McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-08-04

and electric current to federal en-
ployes in the Panama canal zone.
William Smith was shot and In
stantly killed on the porch Of his
home at Blue Grove, Tex. Alfred
Smith. 20 years old. his son, is under
arrest.
A strike of Memphis street railway
employees is settled. An agreement
was signed providing for recognition
Of the earmen's union.
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Rain has fallen at Atlanta. Ga.
every day for % days, breaking wealth
er bureau records.
Although more than AS, $4,000 pas
sengers were carried on lines of the
Pennsylvania railroad during the last
two and one-half years, statement
says no one was killed.
The Prairie Oil and Gas Co. has
posted price Of s1.45 for midconti-
nent crude, which is cut of 10 cents
Sir William Ramsay. So, eminent as
a chemist, is dead at his residence,
Beechocroft. Hazlemere. Buck.
English is to be the only language
taught in the primary grades Of the
parochial schools of the Catholic arch
diocese of Chicago.
Mrs. Robert Moore, who admitted
that she killed her husband with an
YAK May 81, is free following her ac-
quittal of murder charge. She
crushed her husbands skull In cabin
at Bannack, Mont.
Wandering along the street in her
sleep, Miss Carrie Goodman, IS years
old. was struck by freight train on
the Nickle Plate road and killed. She
was teacher in the public schools at
Cleveland, o.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, tie Eng
lish suffragist leader, who since Jan.
Is has been touring this country in
the interest Of destitute Servians, has
left in the steamship Saxonia for Liv-
erpool.
Negotiations have been completed
between the United States and Dem
mark for the purchase of the Danish
West Indies. The United States, it is
saia, will pay $25,00O,000 for the is
lands.
William Sulzer. former governor of
New York, has announced that he had
agreed to accept the presidential nom-
nation of the new American party,
which holds its first national conven-
ton in Minneapolis next Tuesday.
| s. H. B. Mueller of Quincy met
death by drowning at Hannibal. Mo.
The body Of Charles MARCEL Of New
York. who, with James H. Hurry, also
Of New York, left in canoe early In
June for Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, was
found on the shore of Albany Island,
near here
Officers of the Rosiclare and the
Fairview Spar mines at Rosiclare, ILL.,,
closed their plants indefinitely as a
result of strike and resultant vio-
lence.
Two young women and one man
were drowned in the Ohio river and a
child struck by lightning and killed
near Louisville during local storm.
Florrie Tyler OF Rotterdam. Eng,
has completed her school attendance
for a period extending over eight and
one-half years with a record of not
having missed single day.
FMld communication on the border
Is to be facilitated by the adoption Of
motor cycles for the transportation Of
, wireless sets and the utilization Of
the motor for the operation of the
dynamo.
n. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lahm were in
stantly killed by switch engine near
Evergreen Park, ILL.,, In view Of sew
eral hundred fellow picnickers.
Il The Chicago & Alton railroad is inn
| porting gangs of Mexcans for work
. upon the roadbed
A high official at the vatican states
that the holy see Is absolutely impair
tial in It's attitude in the present war.
, A jury has acquitted G. G. Stafford,
charged with embezzling $4,000 from
the Minnesota Avenue bank Of Kan
sas City. Kan.
Government auditors announced
that the value Of the bullion and coins
, In the Philadelphia mint aggregated
$3S0.201.767 at the close OF their an
nual inventory.
. Atlanta, Ca, was selected as the
, 1917 convention city for the InterIa-
tional Association of Rotary Clubs
over Kansas City and Salt Lake City.
|, Count Lewis Douglas Is dead at
Lysekii Baths, Sweden. He was grand
marshal of the kingdom and chief Of
the Swedish court.
Joseph Decker. active In chamber of
commerce work at Valparaiso, Ind,
superintended the digging OF his own
grave. which will be entirely lined
with concrete.
,, Tonnage OF ocean-going merchant
vessels being built or ordered in The