McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-04

volving the recognition of the Huerta
government, and this, it was an,
nounced, the administration is not
Ready to grant.
Complete defeat of the Mexican fed
erals under Gen. Ojeda, with utter de.
moralization of the government
forces, which are described as flying
in every direction" from Santa Rosa,
was the news contained in mes
sage received from Gov. Pesquiera Of
Sonora.
More than 5000 square inches of
skin must be given for grating il the
death list of the Hustled Elevator ex'
plosion and fire at Buffalo, N Y, is
to be kept from reaching larger pro-
portions, according to estimates Of
physicians attending the injured at
various hospitals.
John P. White, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, in
a signed statement reiterates his de-
NAL of statements which he said ARE
still being made and persistently cir
culated throughout West Virginia and
elsewhere by the United Mine Work
ers of West Virginia for the purpose
of excluding West Virginia coal from
the markets of the country"
/. Free sugar in 1916 and free raw
wool are now established in the tariff
revision bill, having been approved by
the Democratic caucus of the senate
after two days fight.
Rear Admiral Robert Potts, U. S.
N, retired died suddenly at the naval
hospital, in Washington, where he
was under treatment for a complica.
ton of diseases.
Reduction of frst-class rates to
penny postage" was recommended In
a bill introduced by Representative
Rodenbary of Georgia.
Lucie Goyau, daughter of the late
President Felix Faure Of France, died
in Paris of pulmonary congestion, aft.
er a short illness, at the age of AZ.
Ministers of the new Danish radical
cabinet refuse to wear uniforms or
decorations of any kind, or to accept
the title of "excellency."
War Minister Kigoshi of Japan re-
signed and Gen. Kusalose was ap-
pointed to succeed him.
Charges that he fastened a chain
around the neck of his 15-yearcld
daughter, suspended her from meat
hook in his butcher shop and then
beat her with the butt end of whip
until the blood flowed from her
wounds, were made against j. ].
Johnson at Augusta, GE
s. G. Hull farmer of Dover Cen
ter, O., was killed and his wife was
wounded at their home when box of
fifty rife cartridges placed on the
kitchen stove exploded.
@utclassing Yale in the varsity
eightoared four-mile race, Harvard
won the annual event by more than
a dozen lengths. The official tine
was: Harvard, 21:42; Yale, 22:2O.
Two hundred tons of fuel oil on the
steel tank steamer Mohawk, owned by
the Standard Oil company, exploded
at anchor off Tompkinsville, Staten
Island, killing five persons and in
juring six.
The house passed the Harrison bill
placing prohibitive tax of 5000 a
pound on smoking gum, imposing a
100000 bond on manufacturers Of
such opium and placing heavy crimi-
nal penalties for violation of the act.
Senator Warren of Wyoming, one
of the richest members of the upper
house of congress, has formally APP
piled for civil war veterans PEN
sion of SIC per month.
Judge C. Jones, "a years old, last
surviving member of the confederate
congress, is dead at his home at Flor
ence, Ala.
The capture of the City of Durango
is reported unofficially at the City of
Mexico There is no telegraphic COM
munication. The city has been under
siege for several weeks.
Official checking of the list of EN-.
ployes OF the Hustled Milling company
at Buffalo, N. Y, whose elevator was
blown up by dust explosion, shows,
besides the II known dead, 26 men
are still unaccounted for and are be-
lieved to be in the ruins.
Five days in Jail for involuntary
manslaughter was the sentence
passed upon Mrs. Anna Dotson, wife
of Dr. Walter Dotson, Gallatin
(Tenn.) physician. She was charged
with the MURDER of Charles Cobb,
barber.
After few years retirement from
tbo .taoo apd tba oo,,, M 70 tive caai,,
sion as the wife of James NJ Munyon,
manufacturer of patent medicines.
Mrs. Pauline Neff Metzgar Munyon
has returned to the footlights.