McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-04-07
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS III ouR own AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
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Fire driven by a shifting wind de-
stroyed the plant of the Seth Ward
college, at Plainview, Tex, including
the personal belongings of ESQ men
and women.
Prof Ludwig Becker, q native of
Germany, has withdrawn from the
chair of astronomy In the University
Of Glasgow.
The government has appointed the
Prince of Wales chairman of the COM
mittee to make provision for the care
of the graves of soldiers in France
and Belgium
The British South Africa company
has announced grant OF 500, 900 acres
Of free land to soldiers from overseas
after the war.
California now produces about three
times as many raisins yearly as Spain,
the home of the raisin industry.
.
A message from Perugia, Italy, says
thieves entered the sacristy OF ST.
Peters basilica and stole nine pic
lures of great value.
Two earthquake shocks occurred at
Panama, one in the morning and the
other In the afternoon.
Fifty freight locomotives were or
dered by the Pennsylvania lines. The
locomotives will be of the mikado type
and the order will approximate
$1,000, 900.
The northeastern section of Barton
county, Kan. is said by farmers to be
seriously infested by the Hessian fly.
The Burnett immigration bill, with
Its literacy test and Asiatic exclusion
provision unchanged, has passed the
house by vote Of 3OS to 81.
The Hairdressers' guild announced
that after April 15, next, its members
will raise the charge for shaving from
cents to s cents, and hair-cutting
from s cents to 10 cents.
Maj. Gen. George w. Goethals, gov
ernor Of the Panama canal zone, has
sailed for Panama on the steamship
Pastores. He said he was confident
that the canal would be opened by
April Is.
Ten thousand Mersey river dock
hands at Liverpool went on strike fol-
lowing dispute concerning pay for
overtime work.
Before the house public buildings
committee request for $1,000,O0o for
terminal postoffice at Kansas City,
Mo-, was presented.
The senate passed the Indian appro-
priation bill carrying approximately
$12,OoO,OOO.
The Louisiana state Republican
convention selected 10 uninstructed
delegates to the national convention.
A dispatch from Teheran says that
Grand Duke Nicholas has released all
Persians taken prisoner by the Rus
SLAMS.
One hundred persons were killed
when an ammunition factory at Wells
dorf, in Austria, blew up.
Three former Manitoba ministers
were indicted by a Winnipeg grand
jury for conspiracy to defraud.
According to the provisions OF an
ordinance, druggists In Peoria, H.,
will be required to pay the regular sa-
loon license fee of $720 annually If
they dispense liquor in quantities of
less than one gallon.
A whistling we'll at st. Clair, Mimi,
is to be investigated by state geolo-
gists.
Gen. Grants letter book, from
March 20 to April 9, 1865, including
the letter in which he prescribed the
terms for Lees surrender, brought
$3.50 at sale of autographs In New
York.
The police at work on the case of
Miss lola May Cramer, "a, trained
nurse who was found dead in a Dallas
school yard, are endeavoring to prove
that she was attacked by jealous
lover.
Six masked men held up 30 men in
an alleged gambling house in New
York and obtained money and jewelry
estimated at $500.
Final certified statements of the
revenues of the Panama-Pacific expo
sition submitted to the board Of d.
rectors gave the grand total of re-
ceipts as s12,524.523.40.
Twenty-Five wireless stations in and
about San Antonio, Tex, have been
dismantled upon instructions from the
department of justice.