McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-05-19
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-AII
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.

Arguing over whether 1.-THE Birth Of
Nation should be suppressed, Rep
resentative Sam Nichols and Repre-
sentative Lehbach came to blows in a
Washington hotel.
BY vote of 22,337 to 14,703, miners
Of the Second district, United Mine
Workers of America, ratified the Phil
adelphia scale.
The Flagler hospital, presented to
st. Augustine, Fla, in 1888 by the late
Henry M. Flagier, was destroyed by
fire.
Frank Steele Of Little Rock, brake
man, was killed when trestle on the
Iron Mountain road fell.
Charles D. Probert, cashier, and
Ernest c. Theobald, assistant cashier
of the First National bank of Ocono-
mowoc, Wis, were arrested on the
charge of Incorporating between
$4,000 and $1,000.
A barber shop where one may shave
himself was started in Chicago. 1t is
called a shaveteria.
Senate and house conferees on the
postoffice appropriation bill have elm
mated the senate amendment provid
ing increased railway mail pay on &C.
count of the parcel post.
The Grand Army of the Republic
condemned the use of the American
flag by the side of the Confederate
flag as the official markers of the
Dixie Decline highway.
Declaring that Mrs. Mabel Jackmans
collection of trained spooks are re
sponsible for the engagement of d
Claflin, 80, of Chicago to Mrs. Jack
son, relatives seek to prevent the wed
ding.
Between 1000 and 5000 inside In
dustrial iron and bronze workers al
filiated with the International Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers union in
New York struck for higher wages
and fewer hours.
Consul T. D. Edwards, at Juarez
has received message from the state
department at Washington to order all
Americans in his district to leave
Mexico at once.
President Wilson will not accept any
agreement that looks to the withdraw
al of American soldiers from Mexico
r. B. Crittenden of Muskogee, Ok.
was sentenced to serve II years in
prison following his conviction by a
jury on charge of robbing the, First
National bank at Wan, Ok, of S2.so0
Adoption of an amendment reducing
from $4,000 to $500 the salaries Of
members Of the proposed farm land
board was the net result of another
all-day debate in the house on the
rural credit bill.
1t Is up to Company X Of the Sew
enty-first New York militia to learn
the ''corkscrew" attack, now that Nor
man Selby (Kid Mccoy has joined
The Kids corkscrew was usually q
sleepmaker.
The shovelers employed by the Fed
eral and Doe Run Lead company al
Flat River, Mo-, have been on a strike
for more than week, and as q result
1000 men are out of work.
Charging that his wife duped him
into marrying her after an acquaint
ance of three hours, and that she is 81
instead of 81, as he believed, N A.
Jerjin of Chicago asks the annulment
of his marriage.
Preston w. Bean of Atchison, KAN
formerly probate Judge, died last
week convict in the Kansas peniten-
tiary.
Five men are known to have been
killed and scores injured by an explo-
sion of dynamite in the mixing plant
Of the Atlas Powder company at Land
ing, N. ].
Chicago's all-night cabarets no long
er exist. A new city ordinance requir'
ing restaurants where liquor is sold to
close at a. M has gone into effect.
Judge Lindsey of Denver Juvenile
court fame is in serious condition at
his home.
A Central News dispatch from Zu
rich reports recurrence Of food riots
in Berlin, in which machine guns were
used to subdue mobs of women.
Authorities of Tuscaloosa county
Ala, are investigating the death of G
C. Nieklas, whose body was found on
the Warrior river bridge near Ausca'
loosa
j. Hector Wren. Dallas (Tex) avi
ator, was killed when his aeroplane
failed to right itself after looping the
loop.
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Where Alexander Was Born.
British travellers at Saloniki may
easily make the excursion of a few
miles to the birthplace of Alexander