McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-25
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Spinks, young Methodist minister,
was mobbed by men, boys and vomen,
who showered bad eggs on MIN.
Hugo Meisner, 27 years old, a ma
ehinist for the Hygienic Ice Co, New
York, was found frozen to death in the
company's plant after being in the
cold storage building Is hours Meis-
ner went in to repair an elevator.
Dan Deaton, one of the IS defend
ants who are on trial at Winchester,
Ky, charged with the murder of Ed
ward Callahan, former sheriff of
Breathitt county, made a complete
confession on the witness stand and
implicated all his co-defendants.
DR.. Franhauser, noted Swiss scien
fist, shot himself through the heart
while in the Rocky mountains near
Banff, Alberta. 1t has not been de,
termined whether the doctor accident
ally killed himself or committed sui
eide.
The Newfoundland sealing steam.
ship Diana, having on board the Dom
aid Mcmillan expedition to Croker
land in the Arctic region. stranded on
Barge Point, 40 miles west of Battle
Harbor, in the Straits OF Belle Isle.
To have nest egg for his old age,
not because his salary is too small is
why Speaker Champ Clark gives
Chautauqua lectures, he states.
Judge Caldwell, in the common
pleas court at Cincinnati, granted the
motion for the defense and dismissed
the case against George B. Cox, for
mer political leader and financier. Cox
was on trial on the charge of misap-
plying $115,00O of the funds of the
Cincinnati Trust company.
The Newlands bill, revising the
Erdmah law to provide arbitration of
wage disputes in manner satisfac-
tory to railroads and their employees,
has become q law 1t was passed in
the house and senate and signed by
President Wilson, all in one day.
Augustus o. Bacon was reelected
to the United States senate as a
member from Georgia by the direct
votes of the electorate. This counts
as the first election held under the
recently ratified seventeenth amend
ment to the Unitd States constitution.
AT Marion, ILL.,, Albert Warren, 80
years old, was sentenced 10 Is years
in prison after a jury had returned
verdict finding him guilty of charges
brought by his own child, girl Is
years old.
William Wilcox, inmate of an asy-
lum at Danville, Pa, is basing fight
for liberty on claims that he has made
a fortune loaning money to inmates
and answering puzzles.
Mrs. Barbara Gerby, who saw Chi
cago grow from a village of 600 to a
city of 2,285,000, died here She came
to this city in 1884, and was IS years
old.
A seat on the New York stock ex-
change sold for $4,000, which is
$1,000 less than the last sale few
days ago, which was the lowest In re-
cent years.
Revolutionary reform of-the ancient
senate rule permitting unlimited de-
bate was demanded in speech by
Senator Owen of Oklahoma. He
frankly advocated a measure to
"choke off" dilatory debate by the mi
nority.
There will be no strike of 100000
employees on the railroads east Of Chi
cago, as has been threatened. This
was admitted by both sides to the
controversy.
Secretary of State Bryan will leave
Washington July 10 for a six-weeks'
lecture tour. His engagements are
principally in Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa.
President Wilson granted uncondi-
tional pardon to William F, Ketten-
bach and George H. Kester, each SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment for
making false reports to the comptrol-
Ter of the currency on the condition
of the Lewiston (Idaho) National
bank, of which they were president
and cashier.
In answer to senate resolution on
the subject, Secretary Daniels urged
an investigation by congress of the
cost of government armor-plate fac
tory, which he holds could be built
and economically operated at a saw
ing of $140 per ton for armor. the
plant to cost $S,466,000.,
Rain in the fourth or fifth inning
of the congressional baseball game at
American League park at Washington
was the only thing that stopped the
Democrats from defeating the Repup
Iicans worse than rs to l.
Vincent Astor began to spend some
of his millions in helping the womeE
and children of the tenement to an
outing. At his expense steamboat
took 5000 of the poor of New York fol
a sail to Bath Beach, under the direc
ton of the Children's Aid society, fol-
q luncheon and frolic at the seashore
For the FIRST time in the history ot