McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-12

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more force,S reverently declared Pres I
ident Wilson in the course of his adj
dress to the 154 graduates of the
naval academy a. Annapolis, Nd
Fifty-one tattered and footsore men.
the remnant of Kelly's army" which
left Sacramento two weeks ago with
Washington as It's destination, has
reached Fort Wayne, Ind
A writ OF habeas corpus for the re-
lease OF Carl Person, labor editor, in
jail at Clinton. H.. charged with the
murder OF strike-breaker In the I'LL
nois Central shops, was issued at Chi
cago, Ill.
Constitutionaiist authorities prompt
ly quelled an incipient anti-American
demonstration by intoxicated poems at
Tampico, according to Rear Admiral
Badgers report to the navy Depart
ment Admiral Badgers dispatch was
brief and gave no details of the dem
onstration.
It is estimated by Commissioner
John T. Fitzpatrick of the Missouri
bureau of labor statistics, after two
weeks of correspondence with the
state board of agriculture and the
county farm advisers OF 100 counties
of the state. that 10000 harvest hands
are needed to gather Missouris enor-
nous wheat crop.
Shamrock w., Sir Thomas Lipton's,
new challenger for Americas cup,
went out for her first sailsretchine
spin in the vicinity of Spithead.
Jennie Smith, mother Of Charles Al
len Smith of Philadelphia, will re-
ceive the first pension granted on ac-
count of the present Mexican war"
Charles s. Mellen's recent testi.
mony that he allowed himself to be
indicted in the Grand Trunk case to
shield the late J. p. Morgan was de-
MED before the interstate commerce
commission by Lewis Cass Ledyard
of New York.
Acknowledgement John T. Barker
filed an application for special ex-
aminer to take testimony against
Swift & Co., which corporation, he
charges in his petition. has violated
the discriminatory feature of the anti
trust laws of Missouri. "
After paying 81 premium on her in
surance policy in favor Of her mother,
Miss Linda Webbing of St. Louis
drank the contents Of bottle of mer
curry preparation and died.
Secretary McAdoo and his bride,
who was Miss Eleanor Wilson, re.
turned to Washington from New
Hampshire.
Gen. Ernesto Asbert, former gov
ernor of Havana province, and
Eugenio Arias, former member of
the house of representatives, were
sentenced by the supreme court to IL
years Imprisonment for the killing of
Gen. Armando Riva, chief of the ma
tional police.
The senate has entered the last lap
of the canal tolls debate. Speeches
were made by Senator Simmons of
North Carolina and Senator yarda-
man Of Mississippi.
The militants assaulted managing
editors of two of the leading news
papers of Belfast, Ireland. which had
criticised the militant campaign.
The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railway will be sold ON the steps Of
the Sedgwick county court house at
Wichita, Kan, July g. The order of
sale was made by Judge Pollock in
the federal court at Kansas City, Kan.
The price will be s6,oO0.0oo.
Senator Cummins (Rep.) has been
renominated for the United States
senate from Iowa by majority rang
ing between 10000 and $4,000, over A.
c. Savage.
T. j. Tatum, pastor Of the River.
side, Tenn, Baptist church, was shot
twice and killed in a quarrel with B.
". Cooley, a machinist, over debt of
| $3.50 Cooley claimed the preacher
owed him. The killing occurred in
Cooley's machine shop, where Tatum
formerly worked.
Mrs. Grace E. Patton is in Jail in
Wichita, Kan. awaiting arraignment
on charge of numbering her husband
Dec. 10, 1912. Mrs. Patton was taken
in custody soon after she arrived from
Wellington. her present home, to
place flowers on her husbands grave
on Decoration day.
Creation Of an interstate trade com
mission has been approved by the
membership Of the Chamber OF Com
merce of the United States by vote
of 522 to 124, according to results of
a referendum made public in Wash
ington.
Harry Corbett, an aeronaut. plunged
1900 feet to death while attempting
balloon ascension and parachute drop
at Elitch's gardens, a Denver amuse
ment park.
Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma