"
said solomon Garnett 10 friends who
came to see him while he was pa.
tient in the local hospital They be
Aeyed he WIS "jollyug" them. but
after his death a iiye.inch brush was
removed az the autopsy.
The old John A. logan homestead.
Al Benton. H., was destroyed b. lire
The right OF the supreme lodge Of
Knights OF Pythias under its constltu.
ton 70 rerate members in 1910 with a
resulting increase In dues for fourth.
class members was sustained by the
supreme court.
Rainbow Cottage. home ~ 200 lame
children at South Euclid. near Cieve-
land, o., caught fire Aid was sum.
moned from Cleveland All the chill
dren were carried TO safety
A letter from Arthur T. Morey gen.
erai attorney for the Commonwealth
Steel Co, endorsing the workmen 4
compensation bin. wag filed ln the
house by Representative leoe OF ST
Louis
Ollie Cooley. Is years old. Of Bowler.
Mo. married. Mas makus repair. On
a fence and accidentally cut his hand
with a saw blaze. lie died boz threr
days from the effects OF blood poison
ing which set In
John = Mclean's will provides that
all his personal property shall 40 10
his son. Edward % Mclean. and that
upon The latters death the estate shall
pass 10 his children.
a dispatch from Amsterdam says
that Mai Raynal who commanded the
French troops In Fort Vaux. on ths
Verdun front which was compelled 70
surrender has arrived at Malnz. Ger
many, prisoner.
The brotherhood OF Railway Train.
men. At the closing u lts convention