McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-06-06
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Lieut.. Jean Ferdinand Kreyder, a
French army aviator attached to the
fifty.fourth regiment of artillery, was
killed by fall from his aeroplane.
Twenty persons were injured, two
fatally, in rear-end collision be-
tween two limited interurbans on the
Northern Ohio traction line, north Of
Akron, O.
Representatives Of Turkey and all
of the Balkan allies, Bulgaria, Greece,
Montenegro and Seryia, affixed their
signatures to treaty of peace, thus
bringing to an end the Balkan war
that lasted nearly eight months, cost
ing several hundred million dollars
and countless lives.
Congress in all probability will
yield to the protests of foreign ma
tiOuS d6dlllpt luC plONtSiOh Al INC " a.
derwood tariff bill granting a per
cent tariff discount on imports in
American-owned or controlled ves-
sells.
Three thousand persons were ad-
mitted to the presence of the pope.
The pontiff stood in the central bal
cony of the first Raphael Loggia,
above the fountain erected by Pope
Innocent.
President Wilson telegraphed Jo-
seph d. Russell Of Boston, urging him
to accept the appointment as col
lector OF customs, despite his formal
declination.
The military circles of the Bulgari.
an capital expect an almost immedi-
ate outbreak of hostilities between
Bulgaria and Servia.
The Frisco System will lose control
of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, and
thereby be deprived of its Chicago
st. Louis line, II steps contemplated
by receivers of the Illinois line are
successful.
Benjamin L. Winohell, president Of
the st. Louis & San Francisco (the
Frisco railroad, and Thomas H. West,
chairman of the board of directors OF
the st. Louis Union Trust company,
were appointed receivers for the Fris-
co road by Judge Walter H. Sanborn
in the st. Louis circuit court of ap-
peals.
Gov. McGovern Of Wisconsin vetoed
the bill ordering referendum in 1914
on the question of extending the bal
lot to Wisconsin women. The gov
ernor obpects to the bill on the
ground that suffrage was defeated by
q majority of $4,000 in Wisconsin
last November.
Attorney General McReynolds an
nounced that several new suits would
be filed by the government against
the Anthracite Coal Trust" I'VE
are going to file ever SO many new
SUITS" said the attorney general.
BY viva voce vote the senate
passed the resolution authorizing a
sweeping investigation of conditions
preceding and accompanying the
strike of coal miners in the Paint
Creek region in West Virginia.
Samuel Gompers, the labor leader,
Is confined to q sanitarium at Atlantic
City. N j.. under the care of a nurse,
recovering from a general breakdown
and an operation back Of the ear.
5 The senate voted unanimously to
Investigate the charge made by the
president that lobby Is in Washing
ton seeking to influence sentiment on
the tariff bill. The resolution OF SEN
ator Cummins Of Iowa was passed aft
er four hours of hot debate, but after
1t had been amended in such way
that Senator Root and others declared
It was "emasculated"
Considerable alarm was created in
the American colony at Mexico City
when 1t became known that Mrs. Hen
ry Lane Wilson, wife of the American
ambassador, is making hasty prepare
tons to depart for the United States
within the next few days.
Ex-President Taft in his lecture to
Yale on Some Questions of Modern
Government" discussed the short
sighted policy of the United States In
not maintaining a sufficient army.
Mrs. A. Starr Best Of Evanston, H.,
president of the Drama League OF
America, nationwide movement to
"clean up" the theater, paid fine of
SIS for failing to clean up her back
yard.
Vilhjalma Stefansson, commander
Of the Canadian arctic expedition,
which will seek the unknown CONT
nent" which scientists believe exists
In the arctic, left New York for Otta-
wa on the first stage of the journey
to Victoria, where he will join the ex-
petition.
Stephen ]. Stilwell, New York state
senator from the Bronx, recently ex.
onerated by the New York state SEN
ate of charges of bribery. was found
guilty of bribery by Jury in New
Nnrk City