McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-10-06
NEWS or 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 he.
viewed Without comment--Ail
i Nations Find Something to
Edify and instruct

American Indians are no longer .
dying race. Cato Sells. United States
of Indian affairs, says.
There are $4,000 Indians In "a states,
settled on 80 reservations. The death
rate has been reduced and births are
Increasing,
william Coulter of New York found
the card of Miss Edista Roberts, Chat.
tAnooga, Tenn, In q pair OF silk stock
ings his mother bought. Letters and
portraits were exchanged and soon
Miss Roberts will be Mrs. Coulter.
Remorse caused Frank GREGG, con-
vfct In the Michigan prison, to make a
voluntary confession that he shot and
killed Frank M. Mckinney, police
man Of North Vernon. Ind. on the
night Of Jan. Is. 1915.
An alarm clock tied to his hand at.
tsacted policeman's attention and
lad 30 che detention of Donald Suter-
land. i6, OF Milwaukee. a runaway.
Cali for referendum vote of all
Seattle union workers on the question
Of ordering general strike was voted
By the central trade council.
DIR. wellington Koo, minister to the
United States, has sent his resigna-
tf0n to the foreign office. giving iii
health as the reason.
Thieves invaded the Illinois prison
honor farm while the convicts slept
and stole team and wagon.
The United States submarine LIT
was launched at Long Beach, Cal. by
the California Shipbuilding Co.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the only
woman who ever ran for president OF
the United States on a regularly nom
mated ticket, has declared herself to
be for President Wilson.
Unless England lifts the dye EN-.
barge, the coloring on 2-cent stamps
will become deathly pale. The cheeks
are tinted with crimson lake, made in
Germany.
Mexican Ambassador Arredondo Ia
speedlng to Mexico City to take to
Gen. Carranza . report as to the prog
ress being made by the American
Mexican commissioners.
Minneapolis millers declare that
flour may retail at $40 a barrel In the
near future II wheat prices continue
10 rise.
Sub. Lieut.. Nungesser OF the French
aviation service brought down two
aeroplanes. making IT. and a captive
balloon.
Stringent regulation Of the manufac
ture and sale of pulque, the principal
strong drink Of Mexico. has been or
aered by First Chief Carranza. The
new regulations double the tax.
The Republican national committee
announces that Gov. Whitman will
make speaking trip in the middle
west this month. He will sptak in In
1lanapolis Oct. IL. in Chicago Oct. IL
h st. Louis Oct. 13 and in Louisvill,
Oct. IA.
The German emperor has issued ,
letter OF thanks to the German ship
yards. which have already completed
repairs on the ships damaged In tn
Jstiand battle.
Practical tests. designed to shov
the individual efficiency of naval Of
ficers qualifying for promotion, are t
supersede the old system OF writtel
examinations.
Mrs. Annie Smith, rs years old. !
ih jail at Nashville. Ark, charged wit
murder, and her husband, John Smith
h detained as an accessory, followin
the killing Of c. 8. Ledford. 3S year
cid.
Allen u. Tomlinson. an official Q
the Tomlinson Chair Co. of Pin
Ridge. 8. c.. was found shot to deaf
= his room In a Chicago hotel.
A meeting OF the American Inst
cute Of Mining Engineers will be he'll
early in October at st. Louis.
Robert Augustus Hemingway, prom
nent In Chicago society circles, wa
Killed in a fall from yacht at Sar,
sofa, Fla.
The cost Of woman's clothes wa
given as the reason why several mi
non men don't get married by Re,
Franklin w. Swift of the Galilee Bal
tist church, Chicago.
Coroner Fred Luehring OF Milwa,
kee and two Of his deputies are vi,
lently Ill after eating some "musl
rooms" in local restaurant.
Surgeons found $1,000 in bills bal
daged to the leg of Thomas Ouch,
seruk, a furrier of New York. who wa
burned In fire.
Miss Lena Miller. 81 years old, hs
disappeared from her home east d,
Coffeen. Ill.
Another reprieve was granted
Gov. Dunno to Elston Scott, the negl
sentenced to hang at Murphysboro
gear ago. The execution is postpone
trom Oct Is to Dec. 10.