McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-09-19
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For
eian Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter for
kA Busy Readers.

tAos ZIG SuiucS6 6ONoIuueuI Will dC-
cept the ultimatum issued by the
Japanese foreign office in the matter
of the Marking outrages.
A. B. Garretson, representing the
Order of Railway Conductors, testi-
fed at the hearing before arbitrator
that railroad employee is killed in
the United States every hour and
seven minutes of the day and that
every nine minutes man is manned.
A death from bubonic plague oc-
Cured at Martinez, CAL, according to
reports received by the state board of
health from DR.. J. ID. Long of the
United States marine hospital service
in San Francisco.
Charles Banks, negro, who at
tackled little Teresa Atkins, 10 years
old, as she was returning from school,
admitted his guilt to the police at
Springfield, Ill. He Is held at the po-
lice station.
Miraculous escape Of scores of pas
sengers was attributed to steel coach
es when the Black Diamond express
on the Lehigh Valley railroad was
derailed at Allentown, Pa.
Charles F. De Woody, federal white
slave investigator, announced that he
would begin an investigation of
charges that gross immoralities are
practiced on excursion boats running
from Chicago to Michigan and Wis
consin cities.
King George, it. was announced,
will act as sponsor for the heir OF the
Roxburghe dukedom, whose mother
was Miss May Goelet of New York.
Two men were killed, one instantly,
and three others were so badly scald-
ed and burned that they may die,
when a boiler in the boiler room Of
the torpedo boat Craven, from
Charleston to Savannah, exploded at
sea.
William Travers Jerome was &C.
quilted of the charge of having gam
bled on the station property of the
Grand Trunk railway at Coaticook,
Quebec, while waiting for the immi-
grafton authorities to pass on the
case of Harry X. Thaw.
Acting on orders from Gen. Bliss,
all troops stationed on the border be-
tween Eagle Pass and Laredo have
taken the field in an effort to capture
the band of Mexican gun smugglers
who fired on Dimmit county (Tex)
officers.
The long-looked-for date for the
wedding of Francis Sayre and Miss
Jessie Wilson has been announced by
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. The date will
be Tuesday, Nov. 25, and the cere-
mony will take place in the White
House in Washington.
Fresh reports OF new revolution
in Santo Domingo have sent the gun
boat Des Moines churning across the
Caribbean from the Venezuelan coast
to Puerta Plata.
Americans need be In no hurry to
leave Mexico, according to the latest
instructions to consuls from the state
department at Washington.
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Toxic continues In the form of win
dow smashing and tram car wrecking.
Premier Yamamoto informed the po-
litical Populations which called on
him that the government would not
mobilize, but intended to deal with
the Chinese problem with a firm
hand.
The Socialists of Superior, Wis,
have decided to drop the attempt to
recall Mayor Konkel. as little sup
port to the movement could be re-
ceived outside Of the Socialist organ
ization.
Statements Of friends of Roger Sui
Ivan, Democratic leader Of Illinois,
are quoted to Sullivan to the effect
that he will be candidate for United
States senator in November, 1914,
when a successor to Senator Law.
renee Y. Sherman is TO be elected.
Thirty-fve persons, three of whom
may die were injured when Pennsyl-
vania train No. 81, known as the "a
hour "St. Louis Flyer" went into the
ditch near Wylies Station. O., while
travelling az 90 miles an hour.
Adolph L. Kline, vice-chairman of
the beard of aldermen, who succeed
ed John Purroy Mitchell as president
of the board of aldermen of New
York, becomes mayor of the city by
the death of William Jay Gaynor. He
is a Republican and will serve until
Jan. /.
The assassination of Mortiaio Abe,
director of the political bureau of the
Japanese foreign office. has inflamed
the masses, and dramatic chapter in
the history OF the new Japan was writ
ten by rioting at Toxic.
Records left by Rear Admiral Rob-
ert E. Peary in cairn at Navy Cliff,
on the northeast coast of Greenland,
in July, 1892, have just been returned
to him by the Danish government.
They were found by Knud Rasmus-
sen, the Danish explorer, July %. last
year.
Sacratarv of tbe Interior Franklin