McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-10-01
NEWS Or THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
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Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.

Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.
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 cave in
a stone quarry.
Frank Clay, balloonist, who fell
1000 feet at the Colorado state fair
when his parachute failed to open, is
dead.
Alberto Santos-D umont, the Brazil
ian pioneer in aeronautics, will head
q committee to take charge of move
ment to develop aeronautics in South
and Central America.
Property totaling more than 100000
is now owned by the Young Mems
Christian association in cities
throughout the country.
Probably the largest order for shoes
that has ever been given has just
been handed out by the Russian gov
eminent to three New England shoe
manufacturers. It calls for 100000
pairs of high-topped boots at not far
from IS pair, or around $4,000. 900.
Church and social circles through
out Kentucky we're shocked when IT
became known that Mrs. w. H. Gag
Ter had gone before the Methodist
church board at Middleboro and made
public confession of improper rela-
lions with the retiring pastor. Rev. B.
F. Chatham.
A muscular ailment from which
former United States Senator Joseph
Benson Foraker Of Ohio has been suf-
fering has grown SO severe that the
surgeons have decided on an opera
ton az the only chance for his COM
plete recovery.
Bulgaria has removed all restric.
lions on the passage OF merchandise
through that country to Turkey.
Michigan's congressional delegation
Ia overwhelmingly for national pre-.
paredness against war and is almost
equally united in upholding the ex-
portation of munitions.
Purdue university was made de-
PENDANT in a $4,000 damage suit filed
by Abraham L. Obenchain OF South
Whitley, Ind, father of the late Fran
els w. Obenchain, who was killed in
the university tank scrap" on the
night of Sept. 10, 1913.
The eight fiag-draped caskets, con
tanning the dead of the F-4, which ar
rived aboard the United States steam
er Supply at San Francisco. have been
shipped east
Sonora LUZ Aspiroz de Rivera, well
known id Washington when her ia.
| Their was ambassador from Mexico
committed suicide by taking lauda
mum.
William Isabel was killed in knife
| duel with Sherman Isabel in the fam
lily parlor at Rienzi, Miss.
The Turks are rushing more rein
forcements to the Dardanelles, expect
ing a renewal OF the Anglo-French Of
fensive.
The southern labor congress 81
Chattanooga, Tenn, Representing
| 10000 wage earners throughout the
southern states, has gone on record
in favor Of the equal suffrage move
ment.
In an attempt to arrest LATE Young
| George Ford, jailer at Hot Springs
Ark. was fatally shot by Young. whit
then killed himself.
The rabre line steamer Santa Anna
has arrived at st. Michaels. Azores
according to dispatch to Lloyds.
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The marriage Of Judge ]. N. Grid
ley, veteran central Illinois lawye
and Republican politician. and Mrs
Emily Collins Brady at her home II
Long Beach, CAL, marks the culmina
ton of a romance Of the early sixties
i Forty-five yachts belonging I,
northern people were destroyed b.
1 fire at Miami, Fla. The loss will b.
about 100000.
Former President William H. Taft
who has been making spanking tou
OF the west for several weeks, settle'
at San Diego, Cal, for short vacs
ton. He intends to play golf.
DR.. victorino de la Plaza, presiden
OF the Argentine republic. ratified tn
parcel post convention between tn
United States and Argentina.
Gottlieb Won Jagow, German forsigl
minister, has been promoted to tn
rank of major in reserve OF the Thir
regiment of Hussars.
Convenient Lock.
A lock that can be locked from on
. side without key by the simple turl
! Of the door handle. and that when s.
locked cannot be opened from tn
other side Of the door was patents