McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
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Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.
The taxation committee of the
feichstag has fixed the amount of the
increases in the postal taxes recently
proposed.
The management of the Illinois
state soldiers home has decided to
admit Mrs. Mary Simpson of Kansas,
widow Of the famous congressman,
"sockless" Jerry Simpson.
TWO members of the crew Of the
Shackleton Antarctic exploration
steamer Aurora have been arrested
for disobedience at sea. The men are
charged with malingering.
Fragments, supposedly Of torpedo,
which were discovered on the cross
channel steamer Sussex have been for
warded to Washington by Ambassador
Page.
Two thousand Of the 5000 miners in
the Allegheny and Kish4ninetas val
leys who struck for the recognition Of
the newly formed union gained their
point and have returned TO work.
81 c.
destroyed by fire at Puerta, Mexico.
Representatives of the United Mine
Workers and the mine operators In
Iowa and Missouri met In Des Moines
to formulate new wage scale.
The municipal gas plant established
about 80 years ago was formally rele-
gated to the scrap heap on April 1.
The increasing use of natural product
and electricity was assigned as the
reason for dismantling.
Five hundred candy manufacturers
have petitioned the interstate COM
merce commission for a general read.
justment Of rates to all points west OF
the Mississippi river.
The Republican state convention
nominated former Congressman James
e. Watson and Harry s. New for the
United States senate by reclamation
Joseph Black, negro, was taken
from Jail at Kingston, N. c., and
lynched by mob. He was the father
of William Black. 10 years old
charged with an attempted attack on
a young white girl.
Walter H. Page, American ambassa
dor to England, announced that an
analysis of the fragments, of torpedo
found in the hull Of the channel liner
Sussex proved conclusively that the
device was of German origin.
The senate bill for an amor plate
factory was favorably reported by the
house naval committee by vote Of
16 to 6.
Strong gains for the drys were
made in many Nebraska towns and
villages at the recent election. Re
turns indicate that IL places changed
from wet to dry and three from dry te
wet.
About $50 sick American troopers
have been brought back from the
front in Mexico, suffering from vari
Gus ills due to the climatic condition.
Of the Sierra Madre.
The French bark Bourbaki, which
left San Francisco ON Oct. 20 for Ips
witch, has arrived In tow and leaking
having struck a mine.
Clarence HucNon, alias Ernest Schil
Ter, the German sympathizer, who sin
gle-handsd captured the British line
MatoppO at sea and compelled tn,
crew to do his bidding, has been de
clared insane.
One thousand miners employed b.
the Ellsworth Galleries company ant
by the Pittsburg- Westmoreland Goa
company, at Acme, have quit work
They demand an increase Of 10 pc
cent.
DR.. Pierre Roux, director Of thu
Pasteur institute, announced to tn,
Academy of Science the discovery o
a serum for the treatment and pre-
vention Of eruptive typhus.
The Illinois miners in convention
endorsed Louis d. Brandeis for Jus
tice of the supreme court.
A. c. Beach, new head of the Grin
nell (Ia) aviation school, fell 80 fee
when he lost control of his monoplane
President Wilson plans to occup,
Shadow Lawn" the summer home Il
New Jersey Offered him by the peopl
| Of the state.
Military training for pupils in higl
schools in Peoria may become a real
ity as result of a resolution author
izing a poll of parental sentimen
throughout the city.
Appointment Of L. F. Fletcher t
succeed A. ]. Reno as deputy wardeI
at the Leavenworth penitentiary ha
been announced.
| Charles Alexander Spancer Perez
val, As years old. British consul-geT
| eral az PHILADELPHIA is dead after q,