McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-07-17

regulating CdlHpdlSh COntilputiOAS dlu
expenses, but making few changes Of
Importance, was passed by the house,
1873 to 10.
Fifteen men were injured, Ave
probably fatally, when gas let go in
a furnace Of the Corrigan-McKinney
Iron company at Cleveland, o. Thir.
teen of the injured are in hospital.
Between 5000 and 1000 carloads of
apples will be shipped this fall from
the Ozark apple growing region, ac-
cording to Ashleigh P. Boles. horti-
cultural agent of the Frisco railroad.
| Fred A. Busse, former mayor Of Chi
cago and for years well-known Re-
publican politician, died at his home.
He had been sick for many weeks.
| Meat prices will rise above the rec
ord figures OF recent years, despite
the huge grain crop, according to
packing house representatives, who
asserted that the present scarcity Of
cattle and the. effect OF dry weather
on grazing lands would more than off.
set the enormous grain yield.
| Mrs. Emma Daugherty, under ar
rest at Youngstown, O., In connection
with the death of Frank Delito July
4, and the poisoning of Samuel Or
wig, her uncle, confessed that she put
strychnine in whisky which the two
victims drank.
Harold F. Henwood, under sentence
of death for the killing Of George E.
! Copeland, was denied a third trial by
the Colorado state supreme court at
Denver.
An attempt to destroy the cottage
at Ayr, Scotland, where Robert Burns.
the poet, was born Jan. Is, 1853, was
made by two members of a militant
suffragette arson squad.
| Eight members Of the Stefansson
Arctic expedition. who were believed
to be on Wrangel Island, off the coast
Of Alaska, with the rest of the Karluk
party, which was reported safe more
than month ago. are now thought to
be lost.
Joseph Siegel who confessed he
had been paid 50 to vote illegally In
the Kansas City street railway fran.
chise election. pleaded guilty In the
criminal court and was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
Gen. Oregon. constituuonalist
commander of the division Of the
northwest. reported to Gen. CArranza
that he had decisively defeated an
army of 5000 federals sent out from
Guadalajara to oppose his advance ON
that city.
Thirty million bushels Of wheat
were added to the prospects Of the
crop during June by the excellent
| weather conditions, making the fore
cast Of the crop, as announced by the
department of agriculture, 930,000,000
bushels, new record.
Representative George J. Kindel of
Colorado, who was elected to the
house as Democrat, announced that
he had left the Democratic party and
would take the stump next fall as an
Independent, supporting Republican
nominees in several states.
The French submarine Calypso was
sunk by the destroyer Mosqueton dur
ing maneuvers at Toulon, France. The
crew Of the Calypso were saved.
Commercial failures in the United
States during the first half Of 1914, as
reported by r. G. Dun G. Co., were
8,344 and involved an aggregate in
debtedness of $1S5,099,73O. OF the abb
normally heavy liabilities this year up
ward of $4O,000,000 was supplied by
the Claflin Observation-Disclosures Is
or 20-thus leaving approximately
| $145, 100000 for the other insolvencies.
During debate In the house Floor
Leader Underwood announced that he
is opposed to the executive branch OF
the government interfering with the
| legislative branch and vice versa.
|
The 100000 appropriation for the
| aid OF the Salem fire sufferers, asked
by President Wilson in message to
congress last Friday was refused by
the house appropriation committee.
Theodore Roosevelt has resigned
from The Outlook. Lawrence Abbott,
one of the owners, admitted this,
though he refused to say what had
induced the colonel to quit his edi.
torial work.
| The bodies of 8. F. Bennett
and two unidentified women were
found in swamp at East Point, Ca.
a fashionable suburb of Atlanta.
Wounds indicated that all three had
| been shot.
President Wilson was asked to stop
at the San Diego. Cal, exposition on
his trip next year through the Pan.
anna canal to San Francisco. He told
Representative Kettner of California
he would take the invitation under ad.
visement.
Helen Morton Bayly, Chicago society
girl and horsewoman, daughter Of
Mark Morton, was adjudged insane