The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-03-26

Cal, by a mob and hanged.
The most expensive fire in the
history of the Texas oil field occur
red at the Batson properties near
Saratoga last week.
1t is rumored that the car has
asked that the kaiser seek through
international mediation to stop the
war in the far east.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Tillman Of South
Carolina, the man who mur.
dered Editor Gonzales, has an
nounced as a candidate for con-
gress.
In the democratic promaries held
at st. Louis on the 18th Harry
Howes, for governor, carried every
ward in the city over Folk except
two.
Possibly the revelations of irreg.
ularities in the dealings with lands
in the Indian Territory may hasten
that locality's admission with Okla,
homa as a state.
Miss Elsie Gray, a society girl Of
Louisville, Ky, suicided by shooting
herself through the head. Several
years ago Miss Gray attempted sui.
eide by asphyxiation.
Alexander Gooch, who died re-
Gently at 0rrick, Mo, and who
had lived almost a miser for years,
left $4,000 in gold buried in an old
chicken house on his place.
A tornado swept over Hunt coun-
,ty, Texas, and it is reported the
town of Weyland was almost wiped
off the face of the earth. Many
farm houses in the path of the
storm were destroyed and several
people killed.
The senate has confirmed the
nomination of Leonard Wood to be
a major general by a vote of IS to
Is. A number of democrats voted
for confirmation while two rcp1Dii.
cans, Messrs. Kittredge and Scott,
voted against Gen. Wood.
1t has been made public that two
mail pouches containing about
$4,000 in money, checks and drafts
forwarded from Memphis to st.
Louis were stolen about two months
ago. The ~postofice authorities have
failed to get any clew to the thief.
A decision was recently handed
down in appellate court at Spring
field, ILL.,, holding that Saloon-keep-
ers are liable for the death of pat
rons who meet death while under
the influence Of liquor sold them
by defendants. The wife of a man
killed in a saloon was awarded So
ESQ against the proprietor,
Henry Williams, a brutal negro,
was hanged at Roanoke, Va, on the
18th. On the scaffold Williams con-
fessed to having assaulted and muir
dered three women. The crime for
which he was hanged was commit
ted last January. He entered the
house of George J, Shields, a well
known young business man, and af-
ter asSaulting Mrs. Shields cut her
throat. He then struck Mildred, the
three-year-old daughter Of the
couple, over the head with a hatch
ct and robbed the house.
Mr.. Knox, attorney general, on
behalf of the government, asked the
supreme court to intervene in the
suit brought by the state Of Kansas
against Colorado to prevent the di.
version in the latter state for irriga-
ton purposes Of the waters Of the
Arkansas river. There is now avail
able under the reclamation act a
fund Of $16,000,006 received from
the sales of public land, and that
fund is being added to at the rasa
of several millions each year. In
view, therefore, of the importance
and necessity Of determining the
status of the United States and the
extent and character of its interests,
power, control and rights in the
disposal of the waters Of the Arkan-
sas and other rivers, the attorney
general asks that the government
may take part in and be made a
party to the Kansas-C Colorado suit.
Several parties are said to have
been forced to leave Mississippi
towns because they were offering for
sale photographs of President Roose-
welt and Booker T. Washington seat
ed together at a table.
Andrew Carnegie has placed at
the disposal of the national cngi-
neering societies the sum Of ST.
900, 900 for the endowment and
erection of the American institute
Of electrical engineers in New York
City.
Gustav Marx and his two young
companions. convicted and sentenc-