McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-07-07


The German woman suffrage organ
ization has sent the following greet
ing to the women of France: I'VE
feel. think and suffer like you. and
swear that after this catastrophal war
the women of all nations shall work
unitedly to prevent forever its recur-
renee
Sixty-eight teachers and district
of the city schools,
among them all the active officers of
the Chicago Teachers federation,
were dropped by the board of educa-
ton.
A wireless message has been sent
broadcast to ships at sea warning
them not to be guided by lighthouses
on the Mexican coasts.
Eight hundred shops were burned In
riots in Leipsig. Soldiers fired on the
rioters. Martial law has been pro-
claimed throughout Brunswick.
The fortified town of Gillian, which
the Russians captured on their often
sive drive, has been evacuated as
result of Turkish counter attacks.
Private Ernest Murphy of the
Franklin IN. H. Machine Co. went
home from Concord and killed his
driving horse, two dogs and a cat.
The Griffin bill, which provides for
o retirement system for all civil serv-
ice employees in the postal service, has
been favorably reported to the house.
The armored motor truck recently
assigned to the troops at Fort Sam
Houston has proved Its efficiency.
When tried out 1t accounted for one
milk wagon, one automobile and one
cow.
The United States cruiser South
Dakota has gone to the west coast Of
Mexico. in response to rush orders.
Roy Robinson, 20 years old, a pri-
vate in Battery A, Kansas national
guard. shot and killed himself.
H. s. A. Stewart, Jr., of Pittsburg,
known as the millionaire kid" has
enlisted. He is reputed to be worth
$2,OOO,oOO in his own right.
-Four persons were instantly killed
and another seriously injured when a
Rock Island passenger train collided
with an automobile driven by DR.. H.
III. Johnson on the railroad crossing
at Wilton, la.
Charles ("Do Anything") Niles, 26,
the aviator. who fell at Oshkosh, Wis,
while looping the loop, is dead. He Ia
survived by bride Of 10 days.
An attempt to blow up the New
York postoffice in the federal build
ing was frustrated. Nine sticks of
dynamite and a dynamite bomb,
wrapped in paper which was afire,
were found by Waterman.
Thirteen thousand tons Of Chinese
copper cash, valued at $2.1S0,O0 gold,
was exported from Tsingtau to Japan
during the past year.
Ralph de Palma won the annual
Des Moines (Ia.) automobile derby at
$50 miles; Henderson. second; Rick.
enbacher, third.
Fire swept the desert town of Nee.
dies, Cal, destroying the entire bust
ness section and causing the death OF
five persons who were trapped in the
two hotels.
Only 10000 OF the $4,000 national
guardsmen of the department Of the
east, comprising 20 states east Of the
Mississippi and the District Of Co
lumbia, were in mobilization camps
six days after the call was issued.
/ Henry Ford, the automobile manu-
facturer, announced that he will cree.
an $S,000,000 plant to manufacture
automobile parts in a Detroit suburb
The Massachusetts training shiI
Ranger has been in collision with 8
British cruiser about so miles outside
New York.
The International Association o.
Machinists met in convention in Bal
timore and will be in session two
i weeks.
| The municipality of Berlin has de
cided to organize communal feeding
of the population. The first publ,
kitchen will be opened on July Z.
Henry Bennett, 81 years old, com
mitted suicide by hanging himself t,
a rafter in the woodshed of the hom,
OF his son, at Portland, Ore.
Four more survivors of the Carriza
massacre have been picked up ant
brought back to the American lines a
Casas Grandes.
Mexican War Minister Obregol
branded as a fake" the report circu
lated in the United States that Will
had rendered his services to the con
stitutionalist force.
Il Gen. Gales announced that 100
Japanese residents of the state OF Sc
nora had offered their services as sol
diers to fight the United States.