McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-11-07

New York bookkeeper in the Wash
burn-Crosby Flour companys office,
ended when Schildknecht was sent
to the Tombs prison, charged with
embezzlement of nearly $4,000.
A revolutionary plot based on the
assassination of the president of the
republic, Adolfo Diaz, and prominent
cabinet ministers was discovered and
frustrated at Managua, the Nicarag-
uan capital.
A suit to test, and perhaps set
aside the impeachment of Gov. Sulzer
by the legislature at Albany, N. y,
was filed in the United States court
in New York City. w. H. Moore was
named as plaintiff.
| The millions accumulated by John
w. Gates and the fortune of his son.
Charles G. Gates, who died suddenly
in Cody, Wyo., will go to their two
| widows.
On application of the Old Colony
Trust company of Boston, Federal
Judge Chatfield of New York appoint
| ed receivers for the Seal Shipped Oys-
| ter company, commonly known as the
"oyster trust"
Doctor" Ernest Muret," friend of
"Father" Hans Schmidt, was sen.
fenced in New York to seven and a
half years Imprisonment in the fed
eral penitentiary at Atlanta, Ca, for
counterfeiting.
William Travers Jerome, Harry K.
Thaw's nemesis, said in Boston, in
| discussing Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, that
she never had a chance" and that,
as she must make living some way,
she is justified, in his opinion, in 60
ing on the stage.
Fifty former members of the crew
of the famous old battleship Oregon
have petitioned to the secretary Of
the navy for permission to enlist for
go to so days, to serve on the ship
when it is sent through the Panama
canal in 1915.
The British naval authorities at
Portsmouth have just carried out i'm
portant experiments In firing explo-
sives at distance by means of con-
centrated electrical rays.
Col. Roosevelt crossed the Andes
by automobile from Argentine to
Chile, instead of making use of the
Transandean railroad.
John Niemin, who died of blood
poisoning at Chicago, confessed, the
police say, that Mrs. Josephine Kar-
muenisk stabbed him with hatpin
when he tried to hold her up several
nights ago, and that the wound
caused his death.
Phelps, Dodge & Co., New York
bankers, have acquired control of the
Rock Island railway system of 5000
miles, the New York Evening Post
says. The lines were formerly con-
trolled, since 1902, by the Moore-Reid
group.
The will of the late Adolphus
Busch was probated in st. Louis. 1t is
authoritatively said that the inven-
tory will aggregate $50.000,0O0, and
will be the largest estate ever filed in
Missouri.
An insistent denial that she ever
gave her husband poison brought to
a dramatic close the direct examina-
ton of Mrs. Jennie May Eaton,
widow of Rear Admiral Joseph G.
Eaton. with whose murder she ID
charged, at Plymouth, Mass.
| Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks,
wife of the former vice-president Of
the United States, died at her home
| in Indianapolis. She was stricken
suddenly with pneumonia Oct. Is, and
hope of her recovery had been aban-
doned almost from the outset
General elections we're held
throughout Italy, resulting in VIC
tory for the government. Disturb
ances at the polls were frequent. One
man was killed and many wounded.
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| Miss Katherine Elkins has married
"Billy" Hit, her first sweetheart, aft
er ALL The ceremony was pronounced
at Elkins, w. Va, and was witnessed
only by few near relatives and init
mate friends.
Mrs Minnie Weyer, widow, won
the postmastership at Corning, Kan,
over five men opponents. A final
count of votes cast in an election
showed Mrs. Weyer LOG ahead of her
closest competitor.
The election in Mexico City leaves
Dictator Huerta still ruler of the
country-at least until the meager
ballots of the people can be counted,
which process may require several
weeks. 1t is not believed that SUI
ficient number voted-10,000 out of
S0.000-to make the election legal.
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| Congressman Richmond Pearson
Hobson of Alabama, who introduced a
resolution in congress to prohibit
throughout the United States the sale
of alcoholic liquors, was elected life
member of the Worlds Woman's
Christian Temperance union, at its
convention in New York City.
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