McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-12-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation Of Weeks News Re-
viewed Without Comment-An
Nations Find Something to
Edify and instruct.

Five companies operating 256 tea
and coffee stores have been purchased
by Merrill, Lynch & Co., New York
bankers, for $10,0OO,000.
Safeblowers are picking on" the
Consumers Coal Co., Chicago. Eight
times in three weeks the safes of the
company have been blown and each
time the loot has been around $500.
Mrs. Mary Kirchon of Yonkers, a
nurse who has a mania for kissing
men, has been committed to the hos
pital for the insane.
Declaring that she proposed to him
and then avoided the altar, William
35, of Jersey City, widow
er, has sued Mrs. Rose HoltZ, so, a
widow. for $4,000 heart balm.
Playing poker is no ground for sep
aration, Justice Kelly told A. s. Beck
Of New York, who declared that his
wife neglected her home to play cards.
Carl Bushnell of Chicago is asking
Judge Mcdonald to annul an order for
the payment of alimony and attor-
neys' fees to his wife. Bushnell mas
records to show the order was signed
two hours after Mrs. Bushnell's death.
The library of congress added more
than $4,000 volumes in the year end
ing in June. It contains 2,451,974
books, $4,000 maps and charts, TO-
24S volumes and pieces Of music and
392,906 prints.
f. X. Cosgrove's glass eye exploded
while he was dining at North Vernon.
Ind. AS result he was unconscious
several minutes. The explosion was
due to heat from stove.
With the temperature so degrees be
low zero, Fairbanks, Alaska, is suffer
ing from scarcity of fuel.
Rein Orr, William Fitzgerald, VIII
liam Faber and James H. Valley, rep
resenting the New York City stree,
car strikers, called upon President
Wilson to ask that the federal govern
ment intervene in the strike.
A blockade Of Greece, as a measure
Of reprisal for the riots in Athens, in
which French marines were fired on
has been officially announced.
The Pittsburg Steel Co., with plants
at Monessen and Glassport, and the
Pittsburg Steel Products Co., a sub
sidiary concern. have announced ar
increase of 10 per cent in wages.
The Lee county Qa.) grand jury has
returned At indictments after two
weeks session. Forty-six of these are
for alleged illegal selling of liquor.
Whether to make them substantial
ly shorter or to add another SO PEI
cent to the cost of stockings was de
bated by members Of the Nationa
Association Of Hosiery Manufacturer,
in Chicago.
Inspection of all exports Is beina
instituted by the Japanese govern
ment to prevent Japanese manufac
turers from throwing away trade op
portunities by exporting inferio
goods.
Mrs. Della Wyczas, %, OF Chicago
was found dead in bed with a bulle
hole in her head and across her bod.
lay that of her husbands step-brother
Charles Wyczas, also dead from |
bullet wound.
A gift Of 100000 for building TO
the school Of business of Columbii
University was announced by tn,
trustees.
Two masked men entered a Mem
phis bank, covered the cashier witt
revolvers and forced him to turn owe
sack Of money containing $4,000
They walked outside. got into wait
ing automobile and escaped.
Richard Anderson Is dead and Ere.
Wagner of Waukegan, ILL.,, seriousl.
Ill as the result of drinking hors,
liniment which they found and mis-
took for whisky.
An investigation into the increasing
infant mortality In Berlin has estab
-fished that the rising death rate Il
due to an insufficient sugar allowance
according to the Exchange Telegraph
Co.
Robbers blew open the vaults of tn
Johnson City (Tenn.) postoffice recent
ly and escaped with $4,000 worth o
stamps and 800 in money.
with an output or s,S50,0OO dimes
S,260,200 nickels and 2S,975,450 pen
MES in November, the Philadelphia
mint established a record in the mum
Der Of pieces coined.
Through manipuletionsa by middle
men, rice has risen to 30 cents
pound in Vienna, the highest pric
ever reached.
No one will henceforth be allowe
to go from the United Kingdom t
Spain, Portugal or South Americ
without special permit
Thirty master plumbers, convicte
Of combinations in violation of tn
Sherman antitrust law were fine
s625 In the Des Moines federal cour
by Judge w. H. Pollock.