McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-10-29
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HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
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oil Gov. Dunno, who received letter
from President Wilson congratulating
her upon her coming marriage to viii
liam Corboy of Chicago. has received
also letter from Col Theodore
Roosevelt.
Thomas A. Edison was the guest at
q banquet given by San Francisco tel
egraph operators. 1t was speech
less" function, the address by the
president and the response by Edison
being made on telegraph instruments.
Orville s. Dorman, 101 years old.
went to the Rome IN. " polling
place and registered. He will vote for
prohibition and woman suffrage.
Joaquin Oyaben, director of the avn
alton school connected with the ma
rine arsenal at La Plata. Argentina.
was killed making flight.
Four men were killed and four in
jured in an explosion in the new by
product plant Of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad company at Fair
field, Tenn.
Two women lost their lives and one
other probably was burned fatally in
fire which swept the offices of the
Mutual Film corporation on the Sec
Ond floor of an office building at At
lanta, Ga.
Roger Bresnahan, Chicago baseball
leader, was injured when the automo-
bile he was driving collided with a
buggy.
A London firm of glass manufacture
ers, which has plant at Maubeuge,
France, received the following cable
message: "The chimney of our Maui
beuge works has been destroyed by a
Zeppelin dashing into it. All the &C.
cupants of the Zeppelin were killed"
The Brazilian chamber of deputies
has approved, by vote of 1913 to 5,
the arbitration treaty signed last May
between Argentina, Chile and Brazil.
Joseph Hillstrom, Swedish sub
ject, convicted of murder at Salt Lake
City, was resentenced to be put to
death Friday, Nov. /.
Six men held up and robbed West
Shore train in Haverstraw, N. ", and
then escaped in an automobile.
Felix Decori, President Poincare's
secretary-general, died suddenly at
the Elysee palace.
George William Foote, well known
as free thinker is dead in London.
Louis Wade, prominent merchant,
shot and killed his wife at Ocean
Springs, Miss, and then committed
suicide.
The Arkansas supreme court sus-
tanned Gov. Hays veto of the measure
appropriating $656.000 by the last leg
islature.
Gen. venustiano Carranza, first
chief of the constitutionalists, an.
nounced that he would be candidate
for the presidency of Mexico.
At the request of Kansas City, Mo-
Louisville has relinquished an option
on Billy Sunday. the evangelist. who
will hold meeting there next May
and June.
Bulgaria notified the United States
that the port of Dedeagatch has beer
closed and that merchant vessels can
not enter between sunset and sunrise
Admissible liquids and oils and 9th
er similar articles may now be sem
by International parcel post from the
United States to Dutch Guiana, Hong
kong. Leeward Islands, Mexico, New
Zealand, Panama and Sweden
J. p. Morgan & Co. received ship
ment of British sovereigns worth ap
proximately $25,000,0O0. 1t wa.
learned that the coins will be melted
into bars and credited to the British
government.
Prize stock was placed on exhibi
ton at the opening of the Panama
Pacific exposition cattle show.
The Utah board of pardons deniet
Communication to Joseph Hillstrom ant
terminated his reprieve.
Fourteen men were killed when tn,
powder house at the Granite Mountain
mine of the North Butte Mont. com
pany blew up.
John M. Rose, a prominent lawye
of Little Rock, Ark. committed sui
eide. He was the eldest son of tn
late Judge U. M. Rose, a member o
the Hague peace conference.
Two men now under arrest at Sal
Francisco are credited with distribut
ing bogus So gold pieces to the fac
value Of from 100000 to s50o.OO0.
Twenty thousand additional desti
tute mountaineers Of eastern Turke.
have reached Tabriz, Persia.
i Eight persons are reported to hav
perished when the steamer Allianc
III. ran on the reefs near Point Arena
Cal. in heavy fog and broke up.
A jury in the Campbell county ky.
court returned verdict finding Harr
Garrison, Is years old, negro. guilt,
of having attacked Mrs. Luella Crowd