McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

Eighteen of the crew Of the French
steamer st. Paul were drowned. The
steamer struck a rock and sank while
entering the port of Brisbane, Aus
tralia, according to Lloyds dispatch.
burned to death when Fannystelle,
Man, hotel was destroyed by fire.
France, who had large real estate
holdings in that locality, was asleep
in his room and could not be reached
after the fire was discovered.
William Petty and Andrew Med
ford, charged with taking part in a
fight at Deering, Kan, in which Pres
ton Seeley was killed, Miss Isabel
Stewart injured probably fatally and
Medford hurt seriously, were arrested
near Wann, Ok.
Because he is alleged to have
Rugged and kissed a white girl, daugh-
ter Of farmer, Charles Fisher, ne
gro youth, was badly mutilated by o
mob near Marshall, Tex.
Joe Choynski, former prize fighter
and now a director of the Pittsburg
Athletic club. has been left legacy
Of $4,000 in the will of Jim Pom, a
Chinese in Chicago, whom the boxer
befriended years ago.
Tandy Folsom, Cherokee Indian.
was found guilty of the murder of Pat
rick Dore, an Oklahoma politician, at
Westville, Ok, He was sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
Final refusal of the United Mine
Workers Of America to accept the
terms offered by the bituminous coal
mine owners of western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois ended the
Joint wage scale conference of the
men and employers.
Peter Baujan, the largest man in
Illinois, died at Arenzville. He
weighed $40 pounds and for many
years travelled with the late P. T. Bar
mum.
The contest committee of the Aero
Club of America decided that st.
Louis, having complied with the re-
quirements of international rules,
would be the starting point of the ma.
tional balloon rase July 4.
Fifteen persons were drowned at
Koepenick, Germany, when a tug ran
| into and sank small ferryboat
crowded with workmen and their
wives.
Mrs. Amanda U. Lawson was arrest
ed on a warrant charging her with the
murder of her husband, Jonas P. Law
son, farmer, at their home at East
Woodstock, Conn, on Aug. Is last.
Officers of the Northwest Royal
mounted police placed watch near
Neville, Sask., on woman home
steader, believed to be Mrs. Belle Gun
ness, the Laporte, Ind, murderess.
Walter Greer Campbell, who three
years ago had fortune of more than
| $4,000.00O, was arrested in Portland,
Ore, on charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses in San Fran
cisco.
Fanny Crosby, the blind writer, cell
ebrated her ninety-fourth birthday. To
visitors she said her health was excel
lent, as she felt as young "as when
a."
A bandit shot at the teller of the
Union Bank of Altoona, Pa, wounded
the cashier and a depositor and got
away in an automobile with about
$500.
Consecrated to a mission of peace,
the superdreadnavght Oklahoma, the
most powerful acquisition to the
American navy, was launched at the
New York Shipbuilding compan.
yards. at Camden, N. J.
What is believed to be the first
operation Of its kind in this country
was performed when the cornea of
pigs eye was grated on the sightless
eye of 3-month-old boy.
Mistaking her 13-year-old daughter
for an Intruder, Mrs. Joseph Wilson
fired at the girl in the kitchen Of
their home at Boaz, KY, and killed
her.
DR.. Harry Thurston Peck, former
professor at Columbia university,
New York, committed suicide at
rooming house in Stamford, Conn, by
shooting himself in the head with
revolver.
Charles Killman, a prisoner in Jail
at Seattle, Wash, confessed, accord
ing to Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
Edgar Wright, that he and three 9th
er strike-breakers had planted dyna,
mite to cause the arrest of striking
union teamsters. -
The detection Of the army officers
who refused TO serve In Ulster is
closed incident, but its consequences
are likelv To nrnve far-raachinq