McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-11-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation of Weeks News Re
viewed Without Comnent-A
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.

One man was killed and 10 others
were cut, burned or bruised when q
local Mckinley passenger car left the
rails at Big Mooney Hollow, Ill.
Preparations for a national turn
Observation-Disclosures" convention
In December were discussed at a meet
ing in New York.
Women and girls will no longer be
allowed to work longer than nine
hours day as result of an order is
sued by the labor and industrial com
mission in Kansas.
Brig. Gen. w. A. Mann, commanding
the army division with headquarters
at Laredo, Tex, was selected for chief
of the division for militia affairs in
the war department, made vacant by
the death of Maj. Gen. Albert J. Mills.
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| Jens Jensen, fisherman, residing
at Blind Slough. Ore, was burned.
probably fatally, by the explosion Of
coal oil at his home. With his clothes
in flames, Jensen rushed from the
house and jumped In a well, from
which he was rescued.
Two young women were killed in a
fire which wrecked factory on East
Houston street, New York, causing
property damage, estimated at
100000.
| The Vatican emphatically denied
Swiss rumors that Pope Benedict was
negotiating an early peace between
Austria and Russia.
Miss Ada Hodgins, AZ years old, Of
| Winona, Mimi, an heiress, leaped from
the fourth-story window in her suite
at fashionable hotel. Miss Hodgins
had been blind for years.
When Izzy Weisman told the Judge
that he did not steal the duck found
under his coat the duck said "quack,
quack." And, as the Judge felt that
way about 1t. too, Izzy was. held for
trial in New York.
Edgar w. Foster was found guilty Of
the murder of Bertha Kubevisz and
her 5-year-old son, Of whom he was
the father, and his punishment was
fixed at life Imprisonment.
w. ID. Synman, commandant in the
Boer army in the war with Great Brit.
ain, who came to this country shortly
before the war ended and who later
went to Mexico, is dead from appendi-
citis.
| United States mail will be carried
from Chicago to New York by aero
plane, 1t was announced.
A. ]. johnson, who shot and killed
a street car conductor in Jasper coun-
ty and who was secretly brought to
the Barton county Jail, tried' to kill
himself in his cell by eating ground
glass and drinking disinfectant. His
condition Is serious.
| The three-story colonial residence
on the Hayfield farm, in Fairfax coun-
ty. Va, which was built in 1772 by
George Washington. was destroyed by
fire.
The semi-annual meeting of the
board of bishops of the Methodist
church. the administrative body OF the
denomination, opened in Minneapolis,
Mimi. and will continue in session for
| week.
Twenty Chicago firemen were over
come in fire in large grocery and
meat house on Madison street, in the
loop district. The loss is placed at
more than $4,000.
The question Of wages and hours of
labor will be the first thing taken up
by the joint subcommittee of congress
when It meets Nov. 20 to take up It's
inquiry into the railroad situation,
Senator Newlands, chairman, has de-
clared.
Harry Thaw is campaigner. The
one-time frequenter of the White Way
and the slayer Of Stanford White is
out to beat Almet M. jerks for the
place of chief justice Of the court of
appeals in New York.
Ninteen dead Is the result OF an ex-
plosion in the Marvel (Ala.) mine of
the Roden Coal Co. One was killed
by fall from a ladder while doing
| rescue work.
Homer T. French pleaded guilty In
the federal court in New York to the
charge of impersonating government
officer to extort $4,000 from Alfred
R. West. Eighteen months.
Emperor Francis Joseph has ap-
pointed Prince Henry Of Prussia.
brother of Emperor william. a grand
admiral of the Austrian navy.
A herd of 80 or 40 deer, running
from the timber near Harlan. Ia, ran
in front of Great Western train.
Three of the deer were killed.
Five thousand bushels Of No. dur
UNI wheat sold in the cash market at
Minneapolis at 81 per bushel.
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A 400 per cent increase In the op-
Grating incomes Of nine interstate ex-
press companies during the fiscal year
| Of 1916 was reported by the interstate