McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-04-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN

Weeks News Condensation Re.
viewed Without comment--All
Nations Find Something to
| Edlfy and instruct.
Oh property in the Usage Nation
valued at approximately $4,000 900,
with daily flow of nearly 10000 bar
rels, has been sold at public auction.
Rafael Zubaran, former confidential
agent for the Mexican government at
washington, has been appointed min
lister to Germany and the adjacent
countries.
A Dill to make the writing of
threatening letter to the president a
misdemeanor was reported fayorably
by the house judiciary committee.
August Dieter, Missouri university
student, &c years of age, committed
s"icidc by sending a bullet into his
head.
DR.. c. E. Bowden, a member of the
Missouri state Republican committee.
was slain when lightning struck his
auto at Appleton City. Mo.
An eight-hour day is soon to be In
augurated in the midcontinent oil
fields.
Several hundred workmen held up a
street car, elected all the passengers
and broke all the windows on line
on the south side In Chicago. Bad
service caused the demonstration.
Some modification of the embargo
on exports Of dyestuffs so sorely
needed by the American manufactur.
ers has been decided upon by the Ger.
man government.
Notice was posted In the Willysl
Overland automobile factory, at To
ledo, O.. that wages of all employees
would be increased from 4 to 10 Der
cent on June /.
Despondent because her friends said
she was not good-looking, Miss Clara
Swearingen. University of Illinois CO
cd and daughter OF banker, commit
ted suicide by taking gas.
The Portuguese government has or.
dered the expulsion OF all Germans
over the military age and the intern
ment of all others.
A detachment Of marines from the
Brooklyn navy yard has taken charge
OF the big wireless plant at Tuckerton,
and no more messages will be sent
without the sanction of the depart
ment.
Eighty-five business men and law
yers have enrolled with the speakers
bureau of the National Security league
to conduct meetings in the interest of
preparedness.
An Exchange Telegraph company
dispatch from JANA states that Italian
troops, as will as British, French and
Servian, are now on Greek soil.
Guests at the Mundelein banquet
started a campaign to raise $4,000 to
be offered as a reward for the capture
Of Jean Crones. who slipped arsenic
into the soup.
Very severe earth shocks were re-
corded on Georgetown university seis-
mographs.
Harry X. Thaw has at last secured
his divorce from Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
in the courts at Pittsburg.
Enormous fields Of ice that have
been on Keweenaw Point, extending
into Lake Michigan north and west as
far a. could be seen. broke up before
q gale.
Another revolution in Haiti Is immi-
nent. The crisis has been developed
by the action of President Dartiguen-
ave in creating q council Of state to
draft q new constitution.
The British admiralty announced
that 40 lives were lost when the Brit
ish steamship Zent was sunk without
warning by German submarine.
Eight persons were killed and IS In
jured when the Gilt Edge express
train on the New Haven railroad
crashed into the rear of a local train
on a siding at Bradford. r. /.
The trade agreement recently made
between Germany and Roumania pro-
vides for the establishment of a sell
ing bureau in Bucharest and buying
bureau in Berlin.
Fighting between government troops
and revolutionists took place at Can
ton, China, when soldiers opposed the
landing of the rebels.
Judge Newton In Terre Haute, Ind,
fined George Baxter $500 and sen
fenced him to the state penal farm for
1870 days because he borrowed saws
and did not return them.
The impartial asserts 1t has learned
that new transatlantic line between
Vigo, Spain, and New York Ii soon
to be launched.
Eighty merchantmen with total
tonnage Of 100000 were sunk By Ger
man submarines or by mines during
the month Of March.