McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-24

Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, Michael
p. Mahoney, an old man, apparently
irresponsible, fired into a group OF
three men seated in the mayors auto
mobile. The bullet entered the jaw OF
Frank l.. Polk, corporation counsel.
who was sitting next to the mayor.
Mrs. Martha Crews was sentenced
to a life term in the penitentiary at
Tompkinsville, KY, for conspiring
with her son, William Nuckols, In the
murder of her husband, Craven Crews.
Nuckols is son Of a former mar
fiage.
Mckee Rankin, the veteran char
ncter actor, who was identified with
Nance O'Neill for years in Shake
spearean productions, died at San
Francisco.
Eighty men saved their lives by
Jumping through the windows when
trapped by a fire in the sawmill of
the Northland Pine company in Min
neapolis Several were injured, but
none seriously.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert P. Huntington
of Staatsburg, N. Y, announced that
the wedding of their daughter, Miss
Helen Dinsmore Huntington, and VIM
cent Astor would be postponed indefi-
nitely.
As a result of the refusal of Adjt.
Cen Canton of Oklahoma to withdraw
state troops from the Tulsa Jockey
clubs grounds, r. ]. Allison, president
of the club, announced the abandon
ment of the race meeting.
Possible basis for appeal Of the case
of Leo M. Frank, under death sentence
for the murder of Mary Phagan, to
the supreme court Of the United
States was laid in a motion for annul-
ment of his sentence, filed in the SUI
perior court.
Five newspaper men, said to be
Americans assigned to the federal
troops, are reported to have been
among the prisoners captured at the
battle of San Pedro de las Colonias,
Mexico.
Four men were killed and two seri-
ously injured at Georgetown, Tex,
when Missouri, Kansas & Texas
passenger train crashed into an auto
mobile In which they we're driving.
The dead are all of Florence, Tex.
The summer home at Seacliffe. N.
Y, of Paul ID. Cravath, New YORK
lawyer, was destroyed by fire. None
of the family was at home. The loss
Is estimated at $250,0OO.
Harry Kendall Thaw's petition for a
writ of habeas corpus was granted by
Judge Edgar Aldrich of the United
States district court at Concord, N. II.
The court said. however, that no order
would be issued for prisoners dis
charge from custody until arrange
ments had been completed to take the
case to the United States court ON
appeal
Six men were indicted by the grand
fury in the district court at Denver,
Colo, on charges of kidnapping grow
ing out of the deportation on April 3
of Rev. Otis l.. Spurgeon OF Des
Moines, la.
Private reports from Chrisuania
were received that Capt. ROAD
Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer,
must have 100000 before he can
equip his proposed polar expedition.
An American aviator, Cecil Peili,
made the first flight from Caracas
over the Andes mountains. He land
ed safely at La Guaira.
In the presence of 1882 persons,
the Terrapins, Baltimore's represen-
tatiyes in the Feleral league, defeated
Buffalo at Baltimore by score of 3 to
q In the first game of the season.
The constitutionalist capital was
established at Chihuahua with the ar
rival of Gen. Venustiano Carranza,
first chief of the revolution, and his
staff.
De Lloyd Thompson 'looped the
loop" eight times at Los Angeles, CAL,
breaking Lincoln Beachey's previous
American record at San Francisco OF
seven loops,
Charles s. Mellen, former president
of the New Haven railroad, who last
year was arrested on bench warrant
ut Bridgeport, Conn, charging him
with manslaughter because of deaths
in wreck at Westport, was dis
charged from custody, following a
nolle PROSE-.
Pancho Villas rebel army has met
a very determined resistance in its
move in Saltillo, and for the second
time has been repulsed at San Pedro,
q town which Villa thought he held
without dispute.
United States warships of the At
lantic fleet will steam through the
Panama canal early in July, speed up
the Pacific coast to San Diego and re-
turn to Hampton roads by the same
route, according to Franklin d. Roose-
velt, assistant secretary of the pavy.
United States Senator ]. p Clarke