McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-08-15

ate for ratification.
Several Germans in Berlin have
started campaign to induce the gov
eminent to participate in the Panama
Pacific exposition at San Francisco In
1915.
Peace was concluded between the
Balkan states and the preliminary
treaty was signed by the delegates of
Servia, Montenegro, Roumania and
Bulgaria.
After voting by a large majority
not to move the headquarters of the
order from New Haven, Conn, to
Washington, D. c., the Knights of Co
lumbus in supreme convention at Bos-
ton chose st. Paul as their meeting
place in 1914 and adjourned.
Organizations of farmers through
out the state of Washington sent to
Gov. Lister a petition urging an inn
mediate passage of legislation which
will establish a state powder factory.
The Balkan peace delegates showed
no disposition to reconsider their re-
lection of the request by the United
States that the peace treaty contain
guaranty of civil and religious lib
erty in the territory affected
Lightning travelled through nearly
mile Of tunnel in the Copper Reef
mine, in Arizona, and jumped 800 feet
down winze and nearly tore one
miners leg off and shocked more than
score of others.
Secretary Bryan has announced the
state department is drafting a peace
and arbitration treaty with Salvador
on the principles suggested by Bryan
in his proposals for international
peace and arbitration.
Complaints from many railroads
against alleged inadequate compensa-
ton for increased weight of mail mat
ter under the parcel post system has
eliminated In notice to the post
office department from the Toledo,
St. Louis & Western Glover Leaf
company that at the end of 60 days it
will discontinue the transportation of
mails.
Two were killed and one injured
when a Wabash freight train collided
with COW sleeping on the track near
Runnells, la. The engine and Is cars
went into the ditch.
A heavy run of sockeye salmon,
promising big wages, even at the re-
duced prices offered by the canneries,
caused the strike of 5000 fishermen
at the mouth of the Fraser river to
collapse.
Maj. Beecher B. Ra's application for
an injunction to prevent Secretary
Garrison from promoting another Of
ficer in the army pay corps over his
head was denied by the district SUI
preme court. The decision is looked
upon as being of great Importance to
army and navy officers.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen, former provisional
president of the new China republic,
but now one of the leaders in the
southern revolution, has fed the coun.
try on board a Japanese steamer
bound for Formosa.
Representative Robert Y. Thomas
of Kentucky stabbed David Goodleet
Of Alabama. house doorkeeper, during
an alteration in the new Varnum ho-
tel, Washington. No arrests were
made and the wound is not regarded
as serious.
A national organization of Catholic
women to oppose the suffrage move.
ment has been launched by leaders in
the German Catholic Central verein,
while in convention in Buffalo
Secretary Bryan's plan for an
American protectorate over Mica
ragua providing American super
vision of Nicaragua's finances, inde-
pendence and foreign relations has
been shelved for the time being by
the senate foreign relations commit.
tee.
Five companies of militia are at
Wheatland, Cal, whore four men, in
Guiding the district attorney of Yuba
county, were killed in a revolver bat
tie between 400 striking hop pickers
and a sheriff's posse.
With six companies of militia
camped in the school grounds and the
hop pickers' encampment on the
burst Bros. ranch reduced to few
hundred persons, there was little indi.
cation at Wheatland, Cal, of the riot.
ing which brought death to four men.
Armed with a butcher knife, Mrs.
John J. Brogan of 6147 Callowhill
street, Philadelphia, went to the bed
room of her home, where five of her
children lay sleeping, cut the Threats
of three of the children and then
drew the knife across her ewn throat
After spending the night hidden in
Italian bay, gave himself up to the
Chicago police and admitted that he
shot and killed 6-year-old James Pau
lilo, his playmate and sneighbor.