McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-04-02


to release the man. Savage, former
St. Paul realty dealer, was serving a
sentence of five years at st. Paul for
violation of the Mann act.
John Stewart, owner of great tracts
Of timber lands throughout the North
west, Is dead at Aurora, ILL.,, at the
age of 81 years.
Buster" Caldwell, 4 years old, ia.
tally shot Russell Standard, aged 3,
through the body while they were
playing with pistol at Evansville,
Ind.
A fleet of barges will leave La Sale,
ILL.,, for New Orleans, La, May /, in
augurating water freight service with
San Francisco and other points on
the coast.
Gen. Rene Joseph Delarne, chief Of
division of the French army, was
killed when he was struck in the head
by bullet on an inspection of a
trench at the front.
Forty-five hundred Villa soldiers
were opposite Mercedes pumping
plant, on their way to Matamoras to
give battle to the constitutionalists
Villa currency is being traded here
freely at three Villa dollars for one
25-cent piece of United States cur
rency.
A bill in the Illinois legislature linn
Its the amount of money widow and
children can inherit to 100000 and
the amount childless widow can in
herit to $4,000. 1t also permits lille
Ultimate children to share equally
with legitimate.
A German Zeppelin attacked the
Russian fortress of Lomza on the
Narew river, the war offices an.
nounces. Fourteen bombs we're
dropped and nine civilians were in
| jured.
Sammy Mucoish, aged IL, confessed
that he had shot and killed Felix No
| venski, also aged II, near Jackson
vile, Ind, recently. He admitted hid
ing the body in clump of bushes.
AS result of fight at Big Muddy,
Ill, Patrick Priest is in the county
Jail, probably mortally wounded, and
| six other men, slashed with razors
and shot. are in hospitals and eight
others are prisoners.
Walter L. Ross, receiver for the
Clover Leaf railroad, applied to the
federal court for permission to Dor.
row 100000.
A large band of masked "possum
hunters" armed with shotguns, Wis
tied the home of Thomas Rockport of
| Rockport, KY, and took him and his
son Frederick into a nearby thicket
and whipped them with hickory
| switches.
Mrs. Victoria Cadaract, aged los. is
! dead in Ottawa county infirmary,
near Oak Harbor, o. Mrs. Cadaract
was the last survivor of the native
Ohio Indians.
George Ward, charged with the muir.
der of his wife, Mrs. Ward, whose
charred body was found in the ruins
| of the burned home of the family near
Willow Springs, March II, was dis
charged by Justice R. F. Holloway Of
Willow Springs.
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The gasoline yacht La Sofa, with
her millionaire owner, Morgan Adams,
his bride of month and 10 friends
aboard, all Of Los Angeles, Cal,
burned six miles off San Pedro.
| After dreaming that he saw his
daughter, Mrs. Stella Laird, who had
disappeared from home recently, on
the steets of Fort Worth, Tex, j. T..
McForums Of Waco, Tex, found her.
The Vermont legislature passed an
act providing for eugenic marriages.
A fine of $500 is fixed for any person
who weds without fulfilling the re-
quirements of the law.
H. j. Freelich, the Chicago pro-
moter who has been in jail at Dam
vile, ILL.,, since his arrest last Decem-
ber has been released on bond Of
$4,000.
Speaker Champ Clark, wife and
their daughter. Miss Genevieve Clark,
narrowly escaped injury when the
Lynn Haven hotel, at Pass Christian,
was destroyed by fire.
A vote on the preferences of chill
dren in the Alton, H., public schools
as to moving picture dramas shows
that the largest number like cowboy
dramas. The vote was as follows:
For cowboy pictures, es4: for comedy,
594; dramatic, AT; crime. 65; educa-
tional, %.
Col Roosevelt has not accepted the
invitation to testify before a senate
committee on the ground tina he has
no information. Chairman Walsh
called conference to decide whether
to issue d subpoena for the colonel.
| A woman was killed and four men
injured, one seriously. when natural
gas explosion wrecked the home of
]. M. Mathews at Louisville, Ky.
The export of pure and alloyed gold
and silver in bars and also of coins
has been prohibited from Budapest
| Mr. and Mre Thomas C1ifer of