McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-05-19

or Easton, Pa, has announced an in
crease of 10 per cent in the wages of
$500 employees.
Miners for the East Gulf Coal COM
Ipany, in West Virginia, have I'M
earthed the body of petrified man.
Ground was broken in New York for
the nave of the Episcopal Cathedral Of
St Johns, the Divine, the fourth in
size In the world.
| Nine, seniors at Columbia university
never have been kissed One is the
class beauty, one is a wrestler and
another is a Chinaman.
The Arizona superior court has de-
MED the application of Sheriff Forbes
of pima county for an order to pre-
vent vote on his recall.
/ State Mediator Fred c. Croxton an
nounced that the nine-day strike OF
the 500 electricians at Cleveland, O.,
had been settled
|
The Jury in New York which heard
testimony at the trial of Robert Fay,
former lieutenant in the Germany
army; Walter Scholz and Paul Daeche,
charged with conspiracy to destroy
munitions ships, returned verdict Of
guilty against all of the defendants.
|
! Like Lord Byron's prisoner of Chill
lon, Peter Cullen, Sing Sing bride
groom and sergeant-at-arms of the Mu-
tual Welfare league, is in love with his
chains. He Is back In prison of his
own free will, having been at liberty
since April 20.
| The Kankakee (Ill.) Universal Weld
ing company at st. Anne, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
| Two thousand bales of cotton de-
stroyed at Paris, Tex, by fire were
linters, which had been purchased for
use in making ammunition in eastern
factories.
|
A bandit held up the cashier of the
Francis National bank, at Francis,
Ok, and escaped with $4,000, after a
revolver battle in the towns one
street.
Application for rehearing in the
case of David Lamar, the Wall street
wolf, was filed in the supreme court
Gen. Townshend, commander of the
British forces that surrendered at
Kut-El-Amara, will soon arrive at Bag
dad, with nine other high officers and
his captured men.
After inquiry of his mother as to
how his father ended his life by taxi
ing poison four years ago, Howard o.
Zeiger, 10, of Tacoma, Wash, swal-
lowed the same kind of poison, with
the same result.
That England Is building ,airships OF
the Zeppelin type was disclosed in the
house of commons by Thomas James
Mcnamara, financial secretary of the
admiralty.
Plans for the international Social
lists conference to be held at The
Hague June 26 have been announced
by Socialists.
| A mob gathered in Charlottenburg,
Prussia, and swept through the
streets, plundering two butter shops
and smashing signs and windows Of
8 number Of other shops
/ The flying boat which flew from
Newport News to Baltimore with five
passengers made the return trip from
Baltimore in two hours and II min
utes, flying 173 miles.
Judge Charles A. Mcdonald Of Chi
cago escaped Injury at the hands of
Daniel Riley by lodging cuspidor
which Riley, IS, threw at his head Just
after the Judge had sentenced him to
/ IS years Imprisonment for the muir
der OF John Mozier.
| The New York police are searching
| for Miss Doris Ponty, Sunday school
teacher, who has been missing from
her home since April 2.
Mrs. Perry Bible, 80, Of Willow
| Springs, Mo-, killed herself with re-
/, volyer at her home.
/ The steamship Philadelphia of the
Leyland line reported by wireless that
she collided with the Fire Island light
| ship outside New York.
/ "Tombstones for women" is the
last demand Of the new woman.
| Formal announcement Is made that
Elihu Root has sanctioned the cam
| paign in his behalf for the Republican
presidential nomination.
The Evansville Ind) Western
/ Union office received a call to send
messenger boy to the home to attend
the baby while the parents went to
show.
Herbert Putnam. librarian of the
Congressional library, dismissed from
office Ernest Bruncken for remarks
alleged to have been disrespectful to
President Wilson.
A leave was granted to Surgeon
General Gorgas Of the United States
army to 60 to South America to study
methods of eradicating yellow fever.