McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-10-22
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condensatlons Re-
viewed Wlthou& comment--All
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct

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married in order to qualify for le-
gacy of $4,000 left to him by an un-
Gle in New York City os condition he
should marry before Oct. /.
Warden j. X. Codding of the Kan
sas penitentiary plans to have the
prisoners eat from tables instead of
benches. He has installed one table
as an experiment.
The first transactions In the
s50O,000,0O0 Anglo French five-year
5-per-cent bonds on the New York
stock exchange Was for the amount OF
$1O,0OO,O0O at IS.
At Conway, Ark. cottonseed sold
this week at $3.50 ton, an advance
within week of SIS.
Fire destroyed the Vienna milling
plant, at Peoria, ILL.,, owned by Don
| meyer, Gardner & Co., with loss OF
| 100000.
| Mrs. Christen Dean, 80 years old
and cousin of George Washington, is
dead at Carthage, Mo.
Vic Guerringer of Kansas City was
sentenced to rs years in the peniten-
tiary for attacking Mrs. Gertrude
Shidler in March, 1914.
Ophelia Hanson, years old, and
her sister Violet. 4, daughters of Mrs.
Lewis o. Hanson, of Maiden Rock,
Miss, were burned to death while
their mother was driving home the
cows.
A silver jubilee celebrating the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the found
ing of the Daughters of the American
Revolution was held at Memorial Con-
tinental hall. President Wilson made
an address.
The marriage of Mrs. Mary Quinlan
Brady, Michigan wife" of James j.
Brady, Illinois state auditor, was re-
ported.
Jonas James, pioneer miner at
Danville, Ill, dropped dead in the Blue
Bird mine Of apoplexy.
Bulgaria's minister and his staff
have left Rome for Sofia, proceeding
via Switzerland.
Application was made in New York
for Incorporation of the National
School Camp association. The object
Of the association is to issue call
for 100000 schoolboys to take a
course in military training.
|
British. casualties reported from
Oct. to Oct II amount to more than
$1,000.
Four of the daily papers of Paris
Rappel, Radical, Guerre Sociale and
Loeuver-have been suspended by or
der of the censorship.
Ministers of Peoria, ILL.,, acting with
the law enforcement league, have be-
gun plans for monster parade to
carry on a petition to MAJOR e. NJ.
Woodruff asking the closing Of saloons
on Sunday.
Former Judge William Johnston is
dead at Valparaiso, Ind, at the age
of ~.
Health authorities OF Pennington,
ILL.,. were considering steps to combat
an epidemic of typhoid fever. Eigh-
teen cases are under quarantine.
Three sons Of Gen. Edouard de Gu
rieses de Castelnau have lost their
lives at the front
The famous parish church at La
chine, Quebec, was destroyed by fire
with loss of s250,OOO
A banker named Huguet, who was
serving sentence in Paris for. en-
bezzlement, was released and allowed
/ to "atone for his offense' as a sol.
der at the front.
Max Samfield, rabbi emeritus OF
the Congregation Children of Israel,
Memphis, is dead, aged II years.
|
Henry Blandy Wren, aged So, who
died at his farm, Whitley Reading,
England, had spent only one night
away from his home at Whitley,
where he was born.
Fifty tons of coal tar dyestuffs of
German manufacture have arrived in
New York, consigned to the secretary
of commerce.
Two men who rode motor cycles
held up and robbed Earl Smith, book
keeper in the office of the Lattas
Creek Coal company, near Hymera,
Ind. and escaped with $4,000.
Heavy Japanese guns, manned by
expert gunners from the japanese
army, are being used by the Russians
in the defense of Dvinsk.
ThesLajara (Colo.) State bank was
entered by four yeggmen who blew
open the vault and got $6,500
President Wilson has decided that
he win be unable to visit the Pacific
coast to see the San Francisco and
San Diego expositions.
Indications from state department
officials were that no action was like
ly in the case Of Capt. Won Papen, the
German military attache. Officials
have been unable to decipher Won Pa
pens messages.