McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-09-24

Alberto Santos umont, the Brazil
ian pioneer in aeronautics, will head
committee to take charge of a move
ment to develop aeronautics in South
and Central America.
Gottlieb Won Jagow, German foreign
minister. has been promoted to the
rank OF major In reserve of the Third
regiment of Hussars -l-z
The cotton seed hull house, meal
house and fertilizer plant Of the Fort
Mcpherson, Ca, branch of the South
ern OIL company were destroyed by
fire at loss Of $4,000.
The southern labor congress at
Chattanooga, Tenn, representing
10000 wage earners throughout the
southern states, has gone on record
In favor of the equal suffrage move
ment.
warning that many sellers of gaso-
line are giving short measure was is
sued by the several commissioners of
weights and measures to the drivers
and owners.
Clarence Brown, one of the three
convicts who escaped from the Joliet,
Ill.,, penitentiary, was captured.
Brown was found hiding in a cave in
a stone quarry.
The Fabre line steamer Santa Anna
has arrived at st. Michaels, Azores,
according to q dispatch to Lloyds.
Park guards saw a man lean from
Prospect Point into the Niagara river
and go over the American falls.
Frank Clay, balloonist, who fell
1,0oe feet at the Colorado state fair
when his parachute failed to open, is
dead.
George Miller, So years old, died at
hospital in Peoria, ILL.,, having been
chewed to death by rats.
Forty-five yachts belonging to
northern people were DESTROYED s sy
fire at Miami, Fla. The loss will be
about 100000
william Davis, an artist of New
YORK, was found dead In his studio be-
fore an unfinished landscape, clad in
his artists apron and with palette and
brush in his hands.
A. d. Novey and his wife of Cleve-
land, o., have what is believed to be
the oldest wedding cake in existence.
1t was made for their wedding IS
years ago, and they decided never to
cut it.
Ed Stephens, farmer of Chickasha,
Ok, recently became insane and told
OF having murdered his cousin, Oscar
W. Stephens, IL years old, five years
ago.
All Bulgarian reservists in Italy
have been recalled to the colors.
Oliver Harker, cashier of the John
ston City. ILL.,, National bank, which
failed in July, 1914, was found guilty
OF making false entries in the cash
ier's book.
The Alabama senate passed a house
bill permitting the shipment of quanti-
ties OF stored liquors from the state.
The measure was designed to relieve
distillers.
Highwaymen, believed to be those
who recently killed two American CT
villains, were discovered on the Fres.
not tract In Texas. Fired on by
party of soldiers. the Mexicans fled.
Secretary Garrison said he would re-
fer all requests for additional citizen
training camps In the middle west to
the central division of the army, at
Chicago.
A special war tax on munitions Of
war is being planned by the treasury
department to help swell the govern
ment funds. which have been depleted
recently.
The dead body OF Capt. John w.
Milan of the Thirteenth United States
cavalry was found hanging in his
room In the officers quarters at the
Preside.
A check for $4,000 was received by
Commissioner Of Correction Davis
from John d. Rockefeller toward the
establishment of a hospital for drug
fiends in New York.
Howard Gould has decided to ap-
peal to the United States supreme
court rather than pay federal in
come tax on the $4,000 year ali
mony he has to give Kathryn Glenn
mems Gould.
The body of Prof. Epra Ripley Thay-
er, dean of the Harvard law school,
was found in the Charles river basin.
Secretary Redfleld laughed at the
report that he would resign because
of dissatisfaction over his investiga.
ton Of the Eastland disaster. For.
get it," said the secretary.
The German military attache at So
fla, Major Baron Won der Goltz, has
departed.
-Four German prisoners who escaped
from the detention camp at Amherst.
Nova Scotia, we're captured in an open
boat off Point Lepreaux in the Bay
of Fundy.
DIR. J. L. Si]yert. suspected of the