McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-12
MEMS MEMS Of o. THE THE WEEK WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
TOLD HERE.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For
eign Countries Are Here Given
in Short Meter for
Busy Graders.

There will be no general strike in
Indianapolis at this time, and those
striking teamsters whose employers
have signed union contracts returned
to work.
Guarded inquiries are being made
at the state department by represen-
tatives of the European governments
as to the prospect for an early termi-
nation of present conditions in Mex
leo, which are imposing grievous bur-
dens upon foreign interests.
Several women tainted and others
became hysterical and fought police
men In the raiding Of Chicago gam
bling house conducted by women for
women. Slips showing tnat more than
$500 had been bet on horse races in
the afternoon were confiscated.
There will be community Christ
mas tree on the broad plaza at the
east front Of the capitol in Washing
ton Christmas eve, with high govern
ment officials participating in the fes-
tivities and the United States marine
band furnishing the music.
Representative Ferris of Oklahoma
Introduced a bill-in the house to
grant pensions to telegraphers who
served in the military telegraph corps
during the civil war.
Hoping he will be able to do what
others have failed to do, President
Huerta is sending to Europe his min
lister of finance, Adolfo de la Lama, on
a money-seeking mission.
Hopes that the cost of living might
be reduced by free importation Of
wheat from Argentina went glimmer-
ing when Assistant Secretary Hamlin
sent notice to collectors of customs
that the retaliatory duty on wheat and
its products must be enforced against
most of the nations.
Two dreadnaughts, eight destroyers
and three submarines Is the yearly
naval building program Secretary
Daniels recommends in his first an
nual report to President Wilson.
A reward of $4,000 was offered by
Southern Pacific railway officials for
the capture of the bandit who held up
the passengers in a Pullman car on
one Of the company's trains near Los
Angeles and killed Horace E. Monta-
que, a travelling passenger agent Of
the road.
New York cold storage men dis
claim responsibility for the present
high price of eggs, and produced fig
ures to prove the only cause for soar
ing egg prices is scarcity OF that
product.
Rather than endure starvation, the
federal troops have evacuated Chi
huahua City, under siege for weeks,
according to advices received in Juar-
ez by Gen. Francisco Villa, the rebel
leader.
The international tangle over the
presence in the United States of j.
Santos Zelaya, former president of
Nicaragua, apparently was solved by
Zelaya agreeing to return to BARGE
Iona, Spain.
Twenty-Five indictments against ma
tional and state officers and members
Of the United Mine Workers were re-
turned by the federal grand jury at
Pueblo as the result Of the Colorado
coal strike.
November this year was remark
able In that it was the warmest St.
Louis has had in 40 years, with three
exceptions. Nov. II the thermometer
went up to rs degrees, the highest
point recorded on that date in n
years.
Six hundred refugees, mostly Next
cans, arrived at Laredo, Tex from
Monterey. Some declared an exodus
of their countrymen to the United
States greater than any that has
taken place heretofore is expected if
the National railway lines can resume
traffic.
Incompatibility of temperament is
believed to be the real reason for the
expected divorce of Prince William,
the second son Of the king. His wife
was the Grand Duchess Maria Paw
Iowa, daughter of the Grand Duke
Paul Alexandroyitch and cousin of
the czar
An egg boycott mas declared in
Kansas City. The directors of the
Kansas City Housewives league voted
to follow out the plan recommended
recently by the national organization
of the league.
Henry M. Pindell, the Peoria, ILL.,,
publisher, was renominated by Presi-
dent Wilson for ambassador to Rus
STA. Pindells nomination failed in
the extra session after II became a
center of attention because of publ
cation of certain correspondence with
Senator Lewis.
Kansas, Illinois and other midwest
farmers, must reduce the price Of
their corn to compete with the Argen-
tine crop or be cut on from tho
southern market The reduction must
be upwards OF per cent under pres
emit May quotations, quoted on the
New Orleans market at TIN cents.