McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-09-24
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John B. Bosch and son August were
killed in an automobile accident near
Whittemore, la. The auto plunged
over an embankment and the men
were caught beneath.
When their automobile capsized on
a muddy road Mrs. Howard Cope of
Peoria, ILL.,, was killed and her hus-
band perhaps fatally injured.
The Paris war office hears that
large part Of the German troops which
have been operating against the Rus
slams, is being transferred to the An
glo-French front.
Lyman U. Humphrey, former gov
ernor of Kansas, is dead.
Walter 7. Hale, brakeman on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad,
was caught between two cars of his
train at Momence and crushed to
death. His home was at Kokomo, Ind.
Judge John e. Day of the Webster
county ttMo.j court died as the result
of injuries suffered in runaway acct
dent several weeks ago.
summons charging criminal libel
against former Gov. Eugene N. Foss,
one of the candidates for the Repub-
lican nomination for governor of Mas
sachusetts, was issued by the munich
pal criminal court at the request of
Dennis D. Driscoll, secretary of the
Trades Union Liberty league.
One Of the historic oaks under
which the Republican party came into
being at Jackson, Mich, in 1854, was
seriously damaged in the recent storm
which swept this section of Michigan.
The attendance at schools In Butler
county, Mo-, has been reduced one
half, owing to the large number of
mosquitoes which have gathered since
the recent flood.
Ambassador Gerard advised the
state department that DIAL. L. Fam
enhof, the author of Esperanto, and
his wife, who have been missing sew
eral months. are in good health in
Warsaw.
The Marais Des Cynges river was
falling and the flood waters were re-
ceding from bottom lands. Because
Of the high water at Rantoul, Kan, 10
miles from Ottawa, 1t was necessary
to hold boat funeral.
Miss Nellie Sewers was killed and
Ray Arnett and Floyd Prather were
seriously injured in collision between
two automobiles and a buggy near
Nicholasville, Ky.
Returns from the Maryland primary
show that Comptroller Ellerson C.
Harrington was nominated as the
Democratic candidate for governor
and o. Z. Weller by the Republicans.
Nearly 500 employees at the United
States Cartridge company. at Lowell.
Mass, are on strike.
Three thousand members of the I'M
proved Order Of Redmen attended the
opening Of che sixteenth annual grand
council at Chicago
The Turkish city of Phocaea, on the
coast of Asia Minor, was burned as
the result of bombardment by allied
warships.
John Lowenbruck, an American
ranchman, captured and held for
$4,000 ransom by Mexican bandits
near Columbus, N. NJ, has escaped.
Turkey has coded to Bulgaria 200
square miles of territory.
A bond issue of 100000 for the cree
tion of tuberculosis sanitarium was
voted in Jasper county. Mo.
Company E Of the Nineteenth in
fantry will be stationed at Fort Sher-
idan, near Chicago during the bust
ness mems army school encampment
A French torpedo boat patrol has
sunk German submarine in the
Mediterranean sea between Mitylene
and Tenedos.
John A. Lewis, a fisherman, was
shot and killed at Cairo, ILL.,, by John
Carnahan. Lewis attacked Carnahan's
wife and the husband arrived before
he could escape.
The fourth trial of DR.. B. Clark
Hyde of Kansas City on the charge of
numbering Col. Thomas H. Swope was
continued until the January term of
sourt.
The first cargo of German-made toys
to arrive this year is being unloaded
from the Holland-American line
steamer Zaundyk at Philadelphia.
Robert Fuqua Of Centralia, ILL.,, was
found guilty Of opening letter be-
longing to another. He was sentenced
TO one year.
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