McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-03-19

Kansas City throughout the last term
of the circuit court was pronounced
by the judges Of great benefit, will
continue the work.
Gen. Joffre, the French commander.
has sent letter to Mrs. Clara Wash
ington Lopp of New York thanking
her for the large supply of tobacco
she gathered for distribution among
the French soldiers.
Mystery surrounds the death Of
Mrs. Clara Brerton, 35 years old, of
Springfield, Mo-, whose body was
found on the floor of her home by a
neighbor. The head and face were
mutilated. Near the body were sew
eral small coins.
An English landing party composed
of from 1000 to 1000 men was re-
pulsed at the Dardanelles and forced
to retire to the warships.
Nine. Skoldowski Curie, the scien-
tists who, with her husband, the late
Prof. Curie of the University of Paris,
discovered radium, is working in hos
pitfalls near the front with a complete
photographic equipment.
The Se-day session of the Washing
ton legislature adjourned without
passing an appropriation bill to en-
force the prohibition law adopted at
the election last November
Arthur Hawk, engineer on the Cass-
vile & Western railroad, living at
Cassville, Mo-, shot and, killed his wife
and then killed himself. The couple
had been separated about 10 days.
Secretary McAdoo was operated on
for appendicitis. The physicians is
sued bulletin saying the operation
had been successful in every way.
A bill providing for prohibition
throughout the territory of Alaska
was issued In the lower house of the
territorial legislature and referred to
the committee on education.
An electrically controlled bucket
containing two tons of coal fell on
Frank Clark, 22, of Buffalo, N. Y,
completely severing his head.
Two young men bound Charles Pc
terson in a bathtub In the rear of his
barber shop in Chicago, robbed the
cash register, turned on the cold wa
ter and fled Peterson released him
self In half an hour and ran shivering
to the police station.
1t is reported that Mrs. Florence
Carman, released ry hung jury in
her first trial on the charge of having
shot and killed Mrs. Louise Bailey in
her husbands office in Freeport, L. l.,
on June 80, 1914, will be placed on
trial early in May.
The supreme court has formally
granted the application OF the state OF
Virginia for permission to sue J. p.
Morgan for the return Of the will Of
Martha Washington. The state alleges
the will was taken from Fairfax coun-
ty courthouse during the civil war
and eventually was sold to the late
J. P. Morgan.
Twelve suits for damages aggregat-
ing 100000. growing out OF the shoot
Ing Of strikers at Roosevelt, N. j., by
The guards Of the chemical plaat on
Jan 10, were filed against the Ameri-
can Agricultural Chemical company.
An Athens correspondent sends the
following: Premier Venizelos an
nounced in the chamber Of deputies
that. as the king did not approve the
policy of the government, the cabinet
had rendered its resignation"
The Panama canal has been closed
to all but the lighter-draft ships by a
rapid slide of earth from the top of
Culebra cut at point north of Gold
Hill.
A dispatch from Copenhagen to the
London Daily Mail says Germany has
modified the elephants in Hagen
backs menagerie and has sent them
to valencienne for work in heavy
hauling.
Lieut.-Gen Tchinosuke Okla, minis
ter Of war; and Viseount Yoshimichi
Hasegawa, chief of staff Of the Japa-
nese army, went from Toxic to Hay
anna and were received by the emper-
or of Japan at his winter residence.
The Sixty-third congress broke all
records in the volume of proceedings
In the Congressional Record. The
average congress, according to report
ers of debates, runs about 10000
pages, while the recent body talked
$4,000 pages.
David Lloyd-George, the British
chancellor of the excheouer. revealed
in the house of commons that no IN.
derwriting commission whatever had
been paid to issue the British war
loan of e325,ooo,oo0 approximately
| 81, 625, 200. 00o).
If bill introduced by Senator Jew
ell of Illinois is enacted a man may
s"cuss' himself out of all the way from
So to SIS, according to the forcefulness
of his vocabulary.
The bill grating suffrage to women
was defeated in the lower house of
the Nebraska legislature by vote of
81 to 40.
A son was born to Gov. and Mrs.
Charles s. Whitman of New York.
There Is one other child Olive a