McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-05-12


Alicia, Ark, although denying guilt,
reimbursed the bank rather than re-
main In jail pending trial.
Edward M. Hall, stockman, Is
dead from burns received In an un-
successful attempt to rescue his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, and her
maid, Miss Alma Shaw, when the Hall
country home at Carthage burned.
Reilly M. Smith, former deputy
United States marshal at East st.
Louis, who was convicted of murder
In the second degree In the Omaha
courts. was released under parole to
HE wife.
Plans for the second annual mill
tary training camp for high school
boys at the Culver military academy,
which will be held May Is to 20. have
been announced. Six hundred boys
from the high schools of the central
west states will be admitted this year
to the camp. which last year was lin
tied to 200 boys from Indiana.
George Zeller is in the hospital at
Decatur. ILL.,, from bullet wound in.
flicted by holdup man.
Winston Churchill was elected pres.
ident and Theodore Roosevelt vice.
president Of the Authors league at
the annual meeting.
A new searchlight was tried out In
the New York navy yard. The lens is
five feet and the range is 10 miles.
Suicide is only death, but good
cigar is smoke. So thought Richard
kaufman Of Chicago, who postponed
his jump from a third-story window
when Leroy T. Steward asked him to
have a smoke
Ground was broken for the $65. 200
addition to st. Andrews hospital, at
Murphysboro, Ill. The addition will
make the hospital the largest in the
state south of East st. Louis. The
work will be completed by August.
This week will see the beginning of
work on the long -talked-of mine near
Bush, ILL.,, or the $1,000 acres of coal
lands owned by the Western Coal and
Mining company.
Miss Sophia Brauer, 81 years old,
Of Murphysboro, ILL.,, burned herself to
death. She touched match to her
clothing, which had been saturated
with coal OIL She had been lame since
childhood
II kill myself because I have
stopped to kiss the degraded woman
who has wrecked my life," wrote
Ralph Lane. 20. who committed sui
eide at New Orleans.
Notices were posted In the mills Of
j. & P. Coats, Ltd, thread manufac
turers at Pawtucket, R. l.. announc
ing an increase of rs per cent In the
wages Of $500 employees, effective
May /.
+ Harry G. Hawker made a worlds
altitude record in an aeroplane al
Brooklands. England. Hawker ascend
ed to height of 24.40s feet.
From figures furnished by the New
York chamber Of commerce, the Brit
ish have lost 736 merchant vessel.
since the beginning Of the war.
The Postal Telegraph company wal
fined $1,000 in the criminal court II
Butte, Mont. on conviction Of trans
hitting information on which racing
bets were made.
Bar silver was quoted at 71ss cent,
an ounce. the highest price in almos
a decade.
President Wilson has received al
appeal to intervene In the cases o
Mexicans recently convicted of muir
der in connection with the Villa raj,
on Columbus, N. M.
The New York police are searching
for Miss Doris Ponty, Sunday schoo
teacher, who has been missing from
her home since April 2.
Fred Bissell Of Lansing, Kan, VIII,
confessed to the murder of the 10-yeaI
old Dinsmore girl, seeks to justify hi
crime by the statement that the moth
er of the little girl had refused t
marry him.
DR.. C. F. Osgood, 40, prominen
physician of Ogden, Utah, was sho
and killed as he entered his auto b
Honbert w. Burch, 3s. farmer.
| A slight earth shock, which Taste
about five seconds, occurred at Lo
Angeles, CAL, according to DR.. For
A. Carpenter.
Members OF the Des Moines ia.
electrical workers union have pul
chased an electrical company and wi
operate the business as a co-operativ
| plant.
The Honduras navy. consisting c
Zone war vessel, went on the block an
was sold at auction to J. w. Steele Q
Galveston.
The bodies of Arthur Robinson an
Walter McPeek, who were crushed I
death at Jennings, Ok, were taken I
Pana, H.. for burial.
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