McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-06-02

Hresluenl wilson and Franklin
Lane, secretary of the interior, will be
present at the dedication of the Ele-
plant Butte dam, in New Mexico,
early in October.
The American steamship Ventura
reports that she picked up wireless
message from the station at Tucker
ton, N. j., when 5000 miles from that
point.
The divorce question at the North
ern Baptist convention in Minneapolis
finally was disposed of by the adop-
ton of resolution disappearing the
action of ministers who officiate at
the marriage of divorced persons.
David Lamar, convicted of imper.
sonating congressman, has begun
serving his term at the Atlanta peni-
Tertiary.
Gov. Dunno will march In the pre-
paredness parade to be held in Spring
field June 8, instead of going to Chi
cago.
The senate voted an appropriation
of s1.5O0.O0O for improving the Missis-
sippi between the Missouri and Min
neapolis.
Rev. Edw. E. Anderson, SO, known
In Grand Arpoy oiroIas &c tbo af;,,bt
ing parson," is dead at his home at
Quincy, Mass.
The sixty-fourth session of tina
grand lodge of the Independent Order
of B'Nai Birth opened its session at
Cleveland.
It is believed here that the Prince of
Wales is to wed the second daughter
of the car, the stately Grand Duchess
Tatiana.
James r. Severance, 70 years old,
treasurer of Oberlin (O.) college since
1884, died suddenly at his home.
Mesa Verde National park, in south
western Colorado, has opened its 1916
season. II Is the first of the national
Fairgrounds to be thrown open to the
general public.
First Lieutenant Boelke has brought
down his seventeenth and eighteenth
hostile aeroplanes. He was promoted
by Emperor Wilhelm.
The tract Of land near Munich re-
Gently purchased by the Krupps, will
be used as the site for a cannon fac
tory. The gums manufactured art this
plant will be sent to Germany's allies.
somewhat this year because Germany
cannot ship to this country suffi-
Gent quantity of small United States
flags.
The kaiser has returned to Berlin to
take a hand in the ministerial crisis
brought about by the designations of
DR.. Clemens Delbrueck, minister of
the interior, and Baron Scorlemer,
minister of agriculture.
Winfield R. Sheehan, former secre-
tary of Police Commissioner Waldo Of
New York, has been made defendant
in a breach Of promise suit for $4,000
brought by Miss Julia Beaubien. a
show girl
Fred w. MERCK, former Socialist
editor, is charged by the grand jury
investigating the recent Braddock
(Pa) riots with being the real leader
of the mob that attacked the Edgar
Thompson steel works.
A body found in slough near Port
land. Ore, was identified as that of
Miss Ella Harris, former teacher,
who disappeared May s.
Miss Jennie Jones, woman golf
champion Of Iowa, was killed at Sioux
City, Ia, when her automobile was hit
by the police patrol.
Murdered while asleep, with her
baby In her arms. Mrs. J. Farrell was
found dead at a rooming house in
Washington, while slumped over her
bed was the body Of Henry Bell. dead
from poison.
c. L. Simpson has suggested to the
Biloxi (Miss.} commercial club that
mosquitoes can be eliminated by plac-
ing certain kind of minnow in the
ponds.
Corporal Kitten Rockwell of Atlanta,
Ca, a member of the American flying
squadron, attacked and destroyed a
German aeroplane operating near Hart
manns-Wellerkopf.
The Jews of Chicago raised $3.50, 900
for the relief of sufferers in Europe at
one mass meeting. The committee
hopes to raise more than half million
Members of the crew Of the Cymric
on their arrival at Liverpool reported
that the White Star liner had been
sunk by an explosion Of her boilers.
King Christian of Denmark was op
Grated on for intestinal trouble SINH.
lar to that which necessitated an op'
| GRAFTON early in 1915.
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