McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-05-09

FOur OF Inc crew OF the SWeulSn
steamer Flora were drowned when
that vessel sank after q collision at
Cuxhaven, Germany. with the British
steamer Mozart.
The United States circuit court OF
appeals has granted the application
for release under Sl50,000 bail of AL.
bert w. Freeman, convicted March
IA, last, with Julian Hawthorne all
DR.. William J. Norton of using the
mails to defraud investors in mining
stock.
Five of the large hangers of the
Hampstead Plains, N Y, aviation field
and eight valuable aeroplanes were
destroyed by fire. Scores of uncom
pleted machines were burned and sew.
efal aviators had narrow escapes in
rescuing their air craft.
Louis W. Hill has announced Off
ficially that Carmi Thompson, for
mer limited States treasurer, had
been appointed general manager Of
the Great Northern and Hill ore prop
critics, with offices in the Great
Northern building in st. Paul.
Bills providing for the direct cleo
ton of United States senators in H.
iinois and amending the primary law
to include this office were passed by
the senate and sent to the house.
Gov Suffers primary bill was de-
feated in the New York senate by a
vote Of ayes to 43 notes.
An expenditure of $4,000, 900, 900
for good roads, $1,000, 100000 being
for construction and $2,000,OO0, 900
for maintenance, the investment to
extend over period of so years, was
proposed in plan submitted to the
Joint congressional committee on fed
eral aid in the construction of post
roads by former Senator Bourne of
Oregon.
Secretary Lane announced the Sc
lection of Prof. Adolph C. Miller of
Berkeley, Cal, to be first assistant
secretary of the interior department.
The nomination will be sent to the
senate in the near future.
Mrs. Jonathan Bourne, wife of ex
Senator Bourne of Oregon, now serv,
ing on commission in Washington,
obtained a, divorce decree in Port,
land, Ore, on the grounds of abuse.
A Judgment for 100000 against w.
c. Faucette, former mayor and
wealthy citizen of Argenta, Ark, in
favor Of Lota Anderson of Fort
Worth, Tex, for breach of promise,
was awarded by a jury.
The Progressives' old age pension
bin to provide 81 to 81 week for all
those more than 65 years old whose
incomes are under $40 week was in.
troduced by Representative Kelly Of
Pennsylvania.
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The managers of the So Eastern
railroads fatty refused to grant the
demands for increased wages and
notifications in working conditions
made by the conductors and trainmen
employed on the lines.
Eleven lives were lost in the food
backwater at Natchez, Miss. Two res
cue boats returning from the flooded
interior reported they were forced to
look on while two families persisted.
The damage suffered by the Penn.
syivania Railroad company through
the recent floods in the Middle West
IS put at sS,61O,OoO, according to a
statement issued by the company.
Mississippi food water pouring
through break in the dixie near Glib
sons landing had formed a lake Is
miles in length and many miles wide
in Tansas and Concordia parishes,
Louisiana.
President Wilson nominated George
ID. Downey Of Indiana to be comp
troller of the treasury, and Lewis T..
Erwin Of Alaska to be United States
marshal for the Fourth district of
Alaska.
The Missouri supreme court en-
blanc granted restraining orders
against the 1872 companies in the
Western Bureau Fire Insurance asso-
Citations, preventing them from can.
ceiling their present policies.
Foreign
A new war will begin between Bull.
garia, Greece and Servia as soon as
the allies and Turkey sign treaty of
peace, says a dispatch from Bucha.
rest, Roumania. Other dispatches in.
dictate that it has begun already.
Serious radical demonstrations co
Cured in Lisbon, Portugal, during
which shots were fred and bombs ex-
ploded. Many arrests were made and