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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Herman Billik, of Chicago, once SEN
fenced to be hanged when convicted
of poisoning Ave members OF the
Vrzal family. but whose sentence was
committed to imprisonment, is dead
in the county hospital.
Judge Dyer in the United States
district court ordered w. L. Morsey
OF Warrenton, Mo-, former United
States marshal, to sell the st. Louis
& Hannibal railway at public auction.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
state Examinations Were Held.

An examination for highway engi'
neers, probably the first of It's charac.
ter and certainly the largest ever held
In the south. was held in the state cap.
itol by the boards OF examiners of the
Tennessee highway commission. I'm.
der the act passed by the last general
assembly, providing for state and ma.
tionsl cooperation in highway con.
struction, only engineers who have
passed an examination as prescribed
by the Tennessee highway commission
are eligible for employment on state
and national road construction.
That Tennessee may claim another
Farragut In the person of Rear Ad.
miral Albert GIeaves of Nashville, now
somewhere at sea" In command of
he flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers,
Is the prediction made by friends of
the grizzled old seadog who know him
and who have watched his career
CLOSELY. Admiral Gleaves is a Tenes.
sean to the manor born. He has been
in charge of the flotilla the last two
years.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
Submarine Chaser Launched.

Washington, D. C. The first boat
of the navy's feet Of submarine chas-
ers has just been launched at the New
York navy yard. and the second will
be launched at the New Orleans navy
yard in a few days.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
LABOR.

y Wage increases involving approx
mately $1,920,000 a year have been
granted to 5000 shopmen in the en-
ploy Of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, with an eight-hour day.
Strikes in all branches of industry
throughout Finland are reported in a
dispatch from Helsingfors.
The members of the Chattanooga
(Tenn.) Manufacturers Association.
representing 800 manufacturing COM
panies, adopted q resolution agreeing
not to recognize any union labor
movement.
Christiania workmen quit work and
marched to the parliament building.
where they demanded prohibition of
the expectation of provisions and the
seizure of all ships necessary to fur
nish food and raw materials for the
country.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
FOREIGN.

Paul Painleve, minister of war, sub
mitted bill requiring that subjects
or citizens of countries allied with
France be liable to French military
service.
The Nicaraguan government has
sent a dispatch to Washington insist
ing on the payment of the money for
the canal concession.
Seventy-four Americans are held
prisoners of war in Germany. All
were taken from merchant ships sunk
by German warships. The state de-
partment has made public the names
and addresses.
BY a vote of 3SS to rs, the Chinese
house of representatives has approved
the nomination Of Ii Ching-Hsi, minis
ter of finance, as premier.
Capt. Bathurst, the assistant Eng
lish food controller, made announce.
ment that the extraction of starch
from food cereals would be prohibit.
ed in the near future.
The Zapatista revolution has broken
down. Zapata, the rebel chief, will
not surrender except on condition
that his army be amalgamated with
the Carranzista army
All attendance records and betting
we're broken at the Whit Monday
races on the Gruenwald track. near
Berlin.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
MemphIans Eli Up Ranks.

Capt. Allen Greer received a tele
gram from Capt. Edward McCormacs
at Memphis, stating that the necessary
number had enlisted for the Memphis;
battery and that they were ready t.
be examined and mustered in.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
Good Attendance Last Term.

A grand total of 2,54S students en-,
rolled in various departments of the
University of Tennessee during the
last year is reported by President
Brown Ayres in his annual report.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
Second to Be Organized.

0CSouI u DS VI SaH<SGs -. =
With the rumor from Nashville that
the acknowledgement, Maj. Charles B.
Rogan, U. s. A., will accept the col
onelcy of the new Second Tennessee
infantry to be raised, comes the news
that interest in the new organization
is unusually keen throughout the state.
James A. Gleason of Knoxville. former
Northumberland of the third regi.
ment is understood to be slated for
ieutenant-colonel Of the new regiment.
This means that the new regiment
Is to be differed only by experienced
men.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
Feminine Candor.

Husband-That skirt would shock a
modiste!
Wife-It Is q bit long.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
WAR HREviTIEs.

