McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-06-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For
eIan Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter for
Busy Readers.
Domestic

Domestic
John D. Rockefeller objected to
the assessment of piece of property,
and 1t was reduced $25,00O. He saves
$3.50.
The Otzgo Oil and Gas company,
with fields in northeastern Muskingum
county, O., ordered another $4,000
dividend at its annual meeting This
makes dividends of s117,5OO declared
on capital stock of $4,000, or 4O
per cent in the last five years.
Before the senate acts on the I'm
derwood tariff bill the income tax
section will be amended to remedy a
defect which, it was discovered, would
make the measure unconstitutional.
Renewal of three arbitration treat
les for five years was recommended
by the senate foreign affairs commit
tee. The nations with which the pacts
are to be signed are Great Britain,
Spain and Italy.
President Wilson sent to the senate
the nomination as United States at
torney, D. Virgil Bourland, for the
western district of Arkansas.
Jack Johnson, negro heavyweight
pugilist, was sentenced to one year
and one day in the state penitentiary
at Joliet, ILL.,, and fined $1,000 for vio-
lation of the Mann white slave act.
There was talk in Wall street OF a
compromise between the bankers and
B. F. Yoakum and his associates over
the appointment Of third receiver.
United States immigration officials
are investigating rumor that
Ciprano Castro came to Key West,
Fla, from Havana In the guise of a
Cuban merchant.
The first electric current from the
S25,O00,000 hydro-electric plant on
the Mississippi river was furnished
to Keokuk, Ia, Hamilton and War.
saw, Ill.
King Victor Emmanuel few for an
hour In military dirigible balloon.
dropping bombs aimed at targets
from an average altitude of 1900 feet.
There are 80 vacancies in the in
coming class of cadets at the military
academy at West Point, occasioned
by the failure of candidates.
A deal was closed whereby the
Turkish government disposes of %
obsolete warships and $50 antiquated
guns to a Munich firm for $4,000.
Some of the vessels are sailing ships.
Japan carried her grievances in the
California land law issue direct to the
White House when Ambassador Chin
da was granted an audience with the
president, and discussed the situation
with him for nearly IVA hour.
]. N. Dolley has rendered his resig.
nation as chairman of the Republican
state central committee Of Kansas, an
office he has held for six years. 1t
was stated that Mr.. Dolley had joined
the Progressie party.
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Mayor Rolph of San Francisco
drove the last horse car in San Fran
cisco on its last trip from the ferry
building to the scrap heap.
Woman suffrage advocates won
their victory in the Illinois house
when they defeated, s2-34, an at
tempt to strike out the enacting
clause of the senate bill.
Replying to questions In the house
of commons, Secretary for Ireland
Birrell admitted that British customs
officials seized 500 rifles in Belfast.
They were, he said, apparently OF
Italian origin, and not from Germany,
as first reported. Isl
Acknowledgement McReynolds an
nounced the appointment of Thomas
w. Morgan of Ottawa. Kan, to be
warden of the penitentiary at Leayen.
worth, Kan
James M. Munyon, the patent medi-
cine man, has gone into court in
Philadelphia for remedy for his do
nestle troubles. Suit was filed for
divorce by Munyon against his wife,
Mrs. Pauline Louise NeI Munyon,
who was famed as beauty or .the
stage.
Secretary Bryan, Il was announced,
has accepted an invitation to address
the International meeting of the Chris
tian Endeayor union in Los Angeles,
Cal, at some time between July
and 9.
Bissoti, the. Socialist leader In the
Italian parliament, has accepted the
challenge to duel issued by Depu-
ty Foscari. In the chamber In oppo-
sition to the proposed army increase
bill, Bissoti called Foscari IAN imbi-
cile' and the deputy Immediately
sent his seconds to the leader
George Schall. formerly sergeant
in the hospital corps, U. s. A.,
was arrested at Vancouver, Wssh.,
charged with the murder of his wife
and three children at the Preside, San