McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-17
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was held to be invalid and unenforci-
BILE In decision at Grand Rapids,
Mich. by Federal Judge Clarence W..
Sessions.
Chief of Police SILVER and Patrol
man Henry Denney we're arrested at
Lexington. KY, accused of murder.
The officers attempted to arrest
Frank Garrett, who was alleged to
have created a disturbance, when a
fight ensued and Garrett was shot
dead.
In federal court at Fort Worth,
Tex, Tudie Arnold of Blytheyille,
Ark, accused of having 16 wives, was
sentenced to 10 years Imprisonment
on technical charge of violating the
Mann act. Seven of Arnold's wives
testified against him.
The entire length of a 90-foot steel
rail, red hot, passed through the body
worked at finishing mill in the Ed
gar Thompson Steel Works, Pitts
burg, Pa Miller lived half an hour.
On the day which Christendom has
set apart to commemorate the cruel
fixion of Jesus Christ, jeremiah AL
len strobe up the gallows steps and
paid with his life for the murder of
his wife on Christmas eve, 1912.
After saving four of his children,
Malcolm Ford dashed into his blazing
home at Rosington, KY, to save his
wife and two babies, but persisted
with them.
Complete returns of the election
when Joliet, H., was voted wet show
that 4,172 women voted wet and 4,154
dry.
Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife of
the former president, has become
member of a local antiwoman suf-
frage association, according to an an
nouncement made by the organiza-
ton.
Child marriages In Colorado are le-
gal, and a contract of marriage be-
tween boy of 10 and girl of 16 is
just as binding as if they were adults,
according to ruling in Denver, Colo.
Women voters in Illinois, in addi-
ton to banishing hundreds of saloons,
elected 40 members of their sex to
township offices.
The entire text of the treaty be-
tween the United States and Colon
bia, settling the Panama controversy,
which was signed at Bogota, is to be
published officially after the Easter
holidays. An indemnity of $25,OO0,000
is to be paid to Colombia.
The Carnegie hero fund has award
ed gold medal to King Victor EN-
manuel for his work in encouraging
heroic deeds in Italy by the example
he set in giving aid to the sufferers
of the Messina earthquake in 1908.
Another great London land deal has
been concluded, by which s. P. Derby
shire acquired the whole of Lord
Howard de Walden's Regents Park
estate for more than $2,5OO,OOo
Returns from majority of the
counties in Alabama indicate that Os-
car W. Underwood won the nomina-
tion for the United States senate by
10000 majority.
Organization Of coal mine operators,
so they might agree on prices, was
advocated by John Mitchell, formerly
president OF the United Mine Workers
of America, before the federal COM
mission on industrial relations.
Miners of the Clinton, Ind, field, In
q mass meeting at Terre Haute, In
dorsed the work Of the policy COM
mittee OF the United Mine Workers of
America and have returned to work.
Maj. Rudolfo Fierro of Gen. Villas
staff is to be executed as the result of
an investigation by commission APP
pointed by Gen. venustiano Carranza
into the killing of William s. Benton,
. British subject. Feb II.
Nine. Sara Bernhard announced
that she intended to make a tour of
the United States, Australia, Russia
and England She will open In New
York in October,
Half an hour after his companion
had carried him to Hartford, Conn,
undertakers morgue as dead after
touching wire carrying 1890 volts,
Carl Lundell suddenly sat up, rubbed
his eyes and when he saw where he
was he got down from the slab and
hurried out of the place.
An attempt to set fire to the famous
church OF st, Martin In the Fields, in
Trafalgar Square, was made by suf-
fragettes. A bomb was used. and the
ancient pews and two stained-glass
windows were wrecked.
Thirteen men arrested at the in
stance of Gov. Stuart in raid upon
the betting ring at the race course of /
the Jamaica Jockey club of Norfolk,
Va. were fined $500 each and SEN
fenced to term of six months in the
Norfolk county Jail.