The first training camp for negroes
for reserve army officers was opened
at Des Moines under auspices of the
war department
A Stockholm dispatch says the Ger
man government has announced that
Swedish and Norwegian steamers now
in British ports will have a safe pas
sage home from July /.
The naval guard of the American
liner Mongolia Is absolved from re-
sponsibility for the gun practice acct
dent that resulted in the death of two
Red Cross nurses.
A total Of 85,27S men have been re-
cruited for the regular army.
The French report that the Ger
mans have carried off all the rails and
ties of the railroads in the occupied
portion of France. Even the canals
are filled up.
Air raids on the coast of England
are becoming frequent. The latest
caused the death of IA women and
children.
The French steamer Hayti, reports
that while crossing the gulf of Gas
condy two German submarines at
tackled the vessel. The Hayti's gun
fire sank one of the pirates.
The treasury has been advised that
the German-American Bank of Nash
Vile. Tenn, with $4,000 capital. had
sent in a subscription for $23,750
worth of Liberty loan bonds.
Alfred Hertz, director Of the San
Francisco Symphony Orchestra, will
test the federal orders refusing citi-
zenship to German aliens.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08

ANTICIPATING DRY DISTRICT.
The National Capital brewery Of
Washington, in anticipation of dry
district, is preparing to convert its beer
factory into an ice cream establish
ment.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
GEN ERAl.

cents a mile to 2 4-5 cents.
GENERAL.
Private Ray Armstrong, a United
States cavalryman, stationed at San
Diego, was drowned in trying to save
three members Of the regiment who
were In bathing.
Earthquake tremors lasting two
hours were recorded by the George.
town university seismogfaph. Experts
estimated the center of the disturb.
ance at 1000 miles distant.
Prisoners at the Maryland peniten-
tia-y have bought $3.50 worth of Lib
erty bonds with savings from their
wage allowances.
The Illinois crop bulletin says: 1.-THE
wheat stand is light, but is improving.
Oats are doing well. Meadows and
pastures are backward, but are i'm.
proving"
Rear Admiral Sims, IS, in charge Of
American naval operations in Euro
pean waters, was appointed a vice-ad-
miral by President Wilson.
Nathan l.. WEIGH of eDtroit, editor
Of the Michigan Socialist, was arrest
ed by federal officials after copies Of
his paper containing anti-conscription
articles had been seized.
Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt has do
mated to the United States national
museum the Biltmore herbarium, at
her estate near Asheville, N. c.
The heavy catches In the Baltic and
North Seas have reduced the price of
fish so greatly in Germany that 1t Is
a drug on the market. The potato
crop is bad.
The military board which is consid-
ering site for the new army camp in
the west was at Carrollton, Mo-, on a
tour Of inspection last week.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
ACCIDENTS.

Four young persons lost their lives
when canoeing on the SusQuehanna
river at Hallstead, Pa. They upset
when members Of the party attempted
to change seats.
Louis Mcdonald, farmer of Belle
vile. ILL.,, shot and killed his wife
Frances. He claims the shooting was
accidental.
Five Akron (O) autoists, two wom-
en- and three men, were killed when
an Erie passenger train hit the ve-
hicle in which they were riding at q
grade crossing.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
METEOROLOGICAL.

Leopold de Rothschild, the third son
of Baron Lionel de Rothschild, is
dead at the age of II. He was a COM
mander Of the Royal Victorian order.
1t became known here that Walter
NJ Scheftel, the wealthy New York
broker, killed himself by shooting at
the Placid club.
Francis King Bret Harte, son of the
novelist Bret Harte. died at Monte
Carlo on April "a.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08

SAVE A DOCTORS BILL
by keeping Mississippi Diarrhea Cor
dial handy for all stomach complaints.
Price 25c and 50c.--Ady.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08

The Injunction asked by Attorney.
General Brundage against the rail-
roads operating in Illinois was grant
ed by hmteshm shmteshm shmteshr
ed In the, superior court. The writ
prohibits the roads from increasing
the intrastate passenger rate from 2
cents mile to As cents.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08
COMM ERclAL.

