The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-08-04
NEWS 0F 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

I An Order was received by Hous-
ton manufacturing company for 1000
10-gallon kegs Of pickles, or a total of
10000 gallons, for use by the soldiers
on duty along the border.
The nomination of former Gov. Bert
Fernald Of Maine as the Republican
candidate for the United States senate
to succeed the late Edward c. Bur
leigh is assured.
About 500 enlisted men in the Cali
fornia national guard have been
turned down for regular army service
by reason OF physical disabilities.
Panama canal tolls were $4,286,551
less than expenses in the year which
ended May 81.
Resignation of the Okuma cabinet in
Japan is said to be imminent. Mar
shall Terauchi is generally believed to
be slated to succeed Count 0kuma as
premier.
The clocks of Greece have been ad
vanced rs minutes. This was in &C
cordance with decision of the gov
ernment to adopt standard eastern
time instead of sun time.
In a fight at Redfield, s. D., be-
tween band Of 800 members of the
j. w. w. and 200 independents"
three of the former were wounded,
one of them seriously.
James w. Clark, Scott county (Ill.)
commissioner and candidate for coro-
ner, was drowned in the Illinois river
at Glasgow.
The federal governments investiga-
tion into coal trade conditions opened
in Denver before e. N. Hurley, chair
man Of the federal trade commission.
The bodies of Mrs. William Cline
and her son Clark, 22 years old, were
found in the ruins of the Chimes home
near Sheelsburg, la. Mrs. Chimes
skull had been crushed.
Loss estimated at 100000 was
caused by fire which destroyed the
three-story frame warehouse of the
lUneda Storage and Van Co. in New
York.
Warning has been issued to the pub
lie by the department of agriculture to
look with extreme suspicion upon any
preparation offered for sale as being
effective for the treatment of infantile
paralysis.
The army appropriation bill, the
last of the big preparedness measures,
has passed the senate. The bill car
ries appropriations of approximately
$3OS.OOO.OOO.
Six civilians have been executed by
the Germans at Client. charged with
F'war treason"
Organization Of all Of the working
men and women of the United States,
including the systematic collection Of
funds from both employers and EN-
ployes for local anti-tuberculosis cam
paigns, is proposed by the National AS
sociation for the Study and Proven
tion of tuberculosis.
Sheriff Fred ]. Collins of Musketon,
Mich, has taken charge OF his wife
Sarah, whom he will return to Muske-
ton to face a charge of aiding two
prisoners to escape from the county
Jail.
Lieut.. Otto Parschau. recently given
the decoration Of Pour lie Merite for
bringing down his eighth enemy aero
plane, has been killed in an air battle.
Departments Of their plants which
have been closed six months are be
ing opened by Pittsburg dyers. Part
OF the dye cargo of the Deutschland
was consigned here.
Robert E. Pruitt, So years old, Of
Detroit, Mich. climbed to the top Of
an electric sign on the roof of the Ter
minal hotel. at St Louis, 10 feet
above the sidewalk
Thirty.five persons were injured
when Midland Valley train ran into
an open switch at Tulsa, Ok, and
crashed head-on into freight train.
President Wilson has signed the riv
ers and harbors bill, carrying an ap
preparation OF s42.ss6.0s5.
twenty-five thousand employees il
the mechanical division Of the Fort
Motor Car Co, at Detroit, have begur
a two weeks vacation, to end Aug.
William o. Potter. Judge Of the mu
nicipsl court at Marion. H., has with
drawn from the race for the Republic
an nomination for state senator from
the Fiftieth district.
Everod s. Downing, 81 years old.
pioneer in the development OF th'
west. Il dead az the home Of hi
aauahsar IN Kansas City