McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-06-11

The annual convention 81 PythIan
Sisters will meet at Galena. ILL.,, in
June. 1916.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has resumed its Investigation OF
the Rock Island railroads financial
affairs.
The German spies Muller and Hahn
were tried and convicted in Old Bal
ley court, London. Muller was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment and Hahn
to seven years in prison.
Steel barges operated by. John H.
Bernhard Of the Mississippi River
Transportation company, New Or
leans, will be in operation between
st. Paul and New Orleans on the Mis-
sissippi river In August.
Acknowledgement Gregory was au-
thority for the statement that the
steel trust suit undoubtedly would be
taken by the government to the SUI
prefne court"
A resolution asking the legislature
to grant to women the right to prac-
tice law in Georgia was defeated by
the Georgia Bar association at its an
nual convention.
According to German casualty lists,
Prussian losses alone have reached
total Of 1.3SS,O00 Recent casualty
lists contain the names of Sc airmen,
OF whom IL were killed and 35 wound
ed, the remaining 10 being missing.
Col. John M. Snyder of Canton, ILL.,,
was chosen department commander of
the Illinois division of the Grand
Army encampment, defeating William
Andrews of Rockford.
With the zinc smelters rushed to
fill orders, q voluntary increase of Is
per cent in wages was announced by
the Bartlesville (Ok) smelters.
Deputy Attorney-General Alfred L.
Becker asked the New York court of
appeals to refuse Harry X. Thaw
jury trial as to his sanity.
The Ford Motor company an.
nounced that it had increased it's au-
thorized capital stock from $4,000 900
to $100.000.000 and had declared a
stock dividend of $4S,o00,OO0, payable
July /.
The Idea Nazionale says that the
Duke Of Apula, who is II years old,
has, with the permission of King
Victor Emmanuel, enlisted as a pri-
vate in the artillery and departed for
| the front.
With five men under death SEN
tence awaiting the outcome of its de-
liberations, the Arizona legislature
met to consider the questions of CAPT.
tai punishment, land legislation and
enforcement of prohibition.
| John G. Peterson, SO years old,
Chicago arpenter-contractor killed
himself and his wife by shooting.
| Word came from Dubois, Idaho, that
DR.. ]. H. Jones and wife were found
| dead with a bullet wound in the tenn
| pie of each.
A violent earthquake wrecked part
Of the instruments In the great Mu
nish observatory.
| Sir Edgar Speyer, with his wife and
family, have come to New York for a
| short holiday. Sir Edgar recently re-
signed his privy coancillorship Of
Great Britain because of growing sug-
gestions and charges of disloyalty to
the British crown.
Jony Janus, aeronaut, and Fritz
G. Ericsson Of Duluth, aeronaut, have
been placed in charge of new aero
plane factory at Toronto, Ontario,
which has contracted with the British
| government to build 1000 aeropianes,
/
| King George v. of England, who
was born June 3, 1865, was SO years
old Thursday.
John Keppler. 103 years old, Of
Kansas City, Mo-. is in Stonington,
| ILL.,, for visit with his daughter.
Mrs. John Lawler
/ dispatch from Amsterdam to the
/ Exchange Telegraph company says
that DR.. Bernhard Dernburg will be
given charge Of the press bureau or
ganization for Scandinavian couns
tries, with headquarters In Copen-
hagen.
A peremptory writ Of mandamus
was issued by the supreme court Of
West Virginia against the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, ordering the railroad
to comply with the provisions of the
2-cent passenger fare law.
/ The Norwegian navy has been en-
riched to the extent Of about 100000
by 600 German and English mines
picked up off the coast.
There are 34.003 men, women. boys
and girls entered in the better farm
ing campaign OF the Texas industrial
congress.
Warren Frazee Of West Palm Beach.
Fla, better known as Alligator joe"
is dead of pneumonia, after an illness
of week. He had been exhibiting
5000 alligators at the Panama Pacific
exposition.
Sir thousand survivors M the ARMY