McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-03-20

j. X. Robertson, planter, was
shot and probably fatally wounded by
Bill Williams, plantation hand, near
Hearne, Tex. Bill Williams, the me-
gro accused of the shooting, was
hanged by moi.
The Illinois Central has closed its
order with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works for so locomotives.
Twenty-three suits begun by per-
sons whose relatives were among the
14S killed in the Triangle shirtwaist
factory fire in New York, and by per
sons who were injured, were settled
by the payment of SIS in each case
The British cruiser Berwick left st.
Lucia hurriedly, presumably for Bra
I'll, iii order, If necessary, to protect
British interests.
ut was our first quarrel" said
Shered Fields, 10 years old, when ar.
rested at West Fork, Ark, charged
with killing his twin brother Benja-
min. Shered told the officers he had
fallen out with his brother over a
trivial circumstance, that his brother
had drawn knife and that he, in self
defense, had seized a shotgun and
fired.
Edward Smythe of Peoria ILL.,, one
OF the "a members of the iron work
ers' union whose conviction in the
dynamite conspiracy cases the United
States supreme court refused to re-
view, returned voluntarily and unac-
companied to the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth.
Attorney-General McReynolds de-
cided to prepare a suit against the
Metropolitan Tobacco company of
New York, under the Sherman anti.
trust act
BY vote of 16 to 10 the Maryland
senate voted down a motion to akol
ish the racing at Havre de Grace.
Five days at hard labor on the city
rock pile was the sentence for speed
ing given to w. C. Barker, millionaire
clubman, in the Portland, Ore, mu-
nicipai court
DR.. Jacob Hall, charged with per-
forming an operation that caused the
death OF Meta Zook, 16-year-old high
school girl, was acquitted at Kansas
City.
The congressional committee, after
four weeks investigation of the Colo
rada coal miners strike, departed for
Chicago for brief joint session with
the committee taking testimony in
the Michigan copper miners strike.
Sixteen strikers are under military
arrest in connection with the alleged
murder of Neil Smith, a Forbes non
union miner, whose mutilated body
was found on the Colorado G. South
ern tracks at Suffield Siding, Colo. |
President Frank j. Navin of the De-
troit baseball club announced that Ty |
Cobb had signed a two-year contract |
with the Detroit club at figure that |
makes the Georgia Peach" the high. |
est-priced player in baseball.
Fire in the business building of the |
Boatmen's Bank at st. Louis also oc.
cupied by the Missouri Athletic Club,
as headquarters, resulted in the death |
of seven, 16 seriously injured and 80 |
missing. 1t is almost certain the miss
ing men persisted.
Two babies were cremated and a
third narrowly escaped death at Con-
way, Ark, when the residence of Jack
Smith, near Alma, was destroyed by
fire while Mr.. and Mrs. Smith were
absent.
New York city's birth rate for the
year 1913 was the lowest since 1903.
The number of births as set forth in
a report issued by the health depart
ment, was 135,134, equivalent to a
birth rate of 25.12, against 1866 and
a rate of 1922 in 1912, or a decrease
in the absolute figures of 532 births
and in the rate of 1.07.
During a scuffle with her husband |
over a gun, Mrs. William Chambers,
wife of a farmer near Rosedale, Ark,
was killed. Chambers is in Jail al
Purcell.
Texas rangers crossed the interna-
tional boundary line, exhumed the
body of Clemente Vergara, buried in
the Hidalgo, Mexico, cemetery, and
brought it across the Rio Grande to
American SOIL
Predicting that the Mexican situa-
ton is matter with which the United
States shall be forced to deal in
some decisive way, and that very
soon,' Senator Works (Rep.) of Cali
fornia criticised the Mexican policy of
the administration in speech in the
senate.
With the awarding to the Pennsyl-
vania Steel company of contract for
the steel superstucture, assurance is
given of the immediate erection
across tho Missiscinni rivar ,+ Now