McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-07-31

Goal. syndicate. Inc indictments were
returned against striking miners.
William Barnes, chairman Of the
New York Republican state commit
tee, began a $4,000 libel suit against
Theodore Roosevelt. He wants dam
ages because of the references to him
in the pro-Hinman. anti-Barnes and
anti-Murphy political statement put
forth by the colonel.
During three hours of rioting in con-
nection with the street car strike at
st. John, N B., soldiers charged a
mob of 1000 persons in Market
square. Several were hurt. Cars were
overturned and burned.
Sept, % has been set as the date of
the marriage of Prince Oskar, fifth
son of the German emperor and en-
press, to Countess Ina Marie Won Das-
sewitz Levetzow
Drastic action by the United states
government in Haiti and San Do
mingo is imminent, but no steps of
force will be taken until every effort
is made to settle the revolutions in
the two countries by peaceful means,
Appeals are being presented to
President Wilson for the release of
Herbert S. Hockin, serving a sentence
in Leavenworth penitentiary for his
part In the dynamite cases.
Mary Lane, aged %. Of Elkader,
Ia, was lodged in Jail at Dubuque, Ia,
following her arrest in Elkader in
connection with the death of her In
FAINT child.
Joseph Bridges, 10 years old, is in
jail at Jacksonville, ILL.,, charged with
an attempt to murder Mrs. Betty Tu-
dor, 80 years old. The alleged at
tack took place at Waverly
A. b. wheeler, aged "a, was hurled
to death when an automobile in which
he was riding was struck by train
near Monticello, Ia, and caught fire.
The driver of the car was slightly in.
jured.
]. F. Record, aged 65, a wealthy
fruit grower of Mills county, Ia, was
killed between Council Bluffs and
Glenwood when his automobile was
overturned in avoiding team.
A. N. Sinclair, travelling salesman,
was fined Sc for tipping negro hotel
porter 10 cents at Jackson, Miss. He
is said to be the first person to be
arrested underf the state anti-tipping
statute, now two years old.
Dr. L. T. Hutchinson, aged AZ, of
Glenwood Springs, Colo, shot and
killed his two daughters, Lola, aged
IL, and Faye, aged 10, and then killed
himself. He is believed to have been
insane.
Organized baseball suffered legal
defeat when Justice Herbert P. Bis
sell at Buffalo, N. Y, granted the mo-
tion to vacate the Injunction secured
by the Chicago American League
baseball club restraining Hal Chase
from playing with the Buffalo Fed
eral League club.
The long-continued effort to untan-
gle the New Haven railroad without
litigation came to an end when Presi-
dent Wilson In letter to Attorney
General McReynolds directed the in
stitution of Sherman law suit to dis
solve the system and ordered that
''the criminal aspects of the case" be
laid before a federal grand jury.
The Chilian council of state will APP
prove bill raising the legation in
Washington to an embassy, according
to report to the state department.
Foodstuffs, cotton, cottonseed oil
and mineral oils constituted almost
half of the $2,32s,731,s44 of domestic
exports from the United States dur
ing the fiscal year 1914. Their total
value was $1,O65. 6SS,46O, or about
$3S,000,000 more than during 1918, ac-
cording to figures made public by the
department of commerce.
Civil suit to separate the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail
road company from its subsidiary,
trolley and steamship lines will be
brought by Acknowledgement Mercy
nolds in the United States district j.
court at New York the next few days.
Foreign commerce of the United
States during the fiscal year which
ended June 30 aggregated $4,25S,795,-
1855, being $20.096,64S, or less than
one-half of / per cent, below the high
record of 1913 and $4O1, 2OS,S92 above
the highest record in any earlier year.
Sudi SoS ny DSHJdmiH L. NuiduCy
of Bristol, Tenn, that the Pennsyl-
vania system and its allied lines have
bottled up southern coal fields in the
interest of the coal trust" will be
investigated by special senate com
mittee headed by Senator Flynn.
Industrial Workers of the World,
who caused a disturbance at Aber-
deem, S. D., by attempting to hold
street meetings, retired to their camp,
two miles east of the city, after rs of
their companions had been placed in
Jail