McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-08-13

MIS-. theodore Roosevelt Is sick
and being taken East on a fast train.
accompanied by her husband she
reached Chicago Sunday morning,
Aug. /.
Judge Hand. in the United States
district court, denied the motion for
a receiver to take over the business
OF the American and 10 Cent Stores.
American dispatches to the London
newspapers say that the recent init
nation to the American Government
that England will send another note
soon indicates a reversal of British
policy.
Il have no political aspirations
whatever, looking to the holding Of
office in the future" said William J..
Bryan in speech at Portland, Ore.
Nine persons were injured when the
supports of veranda dining room of
g board walk hotel Rockaway Beach
collapsed
The Danish government $4,000, 900
8 per cent national loan, which has
just closed has proved failure.
Australian casualties in the war up
to date are 2,610 killed and 1922
wounded. 1t was officially announced.
Four girls were drowned at Flem-
ington, Pa. They were: Esther
Fisher, 20, and Thelma F1oruss, 10,
of Pennington; Marion Bower, 10, of
Monument, Pa, and Erma Butter
baugh, IS, of Cherry Tree, Pa.
Beginning Aug. 2 208 automobile
rural free delivery routes, distributed
among eight states we're put into op.
GRAFTON by the postoffice department,
American bluejackets and marines
are ransacking Port au Prince for
arms.
The Valdez Bank and Trust Co. has
suspended business, with $4,000 LA
bilities and assets of $4,000.
German snipers now wear greenish
clothing and have their faces and guns
painted so as to merge with the color
of the landscape.
A Constantinople dispatch to the
Mittag Zeitung Of Berlin reported that
The Wolverine and Mohawk Copper
Mining Company, In paying their
1900 employees. included an extra
check for per cent Of the total
wages of June as bonus.
This is German-American week at
the Panama Pacific exposition.
Treasury receipts for July, the first
month Of the new fiscal year, ran
$16,OO0,0OO behind expenditures.
The Wharton National Bank al
Wharton, Tex, was closed by order
of the comptroller Of the currency.
Illinois Central Chicago to Cairo
passenger train was derailed just
south of Anna, ILL.,. July 80.
A double electrocution took place
at the Eddyville, KY, penitentiary
when Turner Graham, "a years old
and Will Lane, 20. a negro wife muir
derer, were executed.
After balloting IL hours without re.
suit. the Jury in the case Of George
w. Ward. charged with killing his
wife, was discharged at Whiteplains,
Mo.
J. M. Cockrell, Chicago agricultural
commissioner Of the Rock Island, has
been employed as manager of the
farm development bureau of the Mem
phis, Tennessee, Business Mems Club
and will resign the Chicago position
Aug Is.
A man was killed by lightning in q
hollow tree, at Terre Haute, Ind.
where he sought shelter during O
storm. He is believed to be Roy
Davis of Effingham. Ill.
During the past two weeks the
Italians have advanced five miles
along the entire Isonzo front. The
Austrian losses are estimated at 80,
900.
Mrs. Florence Virgins was killed
and Attorney H. w. Peck MORALLY
wounded when Mrs. Virgins auto
crashed over concrete bridge and
into the river at Dallas, Tex.
In the room In which their three
year-old child slept, George w. Cook
of Endicott, Neb., murdered his wife
and cut his own throat.
Duxbury Reef, the Graveyard oil
the Pacific" has caught the Ameri
can-Hawaiian steamer Georgian, from
New York to San Francisco.
General Muller, one OF the leaders
of the Boer revolt was sentenced to
two years Imprisonment for treason
The Quebec Line steamship PARMA,
caught fire and the Hoboken N. J..
fire department was called out. II
was confined to the hold.
]. Stuart Blackton, who owns o
fleet OF fast motorboats, said that aft.
or the motor boat races In August he
win have his boats armored 50 they
can be used as an auxiliary coast de-