McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-10-24
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Vera HutsoG, were burned t. death
IN Des Moinss. Ia, n fire which de-
stFoyei the..t hons.
Garrett Droppers, professor OF eco
nomios at Williams college, Williams
town, Mass, has been offered the
post OF minister to Greece by Presi-
dent Wilson.
Three hundred persons In the
province of Fo Klein, China, were
slain and two mission churches, be-
lieved to be the property of an Amer
lean missionary society, were burned
by force OF Chinese brigands COM
manded by Gen. Hwan Liang.
William Sulzer ceased to be gov
ernor Of the state of New York when
he was removed from office by the
high court of impeachment by vote
Of AZ to IL. two members not voting.
Secretary McAdoo directed that
hereafter the practice of using the
old-style V for US in the inscriptions
on public buildings be abandoned.
President Wilson indicated to
those with whom he discussed the
Mexican situation that he was irrevo-
cably determined to deal no longer
with the Huerta regime, but that fur
Their steps toward bringing peace to
Mexico were being considered.
Col. Peteff, Bulgarian brigade
commander, was sentenced by court
martial to four years imprisonment
for deserving his post in an engage
ment against the Greeks.
Maxim Gorky is recovering from
his recent illness. He has left Ma
pies for Sorrento, where he will stay
a month. After this he will return to
the Island Of Capri.
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, sued for
100000 by Mrs Catherine Blake
for alleged alienation of the affection
of DR.. Joseph H. Blake, filed answer
In the supreme court. She denies
every allegation set out in the petit
ton.
Julian Hawthorne and DR.. w. J.
Morton were released from the fed
eral penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga, aft
er serving a little more than six
months for violating the postal laws.
Hawthorne will engage in literary
work in New York.
Charge O'Shaughnessy was H.
structed formally to notify the au-
thorities at Mexico City that the
United States could not recognize 'as
constitutional the election to be held
Oct. 26, in view of Gen. Huerta's de-
cree announcing his assumption Of
legislative powers.
President Wilson and Secretary
Garrison selected the following Fill
pinos to be members of the Philip
pine commission: Victorino Mapa,
jaime C. Deveyra, Vincente Ilustre,
Vineente Singson Mapa will be sec
rotary of finance and Justice.
President Wilson has written to
Secretary Relfield of the department
of commerce, approving the latter's
plan for a reorganization of the bu-
reau of foreign and domestic COM
merce, with an annual appropriation
for expenses increased from $S23.300,
of approximately $76O,OOO.
Eighteen deputy sheriffs were
seized by strikers at Trinidad, Colo.
as they were about to board a special
train for Ludlow and held captive 1t
union headquarters.
Passenger train No. on the West
ern G. Atlantic railroad struck
wagon at crossing near Tunnel
Hill, Ga, killing seven persons,
The bond of $4,000 furnished for
the appearance of David Lamar, in
answer to the indictment charging
him with impersonating government
officials. was forfeited by United
States District Court Judge Hunt in
New York.
Ten per cent of the people Of Sa-
vannah, Ca, are suffering from
dengue. or bonebreak fever, pain
full but not serious malady caused by
the bite of the mosquito.
The German foreign office reached
the conclusion that the existing situ-
alton in Mexico is such as to necessi-
tate the presence of German war
ship in Mexican waters.
Samuel Altman Of Vienna, Austria,
manager of the Canadian Pacific rail
road agency, was arrested. charged
with promoting the emigration to
America OF men liable for military
service.
The Dowager Duchess Marie of
Saxe-Coburg Gotha authorized de-
nial of published reports of the be-
trothal of the Princess Elizabeth of
Roumania to Crown Prince George of
Greece.
A disaster, possibly the greatest in
the history Of the South Wales coal
fields, whose annals are bristling
with terrible catastrophes, occurred
through an explosion in the Univer-
sal colliery. near Cardiff. Four bun
dred miners are eatombed and given
mp for dead.
Victor Stoffler beat all records for