McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-19


Fighting continued at Zacatecas.
where Gen Panfiio Nasera began an
assault with his 10000 constitutional
list troops. Gen. Natera has drawn d
close line around the town and is de.
termined not to allow the federal gar.
rison under Medina Barron to escape
Gen. Bramwell Booth, commander.
in-chief of the Salvation Army, and
Mrs. Bramwell Booth received In All.
bert hall, London, the delegates to the
worlds congress of the army, of
whom 1900 are from over seas.
George Myers Church of Tenafly,
who inherited a fortune of several
millions through the death of his
grandfather, George Myers, a ST.
Louis tobacco manufacturer, in 1910,
has become an aviator.
BY total Of eight to four and three
quarters the challenging British polo.
lists scored victory over what Is con,
sidered the second strongest team in
the United States at Hampstead, N. Y.
A law providing for the imprison.
ment of all men connected with com.
mercialized vice and the establish
ment of institutions in which their
victims could learn useful trades was
demanded by Maj. Funkhouser, sec
ond deputy superintendent of police,
while addressing the City club of Chi
cago.
Eight persons, four of them women,
lost their lives and seven more were
badly injured in fire that spread
through an old-style East Side, New
York, tenement. More than score of
others were hurt.
Cut and bruised, the bodies of Bess
Reynolds, aged 10, and three sisters,
BERTHE Sanders, aged 9; Zulah San
uStS, II, anu vino odAuCio, II, "Oi .
found floating in Rock creek, near Sa-
pulpa, Ok.
Eight persons, one already dead and
five expected to die, fell at Neon, KY,
when William Day, Breathitt county
bad man." ran amuck. The wounded
include the village magistrate and a
hotel keeper. Victor Stampher died
soon after he was shot.
Enactment of woman suffrage in
Denmark and abolition Of all property
qualifications for electors of members
Of the upper house is proposed by q
constitution amendment bill which
passed the lower house of the Danish
parliament.
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria
were the hosts of Theodore Roosevelt
at luncheon at their summer place
at La Grande, 40 miles from Madrid.
Mile. Lenglen, q 15-year-old girl,
won the women's hand court tennis
worlds championship at Paris.
France.
Second Lieut.. F. H. Houston of the
Twenty-eighth infantry, at Vera Cruz,
shot and killed drunken Mexican
who was interfering with the Mexican
police.
The Farmers Bank of Gliddcn, Ia,
a private institution, capitalized at
$4,000 and having deposits of
$115, 900, closed its doors for liquida-
ton.
Nine hundred million bushels of
wheat, almost half the average worlds
wheat production, and a new record
for the United States, is the prospec-
tive total yield of the farms of the
country this year, the department of
agriculture announced in its June crop
report.
BY affirming the decision of the SUI.
preme court Of Missouri busting from
the state the International Harvester
company and assessing a fine OF
$25, 900 against the corporation for vio-
lation of the state antitrust law, the
United States supreme court again
upheld the validity Of the Missouri
statute.
DR.. d. Winton Dunn, former mayor
of Duquoin, Ill, and one of the most
widely known of practicing physicians
In southern Illinois, was shot four
times and fatally wounded by Jesse
Joplin, coal miner.
Representative Tavenner of Illinois
has introduced bill in the house pro-
posing to fix a minimum wage for ia
borers," skilled laborers" and help
ers."
Three British sailors were arrested
at Vera Cruz, Mexico, as disorderly
persons. They were taken to the po-
lice station and almost Immediately a
British officer entered and demanded
the release Of the sailors. He also
was placed under arrest.
At a meeting Of the executive com.
mittee of the Church Federation of
st. Louis announcement was made
that the federation will spend $4,000
in an advertising campaign in the
newspapers, beginning next fall.
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Fifty-one tattered and footsore men,
the remnant of Kelly's army" which
left Sacramento two weeks ago with
Washington as its destination, has
reached Fort Wayne, Ind.