McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-08-13

president of the California Federation
Of Women's Clubs, and one of the
largest fruit growers of California is
dead of heart trouble.
Average daily attendance during
July at the Panama Pacific Exposition
was 69,602. The daily average since
opening 5S,26S.
Clint Williams, young negro, con-
victed of numbering Oscar Scroggins,
messenger boy, last December was
hanged at. Fort Worth, Tex.
Sauerkraut promises to be low In
price next winter. Central Illinois
gardeners are being paid but Is cents
per hundred pounds for cabbage.
| Eight persons were injured when
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train No.
1O4, east-bound, collided with Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton freight
train at Washington Courthouse, o.
| Specially constructed talking ma
chimes are now being manufactured
by a Paris house for use in the
trenches.
| Harry G. Hontz Is in jail at Salt
Lake City, having confessed that he
wrecked the Scenic Limited on the
Denver G Rio Grande Railroad near
Springville, Utah, last Monday.
| The Kaiser has been challenged to
fight duel His would-be opponent is
Lord Northbourne, 70 years old.
William G. Loomis of Rock Island,
ILL.,. has confessed robbing the bank
at North Liberty, Ia, July 16.
Leo Mayer, 17-year-old Bavarian
boy, who has been in the county Jail
at Oakland, CAL, since July 10,
charged with theft, hanged himself in
his cell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Gootch of Litch-
field, ILL.,, found their daughter In
Pana after is years absence. She
was placed in an orphanage in Chi
cago is years ago.
Edward Kinna, the Louisville (Ky.)
boy, charged with desertion from the
British naval reserve, was released.
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The railroad tracks between the
Des Moines River bridge and Alexan.
dria, Mo-, south Of Keokuk, are under
water, and culvert bridge is washed
out Of line, SO that Keokuk is cut off
from direct communication south.
Reports indicate that Marion w.
Reilly had received $4,000 votes Of
10000 counted SO far in the Missis.
sippi gubernatorial primary. Theo
dore G. Bilbo received 10000.
G. c. Curtis, charged with conspir.
acy in the robbery of the Kaw City
t0k.- National Bank April Is, was ar
rested at Sierra Madre. Cal. He ad-
mits he is the man sought.
Premier Okuma Of Japan and his
cabinet may reconsider their resig-
nations. The elder statesmen have
recommended to the emperor that he
decline to accept the designations.
Dispatches report an attack by
French aviators on Strassburg, CAPT.
tai Of AlsaceLorraine.
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| Five Geneva, ILL.,, girls, two Of them
high school graduates last June, have
applied for positions as Geneva letter
carriers.
The two-year-old son Of Mrs. Elmer
Joseph of New Haven, H., fell into
an open cistern and was drowned.
One man was killed and three 9TH
ers were injured by an explosion in
the experimental bomb proof" room
at the United States arsenal at
Franford, Pa.
The Germans already have begun
using fax as a substitute for cotton
in some of their munitions factories.
The unearthing of great temple at
Muphis, Egypt, was announced by the
University of Pennsylvania museum.
The first daily newspaper to be pub.
lished in the German language has ap-
peared In Brussels.
Renewed activity of Katmai volcano,
Alaska, Is indicated by the presence
of ashes in the air.
A report circulated in the finan-
cial districts stated that the Westing-
house Electric Company has actual
orders on its books which total be-
tween s6O,O00,0o0 and $70.0O0.OOO.
The British submarine operating In
the Sea Of Marmora, shelled a Turk.
ish troop train. destroying seven cars
and killing more than 200 soldiers.
A register for human thoroughbreds
is one Of the projects to be given con-
sideration by the national conference
on race betterment at San Francisco.
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Eight men were killed and many In
jured when q train of coal cars ran
away as the result Of cable break
ing at Paterson Mine at Elizabeth.
Pa
Mrs. Nellie Breeze Allen, wife of .
business man OF Msriden. Conn, shot
and killed her son. Gordon. years