McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-07-28
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HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
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1t has been learned that Robert
Bacon, former ambassador to France,
and DR.. A. P. Strong of the Harvard
medical school left Columbus, N. M,
for Gen. Pershing's headquarters in
Mexico.
Two British prisoners have been
killed by guards in a riot in work
shops near the detention camp in
Berlin.
A Zeppelin airship which raided
Riga was hit by shells from Russian
high-angle guns and wrecked.
Miss Alice Mazerky, former Chi
cago social settlement worker, will
not be executed for high treason in
Austria. the state department has an
nounced.
Two hundred fishermen are believed
to have lost their lives in monsoon
off the coast Of Colombo, Ceylon.
Carl G. Morse and J. e. Barnes
pleaded guilty before Judge Latshaw
in the criminal court at Kansas City
to obtaining motor car under false
pretenses. They were sent up for
three years each.
Two Swedish flight lieutenants,
Mannstroem and Krues, were killed at
Stockholm. Their machine fell from a
height of 800 feet.
Miss Lizzie Lyndon, Miss True Esh.
Gilman and Arthur Larson were killed
| when their automobile turned over
near Kewanee, Ill.
Five policemen, answering a hurry
| call in Kansas City, Kan, were in
jured when front spring of their au.
| tomobile, running at high speed, col.
| lapsed.
One man was killed, one probably
| fatally stabbed and several hurt in a
| fight between union sympathizers and
employees of the Memphis (Tenn.)
Street Railway Co.
A naval court of inquiry into the
grounding of the naval collier Hector
abandoned off Charleston, has begun
hearing at the Charleston navy yard
Four passersby in the street oppo-
site his locksmith shop at Newark, N
j., were shot and seriously wounded
recently by Salvatore Castronova, So
years old, an inventor, who suddenly
had gone insane, before he set fire to
his clothing and burned to death.
manufacture of synthetic rubber on a
large scale next month.
One hundred and sixty laborers al
the Malleable Castings Co., Toledo
o., struck because of excessive heat
]. G. Jackson of Danville, negro
is in Jail here following his arrest or
a warrant charging he collected funds
for "the white horse army manual
training industrial school and or
phans' home" at Danville, a mythical
institution.
The Sioux City Daily News has beer
sold at auction to Gov. Arthur Cappel
of Kansas for $4,000.
A contract has been signed by the
municipality OF Bogota, Colombia, and
a New York financial concern under
which Bogota will borrow 100000.
/ The fleet Of deep sea treasure hunt
ing ships which will seek to recover
the million dollars worth OF silver
bullion aboard the sunken Spanish
steamer Merida put into Newport
News for repairs.
Leo Palace, 2 years old, at Joliet
H., was attacked by rooster which
he was trying to chase and as a re
suit is in a serious condition. The
rooster turned on him and pecked hin
in the head. rendering him uncon
| scious.
An American four-masted schooner
presumably laden with petroleum, and
three Swedish steamers laden with
pulp have been captured by German
torpedo boats and taken into Swine
munde.
American sheep raisers will receive
about $75,000,000 for this years WOO
crop. Average prices during June
were 1871 cents pound, higher thar
for many years.
Sixteen hundred tons of tears ar
rived at New York on the French
steamer Vile Du Havre. The vessels
cargo consisted of Spanish onions.
Gov. Capper Of Kansas telegraphed
to the department of justice an appeal
for clemency for Robert H. Stroud
sentenced to die July 81 for killing a
guard at the Fort Leavenworth prison
Abram Elkus Of New York was nom
mated by President Wilson as ambas
sador to Turkey to succeed Henry
Morgenthau.
Where Alexander Was Born.