McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-10-20
NEWS or THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condemnation of Weeks News Re-
viewed Without comment-AIl
Nations Find Something to
Edlfy and Instruct.

Edify and Instruct.
John Cook, living in Massac county,
ILL.,, shot himself through the throat
and when the wound did not prove ia
tai crawled into straw stack and set
1t afire,
Precious stones may now be inn
ported into the United States through |
the mails.
Conductor Benjamin Fairchild and |
Brakeman Carl H. Hinde, both OF |
Cumberland, Nd, we're killed when
an excursion train on the Western |
Maryland railroad collided with an.
other.
Official announcement of the agree.
ment reached between the Hudson &
Manhattan railroad and its employees
disclosed that the company is not
obliged to recognize the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen.
Traces of oil have been found at
1913 feet at an Ullin (Ill.) well. Stock
holders and farmers are pouring into
the town.
Miss Helen Macumber, Is, jumped
to safety from second-story window
when fire destroyed John Bakers
store and several other business
houses of the town of Essex, Ill.
Recognition of the union and rein
statement of strikers were the chief
provisions of a contract signed at Mus
kogee, Ok, by which the local trac-
ton strike was ended.
The German diet has decided to
seize the stocks of tobacco throughout
the empire. The issuance Of tobacco
tickets will follow the seizure.
German business interests in South
America have been officially advised
that submarines will sink no ships be-
tween North and South American
ports.
The migration OF negro laborers
from the south to the north, where
the war has resulted in scarcity of
European immigrant laborers, attracts
the attention of the department Of
labor.
In defiance of possible lurking sub
marines, the White Star liner Adri-
ATTIC. the queen of the munitions
fleet" has sailed for England, carry
ing $4,000 tons of war supplies.
Mrs. Amelia Dudek, tried for the
murder Of the Rev. Henry Japeski,
Catholic priest, at st. Paul, was found
not guilty but insane by jury.
Norway's losses at sea from the.
opening of the war up to Oct. 10, as
the result of mines and submarines.
are III vessels, OF a total Of $4,000
tons.
Adam Schubert, millionaire farm
or aud land owner of Lorain county,
To-, burned his country home, failed in
an attempt to hang himself and ended
his life by cutting his throat.
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Popular use of the term "highbrow'
to express scorn Of intellectual things
is condemned by President John H.
Hibben Of Princeton university.
Gov. r. Livingston Beckman and
United States Senator Henry F. Lip
pitt were renominated by the Rhode
Island Republican convention,
Private Herbert CHASER, 20 years old,
of A battery, First Indiana field artil-
,lery. accidentally shot and killed HIM
self at Point Isabel. Tex, while clean
ing a pistol.
Willys-Overla stockholders will
get cash quarterly dividend OF ST.
100000 on Nov. /.
One man was shot and killed and
four others probably MORALLY wound
ed during a general battle following
school election at the Beech Grove
precinct, in Breathitt county. Ky.
Three men were killed and seven
injured in a collision between two
freight trains on the c., c., G. & st. l..
-ssIxwax, ~ E,arphouk
DR.. Arthur L. Hunt, who assisted
the health department in observing
persons coming to the District of Co
lumbia' from communities infected
with infantile paralysis, is dead OF
that disease.
The Women's Trade Union league
of Chicago, Kansas City, st. Louis
and Springfield, H., at Chicago
meeting urged the extension of the
eight-hour day to all women workers.
While trying to subdue a fractions
horse. William Olsen, young farmer
of Mountain Grove, Mo-, was instantly
killed by kick from the animal.
Capt, c. l.. Harris, 76. who was one
of the builders of the Gulf & Ship
Island railroad. is dead at Memphis.
Tenn.
The Cairo-Poplar Bluff Highway as
ISOLATION will build an automobile
highway from Cairo to Poplar Bluff
Five men in tunnel half mile out
from the shore of Lake Michigan at
Chicago and $50 feet beneath the wa
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