McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-10-20

JONI, controIl1ng the DIGEST war
charity fund in existence, applied for,
registration under the war charities
act.
Charles e. Hughes has registered
for the November election, the first
time in six years.
Sequtada Ito, president of the Togo
Steamship Co. of Japan, will spend
week in Panama studying conditions.
City Commissioner ]! P. Ramsey of
Springfield, Mo-, was injured serious
ly when street car crashed into
jitney.
The sinking of the Italian steam
ship Alberto Treves is reported in a
dispatch from Corunna. She struck a
reef in fog.
Crude oil producers have announced
an increase of 10 cents barrel for
the higher-priced grades and cents
for heavy oil
Judge Il. Ryan of st. Joseph, after
hearing evidence, ordered Oscar D..
Mcdaniel, charged with numbering his
wife, admitted to $50, 900 bail.
For the first time in the history of
the Baptist church in Missouri, the
| state organization is now out of debt
and has surplus of $1,S00.
| The first national convention of
anti-suffragists in America will be
held in Boston Dec. g.
Marshal Count Terauchi, new Japa.
nese premier. has completed his cabi.
net with the statesman Motono as
foreign minister.
Armed policemen are guarding the
Bayonne IN. j. plant of the Stand
ard Oil Co., where strike was called
which was said to affect more than
5000 men. The strikers ask increases
OF from 20 to 80 per cent.
G. Beutelscacher, former ambassa
dor to Venezuela under the Mckinley
administration, is dead at Delaware
o., from cancer.
Thomas Mott Osborne's resignation
as warden OF Sing Sing, N. Y, was
announced by James M. Carter, state
superintendent of prisons.
The Danish submarine Dykkerer
was sunk after being in collision with
a Norwegian steamer. The crew o.
the submarine was saved
Mrs. LAWN Laning, wife of the cash
| Ter of the First National bank of Pc
tersburg, ILL.,, ended her life by shoot
ing.
A new sort Of sugar, obtained from
the Palmyra palm, which grows abun
dainty in the northern districts O.
Ceylon. will shortly be placed on tn,
market at London.
|
When Max Bloom, diamond mer
chant, went to the bank he found hii
wallet missing. 1t contained $4,000
in diamonds and $1,000 in currency.
| Suddenly going insane, George Bry
an of Kansas City with an ak crushed
the skulls Of his two small children
George and Lucille. then shot and
killed himself.
| Warren X. Billings, convicted of tn,
murder of Mrs. Myrtle Van Loo, il
connection with the preparedness da,
parade bomb explosion at San Fran
4 cisco, was sentenced to life imprison
ment.
j Compiled figures show that Their,
are in Russia 100000 pounds o
cereals remaining from last year,
crops.
i When Mrs. Lula Snyder obtained .
divorce from G. E. Snyder in For
Worth court 1t was her fourth one.
4 Charles Smith, negro, accused O
| shooting and wounding Deputy Sher
lift B. A. English, was captured ant
lynched by mob near Sandersville
Ga.
| Candidate Hughes has made cur
denial of charges made by Norman
Hapgood that there is an understand
ing between himself and German prop
agandists.
] In race fight between negroes ant
whites near Mill. Mont. in Meagel
county, several negroes are said t.
have shot three white men, killing
two.
| Charles LeQuire, a prison guard o
Greenwood. s. c., shot and killed Mil
ton Townsend and Townsend's father
in-law, ''Pomp" Davis. and then killed
himself.
Maximum prices for spoiled buttel
and other fats are planned in the neal
future for Germany.
A Constantinople telegram says the
comm ittee of union and progress ha.
adopted resolution to pursue the
war with Turkeys allies to victori
Gus end.
1 The proposal to enforce conscrip
ton In Ireland was denounced by Johr
Redmond. Irish leader, in speech a
Waterford as "the most fatal thins
that could happen"
The Wisconsin legislature convened
in special session to enact a law tc
permit Wisconsin soldiers on the Dor
der to vote by mail