The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-09-07


officials.
Harry Lima, New York chauffeur,
cranked his automobile and lmmedi-
ately it jumped onto sidewalk and
killed Hyman Siiverblatt. a pedes-
trian.
About $1,000 900 worth of the J. p
Morgan art treasure have been taken
to Hartford. Conn
John Muller, a youth arrested at
Palatka, Fla, accused OF killing his
father and mother. is said to have
confessed.
One dead, two dying and several
seriously burned is the toll taken by
a fire which swept the three-story
Romeo Apartments.
While Thomas Bambrick. one OF
the three men sentenced 10 die in
the electric chair at Sing Sing, re-
joiced in a two weeks reprieve, Joe
L. Hanel and Jan Trybuss went TO
their death.
Hereafter the employment of chill.
dren under IA years in mills and fac
tories in Alabama is forbidden.
Child labor laws. enacted by the last
legislature, have just become ef.
tective.
In spite of the fact that Georgia
is a dry state. A c. Blalock, col.
81 L..
s41.i11 collected from persons manu-.
featuring or dealing in wines and fer
mented liquors.
Skookum Jim Madon. the Indian
discoverer of the Klondike gold fields,
died in poverty recently at Carcross,
Yukon Territory.
Former Governor Lon V. Stephens
of Missouri hit the sawdust trail" at
a revival in Ashbury Park. N. ]. The
meeting are being conducted by Billy
Sunday.
Postmaster General Burleson re
moved from office William Firsien.
berger. postmaster at Kansas City
Kan. for alleged gross irregularities
in the conduct of his Office"
Cleveland's two English morning
dailies. the Leader and the Plain Deal
er. are selling for two ceats in tead of
l cent everywhere outside OF Cleve-
land and Cuyhoga county.
The Aetna Explosive Co. closed ite
MI Mt NJ In
barge of the railroads of shipments
OF explosives.
The Panama Canal commission has
received a report that slides at
CucS60ha have blocked the water
way
Twenty-Five persons were killed and
forty injured when an allied air
squadron bombarded Client, says the
Echo de Beige.
Eccentric millionaire Edward w
Morrison of Chicago is said to have
been fleeced of 100000 in the last
few years by underworld associates.
Miss Henrietta Michaelis, for 20
years confidential clerk for a big
New York firm. has been indicted for
holding out $4,000 on payroll manipu-
lations
New York jewellers report that plat
mum has advanced from SOS TO $50
an ounce.
Edmond McGonn of Kansas City
holds the U. S. fleet record for marks
manship with four hits in four shots
in 2S seconds.
Miss Jeanette Rankin of Missoula.
Mont. led the state ticket in the re-
cent primary. She is a dry" Re-
publican running for congress
President Wilson signed the new
child labor law before a group OF
men and women interested in the well
fare legislation.
The Delaware state board of health
forbids the opening of all schools to
children under Is years OF age until
Sept is. because of the prevalence OF
infantile paralysis. The order applies
to churches and Sunday schools.
A tie-up of freight shipments out of
Chicago was threatened by strike Of
freight handlers at the c.. b. 4 O.
freight depot.
Three Austro- Hungarian seaplanes
have bombarded Italian patrol steam
ers in the Ionian sea. sinking enc q
them.
Two firemen were killed and fouv
injured at a fire which did damage
estimated at $4,000 at the plant az
the Waitham Piano Manufacturing
Co. at Milwaukee.