McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-02-13

given out by the Aero Club of Amer.
lea.
The council of the empire of Rus
STA adopted drastic clauses to the bill
for the regulation of the sale of alco-
hol, prohibiting the sale of spirits in
towns between II p. m. and a. m.
and after p. m. in country districts.
The $100,O00,O00 suit of the state of
Texas against the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway of Texas was settled by
a compromise without money pen
atty. The suit was brought under the
state antitrust laws.
Robert Gum BremnG, member OF
congress from the Seventh New Jer-
sey district and editor of the Passaic
Daily Herald, died of cancer at a Bal
timore sanitarium, where he had been
undergoing radium treatment since
last December.
Blanch Lenhart brought suit for di.
vorce at Fort Wayne, Ind, against
Linus Lenhart, farmer alleging that
he insisted on placing the pillow in the
parlor, the corn planter and other
farm implements in the kitchen and
stored oats and corn under their bed
The United States has issued call
for the holding of the third peace con-
ference at The Hague next year. This
government took this action, it is un.
derstood, at the request of Queen viii.
helmina of Holland. !,
Lucius N Littauer, a former con-
gresham of New York, and his broth
er William were fined $1,000 each and
sentenced to six months in Jail for
smuggling. The court, however, sus-
pended sentence in the matter of the
Jail penalty.
Ed. J. Hanlon, acting president of
the Western league, has called
scheduled meeting of the league to be
held in Chicago Feb. IL.
President Huerta issued a decree
authorizing an increase in the army
of $4,000 men, including irregulars,
According to official figures, this will
bring the available fighting force of
the army up to $4,000 men.
Five women Of Volo, ILL.,, accused Of
driving their neighbor, Mrs. John
Richardson, out of the village by rid
ing her on rail, were fined $500 each
by Judge Charles Donnelly.
Robert Higgins, charged with MUIR
dering his wife so that he could mar
ry her daughter, Julia Flake, has
waived preliminary examination at
Galesburg, Ill.
Secretary Bryan signed a peace
treaty with Denmark providing for
the submission of any questions in
dispute to commission which is al
lowed period of one year for exami
nation and report.
Property damage of nearly 81, 100000
was done at Clinton, Tex, when be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 bales of cot
ton were either consumed or badly
damaged by fire.
Charles E. Dana, well known as an
artist and art critic, died at his home
in Philadelphia. He was II years of
age and was formerly professor Of
architecture at the University Of
Pennsylvania.
Two pouches containing more than
$4,000 consigned by the United
States Express company to New York
have disappeared. Four private de-
tectiyes arrived in Syracuse, N. Y, to
trace the missing money.
Capt. Lorenz, the first officer and
II of the crew of the German bark
Hera, from Pisagua, Chile, for Fal
mouth, Eng, were drowned when the
vessel struck a rock as it had almost
concluded It's voyage.
William Dickson Reeves of the w.
d. Reeves numbering industry of this
city was killed at Helena. Ark, when
the automobile he wassdriving skidded
into ditch and overturned.
Victor Parone, a wine merchant and
banker, was shot and probably fatally
injured from ambush few doors
from the saloon owned by his brothers
in the West Side Italian district in
Chicago.
Gen. James Grant Wilson, soldier,
editor and author, who had been i'll in
st. Luke's hospital in New York sew.
eral weeks, is dead.
The ministry of commerce made the
official announcement that Japan will
in the Panama-Pacific ex-
position at San Francisco.
A meeting of the National Demo.
cratic club, New York, ended in dis
order after a resolution demanding
that Charles #. Murphy be retired
from the leadership of Tammany Hall
had been declared carried on an aye
and nay vote.
Two thousand employees of the Penn
sylvania railroad shops at Whining