McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-07-10

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shot and killed himself in his office
on the eighth floor of the City Invest.
ing building, New York.
Five persons were seriously injured
| and half a dozen others badly bruised
in a wreck on the Magnolia Sandy
vile spur of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad in Ohio Two of the injured
may die.
Miss Tina Smith, aged IT, was
killed near Leopore, ILL.,, when an au-
tomobile drivenlby her brother, Vein.
err Smith, turned over.
Walter Adams and Richard Martin,
youths, met death at st. Joseph, Mo-,
| when a stone wall, undermined by a
recent heavy rain, collapsed, burying
them under It.
Members OF the house laughed as
leave of absence was formally granted
to Representative Joseph B. Thomp-
! son of Oklahoma ito prosecute his
campaign for the Democratic nomina-
ton for congress"
Rescuers who had worked steadily
for IA hours completed an emergency
tunnel into the burning mine of the
Syracuse Coal company, Williamson,
w. Va, and found the bodies of the
five miners imprisoned by the blaze.
All hope for an adjournment Of con-
gress before early fall disappeared
when caucus of Democratic senators
voted to remain in session until the
pending trust bills are disposed Of. )"
Treasury figures completed show
that the federal government went
through its fiscal year with its income
exceeding ordinary expenses by $685..
7S4.452.O7.
Magistrate Msdigan of Terre Haute,
Ind, sent William Kurkendall to jail
| to remain during the wedding and
honeymoon of J. P. Post, who pro-
cured a warrant alleging Kurkendall
had threatened his life If he married
Mrs. Kurkendall, who had obtained q
| divorce.
The rival volunteer forces, Ulster
ties and Nationalist, came into col
lision at Omagh, Ireland. and fierce
| fighting followed. Several civilians
and policemen were injured. The dis
orders were quelled by constabulary
charge, in which batons were freely
used.
Notice has been served by the
Standard Oil company to the big con-
sumers of fuel oil in Kansas City who
buy that product in quantities of tank
cars that after about Oct. fuel oil in
large quantities cannot be delivered.
A charge was made In the house by
Representative Edward E. Townsend
Of New Jersey, Democrat, that the
Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal Railway
company was deliberately wrecked.
Fire which did 100000 damage at
West Dundee, ILL.,, was brought under
control with the assistance of fire ap
paratus from Elgin, Ill. ..
After days of parliamentary wrang-
ling, both houses of congress agreed
to appropriate for automobiles for
Vice-President Marshall and Speaker
Clark. Each will have car costing
$4,000.
William Triebel, a farm hand, cut
his wife, Mrs. Mary Triebel, and Mrs.
F. G.. Foster with Ratchet at his
home in Hannibal, Mo- Jealousy is
said to have caused the crime. His
wife may die.
While seated in chair in the office
of DR.. Edward Carman at Freeport,
NJ Y, Mrs. Louise Bailey, wife Of
William D., Bailey, a Brooklyn hat
manufacturer, was shot and killed.
Five persons were injured in an au-
tomobile smash-up when tire ex-
ploded at Evansville, Ind, causing the
car to turn over.
Twenty-one workmen were injured
near Milwaukee in an explosion in the
new intake water tunnel, half a mile
from shore and 100 feet underground.
The explosion was attributed to an &C
emulation of gas ignited by spark
from a drill.
Secretary McAdoo mailed letter to
each OF the 7,400 national banks in the
United States, asking whether they be-
lieve 1t will be advisable for the treas
ury department to lend hand again
this year in the movement of crops by
distributing additional government de-
posits.
The strike. vote taken by engineers
and fremen has been completed, ac-
cording to information obtained in Chi
cago, and nearly 80 per cent of the
vote cast favored a strike unless the
mployes' demands were granted by
the roads.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, ne
phew of Emperor Francis Joseph.
and heir to the Austrian throne,
and the Duchess Of Hohenberg, his
morganatic wife, were assassinated In
Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia.
state of the same name,' has
been evacuated by the federals, ac-
cording to information reaching Gen.