McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-24

a protest against alleged unfairness
on the part of one of the construction
firms.
In an engagement between Italian
forces and 1000 rebels near Gedebia,
Benghazi, Africa, the Italians routed
the enemy after hard fighting, killing
154 of them and wounding many,
Fire in the overcrowded six-story
tenement at 741-743 Eighth avenue,
New York, killed II persons and pos
sibly more, burned many others. Sew
en- charred bodies have been taken
from the burned building.
Vincent Aston was much improved,
according to announcement made at
the country home of his fiancee, Miss
Helen Dinsmore Huntington.
Robert Driscoll of Driscoll, Tex,
probably the wealthiest stockman in
Texas, died in San Antonio, Tex. He
was multimillionaire
Mother" Mary Jones, held as
military prisoner in the Walsenburg,
Colo, Jail, has been released.
Illinois coal operators fatty refused
to accede to the demand for higher
wages made by the Illinois mine work
ers. The operators have rejected prac-
tically every demand which has been
made upon them.
When Gen" Coxey's "army" COM
pleted the first lap of its proposed
hike to Washington at Canton, o., the
force had dwindled to about SO. OF
this number so were high school boys
who had given Coxey a send-off from
his home town. They returned home.
Pitcher Earl Hamilton, who desert
ed the st. Louis American League
baseball team to join the Kansas City
Federals, renewed his allegiance tc
the St Louis team.
Chicago's municipal store and board
to furnish supplies to the poor at cost
is failure and will be closed at the
end of April.
Thomas Mullin of Marion, Ia, a mo-
torman, was killed and 10 persons
were injured in a collision between
two Marion interurban cars between
Cedar Rapids, Ia, and Marion.
John and Joseph D'Angelo, cousins,
were shot and killed and Mrs. Frank
D'Apgelo, Joseph's mother, was dan
gerously wounded at Boswell, Pa, by
an unknown assassin.
The trial OF DR.. W. T. Elan, physi-
clan of st. Joseph. Mo-, accused of the
murder of w. Putnam Cramer, Chi
cago advertising solicitor, in a room.
ing hotel in Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. Is
last, was postponed to May IS.
Shortly before "Dago Frank" Giro
fici went to the death chair in Sing
Sing prison he told Warden Clancy
that "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, Lefty
Louis Rosenberg and Harry WALTON,
an informer, fired the shots which
killed Herman Rosenthal, for which
crime the four gunner paid their
lives.
Mrs. Young of Genoa. ILL.,, was killed
in runaway accident She was on
her way home from Sycamore, where
she had been to see her son, John
Young, who is in hospital there.
Or. c. C. Meredith, a physician, and
Miss Lucy d. Orr, nurse in his en-
ploy, arrested several days ago at
Pittsburg, Pa, on an alleged charge Of
malpractice in connection with the
death of Mrs. Myrtle Allison a year
ago, and released on bail, we're arrest
ed again by the county authorities on
a charge of murder.
The McCracken county growers as
ISOLATION will receive $4,000 more
strawberry plants from Anna, H.,
next week. This will make total of
100000 received Between $50 and
200 acres of strawberries will be cul-
tivated by the association.
When fire started in a moving pic
ture show at Canton, o., Nine. Louisa
Tetrazzini, the famous singer, who
was in the audience, stopped a panic
by singing. The curtains over an exit
caught fire and the audience, COM
posed mostly of women and children,
made rush for the doors.
Maj Benjamin r. Koehler of the
coast artillery, tried by general court
martial last month at Fort Terry, N
Y, was found guilty of immoral con-
duct and sentenced to dismissal from
the army.
Decatur city commissioners avowed
their intention of making the town
ship as dry as powder" Sale of LID
uor for medicinal purposes, Or other
wise, will be barred in drug stores. no
soft-drink parlors will be allowed to
operate and shipment of liquor into
the city will be prohibited
Vincent Aston is seriously i'll at
Hopeland house, Staatsburg, N. Y,
the country home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert p Huntington, parents of Miss
Helen Dinsmore Huntington, whose
marriage to Mr.. Astor has been set
for April 80. He is suffering from
congestion of lungs.