The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-17
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r~oeit.r1,.nn uaq found dclI In Paris
having been aaphyylafrd by GAS
gf, relatives Of / l. Boyd a &c.
year ld lo..rg whose whereabouts
are unknown s,nfp that no f. the sole
Hrrr 10 1r ,.,ufr Of ggo0.00n left Him ly
his n'Yndmoihrr.
ChnrIr. n Slack & Co. prominent
rlIrar, groprra. failed with Ilabi1Itlp.
OF gIGIU0O and assets Of $4,000
Tho safe u the Point Pleasant wv
VA post office was dynamlicG and 81 go
IN stamps. &IG0 cash and a number Of
rcpIat,rrI letters wero taken.
". II. Thompson. secretary of the 81
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coed Secretary Of tho Treasury shaw
Rabbi Abraham Click woe gruwbalIcd
by q crowd or aphuoIboys In CEIcaponn
soon after dr0ppcd dead.
Comptroller Of the Currency Ridrely
u his annual report. tells Of the splen-
did financial condition Of the country.
and declares that the people Of fhaTnlt-
cd States are the richest In the world.
Special efforts are being made to GET
In the river and haIbur bin a provision
for the beginning Of WORK O n waterway
from Lake MIrhlean to the MIssf4sIppl
The drought is growing worse every
day and stock men Of central Illinois are
concerned over the difficulty in supply
lng water for their stock. Water has
be hauled many miles in some instances
The Vermont house Of representatives
refused to pass to a third reading bill
to commute to life imprisonment the
sentence Of hanging imposed mon Mrs
Mary NJ. Rogers, who was convicted Of
numbering her husband.
BY an order Of the court women will
be excluded from the second trial Of Nan
Patterson.
An official statement given out by the
interior department announces the gov
ernmont'5 purpose to prosecute every
guilty man in the public land frauds to
the full extent Of tho law, regardless Of
position In life,
Messenger Evan Roberts. of the Wells.
Fargo company, who was shot recently
by a train robber while en- route to Los
Angeles over the Santa Fe railroad near
the Needles. is dead.
Thomas Il. Ayers and wife, OF Meadow
Grove, Nob, each 50 years old, were
caught on a high bridge by a train, aud
were hurled to death,
Mai. Gen. Daniel Il. Slckles is head
ing a movement for the erection of a
monument on the site Of the famoup An
]dersouyIlle prison, at Andersonvlllc.
Ga.
According to the annual report of
Herbert Putnam, librarian Of congress,
the total number of printed books and
pamphlets in the library is 1,179713, a
gain Of 1871 for the past fiscal year.
A bold robbery was committed at the
Office Of the waterworks department. in
the city hall, Cleveland. O. About So 600
in currency II checks was taken from
the desk Of Cashier G. A. Patterson
while he had stepped aside for a mo-
ment.
Ralph Adams, aged 1G: Frank Bay
less. aged 1G, and Burdett Bleet, aged II.
were drowned while skating on the Lake
of the Woods, near Decatur. Mich.
The annual report of Secretary of the
Interior Hitchcock tells of protection Of
public domain, reclamation of arid lands
by irrigation and decrease IN timber
frauds.
The president has decided 10 appotnt
a special attorney to investigate opera.
tons of the tobacco trust"
Hugh McLaughlin, leader of the Kings
County Democracy, died suddenly in
Brooklyn from heart disease.
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