Gross earnings of $9,771,021 from
operations in 1916, compared with
$6,50S, 466 the previous year, are re-
ported by the International Harvester
corporation.
The closing of an oil deal involving
s2,00O,O0O was completed in the pur-
chase by the Milliken Co. of 81 per
cent OF the productive acreage of the
Duluth (Ok.) Oil Co.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08

Dyersburg.-A large number of Cor
federate veterans from Dyersburg and
the surrounding towns will attend the
Confederate reunion in Washington.
beginning June 4.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08

Clarksville-At a recent meeting
the GAINESVILLE bar drew up petition
asking for signatures indorsing the
administration of Judge w. l.. Cook
and John Bowman, as Judge and at
torney general, respectively. of this
judicial district. Without dissent
ing word all signed the petition.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-08

Friendship-Messrs. Hubbard and
Henning. timbermen, who recently pur-
chased the big tract of timhsr from
Dr. J. B. York. just north of town, viii
sell the 2sS acres at auction on June
IS. 1t will be cut up into small farms
and viii be sold on terms.
, 1917-12-13
LIST MEN IN SERVICE
ADJUTANT GENERAL APPEALS
FOR AID FROM STATE PRESS.
Wants Complete Roster of Enlisted
Men as Well as Members of the
National Guard and Those
Drafted.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Cheyenne.-Adj. Gen. w. X. Weaver
issued an appeal to the press of Wyo-
ming to devise ways and means OF
assisting the state in compiling a COM
plete record of the names of Wyo-
ming men now serving their flag and
of the casualties that have already oc-
CURED. His appeal follows:
ITO the press of Wyoming: The
adjutant generals office desires and
asks the press of the state to assist
in securing:
cd A complete list of the men
from Wyoming in the present war.
We have the names of those in the
National Guard and the draft. But in
addition to these there are many boys
who have enlisted in other branches
of the service, viz: Regular army,
navy, marines, coast artillery and
aviation corps. The pames of these
men a be secured only from rela-
tives or other persons in the commu-
nifty in which they lived.
"(2) A list of casualties. When a
man is killed, wounded, missing, or
dies of disease or accident, relatives
will be promptly notified by the War
or Navy departments. No person in
any one part of the state can keep
track of these notices.
THE press of the various counties
of the state is respectfully urged to
appoint a committee of some sort that
will gather this data in the county and
forward it to this office. If such data
is secured 1t will be compiled alpha
b~etically by counties and filed among
the records of the state. The desir-
ableness, if not the necessity, of such
a record is obvious, both for the pres
ent and future.
1.-The names and addresses and the
branch of service in which the man
is serving; the date of enlistment, and
the name Of nearest kin should be
given in reporting enlistments.
1.-THE date and nature, and, if pos
sible, the place of casualties should be
given.
eff the good people of the state will
assist, this office will contain a COM
plete brief record of every man from
Wyoming in this great war.
wv. K. WEAVER,
"Adjutant General"
, 1917-12-13
HELPED ITALY INTO WAR
o'/.nnunzio, Poet-Aviator, Alleged to
Have InfIamed Minds Of People,
Declaration Following.

Perhaps more than any one ind.
vidual, D'Annunzio, the ~poet-aviataor,
helped to bring Italy into the war. This
means generally understood, says the
New York Evening Post.
In the spring of 1915 Italy was still
uncertain as to her final decision. Clio
litti, advocate of peace, while no longer
in control of the government, still re-
tanned enormous political power. The
action of the country was as yet
doubtful, when this maker Of over.
wrought, sensuous poetry and prose,
this writer who had been termed the
last word In decadent and hothouse
literature, landed on his native soil
after n five years absence, and COM
menced his crusade. The ostensible
reason for his visit was an address he
had to make at Quarto, where 55 years
before Garibaldi had embarked with
his valiant Thousand :" the real object
his desire to drive Italy into the war.
From Quarto his trip to Rome was a
triumphal progress, punctuated with
impassioned oratory. He arrived In
Rome just in time to forestall Giolitt,
who had forced the Salandra cabinet
to announce its resignation.
One hundred and fifty thousand
people welcomed D'Annunzio in the
Piazza dele Terme. In the chamber
of deputies he was hailed as the cOun'
try's savior, and the italian parliament
answered his appeal with a declaration
of war. Surely a strange Tyrtaeus'
but one not afraid to sacrifice his life
on behalf of his country.
, 1917-12-13
1000 DEAD AT HALIFAX.
Officials Believe That Hundreds Were
Consumed by Flames.

