McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-01-23


contract at $4,000 a year in a tele.
gram sent to him at Augusta, Ca, by
President Gilmore Of the Federal
league.
Mrs. Clara B. ellis died In Danville,
ILL.,, as the result of taking poison
when confronted with the allegation
she had two husbands living The po-
lice assert that although Mrs. ellis
was only 20 years old she had had
five husbands, three of whom she had
divorced
Senator Tillman of South Carolina
Is confined to his bed with an attack
OF erysipelas. He has not been in ro-
bust health for a long time, and his
friends are anxious about his condi.
ton.
After the hottest campaign ever
waged in Trenton, Mo-, the voters of
that city adopted local option by
majority of 209.
Preliminary estimates by the de.
partment of agriculture show that OF
the 1,140,000,000 acres OF tillable land
in the United States only 81 per cent
of 1t is actually under cultivation.
The nomination of John Shelton
Williams to be comptroller of the cur
rency was ordered favorably reported
to the senate by the committee CD
banking and currency.
lister OF finance, cabled his resigna-
ton from Paris to Gen. Huerta, as
protest against the action of the pro-
visional president In repudiating the
interest payments on the internal and
foreign debts of Mexico.
Reports of very incomplete nature
indicate no one alive remains on the
island of Sakura, which Is an inferno
Of smoke and flame. 1t is stated that
the entire population of the three vii
lagos have persisted.
The entire railroad service of Portu.
gal was suspended, owing to the
declaration of general strike by the
employees. About one-third of the rail
roads belong to the state.
A general strike throughout South
Africa was proclaimed by the Trades
Federation and the Rand miners by a
two-thirds majority voted to join the
movement.
A permanent worlds fair In Wash
ington was proposed by Senator Ny
ers of Montana, with request that
congress create commission to in
vestigate the project. He said the pro-
posed exhibition had the Endorsement
of former President Taft, the govern
ors of 81 states and $50 commercial
organizations.
Final decision in favor of Oklahoma
City was announced in the litigation
involving the validity of the transfer
of the Oklahoma state capital from
Guthrie to Oklahoma City.
Arthur A. Mclean, treasurer of the
Democratic state committee of New
York, pleaded guilty to accepting cam
nfrih ,ti
ton. Supreme Court Justice Vernon
M. Davis suspended sentence.
Richard McCrrery, a millionaire,
was sentenced to five days in the
county Jail by San Francisco, Cal,
police Judge for violation of the auto
mobile speed laws.
Gov. Glynn refused finally to pardon
D. H. Tolman, the convicted New York
money lender.
On a crowded Muskogee, Ok, street
8. M. Smith shot and probably fatally
wounded Mrs. Bessie Brown, alleged
to have been the woman in the case
when obtained divorce from his wife
Is months ago.
The Pope formally sanctioned the
rejection by the tribunal of the Seq
natura of the appeal of the Duchess
de Tallyrand, formerly Anna Gould,
from the decision of the tribunal of
the Rota annulling her marriage to
Count Boni de Castellane The suit
will now go again before the Rota tri-
bunal. 1t may not be finally settled
for a year.
Cold storage plants magnates, with
press agents and lawyers, are in
Washington clamoring for an oppor-
tunity to prove to the house commit
tee on interstate and foreign COM
MERGE that refrigerated storage of edi-
bles has nothing to do with the high
cost of living.
Aaron Donaldson, convicted in the
Christian county, ILL.,, circuit court
three years ago of defrauding ]. H.
Downs and daughter, Mrs. Belle Ridge
ley OF Assumption, out of $4,000 on
fictitious mining stock and properties
alleged to have been owned by DON
aldson in the Ozark mountains, was
paroled from Chester penitentiary.
The United States navy ranks third
among the naval ornaments of the
world, according to the figures given
in Pulsifer's Navy Yard Book, pub
lished as senate document
Garfield comics of resolutions