McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-03-06

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ruption of the telegraph service pre-.
vents confirmation.
Four thousand men were killed in
two battles between Chinese govern
ment troops and the White Wolf bri-
gands on the Nonan-Anhui border, ac-
cording to official kilograms received
ut Pekin.
Thomas s. Fielder, Encouragement
Of Georgia, announced his candidacy
for the unexpired term of Senator A.
o. Bacon, who recently died.
Louisiana sugar growers lost the
second round Of their fight to keep
up the duty on sugar when Attorney
General McReynolds handed down an
opinion that Cuban sugar is entitled
to enter the United States at all times
during the life Of the present reel
procity treaty on payment of a duty
OF 20 per cent less than other sugars.
President Wilson took the position
that for the United States to send
marines or armed forces of any kind
into Mexico without the consent of
the governing authorities there would
be an act of war.
Three hearty American cheers and
tiger was the welcome given by the
baseball teams to King George on his
arrival on the Chelsea football
grounds, London, to witness the base
ball game between the New York and
Chicago teams.
Unable to reach an agreement on
new wage scale to take the place Of
the present scale, which expires on
March 81, the joint conference of OPP
orators and miners from western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Hi
nois adjourned sine die.
Americas altitude record, made by
Lieut.. H. B. Post, u S. A., in his re-
cent fatal flight at North Island, was
broken when Theodore MacCauley, an
aviation instructor, assembled 1919
feet. Posts record was 1920 feet.
Employees of the American Steel
and Wire company in Kitanning, Pa,
and in Leechburg, Pa, where the CON-
pany has large plants, were notified
to withdraw at once from fraternal
organizations that conduct clubs.
F. H. Golf, originator of the Cleve-
land foundation, announced that
$20,000,000 has been pledged for the
purposes of the institution and pre-.
dicted that the amount would reach
$3o,OOO,ooo in another year.
A party of Republicans from Or
leans county, VT, called upon Charles
A. Prouty and later announced that
the interstate commerce commission
er had expressed willingness to &C
cept candidacy for the United States
senate.
Alva Howell, wealthy, was arrested
at his home in Stockbridge, Mich,
after the funeral services over his
wife, on suspicion of having caused
her death.
Death lurked in the wine that toast.
ed the wedding of Carmine Colino,
bookbinder. and Angelina Maglionica
in New York. Three of those who
had drunk were dead, and five were
more or less seriously i'll.
Warning that unless the postmas-
ter-general was checked "bales of hay
and bushels of potatoes" soon would
be going through the mails, was given
the senate by Senator Bankhead,
chairman of the postoffice committee.
Former President Taft, professor
of international law at Yale univer-
sity, is being considered for the presi-
dency of Lafayette college, at Easton,
Pa, to succeed Rev. DR.. Ethelbert ID.
Warfield.
Wives of striking miners testified
before the congressional committee
at Hancock, Mich, that they had been
kicked and beaten by deputy sheriffs
and otherwise mistreated by soldiers.
Formal approval was given the ad-
ministration's two-battleship program
by the house naval affairs committee
after the small navy" men had made
their final stand against it.
Two million pounds OF Argentine
beef and large consignment of Ar
gentine butter arrived on the steam
ship Vandyck at New York.
Sex hygiene will not be taught in
the public schools of San Francisco,
Supt. Roncovieri said, and he will re.
ply to that effect to letter received
from the Parents Right league.
Gen. Pascual Orozco, who was in
command of the Mexican federal vol.
unteers at Ojinaga, arrived in the
capital He had hidden in Texas I'M
til the search for him relaxed.
Five priests were killed by bomb
explosion in the office of Bishop Mix
lossy, a prelate of the Greek Catholic