McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-05-07


ly killed at his home near Edmond
son, Mo-, by his son Bedford, IS years
old. The elder man was attacking his
wife with razor when the boy fired
the fatal shot.
The Orton district levee on the Red
river, in Arkansas, has broken, re-
sulting in the flooding of 10000 acres.
Theodore Brink, blacksmith of
Dioxn, ILL.,, who was charged with
making counterfeit money, was SEN
fenced to 15 years 1905. 123456 Z
fenced to 15 months at Leayenworth,
Kan.
Eli e. Gregory, president of the de-
funct bank of Central City, KY, has
been indicted on 10 counts.
President Wilson took another step
in rejuvenating the diplomatic serv-
ice by signing an executive order
which will bar men more than 35
years old from the so-called civil serv.
Ice portion of the corps, which in.
clndes secretaries and clerks.
The trawler Union was held up in
the North sea by a German torpedo
boat and forced to surrender rs bas-
kets of fish, a result of three days.
work. The trawler was then released.
Persistent reports that parts of SUBJ
marines have been shipped from the
United States into Canada are still
under investigation.
Chicago policemen are to wear
wrist watches-if they care to. The
chief said he believed they would be
more convenient for uniformed men.
Fred Ellwanger, sole survivor of the
Mariana mine disaster of Nov. 20,
1909, in which about 200 men were
killed, Is dead in Washington hos
pital.
Mrs. Thomas Lewis of New Lexing-
ton, o., who cited as one cause she
should be granted divorce is that her
husband made her curry and take
care of his horses, was granted the
horses as alimony.
Cleveland's record April heat wave
caused the death of Is babies, health
department officials say.
The admiralty court announced its
decision in the Empress of Ireland
Storstad collision in the st. Lawrence
river May 20, 1914, holding the collier
responsible for the accident. More
than 1000 lives were lost in the col
lision.
Two roomers have not been located
in fire in Louis Goldman's rooming
house at st. Paul, MINI.
A determined but futile fight in the
assembly on the bill designed to raise
the cost of liquor business one-fourth
throughout New York state delayed
adjournment of the legislature for a
day. The measure was passed, 81 to
As.
The consolidation of the Merchants
National bank and the Illinois State
bank has been announced at Peoria.
The new bank will be known as the
Merchants and Illinois National bank.
Six hundred acres of wheat have
been destroyed by crickets in the VIII
son Creek section of Grant county.
Wash.
Among the so passengers on the
steamship City Of Tampico, which ar
rived at Galveston from Vera Cruz
and Tampico, was Phil E. McCleary,
the American newspaper man recent
ly sentenced to death by Carranza.
Frederick w. Seward, who was the
last survivor of those who took an
active part in the event of April IA,
1865, when President Lincoln was shot
at Ford's theater by John Wilkes
Booth, is dead at Auburn, N. Y.
Capt. Geddes, once prominent on the
Chicago Board of Trade, and recently
in command Of company of Cana
dian troops in France, was killed in
action in the course of recent fighting.
If Italy enters the war she will be
confronted right from the outset by
first-line German troops. Reliable adj
vices say that the Trentino authorities
already have prepared quarters for
5000 German troops now en- route.
An average price of $3.50 was re-
ceived for 80 pure-bred Shorthorn cat
tie from farms of Missouri and Kan
sas at the annual sale of the Central
Shorthoru Breeders association in
Kansas City.
John Argo, 16, of Wapella, ILL.,, COM
mitted suicide with a revolver while
Respondent over i'll health.
The lower house of the Florida Leg
islature rejected resolution to sub
NIT an equal suffrage amendment to
the voters in 1916.
Catherain Reed, IL years old, New
York, when asleep walked through
back window in the family rooms on
the sixth floor of the tenement house
at her home.
You cannot take your best girl on
your lap In jitney car II an ordi-
nance introduced by Alderman Nor
gan OF Milwaukee, Wis, is passed.