McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-03-12
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
TOLD HERE.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For
eign Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter for
Busy Readers.

Al tilO Sou6t CSolOhdl hCtOAu. Az
average congress, according to report
ers of debates, runs about 10000
pages, while the recent body talked
$4,000 pages.
MMiss Josephine Redding, San
Francisco girl, who is trained nurse
in the Red Cross service of the
French army, has been awarded the
cross of the Legion of Honor by the
French government.
Police dragged the river at Fort
Madison, Ia, in the hope of finding
the body of Andrew Crawford, city
clerk, who disappeared from his home
recently.
The Chicago Grand Opera company
filed a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy, scheduling liabilities of 1884,
400 and assets of s61,500.
Nearly half million tons have
been added to the American merchant
marine since the law admitting for
eign-built vessels to American regis
try was passed.
Policeman Joseph Carroll was shot
through the arm and one of three bur-
glars captured in street battle with
robbers who were caught in the store
of Freeman Bros.
A Central News dispatch from Lis
bon states that Deputy Henriques
Cardoso was assassinated as he en-
tered the Democratic club to attend a
political meeting.
Municipal taxes In Berlin have been
increased 125 per cent since the war
began.
A bill incorporating the Ellen Will
son Memorial home In eastern Dis
trict of Columbia has passed the
senate.
Fire destroyed the ice plant of the
Central Illinois Service company, at
Marion, ILL.,, causing loss of 500 900.
Increased passenger rates on the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad in Massachusetts went into
effect March l.
The Rev. James Morrison Darnell,
charged with violating the Mann act,
was indicted by the federal grand
jury at Milwaukee, Wis.
Two young girls were killed and a
woman seriously injured in a grade
crossing accident at Jewel, Ind, when
Pennsylvania train No. 10, north
bound, struck the automobile in which
they were riding.
Frank Shilling shot and killed
Grover Starkey at Lepanto,, Ark,
when the latter cautioned him against
making disturbance, and then shot
the boys father.
Mrs. l.. A. Halter of Carriere, Miss,
was attempting to burn the grass off
of field of the Halter suburban
home, her clothing caught fire and
she was burned to death.
A skull and various other bones OF
the human body were found in the
stomach of 12-foot shark killed at
Miami, Fla.
An Endorsement of President Will.
sons European war policy was tabled
in the Iowa senate by vote of 20 to g.
Six thousand dollars deducted from
the salaries Of representatives in con.
gress absent during the closing days
of the last session was restored to the
absentees by resolution passed by
the house.
An acceptance of a bet to drink a
quart of whisky resulted in the death
of William Pfell, IL, in patrol wagon
while being rushed to st. Agnes hos.
pital. Philadelphia.
After thoroughly condemning the
lobby register as ridiculous" the
Texas senate discarded it. The lower
house, however, continues to require
representatives of special interests to
register.
n, 80 e.
were ordered to furnish to the gov.
eminent an estimate of the amount of
flour they have on hand.
Inquiry into the American land ques-
ton in its labor and capital aspects
will be begun by the federal indus.
trial relations commission in a public
hearing at Dallas, Tex, March Is.
The Roosevelt, Admiral Peary's Arc
tic ship, will be taken over by the
bureau of fisheries, to be used in con.
nection with the fisheries service in
Alaskan waters.
Mrs. Mary Miller. 9S. is dead in
| Greenwich, Conn. She never rode on
trolley car or on railroad train.
Driving an automobile, Robert Mea-
dows, an Elgin Qll.) youth. accident.
ally struck Percival Calame and aft.
er dragging him half block fled to
his home. Calame died in hospital
little later.
The theft from an express wagon at
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
station in Covden of sack contain.
ing $4,000 which was being shipped
by Cowden bank was partly solved
when the sack and $3.50 of the
money we're found under the depot
| platform.