Halifax, N. s., Dec. 10.-Four thous-
and dead. This is the new estimate
of the superintendent of morgues,
whose duty it is to assemble and ex-
pose for identification, if possible, the
bodies of those who persisted by shock
or fire when the ammunition ship
Mont Blanc blew up in the harbor Dec.
6. His estimate, that startled W
those who had lived through three
days of the horror here, was based on
the records of his district assistants,
who Saturday reported a total of 1000
bodies recovered. They have figured
on a certain number for a prescribed
area. There appears to be no other
way of determining the loss.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
bodies have been consumed by the
flames, and in scores of cases not only
whole families but whole neighbor-
hoods have been wiped out.
All the survivors of the Norwegian
steamer limo, which collided with the
French munition ship Mont Blanc,
were made prisoners by the British
naval authorities.
, 1917-12-13
coesAcks TO DUST eoLsHEvIkl.
kaledines and korniloff, Backed b,
Millions, to Wage War.

London, Dec. 10.-Cossack forces
have %revolted under the leadership of
Gems. Korniloff and Kalcdines and an
effort is being made to drive the Boil
sheviki out of power in Russia. The
movement is backed by the imperial.
lists and constitutional democrats and
vast amounts of money have been
pledged for the fight.
Gen. Diaz's troops have succeeded in
checking the Teuton advance on the
Asiago plateau and are preparing for a
counter thrust, according Il Rome ad.
vices. The late reports from the Ital-
ian capital are optimistic over the out
look, and declare the invaders have
been halted all along the line.
There was little news reported from
the Cambria or Verdun districts Sun
day. At Cambria the artillery duels
are continuing, and the British are
spending the time improving their
lines.
A telegram from Oporto says that
the revolution in Portugal has ended
with the success of the revolutionists
and that the government has resigned.
, 1917-12-13
KIDNEY TROUBLE OFTEN
CAUSES SERIOUS BACKACHE

When your back aches, and your blsd.
der and kidneys seem to be disCrdered,
bottle of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root' Il
is a physicians prescription for ailment,
of the kidneys and bladder.
1t has stood the test of years and ba,
a reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This preparation 30 very effective. b,,
been placed on sale everywhere. Get ,
bottle, medium or large size, at your near
est druggist.
However, if you wish first to tes. tb;,
preparation send ten cents to DR.. Kilmsr
& Co., B~inghamton, N. Y, for a sampl.
bottle. When writing be sure and men.
ton this paper.-Adv.
, 1917-12-13
Preston to Expose Fake Oil Companies

Cheyenne Oil companies which
make specious announcements of the
development wor which they claim
they are doing in Wyoming fields and
which on investigation are found to be
misrepresenting the facts are here
after to face exposure of their decep-
ton. Douglas A. Preston stated that,
he has recently discovered that a
number of companies who have ex
plotted themselves a S "%spudding in"
on certain tracts of land within the
state and selling stock on the strength
of the announcement, in reality have
not done a dollars worth of develop
ment work.
, 1917-12-13
JACOB JONES ToRPEDoED AND
SUNK BY SUBMARINE 400
MILES OFF COAST.
SIxTY-FoUR men LOST
COMMANDER OF WARSHIP DAN
IELS' BRoTHER-IN-LAW AND
AZ OTHERS RESCUED.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Dec. 10.-Lieutenant
Commander David Worth Bagley and
Lieut.. Norman Scott were among the
survivors rescued after the sinking OF
the American destroyer Jacob Jones
by a German submarine in the war
zone Dec. 6. The Navy Department
was so advised by Vice Admiral Sims
These two officers, two warrant offi-
GERS and two enlisted men were named
in the admiral's dispatch as survivors
in addition to the thirty-seven previ-
ously reported saved. 1t is now es-
tablished that the five line officers on
the destroyer we're rescued. Gunner
Harry R. Hood and sixty-three men
are missing.
The other four survivors reported
besides Commander Bagley and Lieu
tenant Scott were: Chief Boatswain's
Mate Clarence Mcbride, Syracuse. N.
Y; Coxswain Ben Nunnery, Edge
moor, s. c.; Chief Electrician Law
renee G. Kelly, address not given;
Fireman Joseph Korzeniecky, Suvtve,
Russia.
Vice Admiral Sims, up to a late
hour Saturday, had been able to sup
ply only meagre details in reply to
urgent messages from Secretary Dan
iels, whose brother-in-!aw, Lieut.. Com
mander David w. Bagley, commanded
the lost vessel.
Three officers and thirty-four men
were picked up by other vessels from
life RATS to which they chung. The
names Of only ten of these had been
transmitted t Washington.
The Jacob Jones, n of the largest
and newest American submarine chas-
FRS of her type operating in the Allan
tic, was the first American warship to
fall a victim to a German submarine
but was the second American destroy
er to be lost in foreign waters. The
Chauncey sank with her commander,
Lieut.. Com. Walter e. Reno, two other
officers and eighteen enlisted men,
after being cut in two by the trans
port Rose on the morning of Nov. 20.
, 1917-12-13
Y. NJ. c. A. Fund Totals $4,000.

