The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-28
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation Of Weeks News Re
viewed Without comment-All
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.

S. H. B. Mueller of Quincy met
death by drowning at Hannibal, Mo.
William o. Potter, Judge OF the mu-
nicipal court at Marion, ILL.,, has with.
drawn from the race for the Republic
an nomination for state senator from
the Fiftieth district.
Judge and Mrs. H. A. Miller of Leb-
anon, ILL.,, celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary.
Anthony, Jr., the 1S-month-old son
of Anthony Tell, choked to death on a
stick of candy at the home of his par
ents on the South Side at Chicago.
Sergius Sazonoff. Russian minister
of foreign affairs, has resigned. He is
succeeded by Boris Vladismirovltch
Sturmer, the premier, who has taken
over the office.
Negotiations have been completed
between the United States and Den
mark for the purchase Of the Danish
West Indies. The United States, 1t is
said, will pay s25,OOO,OOO for the is
lands.
William Sulzer, former governor OF
New York. has ANNOUNCED that he had
agreed to accept the presidential NOM
ination of the new American party,
which holds its first national conven-
ton in Minneapolis next Tuesday.
Seven hundred miners employed by
the American Bauxite Co. at Bauxite,
Ark, have struck for the second time
within month.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the Eng
lish suffragist leader, who since Jan.
is has been touring this country in
the interest of destitute Servians, has
left in the steamship Saxonia for Liv-
erpool.
A few hours after Mrs. Vesta Davis,
wife of Maj. Henry c. Davis of the
United States marine corps, had sub
mitted to a dental operation she died
in hospital Of blood poisoning.
Two British prisoners have been
killed by guards In a riot in work
shops near the detention camp in
Berlin.
A Zeppelin airship which raided
Riga was hit by shells from Russian
guns and wrecked.
]. G. Jackson of Danville, a negro,
is in jail here following his arrest on
a warrant charging he collected funds
for "the white horse army manual
training Industrial school and or
phans' home" at Danville, a mythical
institution.
Miss Alice Mazerky, former Chi
cago social settlement worker, will
not be executed for high treason in |
Austria, the state department has an
The body of Charles MARCEL Of New |
York, who. with James H. Hurry, also |
of New York, left In a canoe early in |
June for Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, was |
found on the shore OF Albany Island,
near here.
Officers Of the Rosiclare and the |
Fairyiew Spar mines at Rosiclare, ILL.,,
closed their plants indefinitely as a
result Of strike and resultant vio-
lence.
The fleet OF deep sea treasure hunt
Ing ships which will seek to recover
the million dollars worth of silver
bullion aboard the sunken Spanish
steamer Merida put into Newport
News for repairs.
Leo Palace, 2 years old, at Joliet,
H., was attacked by a rooster which
be was trying to chase and as a re-
suit is in a serious condition. The
rooster turned on him and pecked him
In the head, rendering him uncon-
scious.
An American four-masted schooner,
laden with petroleum, and
.hree Swedish steamers laden with
pulp have been captured by German
.orpedo boats and taken into Swine
nunde.
Five policemen. answering a hurry
all in Kansas City. Kan. were in
ured when a front spring OF their au-
.orobile, running at high speed. col
apsed.
Six men were injured when dyna-
mite bomb exploded in a steam roller
n Chicago. Labor trouble is blamed
or the explosion
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The American tank ship Gold Shell,
which struck q mine off the mouth Of
he Gironde. en- route from Newport
News to Bordeaux. was found not TO
lave been badly damaged II
Abram Elkus OF New YORK was nom