McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-10-03
NEWs0 OF THE WEEK
| HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For.
eien Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter fer
eusy Readers.

The three masked men VINO nelo UP
the Alabama-Great Southern passen-
ger train from Birmingham to New
Orleans near Tuscaloosa, Ala, and
after dynamiting the safe in the ex-
press car and rifling the mail car,
have escaped.
King Constantine of Greece, who is
visiting in England, made prepare
lions for hurried return to Athens.
The Balkan situation Is regarded by
the Hellenic government as very dis.
Quieting
At Truro, Eng, wasp stung Lady
Jane Wordsworth on the jugular vein,
and she died in 20 minutes. Lady
Wordsworth was the widow of the late
Sir Lewis William Molesworth, Bart.
Before her marriage she was Miss
Jane Graham Frost, second daughter
| of Brig. Gen. Daniel Marsh Frost, U.
S. A., of st. Louis.
The most important step thus far
toward the operation of the Panama
canal took place when the seagoing
tug Gatun, drawing 12h feet of water,
passed through the Gatun locks and
now floats ON the bosom of Gatun
| lake.
President Wilson made these nomi.
nations For assistant secretary OF
the treasury, Byron r. Newton OF
Newark; for collector of internal reve.
nue., William H. l.. Pepperell, for the
district of Kansas; for postmaster,
Philadelphia, John A. Thornton.
Gen. Porfirio Diaz, enormously re-
ported in the United States to have
sailed from Santander for Mexico, re-
turned to Barritz, France, from that
port, after having seen his daughter
embark for Vera Cruz.
The Servian government officially
admitted defeat at the hands of the
Albanians in the frontier fighting. Re-
ports said that 5000 Albanians, com
manded by foreigners, invaded Servia
at Dibra and captured that city after
routing the Servians.
FREDERICK Gamboa, Mexican minis
ter of foreign affairs, was nominated
for the presidency of that country by
the Catholic party convention. Gen.
Eugene Rascon was nominated for the
vice-presidency Senior Gamboa ac-
cepted the nomination.
Gov. Sulzer of New York must
stand trial. By crushing vote OF 81
to / the impeachment court swept
away his constitutional contention
that it has no right to try him be-
cause he did not ask the assembly to
impeach him in extraordinary session.
!
The banks OF Kansas City will con-
tribute $4,000 toward fund to pur-
chase seed wheat for farmers in the
ten western counties of Kansas that
suffered most from the recent
drought.
u. T. s. Rice, preacher-broker, who
was indicted for embezzlement at
Nation, Ill.,, pleaded guilty and wss
sentenced to the southern Illinois
penitentiary for term of one to ten
years.
A freak of fortune gave back to the
Indians 100 acrea Of the 100000
acres of the Fort Peck Indian reser-
walton which the government threw
open to civilization. There were
4O,29S white people registered for the
big lottery and just one lone Indian,
making the total of applicants 1929.
And the lone Indian drew first choice.
He is Samuel c. Grove of Hammond,
Ind. I'll
o. A. Farmer, fireman on the en-
CINE pulling Kansas City Southern
passenger train No. 4, was killed by
/ lightning in the cab of his engine
about 100 yards from the depot at
| Sallisaw, Ok.
| There was another fierce riot in
| Dublin, as a result of which seven po
| licemen and 35 civilians are in varl'
Gus hospitals and many others were
treated and sent to their homes.
Leo M. Frank, convicted nf the
murder of Mary Phagan and sen.
fenced to be hanged Oct 10, has been
unanimously reelected president of
the Atlanta (Ga) organization of the
B'Nai BIRTH.
Rebels dynamited south-bound
train on the Mexican National rail
road at Vanegas. in the northern part
of the state of San Luis Potosi, blow
ing the locomotive and the two for.
ward coaches off the track Forty
soldiers and ten passengers were
killed.
Roland G. Garros, the French avi-
ator, few 500 miles across the Medi-
etrranean from st. Raphael France,
TO Bizerta, the most northern seaport
OF Tunis. His time was hours and
IS minutes.
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Police of other cities have been
asked 60 seek young man who, after
registering at Indianapolis, Ind, as
wv. R. Anderson. Louisville, Ky, in.
duced Joseph Schlansky, 50, a cloth
ing merchant, to visit his room at the
Oneida hotel to look at line of cloth.
ing and then killed and robbed him.