McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-06-18

tional convention.
BY vote of 1S to %, the Illinois
senate defeated the Canaday bill pro
viding for the abolition of capital pun
ishment.
Servian troops who invaded Albania
have occupied the city of Elbassan
and are moving westward along the
Scumbi river toward the Adriatic
Their advance guard is less than 80
miles from the sea.
Leaders Of 10000 striking painters
have refused to permit referendum
vote to be taken on the new proposal
submitted by the employers for a set
Element OF the strike in Chicago.
Fernando Castro, brother-in-law OF
Presidnet Porras, was arrested and
fined $25 and sentenced to % days in
Jail for an unprovoked assault upon 4
sergeant of the United States army.
Villa and Angeles now are open enc
nfes, each accusing the other of cow
ardice In first retreating at Leon.
The mangled body of Douglas H.
Thomas, Jr., son of Douglas H. Thorn
as, president of the Merchandise
chanics National bank of Baltimore,
was found under his overturned auto
mobile near Roland, Md.
The Dutch government asked par
lament to vote a 100000 appropria-
ton for the construction of two cruis-
ers and four submarines.
The army transports Buford and
Fitzpatrick, now at Galveston, will be
sent to Vera Cruz to bring back Amer
lean and other foreign refugees from
that port.
Mrs. Helen s. Amend of New York,
who inherited 100000 after the death
of her husband, Lincoln Amend, 10
years ago, was arrested or g charge
of shoplifting.
The fishing schooner Aloha was
burned to the waters edge in the Gulf
of st. Lawrence. Capt. Cole and his
crew of Is men reached shore In
dories.
Although no vacancy on the local
school board is likely before next jan
uary, the women in Nashville, Tenn,
have already begun a campaign for
representation on the body.
A. ]. Warneford, the young Canad-
ian aviator in the British service who
destroyed German Zeppelin single
handed, has been given the cross of
the Legion of Honor by the French
government.
Revised returns on the local option
election show that Santa Fe, N NJ,
went wet by majority of 1872.
William Whitney of Rochester, H.,
who sells lightning rods, was struck
by bolt of lightning recently when
running for his home through q
storm.
William Shaw, general secretary Of
the Christian Endeavorers, has an
nounced his acceptance of the homi-
nation for governor of Massachusetts
on the prohibition ticket.
Immediately after he had been SEN
fenced to Is years in prison for muir
der, P. A. E. Warren, Jr, of Vidalia,
La, was married to Miss Elizabeth
Beard. 10, in his CELL
Charles w. Hartley, rs years old,
was arrested at San Antonio, Tex, on
a chage of counterfeiting. The officers
raided his room and found collection
of silver dollars and half dollars.
The Canadian casualty list to date
totals S,008 men, consisting of 1,213
killed, $3.50 wounded and 1865 miss
ing, according to the records of the
militia department.
The Italian military authorities
have issued orders to ships and air.
ships to spare from injury the re-
mains of the famous Roman amphi-
theater at Pola.
Knox Booth, the missing revenue
agent, surrendered to the authorities
at Montgomery, Ala.
The first annual meeting of the ma
tional conference Of girl scouts is in
session at Washington.
The British casualty lists for the
week are the heaviest issued since the
war began They include so officers
and $500 men, Of whom 1,674 were
killed.
The nine mine deputies convicted Of
manslaughter in connection with the
killing of two strikers and wounding
of many others at Roosevelt, N. j..
were sentenced to serve not less than
two years and not more than 10 in
the state prison.
Burglars broke into the Illinois
state penitentiary railway station and
stole savage bulldog belonging to e.
M. Allen, warden of the prison.
A Baltimore & Ohio railroad engine,
backing to Benwood Junction, w. Va,
struck an automobile in Beawood and
killed the three occupants.
Six thousand survivors of the Army
Of Confederacy marched through the
streets of Richmond. Va, giving the
rebel yell and cheering the Stars and
Stripes.
Maj. A. B. Putnam, U. s. A., for the
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