McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-05-26


A strike Of union telegraph opera
tors employed by the Western Union
in Washington was averted when the
company reinstated II telegraphers
recently discharged.
The tank steamship Standard Ar
row. the largest vessel of its kind in
the world, was launched at Philadel-
phia. The vessel Is 46s feet long and
has capacity Of 100000 gallons.
Consul-G General Skinner in mes
sage to the state department an
nounced that the British steamer
Etria has been sunk by German sub.
marine.
Practically all the striking workmen
at the plants Of the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing company,
in East Pittsburg, Pa, have returned
to work.
J. w. Samples, 70 years old, has en-
tered Marshall college, at Huntington,
w. Va, as student.
Coffee will displace beer at the let
ter carriers state convention In Plain
field. N. j., on May 80.
Mrs. Carl Hyne of New Harmony,
Ind, was bitten by a bear. Gypsies
camped near New Harmony had two
bears and Mrs. Hyne was caressing
one when the animal sank its teeth in
her arm.
Gov. Dunno of Illinois called at the
White House and invited President
Wilson to address the Illinois Bar as
sociation in Chicago June 8.
All telegraph operators on the Penn
sylvania lines east of Pittsburg have
been notified of a wage increase.
Seventeen firemen were overcome
by an explosion Of gas during fire at
the Oriental Tea company's plant, in
Milwaukee.
Shocked by too fashionable dis
play of ankles by several telephone
girls on the streets, the head operator
at Paterson, N. j., has ordered all 10
cal hello" girls to wear long skirts.
The house adopted the conference
report on the bill amending the
postal savings law and raised the
minimum deposits per month from
500 to $1,000.
DR.. Clemens Delbrueck, German
minister of the interior and vice-chan-
cellor, has resigned.
The Hansa Steamship company Of
Bremen, the third largest German
navigation concern, reports its net
profits of 1915 we're $4,000, as com.
pared with $2,20O,OO0 in the year be
fore the war.
samuel Friedman of New York
thought he knew Mrs. Katherine Phip
pard and gave her friendly greeting
by slapping her on the back. Three
months in jail; now you'll know bet
ter" said the court.
William White, the discharged ne
gro trooper who killed two negroes
and wounded white woman, was
wounded and captured in battle, aft
er an exchange of shots with soldiers
from Fort Leavenworth.
The board of education barred
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Ven
ice' from the New Haven Conn
schools.
Adj. Gen. Harry f. Gamble Of Colo
RADIO requested the designations Of all
officers of the field and staff Of the
militia.
Franklin Lane, secretary Of the in
terror, granted full citizenship rights
to 40 residents of the Yankton Sioux
reservation
A forest fire burned $500 acres in
the Jemez division of the Santa Fe
national forest
A resolution to pledge congress to
support all efforts Of the president to
maintain "even-handed and undiscrim
mating neutrality and facilitate the
establishment Of permanent peace
was introduced by Senator Gore.
Tenants in New York building
kicked stick of dynamite around the
Railways for three days before a la
borer discovered the nature of the
football.
Gov. Whitman has been requested by
the war department to select three
enlisted members Of the national
guard between the ages of 10 and %
as candidates for West Point.
Two Of Indiana's famous sons
Meredith Nicholson and Booth Tark
ington--put their names to the enlist
ment roll for summer military train
ing at Fort Benjamin Harrison.
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The New York police are searching
for Miss Doris Ponty, Sunday school
teacher, who has been missing from
her home since April 2.
M. J. Stanton of Stanton, Me-. q
moth inspector, uses trained monkey
to climb out on the smaller branches
of the trees for moth nests.
Gen Maxwell, commanding the Brit
ish forces in Ireland, issued a procla
nation forbidding all parades and pc
litical or athletic meetings in Ireland
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