McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-03-27

turned against DR.. U. G. Crandall
president, and Joseph l. Mcdonald
treasurer of the st. Joseph, Mo-, board
of police commissioners.
The First National bank of Gallatin
Tenn, was robbed of $4,000. Fire
was discovered in the bank vault
about o'clock in the morning and an
alarm led to discovery of the robbery
Plans for joint maneuvers by the
regular army and national guard, to
include attacks on Washington and
San Francisco by invading armies, to
gether with the establishment of nu
merous training camps throughout the
country, were announced by the wal
department.
Woodrow Wilson unbosomed him
self to the members of the National
Press club of Washington, telling
them in frank, conversational way
how he felt as president of the United
States.
A gift of $4,000 from John D. Rock.
efeller to the International Y. M. G.
A. college at Springfield, Mass, was
announced at Boston.
Gen Villa and his army of 10000
rebels invested the federal stronghold
of Torreon. The khaki-clad columns
occupied the environs of the city with
out opposition.
Believing she had consumption and
would be a burden to her husband,
Mrs. William Anthony, wife of con-
tractor at Greenwich, Conn, drowned
her two small daughters in bathtub
and then swallowed poison.
John l.. Lawson, star" reporter for
the Chicago Tribune, and one of the
bestknown newspaper rsen in TIE
middle west, met tragic death when
he fell down an elevator shelf in the
Chicago Press club building.
Connie Mack, chieftain Of the
worlds champion Athletics, who is at
Jacksonville, Fla, training his play.
ers, received a message from hPila.
delphia telling him that he was the
father of dainty baby girl. This is
Mack's second child by his present
wife.
Jay Gould, American and British
amateur court tennis champion, won
the open professional championship of
the world at Philadelphia from George
F. Convey of England, the professional
titleholder.
The fifth body recovered from the
ruins of the st. Louis Seed company's
four-story brick building, destroyed
by the collapse of the M. A. c. west
wall, was delivered at the morgue and
is unidentified.
"That's the biggest fake ever start
edits perfectly ridiculous" said
Mrs. Champ Clark when asked about
a report that her only daughter, Miss
Genevieve Clark, is engaged to marry
Acknowledgement McReynolds.
William West, 81 years old, was
married to Marceline Brady, 107, ct
New Orleans, La. The ceremony was
performed by Justice Dauenhauer.
Both are negroes and their romance
dates back three-quarters of a CEN
fury
Dallas Shields, a negro barber, was
lynched in Fayette, Mo-, by mob of
$50 men, less than two hours after he
had shot and killed John Gaines, a
township constable.
The interstate commerce commits
sion elected Commissioner James Har-
Ian chairman to succeed Commission
er Edward E. Clark.
A material decrease in the number
of train accidents was shown by an
interstate commerce. commission bull
letin issued for the quarter ending
Sept. 80, 1913.
Sixty thousand, one hundred and
nineteen women registered Tuesday
in Chicago in preparation for their
first chance to use their newly grant
ed suffrage at the aidermanic cleo
ton April Z.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
In Mayfield, KY, by the jury in the
second trial of May Copeland and her
fiance, Lucian Turk, charged with
having murdered Miss Copeland's
brother-in-law, Hugh Atchison,
wealthy farmer, in Carlisle county,
last July.
Bert Adams and Lloyd Bitzberger,
who escaped from the United States
prison Sunday by sliding
down a rope made of carpets, were
spprehended in South Omaha, Neb.,
according to a telegram.
CASTOR Calmette, editor Of the FL
caro-, Paris, was shot and killed BY
Nine. Henriette Caillaux, wife of Jo-
seph Caillaux, the French minister OF
finance. Nine. Caillaux went to the
office of the Figaro to carry out an
act of vengeance against NJ. Calmette.