McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-18

port Of the Food Reform association.
Mrs. Beatrice III. Saunders, the suf-
fragette, who was released in London
on license June 20 on account of i'll
health, 3ia; been rcsrr-:cst.cc Che will
now undergo further period of her
term of Is months Imprisonment.
Bitter condemnation of the New
York, New Haven G Hartford railroad
for the Stamford, Conn, wreck on
June IL, was contained in a special
report made public by Interstate Com.
merce Commissioner McChord.
A belated communication from
Guaymas says 300 constitutional sol
diers met death in an effort to swim
across the bay when the state troops
were repulsed by a hidden Huerta
force in their attempt to enter the
California gulf port.
The senate passed the Oregon lien
land bill, providing that the state
may exchange school lands in United
States forest reserves for a single
tract Of land to be held as state
forest reserve, and on which forestry
instruction is to be given.
The senate passed the Pittman bill
permitting homesteading without
continuous residence on specially des-
ignated areas in all the public land
states except Utah and Idaho,
Such alarm has been caused by re-
cent suffragette demonstrations aimed
at King George that a special body
guard was provided for his majesty to
protect him from actual injury at the
hands of the wild women"
The house passed the rules commit.
tee resolution for an investigation of
the Mulhall lobby charges. A special
committee of seven members will
make the investigation at open hear
ings and with the aid of special coun-
sci.
independence, La, passed night of
terror following the fire which de-
stroyed the place. Italians attempted
an attack on the ruins of bank where
they had deposits and were driven Of
only by continuous show of arms.
Department of justice investigators
have been invited by the treasury de-
partment to go over the books of the
First-Second National bank of Pitts
burg within short time, it was stat
ed at the treasury department.
The income expected from the SEN
ate's draft of the Wilson Underwood
bill was announced by Chairman
Simmons of the finance committee as
about $4,000, 00O-about the same as
the figures for the house bill.
Gen. Armando Riva, chief of the Gu.
ban national police, who was shot in
political argument on the Plaza, IL
dead
Open and public committee meet
ings, but secret Democratic confer
ences. This was the program adopted
for consideration in the house by the
administration currency reform bill.
The battleship Idaho attained the
highest final merit in gunnery of the
Il vessels competing in the battleship
class during the last year and has re
ceived the gunnery trophy.
Eleven thousand officers and men
of the Servian Timok division were
killed during the battle with the Bull
garians, in which the division was
defeated, according to the Sofia cor
respondent of the Vienna Reichspost.
Twenty persons are reported killed
in storm at Cary, 20 siles north of
Vicksburg, Miss. All telegraph and
telephone wires out OF here were
down. There were heavy rains and
terrific electrical disturbances.
All meat-packing establishments
throughout the country are to be sub
jected to searching inspections by ex-
perts selected by the secretary Of ag-
riculture from outside of the govern
ment srvice.
The Bulgarians are reported to have
lost more men killed in the fighting
for the last few days in the Kotchana
and Oshtib districts than in the entire
campaign against the Turks, and dis
patches from Sofia say that King Fer.
dinand Is ready to discuss peace with
Servia and Greece.
A woman has a legal right. to say
damn" ruled Judge Mccoy at Ev-
ansville, Ind, who admitted she used
the word in a quarrel with her land
lord.
Four lives were lost, many persons
were injured, houses were set afire,
cities were left in darkness and hun
dreds OF farm buildings were fiattened
and crops were damaged by the tail
end of the northern Illinois gale which
swept across that section of the coun
try.
The village of Astradiamova, in the
district of Alatir, Russia, was de-
stroyed by fire and hundreds lost their