McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-09-26

William Acker, a chauffeur, were shot
| dead and Mrs. Kate Coulson fatally
wounded by man whose identity
Mrs. Coulson declares she knows but
does not intend to divulge.
The Mexican congress vetoed, by o
vote of 80 to IA, Provisional President
Huerta's appointment of Eduardo
Tamariz as minister of public instrue
| ton.
President Wilson broke another
precedent by occupying 5O-cent seal
at the theater. He and Past Assist
ant Surgeon Grayson, the White
| House physician, walked about two
blocks to Keith's new vaudeville
house and sat in the front row of the
first balcony.
That Gov. Cox of Ohio will be a
| candidate for senator next year, when
the people by direct vote, for the first
time, will elect successor to Senator
| Theodore E. Burton, was the state
ment of close political friends of the
| governor.
Two thousand dollars reward is of
fered for the apprehension of two
koldup men who entered the jewelry
store of J. j. Thomson, at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, murdered two clerks, ia
tally wounded another and escaped
with $1,000 worth of loot.
Three electric cars filled with pas
sengers, while passing over a bridge
near the village of Villenuve-Loubet
France, jumped the rails and fell 40
| feet into ravine. Twelve persons
were killed and 30 injured.
For the first time since the war with
Turkey for the conquest of Tripoli
and Cyrenaica, Italy gave out the Of
fetal statement of its total losses in
killed and wounded The number
killed in battle is placed at 1,432, died
| of disease 1858, wounded in battle
1920, returned home on account of ill
ness 1921.
Acting on the suggestion of the
United States, the Belgium govern.
| ment proposes to convoke an interna.
tional conference at The Hague in
September, 1914. Educational prob
Joync mill ha l;co,ecaJ
The New Orleans Times Democrat
and the Picayune, two of the few
newspapers in the United States
whose subscription price is $12 year,
announced reductions to $3.50 year.
With break of 2b points, New
Haven railroad stock reached S51a, a
low record for the issue on the stock
exchange. 1t is estimated that the de.
cline in the market value of the stock
represents nearly $70,O0O,OO0.
w. w. (Big Bill Haywood, leading
figure in the l. w. w. and a strike
leader in many labor battles, has led
his last fight, according to eastern
delegates at the convention of the |.
W. w. at Chicago
The appointment Of former Gov
Folk as solicitor or attorney of the
state department is taken in Wash
ington as indication that Secretary
Bryan will resign within a few
months and that Folk will take his
place.
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, publisher
of the Los Angeles Times, received a
package containing dynamite, through
the mail 1t was equipped with cap
and fuse SO arranged as to explode
when the box was opened.
Former United States Congressman
Washington Gardner of Albion. Mich,
was elected commander-in-chief of
the G. A. r. at the final business ses-
sion of the forty-seyenth annual en-
campment at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Travelling incognito as Wong Kwok
Yin, DIR, Sun Yat-Sen, former provi-
sional president of the Chinese repub-
lie and leader of the movement which
overthrow the Manchus, and in recent
revolt against President Yuan Shi
Kai, is said to be In Vancouver, b. c..
Maury |. Diggs was sentenced to
two years in San Quentin peniten-
tiary and fined $4,000, and F. Drew
Caminetti was sentenced to Is
months in the, same penitentiary and
fined $1,000 by Judge Van Fleet in
the United States district court at
San Francisco, where the young menf
recently were convicted of violating
the Mann white slavery act.
The board of arbitration which
heard the dispute between engineers
and the Chicago & Western Indiana
railroad made public its report deny
ing the engineers the wage increase
asked for on principal routes, but in
creasing the pay of engineers on work
trains from SALE to 81 so per day.
Provisional President Huerta &C.
cepted the resignation of DR.. Aureli-
ano Urrutia, minister of the interior.
Charges against Rufus M. Thayer
United States district judge at Shang-
hal, China, were laid before the house
committee on expenditures by the
state department, through John F
Curtis.