McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-10-31
Cleve N. Culberson, accused Of the

that the iconoclast of today finds his
task hard one, as modern idols are
of flesh and blood, not wood and
stone.
accidentally shot by rifle in the
hands Of several boys" was the YER
dict of coroner's jury inquiring into
the death of Fred Pratt in Chicago.
Simultaneous with the funeral serv-
ices of Adolphus Busch in st. Louis,
services were held in 35 cities of the
country in honor of the dead million
aire brewer and philanthropist.
One striker killed, two strikers re-
ported wounded, one seriously, and
one mine guard slightly wounded are
the net results of an attempt by
strikers, it is said, to prevent defec-
ton In their ranks at Walsenburg
Five persons were killed and seven
injured on the Canadian Pacific west
of Chapelant, Ont, when work train
OoiiiuSu ucau-oH Will Oil tdot-uouiiu
freight
Chief of Police McWeeney of Chi
cago handed his resignation to the
mayor. Friends of the retired chief
claim that political interference with
the conduct of the police department
is responsible.
Forty sailors and passengers on
board the Finnish steamer Westkus-
ten were drowned when the vessel
struck reef near Vasa, in the Gulf
of Bothnia, and went down. No one
was rescued.
Two hundred and forty-seven min.
ers are believed to be dead beneath
tons OF fallen earth, timber, coal and
rocks in the cuts and rooms of Stag
Canon mine No. of the Stag Canon
Fuel company at Dawson, N. M.
The grand jury in New York re-
turned an indictment charging Harry
X. Thaw with conspiracy. Thaw is
subject to extradition under the of.
Tense charged.
A central commission to control the
missionary work of the Catholic
church in the United States is favored
by a committee of the congress in
sasaion In Roston
The bones of Christopher Columbus,
now in the cathedral in Santo Domin-
go, will be sent to the Panama-Pacific
exposition in San Francisco as part of
the Dominican republics exhibit.
China has granted to Japan an i'm
portant concession for the extension
other railroads in southern Manchu-
ria, which will open up great bean.
producing and general agricultural dis
trict.
The trial of DR.. William B. Craig,
under indictment ON a charge of muir
dering DR.. Helene Knabe at Indianap-
oils on the night of Oct. 20, 1911, was
set to begin on Nov. 2S.
Reports in New York are that Tam
many leaders might now seek to
bring about the indictment of Sulzer
| on charges which have already been
made public, or others which the
Tammany men hint that they have
| yet to produce. There was a feeling
| that he had been "let off too easy"
While on an outing in the woods,
Mrs Frank Perkins, residing near
Vandalia, ILL.,, was bitten on the face
by a black spider. which resulted in
| her death.
Proposed advances in freight rates
| on various commodities between cit
les in Missouri river territory were
held by the interstate commerce COM
mission to be not unreasonable.
In the most holly contested judicial
| election in the history Of Illinois
Charles C. Craig (Dem.) OF Galesburg
was elected to the supreme bench
from the Fifth judicial district to sue
coed Judge John H. Hand, by ma
jority of $3.50 over Judge Leslie d.
Puterbaugh (Rep.) Of Peoria.
| United States Ambassador Walter
Hines Page went to the foreign Of
flee in London on the invitation Of
Sir Edward Grey, British foreign sec-
rotary, and discussed the Mexican sit.
uation with officials there.
| Twenty enlisted men OF the Thirty
| ninth and One Hundred and Seven
| tieth companies, United States coast
artillery, were killed and more than
100 were injured when special troop
train on the Mobile & Ohio railroad
went through a bridge over a deep
| ravine at State Line, Miss.
1 -
Mrs. Bernice Jones OF Milwaukee
has received word that the British
government has offered her mother.
Mrs. Harriet Spencer of Portsmouth,
England, 5000, 100000 In compromise
of the Spencer family claim Of
| $500, 100000.
Six men were killed, four injured
and all Staten Island was plunged in
darkness and deprived OF trolley car
service by the explosion OF two mann
moth boilers in the plant OF the Rich