The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1900-01-26

A free public school is to be i'm
mediately established in each prov
ince in Cuba.
n. K. Gass, a merchant at Ell en-
burg, O., was shot and killed by
three burglars, whom he discovered
in his store.
By the caviug in of so feet of
railroad embankment near Jackson.
Miss, three negro laborers were
buried under tons of earth.
Gov. Tanner refused to call an
extra session of the Illinois legis-
l~ature, at the request of manufac-
turers, to amend the revenue law.
The international Typographical
Union has declared a boycott on the
knights and Ladies of Honor be-
cause the official organ of that order
is printed by non-unionists.
Thomas Edison is having erected
a plant near Santa Fe, n. NJ, and
will experiment with machinery in
vented by him for the extraction of
gold from low-grade gravel and
placer dirt.
French troops have seized the dis
puted territory at Kwong Chau Wan,
China. China is greatly alarmed
at this seizure. Hereafter death will
be meted out to every pirate between
Hong Kong and Canton, where
piratical outrages have destroyed
commerce for.years.
At Clarksville. Tenn, Thomas
Burdine was blown twenty feet in
the air by the explosion, from I'M
known cause, Of a 2O-pound key of
powder. He struck the ground
forty-four feet from where he had
been standing. His escape from in
slant death was almost miraculous.
A negro named Rix, while walk
ing along the road near Norfolk,
fa., iIlc1 I"o "lllIc IdiIleIS DtilleNl
Hall and Bradshaw, and began
shooting at them, wounding both.
After going a short distance, Rix
met III aged minister named Raw
Ford and shot him down, death be-
ing instantaneous. A posse was or
ganized and Rix was found and rid
died with bullets.
Director of the Census Merriam
suggests that the farmers of the
country use some of their spare time
between now and next June in pre-
pairing themselves to answer accur-
atelyqnestions relative to the acreage.
quantity and value of crops; the
quantity and value of all farm
products, animal and vegetable; the
cost of farm labor; and, in fact, all
the items of farm operations for the
calendar year 1899.
A tragedy occurred in a hotel lobby
at Frankfort, KY, in which Ethel
bert Scott, Luther Demarree and G..
II. Julian we're instantly killed,
Capt. b. B, Golden fatally, and W.
0. Ridpath. Harry Ewing and Col.
D.. G. Colson seriously wounded.
The principals in the tragedy were
Scott and Colson, and the trouble
began while they were members of tie
Fourth Kentucky regiment in the
Spanish war, the latter being colonel
of the regiment and the former a
first lieutenant. The shooting oc-
CURED about noon, when the hotel
was crowded with guests, and all the
killed and injured, except the prin-
clpals, were innocent victims.
Data compiled from the records
in the adjutant generals office con-
tributes some valuable information
to the history of the wal with Spain.
1t is shown that the total number of
volunteers furnished to the army
was 223,235, of whom 1907 we're
officers. Number of officers who re-
signed on were discharged. 2,O15;
dismissed, s: killed in action. IS;
died Of wounds, 3: died Of disease,
1l9; Of accident, 4; drowned, l;
suicide, ;. OF the enlisted men
4 ,544 were discharged for disability:
by court martial sentence, 265;killed
in action, 100; died OF wounds re-
celved in action, rs: of disease,
3, 129: accident, 81; drowned, 21:
suicide, IL; murdered or homicide,
80. Arkansas furnished los officers
and 2,T3S men.