McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-02-06

SoUU,OOu. Two flremen were injured
by a falling wall.
Sixty persons were driven from
their beds and seven firemen were
injured during a blaze which swept
the Broadway block ON Essex street,
Lawrence, Mass. Many occupants of
apartments on the upper floors were
rescued in life nets.
Five convicts in the Illinois peni.
Tertiary who have been making coun.
terfeit Scent pieces in the machine
shop of the prison were detected. The
nickels were passed in the prison
store.
One thousand union coal miners,
employed by the Central Coal and
Coke company Of Kansas City, Mo-,
at Hartford, Huntington and Bonanza,
near Fort Smith, Ark, are on strike.
A bill prescribing the worship of
heaven and of Confucius by the pres
ident of the Chinese republic was
passed by the administrative council
which took the place of the Chinese
parliament recently dissolved by Pres
ident Yuan Shi Kai.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
An1nrioan Eodnpatiny r,f nh do
Tended that organization and it's ex.
ecutive council in speech before the
convention of the United Mine Work.
ers of America against the charges
made by Charles H. Meyer, president
of the Western Federation of Miners.
Former President William Howard
Taft urged before the Albany Yale
Alumni association that the younger
generation should be carefully trained
in political first principles.
The London Times announces that
Sir Lionel Garden, British minister to
Mexico, will shortly return to Eng.
land on leave to report to the govern,
ment on the outlook in Mexico.
The capture by Mexican rebels OF
the City of Conception Deloro, in the
state of Zacatecas, together with its
garrison of 400, was reported to rebel
headquarters in Matamoras, Mexico.
j. l.. Bristow, United States senator
from Kansas, who last month an
nounced himself aligned with the Re-
publican party, is candidate to sue
coed himself in the senate.
A powder magazine of the Genoa,
Italy, Notifications exploded. Five sol.
diers and one civilian were killed and
nine others seriously wounded.
Kenneth Murphy, aged 81, serving a
life sentence in the Nebraska peniten,
tiary for murder, committed when he
was IS years old, was paroled by Gov.
state university.
Alleging that his daughter, Helen 2.
Graham, aged 16, was forced to pose
nude for more than two hours, VIII
liam A. Graham has filed an attach.
ment for $4,000 against Henry O.
Ryder of Boston.
Unionization of all federal employees,
government clerk as well as skilled
artisans, Is the ultimate aim of the
American Federation of Labor, accord
ing to statements by federation Off
Gals.
Hygienic fads-eugenics, sex educa-
ton and sterilization of criminals and
defectives-were disapproved by the
special investigating committee which
reported at the annual meeting at the
Chicago State hospital.
AS result of mistake by a nurse,
two children at the Utica, N. Y, or
phan asylum are dead and four others
are in critical condition. A nurse
gave some of the children poison in
mistake for laxative.
The revolutionary movement In
Hayti grows stronger day by day. All
the towns in the north are in arms
against the government and several
of the most important places have
been captured by the revolutionists.
Albert G.. Harlin, a South Bend,
Ind, real estate broker and insurance
agent, was arrested on four charges
Ct forgery. The charges. filed by
George c. Foster, allege that Harlin
forged the names of heirs of Thomas
A. e. Byerly to notes for $3.50.
Col. George w. Cocktails, chief en-.
gineer of the Panama canal, recently
was rendered the position of police
commissioner of New York City by
Mayor Mitchell, and in reply to the
letter sent him by the mayor, through
George W. Perkins, signified his will
ingness to accept the post under car
tain conditions
The Panama canal has reached such
condition of completion that large
ocean steamer now could pass
through, according to a statement at
Panama by Col Goethals.
Shelby Moore Cullom, who for more
than half century served the people
of Illinois in various public capacities,
80 years of which were spent in the
United States senate. died at his
Washington home. The end was