McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-04-14

ests' we're passed at the New Jersey
convention of the German-American
alliance.
Simplified spelling of 10 words rec
commended by the National Education
! al assooiattiion We EIDE adopted hy the
Philadelphia North American. The
words are tho, altho, thru, turnout,
thoro, thoroly, thorofare, program,
prolog, catalog, pedagog and decalog.
Fifteen hundred unorganized miners
employed in 10 collieries In the Allie
gheny valley are on strike for an
eight-hour day.
Passenger traffic on the railroads
has decreased throughout the country,
largely on account of the use of auto
mobiles, according to L. F. Loree,
president of the Delaware & Hudson
Railroad company.
Howard Chandler Christy, New York
artist of note, filed suit to divorce
Mabelle Thompson Christy.
DR.. Herbert. Cummings, Grand Ha.
ven (Mich!) dentist, drank large
quantity of poison about 10 hours be-
fore his brother, z. p. Cummings of
Lansing, shot and killed himself in a
Chicago hotel.
Ira Jones, constable at Christopher,
ILL.,, was shot and killed by Clee Smith,
miner, in a saloon.
Expert mechanics from the plant Of
the New London Comm Ship and
Engine company departed for Petro-
grad to work on submarines being
built by the concern for the Russian
| government.
While police were searching the
home Of DR.. H. Brooks of Memphis,
Tenn, for a burglar, the 15-year-old
son, Henry P. Brooks, mistook Police
man w. Gresham for a burglar and
shot him.
Angered over his wife's suit to d.
vorce him and forced to pay alimony
while 1t was pending William Brown,
a meat cutter at Losand, ILL.,, entered
his wife's boarding house, shot her
twice and then killed himself.
| A general amnesty proclamation ap-
! plying to persons convicted before tri-
bunals Of Alsace and Lorraine has
been issued by Emperor William.
| =
By the substitution of white for red
tape in government offices, the Brit
ish cabinet has effected a saving Of
$1,000 year.
A general increase Of pay Of en-
ployes of the American Smelling and
Refining company became effective
April /.
Citizens of Columbus, N. NJ, will be
armed with pistols furnished them by
the Kansas City (Mo) police depart
ment.
L. Garfield Snow, editor of Valpa-
raise (Ind) reform newspaper, was
either thrown or jumped from sec
ond story window of his office build
ing following an attempt to kidnap
him.
Owing to rumors of President Yuan
Shi Kais resignation, Pekin is in a
veritable state of panic. Marines from
the gunboat Wilmington have been
landed at Swatow.
Edward Monohan married Miss Yer
ME McHenry March IS at Kansas
City. Two days later they separated,
and he has brought suit for divorce.
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A bill for comprehensive control of
rivers, prevention of floods and devel-
opment of water power was intro
duced by Representative Rainey of II
linois. 1t carried an appropriation Of
$60,000,000 year for 10 years.
1 Judge Dooling of San Francisco
overruled demurrers to the bomb plot
indictments against Franz Bopp, Ba-
ron R. H. Won Setback, Baron George
Wilhelm Won Brincken and four
others.
4 Henry p. Haas OF Pittsburg was
elected president of the National As
sociation Of Real Estate Exchanges.
Gross earnings of the. Erie railroad
during 1915 were $66,436,720 an in
crease of $6,776.494 over 1914, accord
ing to the annual report.
British casualties in March, as com,
piled from the published lists, amount
. ed to 1,107 officers and 1887 men
A reward of $1,000 is offered for
the arrest Of Oliver H. Cline, missing
. cashier of Seattle concern. whose
books show defalcations of 100000.
The British steamer Carly has been
picked up, disabled at sea, by the
steamer Fogola, and is being towed to
Halifax.
A dispatch filed at Oldenzaal, Hol
land, says that many persons lost
, | their lives in fire in a powder fac
tory at Trcisdorf, near Cologne.
The schooner Metinic, which sailed
: from New York on Feb. 26 for Ston
/ ington, Me-, has been given up az
lost. She carried five men.
7 Suit was filed in Council Bluffs, la.
, against the estate of the late Gen
, Granville Dodge for delinquent taxes
aggregating $1,000,0o0.