McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-05-02

Mrs Matilda wynne, a aegress, al,
Oyster Bay washerwoman and scrub
woman, left an estate of more than
$4,000 The estate included $4,000
deposited in New York and Brooklyn
savings banks.
The old Spanish transport Manila,
captured in Baker Bay March 4, 1898.
incident to Dewey's victory In Manila
Bay, will be sold at public auction.
Recently it has been used as a prison
and detention ship.
The government of the province of
Kiang Su has addressed to the gov
eminent at Pelsin, provisional gov
srnors and members of parliament
sensational correspondence which
seeks to show that President Yuan
Shi Kai sanctioned the assassination
of Gen. Sung, former minister of edu-
cation.
Practically half of the Atlantic
Coast Lumber corporations $4,000, 900
plant at Georgetown, s. c., said to be
the largest in the world, was de
stroyed by fire.
Ready to aid Japan in court ac-
tion to have declared unconstitutional
any law which specifically makes
aliens ineligible to land ownership
and leasing, President Wilson tele-
graphed what is considered an ulti-
matum to Gov. Hiram Johnson of Cali
forria, the final word of the admins
tration until the legislature of that
state shall have acted on the bills to
which the president objects.
Prayers for rain were offered in
many of the churches of San Angelo
and other towns of western Texas.
Terrific downpours occurred all over
the drought-stricken region the next
day.
Gen. ]. K. Bell, for two terms at
torney general of Texas, twice repre-
sentative in congress from the
Twelfth district, and candidate for
governor in 1906, died in Fort Worth
Tex, after an illness of six months
Walter Macarthur, editor of the
Coast Seamen's Journal of San Fran
cisco, was appointed United States
shipping commissioner for that port
by Secretary of Commerce Redfeld.
Increased cattle production and pro.
hibition of the slaughter of calves for
veal are put forth in the year book of
Swift & Co.. packers, as necessary to
keep beef prices from going still
higher.
Gen. Felix Diaz and Francisco de la
Barra, the foreign minister, withdrew
as candidates for president and vice
president of Mexico The reason
given for their action is congressional
delay with regard to the election.
An agreement was entered into
whereby the 100000 members of the
Farmers National congress will aid
the American Cane Growers associ
alton in fight to prevent the elimi.
nation of the sugar tariff.
Five miners were killed and nine
others were injured seriously, several
probably fatally, when two cages in
the Leonard mine, near here, dropped
down the mine shaft.
The first heat prostraticn of the
year occurred in Milwaukee when
Stanley Jones, rs years old, railroad
employee, was overcome while at work
The advance of icebergs under the
warming influence of spring is noted
in the report OF the revenue cutter
Seneca, now on ice patrol duty on tina
North Pacific, received in Newport,
r. l., by wireless.
Mayor Fitzgerald announced that he,
would order the pay of the 5000 city
laborers increased from $225 to $3.50
day, beginning June J..
Governmental cooperation in the
stamping out of the opium evil was
strongly urged by President Wilson
In special m sssage to congress. Re
transmitted report by Secretary
Bryan on the subject.
Ellen B. Hopper, a comic opera
singer, known on stage as Nella Ber-
gen, was granted a permanent decree
Of divorce from DeWolf Hopper, the
actor.
Foreign
Admiral Count Hehihachioro Togo,
who was Japans foremost naval COM
mander during the war with Russia,
was made admiral of the feet.
The famous Shooters Island ship
yard, on the Mill Van Kull, off
Mariners Harbor, Staten Island,
where the kaiser's yacht Meteor was
built in 1902, was destroyed by fire.
The ambassadorial conference, 1t is
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