McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-05-29

fOr the SecOLs1 time CnarleS Becker
was convicted at New York of the
murder of Herman Rosenthal The
jurors were in agreement on their fifth
ballot after four hours and FIVE min
utes Of elaboration. They could have
saved Becker's life even in finding him
guilty If they had wanted to show
mercy.
Harry Lane, aged 20, was caught
under fail of slate and coal in the
Penwell mine at Pana, ILL.,, and 30
badly injured that he died at the
Springfield, ILL.,, hospital, three hours
later.
An urgent deficiency bill, carrying
an appropriation of $6,3O0,O00 that in
cludes many items covering the ex-
penses of troops in Mexico, was
passed by the senate
President Wilson decided to speak
at Arlington national cemetery on
June 4, when the monument to the
Confederate dead is to be dedicated.
Joseph G. Cannon formally an
nounced his candidacy for congress.
The former speaker, standing in the
midst of AZ Republicans, composed of
the chairmen and workers of the vari-
Gus counties in his old district, SO
stated in reply to their request for his
expression in the matter.
Bishop Joseph ]. Fox of Green Bay,
Wis, Bishop John ]. McCort of Phila-
delphia and Bishop John Ward of
Leayenworth, Kan, were received in
private audience by the pope.
Frank Marshall pleaded guilty at
Ottawa, H., to the killing of Fred
Kane on Feb. 20 and was sentenced
to 16 years Imprisonment at Joliet.
Sixteen persons were killed and
thousands Of dollars worth of prop
erty destroyed by cyclones and hail
storm in Musquiz, Coahuila. Hundreds
of horses and cattle persisted. Mus
quiz has about 5000 inhabitants and
is situated 140 miles south of Eagle
Pass, Tex.
Senator Gallinger of New Hamp-
shire, Republican leader in the SEN
ate and senior member of that body
in point of service, whose term ex-
pires March 4, announced his candi-
dacy for reelection.
six persons were killed near Ash.
vile, o., when Scioto Valley trac-
ton car struck an automobile at a
crossing.
Armed with tables of figures, Sen
ator Smoot of Utah told the senate
that the total loss to the commerce Of
the country in April, as a result of
the passage of the Underwood tariff
law, had been $63,000,000.
The Norwegian steamship Atlantis,
which left Galveston May 10 for Tam
pico with SO passengers, is aground
100 miles north of Tampico and tugs
have been ordered to her rescue. All
the passengers have been taken off
by the United States battleship Con-
necticut.
Pat Powers, who dynamited sa-
loon at ANAL, Mo-, in December, 1912,
causing the death of two Greek rail-
road laborers, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to five years in the peni.
Tertiary.
The Vandalia Railroad company
was adjudged guilty by jury in the
federal court in East St. Louis in two
of three counts charging rebating.
The hay crop OF central Missouri
virtually will be failure because o.
the continued dry weather during
April and May.
Mrs. Rebecca Soltz, "a years old,
and her 3-year-old son Morris were
burned to death and her 4-year-old
daughter is believed to have been
burned fatally in fire that started
in their home in st. Louis.
Theodore Roosevelt returned home
from South America. Accompanied
by two naturalists of his party, George
X. Cherry and Leo e. Miller, he ar.
rived from Para on board the Booth
liner Aidan.
Sixty-four American negroes, en-
ployed by the United Fruit company,
were killed, 100 wounded, and there is
no estimate of the Indian casualties,
as result of race war in the Out
rigua district of Guatemala, which be-
gan Thursday and ended Saturday
night. The arrival of more than 1000
troops stopped the slaughter. \
Reports showing gain of 69,756
members of affiliated unions for
April, 1914, over that month in 1913,
were made public by Secretary Morri-
son, following the final meeting of
the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor.
In celebration of the eleventh ami
versary of the Ford Motor company,
Detroit, Mich, an extra dividend OF
100 per cent, or $4,000, 900, has been de.
clared, according to the best of au-
thority on Griswold street.
The death rate of the United States