McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-09-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
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State Attorneys Ralph ]. Dady of
Lake county, ILL.,, and David R. Joslyn
OF McHenry county were both beaten
In the primaries. Dady directed the
of Will H. Orpet, charged
with numbering Marion Lambert.
Because it was alleged the people of
Brussels signaled to British aviator
who flew over the city, the German
authorities have ordered all the in
habitants to be in their homes before
Z o'clock in the evening.
Abel Cartwright, who would have
celebrated his 1929 birthday Nov. 9, is
dead at Peabody, Kan. He attributed
his long life to the fact that he never
worried.
Federal Judge William H. Pope of
New Mexico is dead at the home of
his sister.
The American state department has
asked that the death sentence inn
posed some time ago upon Harold E.
Eaton be committed to 20 years i'm
prisonment.
The Official Journal publishes the
nomination of D. Caclamanos as
Greek minister to the United States.
Henry Weight, rs, a farmer of Dali
las, Tex, shot and instantly killed his
wife, Willie Wright, then killed him
self.
J. E. Robertson, sheriff Of Carroll
county. KY, and Lucian Rice, whom
he was attempting to arrest, were
killed simultaneously in pistol duel
at Rice's home.
The department of commerce re-
ported that 1873 foreign-built vessels of
62S,744 gross tons had been admitted
to American registry up to Sept. 9,
under the act of Aug. IS, 1914.
Federal Judge Alschuler of the
United States court Of appeals re-
fused to restrain Judge lands from
hearing the Morrison bankruptcy case.
Six persons we're killed at Newark,
N j., and three were injured in tht
explosion of an ammonia tank in a
milk company's plant.
Harry ]. SPANIEL was indicted by
the Alpine, (Tex.) grand jury on a
charge of numbering his wife and Maj.
Calvin Butler the night of July 20.
Manuel Veto, an italian, working at
mine at Marion. H., was shot and
slain from ambush. Veto's two broth
ers were slain under similar circum-
stances in this county.
One man was fatally injured and 16
others hurt when the roof of q tunnel
being dug under Lake Erie at Cleve-
land caved in.
Maj. William Warner is seriously
Ill at his home in Kansas City, suffer.
ing from arterio sclsrosis.
One hundred and fifty million dol
lars worth of guncotton is to be sup
piled the allies by the Du Pont Pow
der Co.
Richard Strauss, the German COM
poser has completed the score of his
new opera, entitled 'The Woman
Without Shadow"
ss-s
Walter Eldridge, % years old, was
pounded to death against the ground
by an elephant of which he was as
sistant trainer, before thousands of
persons at Kingspo-t, Tenn.
Premier Zahle Of Denmark submit
ted in the Landsthing bill having as
lis object the settling Of the question
OF the sale OF the Danish West Indies
to the United States by plebiscite.
Constable Reast Carr shot and
killed Rafael de Loya, a Mexican, at
Clint, Tex.
Eleven lives we're lost when the
massive center span Of the new bridge
across the st. Lawrence River, weigh
ing $500 tons, suddenly collapsed and
fell into the ST. Lawrence River.
The Massachusetts, legislature met
In special session to consider meas
ures to permit Massachusetts, nation
al guardsmen on the border to vote
in November.
Odds on Hughes to win were ad-
vanced 2 to / by Edward McQuade,
betting commissioner on the New
York market, who said he had $4,000
to place at that figure.
Gen. Thomas F. James, Sc years
old. postmaster general under Presi-
denr Garfield, is dead at his home
in New York. He was born In Utica.
Women are not obliged to give their
exact ages when they ballot in the
Illinois primary. They merely state
that they are OF voting age.
Hundreds of Mexicans are being
hired as section hands on eastern
roads.
The body Of Charles 8. Presses, 80
years old, head Of the geology de-
partment of Ohio State University,
was tpuHd floating in the Olentangy
River neaf the university campus.