McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-09-15


William ]. Bryan completed his
seasons work on the ChautauqIa
circuit and is taking a two weeks
vacation, after which he will devote
his time to the Wilson campaign.
The first complaint under the new
segregation ordinance at Dallas, Tex,
was made by negroes against white
family that moved into block other
wised occupied solely by negroes.
George Huey, fireman, of Zanes-
vile. O., was killed, and George
Windtland of Woodsfield, engineer,
was fatally injured when a broken
rail wrecked an Ohio River & West
ern train.
There are 1876 hospitals In the Lon
don district under control of the war
department.
It is reported In the royal entour
age that the Duchess of Roxburghe,
who before her marriage was Miss
May Ogden Goelet, has been offered
the position of mistress of the robes
of Queen Mary.
Buddy Hickman, years old; Cliff
ford Whitemer, IA, and Earle Reese,
81, Of Dayton, o., were drowned at
a picnic on the Miami river. Reese
tried to rescue the two boys.
In announcing that IL enemy aero
planes were brought down recently
in the Somme region. the army head
quarters statement said Capt. Boelke
had brought down his twentieth ma
chine.
Prof HILBERT, several years ago an
exchange professor In the United
States, was killed recently in an aer-
ial action over the western front in
France.
w. E. Lockett was killed in a so
mile auto race at Knoxville. Tenn.
when the machine was halted by
throwing tire. He was thrown out
of the car and the next racer ran
over him, crushing him to death.
Although an original Roosevelt
man, Thomas A. Edison has come out
for Wilson. In a statement the In
ventor said: Wilson has earned a
faith and trust, and 1t Is now time
to consider men and not parties"
The Lihue Sugar Co. of Kauai, T.
H., has absorbed the Makee Sugar
Co., also of Kauai, the property
of Col. 2. H. Spalding. The pur.
chase price was announced at $4,000
900.
An agreement has been reached by
| Switzerland and Germany in the dis
pute between these countries regard
| ing the exchange of commodities,
says the Havas correspondent at
Berne.
John Muller. youth arrested at
Palatka, Fla, accused of killing his
father and mother. is said to have
confessed.
| While Thomas Bambrick. one OF
the three men sentenced to die in
| the electric chair at Sing Sing, re.
| joiced in a two weeks reprieve, Joe
E. Hanel and Jan Trybuss went to
their death.
| Hereafter the employment OF chill
dren under IA years in mills and fac
tories in Alabama is forbidden
Child labor laws, enacted by the last
legislature, have just become ef
! fective.
In spite Of the fact that Georgia
is a "dry" state, A. C. Blalock, col
lector of internal revenue, reports
$41,411 collected from persons manu-
featuring or dealing In wines and fer
mented liquors.
Skookum Jim Madon, the Indiar
discoverer of the Klondike gold fields
died in poverty recently at Carcross
Yukon Territory.
Harry Lima. New York chauffeur
cranked his automobile and immedi
ately 1t jumped onto a sidewalk ant
killed Hsman Silverblatt. . pedes
trian.
| Dissension has appeared in thu
Protestant Episcopal Church over tn,
| proposal to have negro bishops a
large to supervise the negro churches
The issue will be discussed at thu
triennial convention beginning in st
Louis Oct. 8.
| Aeroplane mail service will be soor
established in ALASKA The carrier I,
e. L. Byers, and the department ex
poets to pay $4,000 per year for thu
! service.
| The following inspectors were ap
pointed with the bureau of ANNA
| industry: A. o. l.. Boykin of East st
Louis. at Chicago; f. F. Jewett. ST
Joseph. Mo-. at New Orleans: L. G
Pryor-Lee Of Wichita, Kan, at Cleve
land, o.
A score of people are reported t,
have been injured by broken raj
on the Grand Rapids & Indiana rail
road at Wilkins Switch, near Man
celona, Mich.
The Rev. J. ]. Maynard, pastor o
a Methodist church at Paris. Tenn
who eloped with Mrs. ]. w. Bates
wife of an organizer of the Ben HUI
| lodge was arrested at Russellville