McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-05-01

Superintendent of Police Reynolds
at New Orleans has ordered the ar.
rest of any person making "disparag
ing remarks about the army and navy
and the American flag on the streets
of New Orleans"
Five hundred miners employed in
the mines of the Four States Coal
company, at Dorothy, w. Va, struck
because the mine superintendent did
not attend the wage conference at
Charleston.
big Jeff" Tesreau, the Giants
pitcher, who is being sued for $4,000
by Miss Clara Young, may have to fur
nish bond to keep out of Ludlow
street jail. Miss Young's home is In
Perryville, Mo.
A. w. Fawcett, twice mayor of Ia
coma, Wash, and recalled from that
office three years ago, was placed in
the mayors chair third time. His
majority was about 800.
Three Louisville, Ky, girls who in
sisted they were suffragettes and had
a right to enlist for Mexican duty fled
when told to prepare for the rigid
physical examination which all re-
cruits must pass.
That Leo NJ Frank, under sentence
of death at Atlanta, Ga, for the MUIR
der of Mary Phagan, 14-year-old fac
tory employe, is not a pervert and is
innocent of the murder for which he
has been convicted, is the substance
of report made public by w. ].
Burns, detective, who was employed
by friends of Frank.
Eight hundred collins we've taken
aboard the army transports at Gal
weston, Tex, which are stocked and
| ready to carry the Fifth brigade of
the United States army to Mexico If
ordered.
| Sing Sing prison had serious fire.
The whole of the fire apparatus Of
| Ossining, N. Y, had been called there,
and almost the entire body of inhabi-
tants were spectators The blaze was
in the enameling shop.
The entire enlistment Of state mi
litia, including all branches of the
service, was ordered to mobilize at
the two armories in Denver to await
further orders for service in the Trim
idad strike zone.
Because he posted bills declaring
"for instruction before war;" the dis
trict attorneys office at Portland,
Ore, is preparing to bring charge
against Harry Jensen under a statute
recently enacted making it felony
to advocate crime.
George Clark, rs years old, of Low
Point, ILL.,, was killed at that place by
a train on the Chicago G. Alton. He
was trying to avoid another.
President Wilson sent to the senate
another long list of nominations, in
GLIDING the names of Charles A.
Karch of Belleville as United States
attorney for the eastern district Of
Illinois, and Edgar H. Little as post.
master of East st. Louis.
14-hour battle between striking
coal miners and members of the Colo
RADIO NATIONAL guard In the Ludlow
district eliminated in the killing OF
Louis Tikas, leader of the Greek strik-
ers, and the destruction of the Lud.
low tent colony by fire. Reports place |
the dead at 10, including IL strikers.
one soldier and one noncombatant.
list leader in the Monterey campaign,
reported to Matamoras headquarters
that he had captured the Mexican ma
tional station, the Gulf hotel and the
union station, on the edge OF the Nue.
vo Leon capital and had inflicted |
heavy losses on the defending fed
erals.
Fifty Spanish refugees from Mexico
arrived at Cadiz aboard the steamer
Montserrat. They we're In pitiable
condition from sickness and destitv-
ton, and described atrocities which
they and their compatriots suffered in
Mexico.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Griffith, aged 81,
and M. L. Winkler, aged 81, we're mar
red at the Confederate home at Little
Rock, Ark, by Rev. Benjamin F. Gar
rett, aged IS years.
Thomas C. Hastings, former city
marshal Of South Fulton, Tenn, shot
Mrs. Fannie Renfro to death and then
killed himself.
Francois De Roy, an aviator, and
Marcel Dablin, a passenger, were
burned to death as result of col
lision in the air at Buc, France. Thou
sands saw the accident.
George Crump, Jr., of Muskogee was
found guilty of impersonating a fed.
eral officer by a jury In the United
States court at Tulsa, Ok.
Six persons were killed and a score
injured, several seriously, when a Sag
NAV. Mich, street car split switch
at street intersection, turned over on
its side and crashed into an iron pole
There were rs passengers in the car.
The Hotel Maryland, at Pasadena,
Cal. one of the finest hotels in south.