McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
TOLD HERE.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and Fer
eian Countries Are Here Given
in Short Meter for
Busy Graders.

the Louvre IN IaTlS lhoie thoh IVY
years ago, has been found at Florence,
Italy. It is now In the hands OF the
Italian authorities and will be re-
turned to France.
Anna Anusewitz, a girl Of 49, en-
ployed as confidential bookkeeper by
the o. X. Bottling company in New
York. was killed by bomb sent to
her employer. The flying metal cut
off the left ear of Thomas McCabe,
managing salesman.
The Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf
railroad has been placed In the hands
Of a receiver through suit brought
by the Baldwin Locomotive Works OF
Philadelphia, creditor.
The resignation of five members of
the Chicago school board, all OF whom
are said to have voted against the re
election of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young as
superintendent, were accepted by
Mayor Harrison, to take effect at
once.
Adolpe Pegoud, the French aviator.
demonstrated at the Buc aerodrome
that looping the loop in an aeroplane
carrying a passenger, as well as a
pilot, was not more difficult than the
accomplishment of the feat when the
pilot was alone.
Willie Hoppe, the balk-line billiard
champion of the world, has been chal-
lenged for the 1872 title by George
Sutton of Chicago.
John X. Tener, governor of Penn
sylvania, was elected president of the
National League of Professional Base
ball Clubs, to succeed Thomas j..
Lynch.
Gus Penman, charged with the muir
der of Harold Shaw of Urbana, ILL.,,
took the witness stand at Champaign
and declared he had no recollection OF
the killing.
packey Mcfarland outpointed his
old enemy, Jack Britton, both OF Chi
cago, in an unsatisfactory 10-round
no-decision boxing contest before
$500 spectators in Milwaukee.
Poor pay in the government service
is sending many scientific experts out
side for employment, according to
George Otis, director of the United
States geological survey, in his an
nual report.
The house committee on agriculture
favorably reported the agricultural
extension" bill of Representative
Lever of South Carolina, its chair
man.
There will be no general strike In
indianapolis at this time, and those
striking teamsters whose employers
have signed union contracts returned
to work.
Judge Edgar Aldrich at Concord. N.
H., ruled that the mental condition OF
Harry X. Thaw must be determined
in the federal courts. The courts an
nouncement was made at the hearing
Of Thaw's petition to be admitted to
bail.
Cincinnati schools were ordered
closed because of water famine, due
to the bursting of one OF the main
supply pipes Saturday. The central
portion of Cincinnati and many Of the
suburbs are without water or with an
Inadequate supply.
The house lobby committee wound
UP It's work by passing on the revised
text OF its conclusions as to testimony
regarding Representative McDermott
OF Illinois and other principal figures
In the house investigation.
Unanimous approval was given by
the senate committee on agriculture
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The unidentified patient. an Eng
lishman who has been at the county
hospital IN Chicago since Nov. 81. un-
able to tell his name or home, leaped
from a window of the hospital and