McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER Would
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News Condensations Re-
viewed Without comment-Atl
Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and instruct.

p"yciS sui W enJOln Ln6 Illinois
state treasurer from paying out near
ly 100000 appropriated by the last
legislature, said that the petitions
would be amended to include State
Auditor Brady and Secretary of State
Stevenson as defendants.
In the strike of 10000 pantsmakers
in New York, which may involve thou
sands OF other garment workers, one
large firm has reinstated 800 strikers
at an advance of 81 week.
The department of agriculture ex-
tended until Jan. /, 1916, the time
limit for use of labels and cartons
printed before May IL, 1914, which do
not state the quantity of the contents
offered in packages.
Requests totaling 100000 were
made to the Home and Foreign Mis-
sion branches of the Presbyterian
church by the will of Edward A. Webb
Of st. Paul, Minn.
OF the four counties voting in
county option elections July 10, Free
born, with IA saloons and three whole
sale liquor houses, and Anoka, with
two saloons, went dry.
Frank Holt, the wouldbe assassin
OF ]. p. Morgan, who killed himself,
was buried secretly at Dallas, Tex,
on the 18th.
Gustav Stahl, German reservist, in
dicted on charge of perjury because
he swore he saw guns mounted on the
Lusitania, withdrew his plea of mot
guilty" in the New Yorn federal court.
John r. Lindburg, 81 years old,
former president of the Kansas Bank
ers' association, is dead in Denver,
Colo.
The jury in the trial of John Pritch.
ard at Murphysboro, ILL.,, on a charge
of wife murder, was discharged, hav-
ing been unable to agree after being
out Is hours.
A syndicate of Norwegians has &C
cepted commission from the German
meat trade to furnish 10000 live rein
deer.
The German brewery associations
have ordered all breweries to reduce
their output Of beer to 40 per cent of
the normal.
The Belgians have suddenly adopted
the practice Of wearing sprays Of ivy
as an expression Of loyalty to Bel
GUM and the allies.
Cashier Wright Of the closed Citi.
zens' State bank of Crystal Lake, ILL.,,
has been arrested charged with en-
bezzlement.
Curtis big powder mills at Hounds
low, Middlesex, virtually were destroy
ed by series of explosions.
Mrs. H. J. Hamilton, 40, and H. d.
= Wise, both of Bowlissvlle, o., were
killed when a Big Four work train
crashed into jitney bus operated by
Wise.
News from Athens and Sofia ad.
vises that the sultan has been dead
several days and that the young
Turks are hiding the news, fearing
political complications.
Fifty steers shipped by Mrs. R.
Morgan Of Plattsburg, Mo-, topped the
cattle market Of the year. They weigh
ed 1,343 pounds each and sold at SIC
hundred.
Lester Montgomery, accused Of kill
ing the 1-day-old child of Katie Free
die, 20-year-old high school girl, Of
Greenfield, Mo-, was acquitted by Q
jury in the Dade county circuit court
]. C. Harris was shot and killed by
his wife's father, Homer Wilson, o.
Greenwood. Miss, after Harris hat
chased him four miles while Wilson
kept Harris 13-year-old wife between
him and her husband as a shield.
The first steps have been taken IL
Chicago to raise the funds of $l50,00'
and 100000 promised for the enter
tainment of the Democratic and Re
publican national conventions mex
year.
Pellagra has broken out to an alarm
ing extent in the central part of Mis-
souri,, patients suffering from the dis
ease being reported in many towns
Clint Williams, an 1S-year-old negro
sentenced to hang at Fort Worth
Tex, on August 8, will die happy. Tn
sheriff will furnish him one water
melon daily until he hangs.
Fire damaged a submarine unde
construction at the yard of the For
River Ship Building Corporation a
Quincy, Mass.
Ernest Bauman of Staunton, ILL.,,
years old, is dead as a result Of pc
soning from eating mushrooms.
Henry s. Graves, chief of the fores
service, left Washington for Alaska I
investigate the national forests Their,
He will remain until october.
A fire in the forward handling room
within 10 feet Of 5000 pounds of pow
der, on the battleship New Jersey, |
dry dock at the Charlestown nav
yard, was extinguished by quick wor
of rs Of the crew