McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-07-17
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A verdict of not guilty was returned
Ng the jury in the case of Theodore
E33aba. lieutenant governor OF Missis-
xipai. charged with soliciting bride.
Emmanuel Buyers, farmer north
+of Sterling. ILL.,, was killed by two OF
hss sisters, Mrs. Lee Hutton of Sterl-
Eng and Miss Lillian Buyers, who Re-
sides near her brothers home. The
gEEiling was the result OF a property
dispute.
L '''
T. M. Cramer, q Carrollton, Mo-,
ftssauster. shot his wife in the face
two times and then killed himself with
IN revolver The woman will recover.
The two had quarreled frequently
1atsiy.
Former President Roosevelt may be
1rxced to accept the Progressive NOM
snation for governor of New York. it
was said, to prevent William Sulzer,
disposed governor, from getting the
nomination.
Liberal distribution Of free railroad
passes to federal and state officials,
Judges, newspaper men and others, by
the Louisville & Nashville and Nash
VILE, Chattanooga G. st. Louis rail-
rsadx. was reported to the senate by
Ehe Interstate commerce commission.
John d. Rockefeller celebrated his
rxeventy-fifth birthday by playing golf
at his Pocantico Hills estate and
watching his special guard keep back
reporters and photographers.
Pleas of not guilty were entered In
federal court before Judge Smith Nc,
PheEson at Des Moines, Ia. for each
at the 36 officials and members of the
National Association of Master
Plumbers recently indicted on charges
of conspiracy in restraint of trade in
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law
The reprimand which President
Wilson ordered for Brig Gen. Robert
M Evans will take the form of let
DER from Secretary Garrison admonish-
tng that officer not to discuss contro-
wersiai subjects in public.
Three of the five members of the
Tedezai reserve board nominated by
President Wilson-Charles s. Ham
hin. W. p. G. Harding and A. G. Miller
were confirmed by the senate.
The returns Of the elections were
mot obtainable. 1t was ascertained
THAT only per cent OF the population
Ind voted In the states controlled by
tshe government of Mexico.
gBud Reynolds, former inmate Of
The state hospital for the insane, shot
and probably fatally wounded Ed An
drews in quarrel over Reynolds sis
Ger at Republic, Ark.
The Kansas City. Mexico & Orient
railway was sold at Wichita, Kan,
For 5000, 900 to the reorganization
,@ommIttee representing the bond
holders.
While their mother watched the
H7ra, ignorant Of the fate of her twin
@Dns. Arnold Brustman and Walter
nlawlson, years old, were cremated
ma a burning barn at Princeton, Wis.
John e. Franklin, former north
west Missouri farmer who worked
mis- way through William Jewell col
lege at Liberty, Mo-, in the early sos.
and who, as banker, had accumu-
lated holdings valued at $500. 900,
mas turned over for liquidation all his
! uzsets to a committee representing
Nhis creditors.
Two persons We're killed and six
Injured when an automobile driven by
James Topley Of East McKeesport
skidded when he attempted to pass
another automobile on Lincoln High
way, near Stoyestown, Pa, and rolled
down an fembankment.
The explosion of large quantity
ur dynamite at Mind, about Ave
,aaiies from Colon, shook the entire
district, causing something Of panic
In the towns and villages. One man
swas killed
Plans are under way for general
,xfrike of some 10000 organized rail
road firemen, engineers and trainmen
west of the Mississippi river, accord
Ing to b. J. Flood, state labor in
spector and chairman of the local
railway brotherhoods.
Walter Long. agent of the Ad-
ans Express company, a Goodhope,
III, WAS held up by lone robber, who
took an express package containing
.S3.aOe consigned to Goodhope bank
Ivy Chicago bank.
The differences between the Mexi
Gan rebel leaders Villa and Carranza
have been healed and the war will
go on in peace"
Win Ray, Is years old, shot and
killed Horace Henry as the latter at
tempted to shoot Yale Ray, the boys
father. at Herrin, Ill.
Formal announcement of the resig
nation of George Fred Williams as
minister to Greece and Montenegro
was made at the state department
After "a years behind the bars un
saer life sentence for murder. Spopee, q