McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-08-29


Thomas of Colorado.
Senator Penrose introduced reso
luton to place in Mexico such troops
to act as constabulary as would ade-
Guately protect American citizens and
their property. This action was ex-
pressly declared in the resolution not
to be an act OF war against Mexico.
Secretary Bryan will spend two
days early in September stamping the
Third Maine congressional district for
William Pettingal, Democratic candi.
date.
Gen. Leon Jurado, governor of the
state of Falcon, Venezuela, attacked
and completely defeated the rebel fol-
lowers of Gen. Cipriano Castro at
Coro. according % an official an
nouncement.
Vernon l.. Whitney, governor of
Jolo province, and native of Iowa,
was wounded In struggle with two
treacherous Moros who attacked him
He killed both his assailants
Emile Olivier, famous French poll
tician and premier of France under
Napoleon Ill, died at Annency.
France. Olivier was born at Mar
settles, July 2, 1925.
The union of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of Amer.
lea and the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, effected in 1906, was upheld
by Judge A. S. Van Valkenburg in the
United States district court at Kansas
City.
II Jack Johnson, the American
heavyweight pugilist, appears at
London music hall, at which he is
booked, beginning Aug. 25, none of
the other performers will appear, ac.
cording to a statement issued to the
newspapers in London.
Josquin Mendez, Guatamalan min.
lister at Washington, called on Secre-
tary Bryan and said he had received
full instructions from his government
to sign a general peace treaty. as pro
posed by Secretary Bryan, with the
United States.
President Wilson appointed Repre-
sentive Francis Burton Harrison OF
New York to be governor-general Of
the Philippine Islands.
In clipping with Marsha Warrington
from Sacramento, Cal, to Reno, New,
Maury l. Diggs, former state architect
of California, was guilty of violating
the Mann act, which makes it a fell
ony to transport women for immoral
purposes from one state to another
This was the verdict of a San Fran
cisco jury.
George Bixby, Long Beach (Cal.)
millionaire, was made defendant in
three $4,000 damage suits filed by
girl witnesses in so-called white slave
cases pending there.
An explosion said to have been
caused by the collision of car loaded
with iron and another filed with dyna-
mite on the streets of Tacubaya, a
suburb of Mexico City, killed and in
jured more than 100 persons.
President Wilson's program for free
sugar in 1916 carried the day in the
senate, when Democrats rallied to the
support of the tariff bill and defeated
amendments to the sugar schedule.
One hundred and fifty persons per-
ished in typhoon that swept Macaro.
Numerous junks we're wrecked,
houses were swept away and the sea
wall collapsed.
Gov. Sulzer, sitting as a member of
the New York capitol trustees, opened
a number of bids for improvements to
the building He was the only mem
Der of the board present.
Whisky worth 100000 went up In
smoke when fire destroyed the ware
house Of the Globe distillery at Pekin,
III. The barrel house and cistern
room were also burned, the loss ON
the buildings bringing the total dam
age to $125.00o.
Barney Lewis, bandit, who held up
the New York limited train on the
New Orleans & Northeastern road
about eight months ago and robbed
the Southern Express company car of
$4,000, was captured near Columbia
and is now in the Lamar county Ua.)
jail
The United States will facilitate .
court test of the California anti-alien
land law, but the initiative must como
from some aggrieved Japanese repre-
sentative.
The Constitutionalist army OF north
ern Coahuila, under command of Gen.
Pablo Gonzales, was routed at Rodi-
guez and was saved from annihila.
tion only by the superior knowledge of
the country possessed by the Car.
ranzistas.
A duel with swords between Count
Stephen Tisza. premier of Hungary.
and Marquis George Pallavicini. an
Austrian army officer, at Budapest.
resulted In both men being slightly