McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-05-28

Union Steam Pump company, Battle
Creek, Mich.
The evacuation of Saltillo by the
Villa troops and the city's occupation
by forces of the Eulalio Guiterres fac
ton Is reported.
Miss Jane Adams, American suf-
frage and peace leader, formally pre-
scented to Herr Won Jagow, the Ger
man foreign secretary, the copy of the
resolutions ad opetdb1 123456 1894
resolution adopted by the Womens
Peace congress at The Hague.
His hearers had chosen woman s
second best profession, DR.. Wiley told
the members of nurses graduating
class at Washington, but he declared
marriage was the best one.
The Northern aBptist convention. in
session at Los Angeles Cal, adopted
motion to send message to President
wisdom with which the complications
of the European war have been met.
The average young woman student
at the University of Illinois spends
$173 year for her clothes, the lowest
spent by any student being $50 and
the highest $500.
The London Telegraph states 1t has
information from an absolutely relia-
BILE source that the German crown
princess Is about to break with her
husband and leave Berlin for Russia,
her native country.
"Honus" Wagner, the veteran short
stop of the Pittsburg Pirates, lost his
job as a member of the Pennsylvania
fisheries commission He was ap-
pointed by Tener, but Brumbaugh
failed to reappoint him.
Editors OF labor publications of
America have gone on record as not
opposing pronlDltlon.
James Morrison Darnell, Kenosha
(Wis.) marrying minister" was SEN
fenced to serve three years in prison.
Darnell was convicted of violating the
Mann law.
Charging that she was maintaining
gambling establishment, the New
York police raided the apartment of
Josephine Moffitt, who claims to be
the Princess of Thurn and Texts, ar
resting her and about 20 guests.
Clarence Dewein of Belleville, H.,
was declared by a jury at Benton.
Ark, to be sane, in verdict returned
by the jury. Dewein's execution is
set for June s.
An announcement was made by the
Smithsonian institution that DR..
Charles G. Abbot has just been award
ed the Rumford medal by the Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Six families we're thrown into panic
when bomb Of exceptional power ex-
ploded In the hallway of three-story
three-flat building in the heart of the
Italian district, Chicago.
Mrs. Polly Anne Weed Strodes, aged
20, who has been married 10 times, an
nounce6 she would seek divorce
from Harrison Strodes, aged So, and
ssoon as she obtained 1t would mar
ry her fourteenth husband
A coroner's jury returned verdict
OF "willful murder" against Emperor
William In the case of John Smith,
who died as the result Of shock fol-
lowing a recent zeppeli nraid.
Austrian unemployed numbering
IT'S, who arrived here from Manitoba,
were taken In charge by Canadian
authorities and sent to the alien pris-
on camp at Brandon, Man, for intern
ment.
Emperor Yoshihito Of Japan. who
formally opened the diet, expressed
the hope that deliberations would be
conducted In a spirit Of harmony that
4 would assist in bringing about the
passage of needed laws.
Lieut.. C. NJ Lyman of the Fourth
cavalry of the United States army,
whose skull was fractured in a col
lision with Walter Dillingham; in a
game of polo, is dead.
President Allan P. Hawley of the
Aero Club of America announced that
public subscription had been started
by the governors of that club to ac-
quire bonds with which to purchase a
squadron of aeroplanes for the use of
militia of each state in this country.
The Merritt bill, designed to break
up the so-called Tip trust" was
passed by the lower house of the leg
islature. The measure prohibits the
leasing of cloakrooms, shoe-shining
stands, Mushrooms and other public
places for obtaining gratuities.
A print shop for the publication of
monthly magazine for the blind will
be opened in Jacksonville, Ill.
Oscar Wilde's son, Cyril, is among
those reported killed at the front. He
went under the name Of Capt. Hal
land.
The Indiana division of the Travel
ers' Protective association in annual
convention at Indianapolis. voted to
send a message 10 President Wilson
approving his stand In the Lusltania
situation.