McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-10-17

worlds baseball championship, de-
feating the Giants by score of 6 10
5. Chief Bender, the Indian twirler,
won his second victory of the series.
William Assmann of st. Louis and
Joseph O'Reilly, aid, left San Antonio,
Tex, in a balloon and landed two
miles north of Russellville, Mo.
Adolphus Busch, ST. Louis best.
known citizen and philanthropistl
died in his castle on the Rhine, In
Germany. The remains will be
brought to St. Louis for burial.
Chicago commission merchants
have cut the price of fresh country
butter 11s cents to 29k cents in or
der to keep it from being crowded
from the market by storage butter.
In shotgun duel near Athens,
Ark, w. B. Burnett, farmer of Ath.
ems. and Fred Slower. q farmer OF
Bonham, Tex, were killed.
Fire that spread almost like a flash
through the six-story main building
of the Southwestern Milling company,
Kansas City, Kan, destroyed that
structure and the mills power plant,
a Short distance away The loss is
estimated at 100000.
Count Taro Katsura, three times
premier of Japan, is dead. Count Kat
sura took the place of the late Mar
auis Ito, and was the most command
ing figure In Japan.
Two men were killed and IS in.
jured when exploding boilers sank
the Japanese torpedo boat destroyer
lkatusuki near Toxic, Japan. The
survivors were rescued.
A movement afoot in China to re-
store Confucianism to its old place as
the state religion was the subject of
a report to the state department from
Charge Williams, at Pekin.
The currency bill now pending in
congress was denounced as a Social
istic measure at Boston by the cur
rency commission of the American
Bankers association in its annual re-
! port.
The condition of Count Taro Kat
sura, Japanese premier, was much
worse, and his physicians feared his
death Is imminent.
With a deep roar and a rumble re-
sembling heavy artillery firing at a
distance, $4,000 pounds of dynamite
in 30 charges were exploded in the
Gamboa dixie, allowing the waters of
Gatun lake to run through into Guile
bra cut.
President Poincare of France, the
guest of King Alfonso in Madrid,
Spain, failed to attend a bull fight
arranged in his honor, frankly saying
he did not care to see it, :
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An improvement in the condition of
the corn crop during the last month
to the extent of 22,00O,0O0 bushels in
the estimated final production was
the feature of the department Of ag-
riculture's October crop report.
An October tornado bore its way
through Custer county, Neb., striking
Broken Bow, the county seat, a glanc-
ing blow and doing only minor dam
age there, but wrecking many build,
ings and injuring number of people
in the country districts.
Business men of Philadelphia are
putting the finishing touches on 'the
greatest manufacturers exhibition
and celebration" ever held there The
affair commences Oct "a and contin.
ues to Nov. /.
AxabL oiuC UNIV IOlhD lIICu anu
admirers of the late Mayor Gaynor
are raising a fund of 100000 for a
memorial to him at the Manhattan
approach of the Williamsburg bridge
Peru in future is to enjoy religious
tolerance for all sects. Heretofore
the exercise of any religion other
than the Roman Catholic has been
prohibited.
The Republican national commit
tee will meet in Washington on Tues
day, Dec. 16, to confer on party mat.
tiers and to take any action which
may be deemed advisable.
sss
A house debate developed unani
nous agreement that good cook Is
more cultured than pianiste, and
that girls shouldn't be allowed piano
lessons until they learn to cook.
President Wilson removed Judge
Cornelius d. Murane, United States
district judge at Nome, Alaska. 1t is
said at the department of justice that
the removal was made for the good OF
the service.
Nome, Alaska, has been almost de
stroyed by storm. All the south side
OF Front street is gone. The sandspit
is gone, Two miles of territory next
to the sea was destroyed. No lives
were lost, although 500 houses were
destroyed.