The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-11-10
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--AlI
Nations Find Something to
Edlfy and instruct.

War has been declared by the Moth.
ers' club of Beloit, Wis, on the short
skirts, silk stockings and low-cut
waists for high school girls. Club
women declare that high school girls
spend too much time in improving
their clothes and not enough time in
improving their minds.
The body OF young man with bull
let holes in both arms, breast, stoln-
ach and forehead was found on the
bank of Rock river, near GAINESVILLE,
Wis.
The Missouri troops remaining on
the border, who will be sent home
prior to April 1, will be mustered out
there, according to orders received by
Col. Rivers. post commander.
The food situation has become so
serious in Dusseldorf, Germany, that
1900 persons are daily fed In the
municipal kitchens.
Newsboys in st. Louis had vision
of the silver-paved streets OF heaven
when Harry Delano, bank messen.
ger, returning from the sub-treasury
with $1,000 worth of new "battle-ax"
dimes stumbled at a street corner.
The bag fell from the boys shoulder,
burst and covered the street with
dimes.
Two young sisters and a married
man were killed and a second man
was badly injured in joyrlde auto
wreck in Minneapolis, MINI.
The big oil and gas field southwest
Of Arkansas City, Kan. was illuminat-
ed for miles around from the burning
of a monster gasser on the Gypsy
lease which caught fire from short
wire circuit.
Lassen Peak has begun sponting,
belching mighty balls of black smoke
at intervals of from to 10 minutes.
Two suffragettes were arrested
while hurting stones through windows
OF the home office and the colonial
office in Whitehall. England. The
stones bore such inscriptions as
Down With Grey" Down With Hal
dane" and "Roumania Must Not Be
Sacrificed"
The stork visited Mrs. Matte
Stokes Adams in her cell in Macon,
Ca, and as result her trial ON the
charge of killing Capt. E. e. Spratling
Of the Fifth Georgia infantry last sum
mer will be postponed.
Daniel Tolston was shot and killed by
Sam Payne, town marshal of Walnut
Ridge, Ark because he persisted in let
ting his COW run in the streets in vio-
lation of an ordiI e. The men quar-
relied and Payne began shooting.
Two girls were probably fatally hurt
and IL other school children injured
when a car crashed into school hack
at Como, Ind.
Mrs. Charles Carter of Wharton's
Bend, Ala. led her daughter, 8. and
her son, 5, to the Coosa river, threw
the children iAto the water and then
jumped in. The boy saved himself,
but the girl and her mother we're
drowned.
DIR. G. r. Servin, a natnralized
American. was arrested. charged with
conspiracy TO export arms to the rev.
olutionists in Mexico. Warrants also
were issued for several other persons.
Arms and ammunition were seized by
the authorities.
Waldo E. Gilbert. lawyer of SYRIA
cuse. N. Y, was shot twice in his Of
flee by man believed to be an irate
client, who escaped after the shooting.
AS result of q smallpox epidemic
all the public and parochial schools In
Savannah, Ill. were closed.
Capt Leroy Eltinge OF the United
States army was directed by the war
department to expunge from the book
he has recently written statements
that Jews were regarded as highly
Objectionable" by the department.
Brig. Gen. c. A. Devol was retired
a his own request with the rank Of .
major general The advance OF one
grade is given to all officers who
served more than three years In the
Panama canal zone.
President Wilson has committed the
sentence Of dismissal from the army
imposed by courtmartial In Hawaii
upon Capt John B. II. waring. medi-
cal corps, 10 q loss Of Is numbers.
The Bergen county IN. j. board OF
elections has allowed William All
Sing. = chinaman born In San Fran
cisco. to register.
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