McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-04-16
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
TOLD HERE.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For
elgn Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter for
Busy Readers.

Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
the Frank HEREFORD canning factory at
Baraboo, Wis, with loss of $4,000.
Police of New York recovered from
the bottom of we'll 30 feet deep the
body of William Esser, who is said to
have been spy for the German gov
eminent, who was killed recently
when the walls Of we'll caved in on
him.
The tug Homer, towing the French
bark Colonel irons off st. GATHERINGS
Point, was attacked by German sub
marine, according to reports brought
here. The tug attempted to ram the
submarine in the heavy sea, but
missed her by three feet.
The house defeated the bill designed
to permit Sunday baseball and other
recreations in public playing grounds
in New Jersey on Sunday
An official statement issued at Ber-
lin said that from the beginning of
the war to March l $3.50 guns of all
descriptions have been captured by
the Germans.
An Italian column operating in Trip
oil, under the command of Col. Giani-
nazzi, has been attacked by force Of
1000 rebels and lost 11S men.
The German government, besides
prohibiting exports from Germany to
italy, is stopping at the frontier sta
tons all empty freight cars bound
homeward.
David James Mackey, SO. former
RAILROAD president and financier, died
at sanitarium at Evansville, Ind.
After being married 4S years and
giving birth to II children, Mrs. Glenn
ents Schmailzi of Lincoln, Neb., has
been granted divorce.
Quincy A. Matthews, wealthy Mil
waukeean, married his shopgirl, who
was Miss Jane Gavin, IS.
A new movement OF the old Culebra
cut on the west bank of the canal oc-
CURED and has closed up the canal.
The allies celebrated the anniver-
sary Of King Albert's birth. The Bel
gian ruler was 40 years old April s.
AT the annual army maneuvers near
Talso, Chile, two officers were killed
by the fall of military aeroplane.
Business men are circulating a Pc
t.tion asking for the division of Mon
tana and the creation of new state.
Announcement is made of the post
ponement on account of the European
war of the Pan-American Congress of
Jurists, which was to have met in Rio
Janeiro next July.
United States Minister Gonzales,
who issued passports to Jack johnson
and his white wife, demanded that the
passports be returned on the ground
that they were obtained under false
pretenses
Inquiries were started by the gov
eminent to find out the purpose Of
the coming to the United States, of
Victoriano Huerta, the former Mex
lean dictator, deposed by the admins
tration.
The coast guard service ordered
every available cutter south of Boston
to Diamond Shoals, N. c., at full
speed to aid eight vessels wrecked off
that point on the coast.
Russia is reported to have launched
submarine war in the Baltic sea
against Germany similar to that in
augurated by Germany against Eng
land.
Peoria, ILL.,, police are seeking an
unidentified negro who killed Mrs.
William H. Schiver after attempting
to attack her. The negro cut the wom-
ans throat and then escaped.
The Havas agency at Paris says
that 43 German generals have died in
action.
J. W. Grimes, mail carrier, and
by Gus Cook. the woman's husband.
According to q dispatch to the Am
sterdam Anzeiger from Beirut, Syria,
Catholic priest named Yusef Elhait
has been sentenced to death by hang
ing for sending letter to the presi-
dent Of the French chamber of depu-
ties regarding the situation in Leba-
non.
Members of the Arkansas state pen
itentiary commission received letter
from Reedy Vance, doing 20 years for
murder, declining the pardon granted
him recently by Gov. Hays on condi-
ton that he remain out of the county.
Admiral Moore, in charge Of the
work of locating and raising the lost
submarine Fla at Honolulu. reported
to the navy department that no re-
suits had been obtained thus far.
The Iowa legislature refused, by
vote of SIS to "a, to permit Iowa brew
ers to manufacture or sell malt bev-
erages after Jan. 1, next.
The Iananesa cruiser Asama.