McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23


The proposal to incorporate the
New York stock exchange was laid
on the table by the corporation COM
mlttee OF the constitutional conven-
ton.
Mike Demski, Franklin miner,
Killed himself with dynamite.
Another effort to'save Charles Beck.
er has failed Chief Justice Bartlett
OF the court of appeals has rejected an
appeal from Becker's counsel.
A raise of three cents an hour in pay
OF Chicago street car employees, an.
nounced, will cost the companies ap-
proximately $1.170,000 year.
President Wilson's daughter Mar
garet has joined the chautauqua sum-
mer school. She will deliver several
lectures during the season.
Ethel Pigg, "a years old, lifelong
cripples, was shot and killed by Jo-
seph Tribbey in Cass, Ind, when he
mistook her for burglar.
Two negroes, suspected of having
aided Peter Jackson, were lynched
near Hawkinsville by posse of citi.
zens.
Eight white and AZ negro muleteers.
survivors of the British steamer Ar
menian, torpedoed by a German SUBJ
marine, arrived at Newport News, Va,
on the British steamer Winnifredian.
A Little Rock, Ark, jury found Mrs.
Mollie Washburn, Sc, guilty of first
degree murder, for shooting and kill.
ing ]. H. Suth, SO, carpenter, June 5.
She was sentenced to life imprison.
ment
The Swedish schooner Daisy struck
a mine and sank in the Baltic. Capt.
Stryback and four of her crew were
drowned.
Walter Leake, colored, "a years old,
was shot and killed by Peter Brown,
a special Waterman of the Illinois
Central railroad.
a ha ~
rights committee of the New York
constitutional convention decided
against proposals to abolish the death
penalty.
A Central News dispatch from Am.
sterdam says: Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg is engaged in prepare.
tions for something that will surprise
the world and may decide the war;"
A Paris paper suggests that street
be named after Theodore Roosevelt
because or his friendship for the
allies.
A Boston paper announces the re
ceipt of letter in which the writer
states that two bombs have been
placed in the state house and another
in the custom tower and that these
would be exploded soon.
The Dresden National bank at ORES
den, Ohio, was closed while Nationa
Bank Examiner Bachman was trying
to untangle the mystery of the disap
pearance Of the cashier, John Horn
ung.
Minister of Munitions David Lloyd
George, who absented himself from
his office while reports of an impend
ing clash with Lord Kitchener ant
Premier Asquith were in circulation
has resumed his duties.
1t was announced here that Empero
Nicholas of Russia had conferred tn,
cross Of st. George upon all the Off
GERS and members of the crew of tn
British submarine which recently sanl
a German battleship in the Baltic.
| Garment workers to the number o
| 10000 are out ON strike in New York
| The Gary (Ind) Steel Mills starte
operations at full capacity on the 18th
The COLORADO supreme court al
firmed the death sentence Of Co
James c. Bulger, soldier Of fortune
convicted of the murder Of Lloyd 1
Nicodemus, a Denver hotel manager
Charles Scaratt, an honor convict i
the Joliet penitentiary, returned vo
UNFAIRLY, after running away from tn
ungarded prison farm.
Arguments on the motion for a me-
trial for John R. Lawson, convicted !
first degree for the murder of job
Nimmo, a deputy sheriff Of Trinidad
Colo, have been concluded befor
Judge CRANKY Hillyer.
Several great turf fires have broke
out in Germany southwest Of Hanove
and war prisoners and German troop
have been sent to fight the flames.
The Wilson liner Guide was torp,
doed and sunk of the north coast
Scotland.
William F. McCombs has receive
from Dallas, Tex, an offer of $4,000
as a cash contribution to the nations
Democratic committee should th
1916 convention be held in that cit,
Kansas farmers have returned ter