McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-08-25

MISS Maud Sylvester, 30, ana
prominent, mission worker and
Sunday school teacher, was found
guilty in court in New York, of firt-
| ing.
The Mutual Life Insurance Co. and
the Lackawanna Railways Co. have
sent notice to all their employees with
the New York troops that If they do
not Immediately take advantage of
the war departments offer to release
| all guardsmen who have dependents
at home their salaries will be discon.
| tinued.
Admitting that "most of his
strength was below his neck" Valdez
Zbyszko, 2S5 pounds, Polish wres-
tier, is trying to recover $500 ring
New York friend talked him out of.
A serious outbreak of cholera in
Nagasaki. Japan, has resulted in As
deaths.
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| spection tour of the national guards
at Fort Sam Houston and along the
border.
A white man and negro robbed the
Bank of Crowder, Ok, locking the
cashier and assistant state bank ex.
aminer In the vault.
Frank Vogt, so years old, was struck
by lightning and killed when in bath
tub at his home in Kansas City.
Rear Admiral Thomas Benton How
ard has been placed on the retired list
on account of age.
Official dispatches from Eagle Pass
report the finding of body Of SOL
der believed to be the son Of NJ. H.
Limbocher of Vanderbilt, Mich,
Abram l. Elkus, newly appointed
ambassador to Turkey, has left for
his new post.
Out of $50 applications who took
examination for admission to the naval
academy "a of them passed.
President Wilson has signed the
| agricultural appropriation bill, carry
ing approximately $27,OO0.O00.
The Etna observatory reports that
the center Of the crater of Mount Etna,
| 1000 feet deep, is in full eruption.
Lava is flowing to the southwest.
A baby boy, alive and healthy, was
weighted down with heavy rock tied
to its neck and dropped into the Cones
tega river at Lancaster, Pa.
Five persons were killed and II in
| jured, four of them fatally, when
tornado swept over eastern Arkansas,
blowing down IL buildings at Ed
| mundson, Ark.
Ralph Arnold. 16 years old, was
killed and Rollie Boyd, 18, was seri-
ously hurt when an automobile con-
tanning six young men from Annawan,
| ILL.,, was overturned.
Depositors of the defunct La Sale
Street Trust and Savings Bank, of
which William Lorimer was president.
after waiting two years, will get Is
! per cent dividend soon.
| Maj. Robert NJ VIM, U. s. A., chief
hospital surgeon with the national
guardsmen at Eagle Pass, Tex, is
dead after few days illness of pneu-
| monia.
The government of Colombia has re-
| quested the Swiss governmtnt to send
three Swiss officers for period of
three years to reorganize the Colon
| bian army along Swiss lines.
| DR.. Max Baff, psychologist of Clark
| College, Worcester, has discovered
| why girls kiss soldiers in uniform. He
says: ut is the uniform the girls ad-
mire and not the soldier"
Truman Coats. laborer of Havana,
| ILL.,, and his sister, Miss Australia
Coats. of Mason City, Ia, have been
notified they are two of IA heirs to
$4,000.O00 estate near Chicago.
In pistol fight with two suspected
robbers, Ernest Keller, chief Of police
at Drumwright, Ok, was killed.
Mrs. Adolphus A. Laws, Of
| Centralia, ILL.,, was fined $7.15 for al
| lowing her 20-month-old baby girl to
run outdoors without clothing of any
kind.
The Saow Green fair, held in Lin
| colnshire, England, without break for
800 years, was abandoned this year on
account Of the war.
A Lloyds dispatch from Barcelona
says the Italian steamship San Sebas-
tianc,. 4,043 tons, has been sunk by
submarine off Cape San Sebastian.
The Atlantic fleet championship
trophies for gunnery and battle eff
cheney during the year were awarded
to the battleship Texas.
Americans are smoking more and
more cigarettes. During the first half
of this year. according to statistics
issued, American manufacturers have
marketed S,754,000,0O0 cigarettes, COM
pared with $685.. 100000 in the same
period last year.
Fire and Police Commissioner w. T.
| Mclean of Memphis was susnended NV