McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-10-29

uOhu, tne dcuUn DoinB declared nee
essary by reason OF decrease in
lake passenger traffic.
The rumors that Norman Prince.
American aviator, had been captured
by the Germans were officially de-
MED.
The trial of Porter Charlton on the
charge Of having murdered his wife
has been resumed.
Two men were delivered into the
hands of the Milford, England, court
martial. They are charged with hav-
ing given signals during recent Yep
pelin raid over the London area.
Reports come from the Dalles, 32
miles north Of Mount Hood, that
smoke was seen issuing from the
mountain.
W. L. Murphy farmer living near
Quito, Tenn, blew ont the gas in his
hotel room at Memphis.
Raymond Swoboda, arrested in Par
Is as spy, has been discharged from
prison.
The British steamships AUX, Irish
and City of Berlin, which were de-
tanned in Hamburg when the war be-
| gan. have been sunk by the enemy.
Billie Burke, the actress, reported
| $500 in jewels stolen at San Fran
cisco.
| The interstate commerce commits
sion dismissed the complaint OF the
Nebraska state railway commission
against the Burlington alleging unrea-
s0nable rates on cattle, hogs and
sheep.
The death is announced OF Sir An
drew Noble, an authority on artillery
explosives.
Senator Kern, the Democratic lead
er, says that he would support the
main features of the administration
defense program.
William P. Stedman, 70. a former
private in the Fourth Michigan regi-
ment during the civil war, and the
captor of Jefferson Davis after the fall
of Richmond, is dead.
AL Ringing, one Of the circus Ring.
lings, was injured about the head in
an auto accident when en- route with
a party of friends to attend the Pur-
due Wisconsin football game.
The largest chrysanthemum in this
country. measuring II feet in diam
eter, will be in Cleveland Nov. for
exhibition at flower show there.
The first order for Red Cross Christ
mas seals has come from Korea.
Capt. Boyd, naval attache of the
Germany embassy at Washington, has
been promoted to full captaincy.
The most advanced means of safe
guarding workers were discussed at
conferences by delegates to the fourth
annual congress of the National Safe
ty council in philadelphia. Arthur 7,
Morey of Granite City, Ill.,, was elect
ed president.
Premier Asquith has recovered from
his recent Illness sufficiently to go tc
the country.
Forty men and women were injured
when the Lackawanna ferry boat
Netherland crashed into the Barrow
street pier at New York during fog
The Lima Locomotive corporation
! has received $500, 900 order for Sc
engines from the Illinois Central rail
road.
John G. Reading, manager Of tn,
, Boston aviation school, and Philil
: Bullman of Maiden were killed while
making an experimental flight in ar
aeroplane over the marshes of Yves
I Lynn, Mass.
There are approximately $4,000 Brit
ish prisoners of war in Germany.
, More aliens departed from tn,
United States In August than arrived
Aliens to total of 41,737 departed
7 while 27.413 arrived.
1t was announced here that Rich
, mond (va.) financiers, acting for tn,
: United States Steel corporation, hav,
an option on the Tredegar Iron Work
: plant. The price is said to b,
$3,000,000.
: A contest is about to be waged be
tween the liquor interests and the DIR,
element for the control OF Boonville
NO. one of the last strongholds of tn
liquor interests In that part of tn
state.
Sir John A. Simon, home secretary
!, announced in parliament that the gov
: eminent has no intention OF internin
Bulgarlans at present, Notwithstanding
the fact that England has declare
/ war against Bulgaria.
,
When her husband, L. D. Miller, be
came jealous because her male friend
4 went into raptures over her tatto
4 marks, Mrs. Mabel Miller returned /
her mother at Detroit
e The first firing across the Ri
n Grande in more than three weeks O,
L Cured Sunday near the Mercede
(Tex.) pumping plant.