McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-03-20
Epitonne
of the
Weeks News


on the quarter deck, the super-dread-
naught Texas. the newest battleship
in the American navy, and the great
est man-o-war in the world, was for.
mally placed in commission at the
Norfolk yard, when the Stars and
Stripes were unfurled over her stern.
Charles Tow was killed and Louis
Harris probably fatally injured when
the mining tub in which they were be-
ing hoisted fell 200 feet at the old
Phoenix mine, near Prosperity, at
Webb City, Mo
Miss May Richardson, militant SUI
fragette, who on Tuesday hacked We
lasquezs "Rokeby Venus" in the ma
tional gallery, was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment.
The will of George w. Vanderbilt,
as filed for probate in New York
leaves his entire estate, estimated at
$20,000,000 to his widow and only
daughter, Cornelia.
The much-discussed literacy test
will remain in the Burnett immigration
bill when it is presented to the SEN
ate. This was decided by the senate
immigration committee.
The American Express company de-
clared a quarterly dividend of 112
per cent, reduction OF one-half of /
per cent from the last quarterly divi-
dend, declared Dec. 8.
The final chapter in the iron work
ers' campaign to destroy open shops"
with dynamite and nitroglycerine was
written by the supreme court in re-
fusing to review the penitentiary sen
fences imposed upon Frank M. Ryan
and % associates.
Secretary of State Bryan said he
hoped that not only would this coun-
try borrow the initiative and referen-
dunn, as 1t had borrowed the Aus
tralian ballot, but that in time it
would adopt the postal vote.
Dispatches from Ceiba, Honduras,
said the city of Ceiba had been swept
by fire that caused loss estimated
at $1,000,000 1t was said that % city
blocks had been destroyed.
Because she kidnapped" her patient
and married him a week ago, Jacobe
Terhofen, pretty nurse OF the Agnes
Memorial sanitarium, Denver, was dis
missed by superintendent Holden,
Disorders incident to the general
strike, which began in Rome, pre-
vailed throughout the day In the con-
flcts between strikers and troops and
police 80 persons were wounded.
Five filibusters, who landed at Men
du, state Of Yucatan, from a Cuban
ship, have been executed. Two of
them were Paroles and Esquiringa,
rebel generals.
Four persons were burned to death
and one is believed to be dying at an
Ashland, Wis, hospital as the result
of fire which destroyed Patrick Aug
er's boarding house and saloon al
Saxon, Wis.
A grand jury in the district court at |
Omaha returned indictments against |
six well-known attorneys, three
charging extortion and blackmail, two |
embezzlement and one subornation of
perjury.
Dispatch of two additional regi- |
ments of American infantry to Eagle |
Pass and Laredo, Tex, to allay fears
of raids by Mexicans, and the appear
ance in Washington of Gen. Felix |
Diaz and friends with a plan to solve |
the Mexican problem, were the chief |
developments in the Mexican situa. |
ton.
President Wilson extended what he |
termed "the hand of real helpfulness |
and brotherhood to Alaska" when he |
signed the bill authorizing the ex-
penditure of $35,O00,000 for the first
AFOREMENTIONED railway construct
ed by the United States.
The income tax law bids fair to live |
up to the expectations of the admins
tration by producing about $4,000 900
annually in revenue paid by close to
425.000 individuals.
j. II. Hooper, stock broker, &c years
old, was killed in Omaha while re-
sisting two detectives who were ar
resting him on charge of uttering
false checks. Hooper was wanted in
many cities on forgery charges.
Bert w. Dickens, carpenter, was
arrested at Indianapolis, Ind, on an
Indictment charging conspiracy to kill
Judge Charles M. Fortune, Felix
Blankenbaker, special judge hearing
election fraud cases, and Joseph !
Roach, special prosecutor in the fraud
trials.
Charges by c. X. Cooper, a Wash
ington, d. c., banker, against Justice
D. T. Wright of the district supreme
court, asking for his impeachment,
were dismissed by the house judiciary
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