McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-08-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
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Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and instruct.

Ine German ship Steinbeck, which
mas been loading lumber at Belling-
nam and which is informed at Eagle
haarbor, has been sold to American
shippers.
An eight-hour day with the same
wages heretofore paid for 12 hours
work will be granted to all employees
on the Gulf Refining Co. at the Port
Arthur and Fort Worth refineries.
The bonus proposition recently
made by the Locomobile Co. OF Amer
fca to its employees was rejected at a
meeting of 800 employees.
Wargrave Church, which was de-
sfroyed by fire by militant suffragists
June |, 1914, is being rebuilt. In
restoring the tower the discovery has
0een made that the present casing of
red brick covers the original Norman
tower.
King George sanctioned the estab-
hshment of medal to be known as
the naval general service medal. This
viii be awarded for service in minor
naval warlike operations.
Gov Walsh of Massachusetts an
nOunced that he would be a candi-
date for denomination for q third
Germ.
Alexander Schroeder, portrait
painter of New York City, is dead
as a result of eating toadstools which
he had mistaken for mushrooms.
The Atlantic fleet is again to be put
70 the test of protecting the eastern
aeab0ard from invasion by a supposed
Foreign fleet.
Hiram Maxim is credited with hav-
ing invented simple and inexpensive
contrivance to protect soldiers from
the effects of deadly gases employed
I'm battle.
The Kaiser has been challenged to
Hight duel. His would-be opponent is
Lord Northbourne, 70 years old.
Clarence Terry, 80 years old, is dead
and three other men are wounded as
the result of a shooting ARRAY at
Cherry Valley. Mo-, iron mines.
The Rockford & Interurban Co. Of
fered its capital stock to the city
council
Capt Percy Archer Give member
OF parliament for Herefordshire, has
been seriously wounded in Flanders.
The American consul at Cork re-
ports that the body Of M. w. Harvey,
a Lusitania passenger. washed ashore
ON a small island off the Irish coast.
The Guggenheims' American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company returned to
fne federal government 12,766.SS in
money and returned to government
entry 3.476 acres Of valuable coal land
the company had operated under false
entry.
Three convicts have escaped from
the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan.
Hugo Kempff, so, founder OF the re-
hgious sect knows as Government by
God" killed himself by inhaling ilIu-
minating gas at his home on Garden
street, haywood, N. ].
Villas forces In Durango have suf-
fered severe defeat and are retiring
toward Torreon.
c. G. Stafford, former cashier Of a
state bank in Kansas City, Kan, was
arrested In connection with the en-
bexxlement from the bank of $27, 000
80
Actual work of raising the Eastland
has begun. The hulk of the ship has
been pumped dry and divers went I'M
Sierneath the vessel to attach chains
and hawsers.
ROumania continues her prepare
lions for war, having already called
to the coiors three more classes of
reserves than were summoned for the
Balkan mobilization OF 1918.
American farmers are harvesting
the greatest wheat crop ever grown
In any one country It may reach
I. 900. 900. 900 bushels.
German losses to date total 2.17S,-
S83- The casualty lists gives the total
OF Prussian losses at 1,641,569, and
for the Bavarian, Saon and Wurtem-
burg troops 537.114.
Gen. Goethals announced that he
had sent his resignation as governor
-of the Canal zone to Washington to
take effect on the first Of November.
President Wilson has signed an
executive order creating the Big Lake
Reserve In Northeastern Arkansas for
the protection of native birds.
Several persons In Germany have
been shot by firing squads for advo-
eating peace propaganda
Fearing she again would be abduct-
sd. Miss Louise Blaynel. 1s-year-old
University of Chicago girl. was mar
MED at Galesburg. H.. to Ben Cool.
Richard weinman Of Milwaukee
WAS the real name Of Richard Won
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