McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-05-21

BY unanimous vote, the striking mo-
tormen and conductors of the Detroit
United Railway agreed to plan for
settlement Of the labor trouble.
An Athens dispatch states that the
illness of King Constantine is taking
Its normal course. His majesty is suf-
ferlng from an attack of pleurist.
The grand council OF Illinois, United
Commercial Travellers, has held its
nineteenth convention In Springfield.
Her skull crushed by the blows of a
hammer, Mrs. Sina Orr, 81 years old,
wife of retired farmer from Vinita,
Ok. was found dead in her home.
DR.. John c. Acheson has been In
augurated as president of the Penn
sylvania College of Women.
Angered because the Rev. Frank
Merrithew knelt down in the street at
Grizzly, ILL.,, and publicly prayed for
him after upbraiding him, Louis Gibbs
kicked the pastor in the back. The
pastor now wants $4,000 damages.
The Theodore Roosevelt-W. Barnes
trial has revealed new type of wit
| ness. He Is known as the G. o. d. va
riety. Several exlegislators have re-
fused to take the stand before their
mileage fee of cents a mile and at
tendance fees of 80 cents were paid
| by Barnes.
The Tenth Irish army division has
been completed and has left for the
front
Despite rough weather, the search
for missing victims of the Lusitania
disaster continues.
Sonora Emilia Aguila De Huerta,
wife Of Gen. Victoriano Huerta, three
married daughters and their hus-
bands, several grandchildren. tutors
and Ferdinand Gil, adviser and inter-
prefer for the party arrived at New
York from Spain to join Gen. Huerta.
More than S250,000 worth of Jewels
were accumulated by the late Nine.
Nordica. opera singer.
Feeling that there was not the una
nimity of sentiment among the people
which should be present in case the
country decides to go to war. the Ital-
ian cabinet resigned in a body.
After being out 80 minutes, a jury
at Richmond, Mo-, in the trial Of
Frank H. Werries, who was charged
| with killing Andrew Wilson, found
that Werries acted in self-defense.
Chicago pays $14O,000,000 annually
for intoxicating liquors, according to
a manual issued by the Dry Chicago
federation, which has opened cam
| paign to abolish saloons.
| One THOUSAND bluejackets from the
| Atlantic fleet, now at New York, went
to Paterson, N. j., to hear Billy Sun.
day. Three hundred Of them "hit the
trail"
| Orders have been issued to all the
wardens of the Pennsylvania depart
ment of fisheries to install the newly
improved state law prohibiting unnat-
uralized foreign-born residents from
fishing. A similar law prevents them
from hunting.
The body of Frank Maier, 4S,
farmer worth $4,000, was found, with
the throat cut, by neighbors. 1t was
lying on the floor of his home. A
razor lay near the body.
Two additional cases of bubonic
to Ia since the beginning of the out
| breah of the disease six weeks ago,
are reported.
A gift of 100000 to Indiana uni
versity by DR.. Luther L. Waterman Of
Indianapolis was announced by Presi-
dent William Lowe Bryan of the uni
versity at Bloomington, Ind.
$50
Although refusing to reduce the
bond Of the II Terre Haute election
fraud conspirators, Judge Anderson in
federal court here granted the petit
ton for a writ which transferred the
case to higher court.
Only the walls remained of the
Deutscher Verein and German hotel
at Victoria, B. c.. wrecked inside by a
mob led by uniformed soldiers In re-
taliation for the sinking of the Lusi.
tania.
The Copenhagen Politiken says that
the first steamer of the season has ar
rived at Archangel, the great seaport
on the north coast OF Russia, which
has been closed by ice for months.
j. ]. Haggerty, former president OF
the Raymond (Wash.) Trust Co., who
disappeared last December, is under
arrest at Los Angeles. Cal. on a
charge of grand larceny.