McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-09-03

from gas in his room and died later.
Federal authorities confiscated the
edition OF Mexican newspaper pub
lished at Monterey in which was
printed an account of the capture of
Texas and other southern states by
Mexican forces.
After being five times reprieved,
Karol Draniewicz went to his death
in the Sing Sing electric chair for the
murder Of Ivan Marysewicz.
Forester Adams. 13 years old, was
killed at Whitesburg, KY. when he
was struck by thrown baseball.
Harold F. Valentine, 1O-year-old
newsboy, who lost leg under Bur-
lington train March %, has been
awarded $4,000 by an Auburn (IlL)
jury.
One thousand miners are on strike
at Hafod. Wales, declaring the agree
ment under which they returned to
work recently has not been carried
out.
James H. O'Neil, IA years old, who
was with Commodore Foote'S river
flotilla on the Mississippi in the civil
war, is dead at the national soldiers
home, Danville. ILL.,
Former Gov. Cole L. Biease of South
Carolina announced he would be
candidate for governor again next
year.
The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the death of Pearl Taylor Of
Charleston, Mo-. decided that she was
drowned when wading.
George w. Perkins has new slo.
gan for the Progressive party, al.
though he has not suggested 1t take
the place of 1--WE Stand at Arranged
don and Battle for the Lord" There
has been hung on the walls of his Of
lice at II Broadway, New York, card
bearing the words: 1.-THE telephone,
not the tariff, made the trusts"
Illinois express companies say they
are operating at loss and ask the
state public service commission for
permission to raise their rates.
The commonwealth scored victory
in the trial of the "possum hunters"
at Hartford, KY, when Ernest Web
ster and jerry Clark pleaded guilty to
whipping Reuben Howard and his
wife last June and accepted a SEN
tence Of three years each.
| The Illinois board of administration
| | has accepted the resignation Of Dr..
George Knapp Farriss as superintend-
ent Of the state hospital for the Grim.
inal insane at Chester, and appointed
DR. Jerome L. Harreil as his sue.
cessor
1
Attorney General Gregory has com.
pleted his Interpretation of the admin.
istrative features of the new seaman's
law and submitted 1t to the president.
| Robert e. Gilkey OF Charlottesville,
Ind. recently killed In an automobile
accident. bequeathed his estate, val
ued at $4,000, to Miss Rebecca
Brown. 20 years old. at one time Z
domestic employed by him.
Mrs Carrie Shady, a vaudeville
actress. was acquitted Of the murder
OF Wilbur Selig of Madison, Ind.
President Jemfnez of ASH Domingo
has appointed Elias Brache Hijo a.
the Dominican minister to France.
The Austrian minister OF the in.
| terror has announced that there were
1856 cases of Asiatic cholera in Aus
tria on Aug. 10.
| AS the result of the killing OF
Sammy eagle and the whipping OF
Mary Dennis, postmaster at eagle,
Tenn, by night raiders, state rangers
have been ordered to Sequatchie coun.
ty, Tennessee.
Eugene Gilbert, the French aviator
who landed in Switzerland June q
through an accident to his motor, has
escaped.
| Dependent over the recent death
OF his wife, Oliver Tilbury, wealthy
manufacturer of drain tile at Towan
da, ILL.,, hanged himself. He was 50
| years old.
| Three men lost their lives in an ex
plosion Of chlorine gas at the plant Of
the Goldsmith DEFINING company al
Wyandotte, Mich.
Electricity will be tried by the
Union County IN. J.) Mosquito Exter
mination commission as a means o,
doing away with the insects.
A blind horse ran through the down
town streets Of Fort Wayne, Ind.
plunged through the window of a sa
loon and then dashed into a beauty
chop.
| A strike based on racial antipathies
has been called at Woburn, Mass
Greek and Italian laborers walked Out
| rather than work with Turks.
Servian batteries have effectively
shelled the Austrians at several
points along the frontier, the war of
flee announced.