McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-11-07

Clarence Altes and Charles John.
son, advertising man and linotype
operator, respectively, on Nation,
H., newspaper, were burned to death
when an early morning fire destroyed
boarding house in which they wers
asleep.
The Rev. c. e. Elmor, pastor of the
Park Christian church at New Al
bany, Ind, reported to the police that
en- attempt was made to assassinate
him at the parsonage.
Charles w. Goodlake was sen
fenced to 20 years in the penitentiary
for the murder of his wife at their
summer home at Cotton Port, Tenn.
Manila, P. l., reports two deaths
there from bubonic plague, one of
the men being William Crozier, man
aging editor of the Daily Bulletin.
Charles ]. Warmer, former treas
urer OF, the Big Four railroad, con-
yicted of embezzlement and SEN
fenced to six years In the Ohio pris-
on, and who confessed defalcations of
$643,000, was released from the peni-
tertiary after serving three years and
10 months.
President Wilson received by ex.
press fine, fat 'possum. Il am an
old slave-time darby" wrote Joe Far
row of McFarlan, N. c., the sender.
Il heard that someone sent you
sweet potato the other day. Here is
the 'possum to go with it"
The three princesses, Louise, Ste
phanie and Clementine, daughters of
the late King Leopold, will end the
litigation with the government over
their fathers estate by accepting the
compromise of s1,400,000 each.
Congratulations instead of $4,000
present should be the wedding gift of
the house to Miss Jessie Wilson, Rep
resentative Gray of Indiana declared
in the house.
Official returns from the general
elections in Italy show the election
of 240 Liberals, or ministerialists, Z
Constitutional Democrats, Moder-
ates, 40 Radicals, 30 Intransigent So
cialists, 20 Reformist Socialists, II
Republicans and II Clericals
After seven months Imprisonment
on charge of having murdered her
husband, Rear Admiral Joseph G.
Eaton, by poisoning, Mrs. Jennie May
Eaton stepped from the courthouse
at Plymouth, Mass, free woman.
The jury was out all night.
That $4,000 union men and women
engaged in building and Industrial
trades in Colorado will walk out In
sympathy with the 10000 striking
coal miners was the prediction made
by the executive board members of
the Colorado State Federation of La
Dor in Denver.
Five men digging a we'll were
killed at Frederick, Ok, when the
earth walls collapsed. The we'll was
40 feet deep.
Miss Mary Mcdowell, co-worker
of Miss Jane Adams; Mrs. Joseph
T. Bowen and Miss Breckenridge, So
cial workers, will BE candidates for
the Chicago city council In the alder
manic race next spring, 1t was report
ed in suffrage circles.
Eight persons were drowned when
the Wilson liner Oslo collided with a
Russian trawler at Aalesund, Nor
way. The victims were members Of
the trawler's crew.
Stampeding cattle wrecked a Fort
Worth & Denver freight train at
Giles, Tex, when they rushed before
the engine, killing the engineer, E. S.
Hawley, and H. o. Mccormick, the
fireman.
Fifty-four deaths from drowning
were reported in San Salvador from
districts of the republic Of Salvador
inundated as sequel to rainfall of
unprecedented severity.
Mead Barr, an inmate of the Indi-
ana reformatory, and possessor of a
long criminal record, was named by
Supt. David c. Peyton as the man
who confessed numbering Florence
Brown, stenographer, at Dallas, Tex,
July %, 1918.
DR.. Hubert c. Herring of New. York
City was unanimously elected general
secretary Of the National Council of
Congregational Churches at Kansas
City.
Charles G. Gates, son of the late
John w. ("Bet-You-a-Million') Gates,
died in his private car at Cody, Wyo.,
of apoplexy. His body was sent east
by way of Billings, Mont.
Three battles, the hottest fought
since the strike of coal miners in
southern Colorado began, marked the
first day of martial law in the Ber-
wind Colo, district. One mine guard
was killed, four union men wounded,
two badly; two children of nonunion
men shot, one mine guard missing
and county marshal wounded, were
the casualties of the fights at Ia.
basco and Hastings.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
bought A 20000-aore tract near Jef