Cheyenne.-The total contribution
to the work of the Y. NJ. c. A. from
Wyoming now amounts to $39,526, as
O result of recent reports from work
ers in Laramie county, where the sum
total has risen to $4,974.S5. The honor
of leading the state still rests with
Park county, where liberal gifts
raised the sum to $4,000. Sheridan
county, which until the late reports
came from Laramie districts was sec
ond, now is in third place, with $4,000
to her credit
, 1917-12-13
State of Ohio. City of Toledo Luc,,

State of Ohio. City of Toledo Lucas
County-ss.
Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he |,
senior partner of the firm of F. ]. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City Of 10.
ledo. County and State aforesaid, and that
said firm will pay the sum OF ONE HUN.
that cannot be cured by the use OF
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE.
FRANZ ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence this 9Th day Of December,
(seaD A. W. Gleason, Notary Public.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is tax.
IN internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces Of the System.
Druggists, 75c. Testimonials free.
B. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio.
, 1917-12-13
Assault Mother With Babe in Arms

Glenrock.-While carrying her baby
in her arms Mrs. Carl Rogers was as
saulted by two men and outraged by
one or both of them after she had
been struck over the head with a blud-
gen made from a piece of brick in a
cotton sock, according to information
placed in the hands of city authorities
here.
, 1917-12-13
Injured Man Dies Under An~aesthetie.

Laramie. w. Schmidt, injured
while stealing a ride OF a freight
train on the Union Pacific railroad,
died at the Ivinson hospital while I'M
der an anaesthetic, administered to
remove his arm and leg which were
almost severed by the wheels of the
train.
, 1917-12-13
Child Killed in Auto Accident.

Cheyenne.-Helen Bougsty, 4, was
killed. and her father, Lewis Bougsty,
and her 9-year-old sister, sustained
serious injuries, when an auto in which
they were riding overturned on the
Albin road near here. Bougsty sus-
tanned a broken collar bone and sew
eral broken ribs, and the 9-year-old sis
ter sustained a broken arm.
, 1917-12-13

Casper.-George Smeltzer, wso es-
capped from the Wheatland Jail after
he had slashed the jailer severely
with a knife, was captured here by
Sheriff Hugh Patton and returned to
Wheatland.
, 1917-12-13
Baby Burned TO Death.

Casper.-William Holmes Tripeny,
4k-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. d. w.
Tripeny, is dead, the result of fatal
burns received when he was trapped
in the blaze which burned out the
interior of the Tripeny home.
, 1917-12-13
Propose Six Months' ArmIstIoe.

Petrograd.-The Russian delegation
from the front which took part In the
armistice negotiations has reported to
the central executive committee and
the Soldiers and Workmen's Council.
The Russians proposed, according to
q member Of the delegation, that the
duration of the armistice be six
months, with three days notice of the
resumption of hostilities; the armis-
tice to embrace all fronts in all coun-
tries; nc troops to be transferred;
Moon sound and Moon island to be
nv the Germans.
, 1917-12-13

Many a man would feel like a ash
out of water If by chance he should
manage to get out of debt.
, 1917-12-13

Some men seem to have the horsa-
less brand Of horse sense.
, 1917-12-13

1t isn't so much a matter of TINA
as it is of disposition that so many
things we could do are left undone,