McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-06-06

| Secretary Bryan signed the formal
announcement of the seventeenth
| amendment to the constitution, pro-
viding for the direct election OF
! United States senators.
| The Canadian senate killed the
| governments naval aid bill to appro-
pirate $35,O00,000 for the construction
of three dreadnaughts for the British
navy.
The last legal hanging in the state
of Arkansas was had when the trap
at Jonesboro was sprung and James
Scott, who murdered his young wife,
expiated his crime. The electric chair
will supplant the gallows.
AS result of whiting a golf ball
until it exploded, throwing its acid
contents into his face, Jack Helm, a
13-year-old Kansas City boy, lost the
| sight of his left eye, and physicians
say he probably will become totally
blind
A tallyho In which 40 people were
riding was hurled down a 50-foot en-
bankment at Mount Morrison park.
near Denver. Thirty persons are re.
ported injured, many seriously.
The Spanish premier, Count Alvaro
de Romanones, and the other mem
bers of the cabinet resigned office.
| A training school for suffragist
orators is to be established by the
Chicago Equal Suffrage association,
and a professor from the University
of Chicago will be hired to teach the
women the art Of argument.
Postmaster-G General Burleson issued
an order disseminating the use OF the
special 1O-cent registry stamp and
providing that ordinary postage
stamps may be used for the prepay.
ment of registry fees.
The jury at Newburg, N. Y, in the
case of Burton w, Gibson, after DELHI
Grating for nearly rs hours, was dis
charged, unable to agree as to his
guilt on a charge of numbering Mrs
Rosa Menschik Szabo.
A series of murders, including the
assassination of Gen. Thomas Francis
Meagher, a governor of Montana ter
ritory, were claimed as his own mis-
deads in confession made by a man
known as Pat Miller, who gave his
correct name as Frank Diamond, at
the town of Plains, Mont.
Senator Cummins presented to the
senate a resolution to direct Vice-Pres-
ident Marshall to appoint five sena-
tors to investigate President Wilsons
charge that Hobbies exist in Washing
ton to influence legislation, particu-
larly the tariff bill, and to report with
in ten days.
| The Danish pretender informed the
| pdit iCuuCio mat do a lCoull vi liz
recent elections the government
would resign on June IL, when the
Danish parliament assemblies.
Fearing defeat at Guaymas by the
federals, In which event Hermosillo,
| state capital, might be in danger of
capture, the Sonora rebel government
has changed the capital to Cananea.
Formal charges that Huerta adher-
ents are organizing force of $50 to
200 rifles" in Eagle Pass, Tex, to in
wade Mexico at or near Piedras Ne
gras was made at headquarters of the
Carranza government, Piedras Ne
gras.
Julius Werda OF Lynn, Mass, who,
six weeks ago, paid DR.. F. F. Fried
mann SIS for treatment with the
turtle vaccine in the hope of being
cured by the serum, died at the Lynn
tuberculosis hospital
Attorney General McReynolds has
decided to contend that the Southern
Pacific must give up the Central Pa
cific in the pending dissolution OF the
Union Pacific merger and will bring
| a suit under the Sherman law to ac-
complish that end If the dissolution
plan fails to include 1t.
Three white and two negro laborers
were drowned in canal basin in New
Orleans when a section of the bank
cayed in. The men were at work Oh
concrete wall.
The supreme court of the United
States recessed to June 9. No deci.
sion was rendered the big railroad
rate cases.
The senate was thrown into turmoil
by the reading of letter written by
Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio to Sena-
tor Gallinger and Senator Golf.
Charles Edling. an attorney, won
$4,000 damages from the Kansas City
American association baseball man.
agement for injuries he suffered when
watching ball game last season. He
alleged that his nose was broken and
his eyesight injured by foul ball.
Dr. # F. friedman, suddenly
changing his plans, departed at mid
aight for New York, and It was an
nounced by one Of his assistants that