The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-05-21
News of the World

Sir Henry NJ, Stanley, the Afri-
can explorer, is dead.
Clarence Mayer, a printer, was
murdered at his home in Kansas
City by two negro burglars, WHO
cut him to pieces with a razor.
Five miners lost their lives by an
explosion in a coal mine at Carbon
dale, Ill. The dead are: John Mil
Ter, Dick Reins. Fritz Zeiburg,
Evan Williams, Thomas Green.
As the result of an explosion in
shaft No. ! of the Herrin coal
mine, near Carbonate, ILL.,, five men
men were killed, three fatally in
jured and eleven more or less sever
ly hurt.
Their love for each other and the
fear that they might be separated
by death is believed to have led
Conrad Hauestein, 50 years old,
and his son, Conrad, Jr., aged 80
years, Of New York city, to take
their own lives. Each of the men
held the end of an open gas tube.
The postofiice department has is7
sued a, fraud order against the
American Mushroom Spawn Compa-
ny, with offices at st. Louis and
Texarkana. Ark. The company
worked a get-rich-quick scheme by
which the public would receive about
5 cents worth of spawn for a dollar.
A mouse was the cause Of a big
fire at the residence of Mrs, Ella
Oats in Duquoin, LII. In some
manner it reached a box of match
es, and in a short time the entire
contents were ablaze. The flames
quickly spread over the house, and
soon the building was a mass Of
ruins.
John Finley Wallace, general
manager of the Illinois Central rail
road, has been appointed chief en-
gineer Of the construction of the
Panama canal at a salary of $25,-
600 per year. Mr., Wallace is one
of the best known engineers in this
country, and a mar Of great execu-
tive ability.
Notwithstanding the late spring
in the territory comprising the cot
ton belt, the government department
of agriculture reports condition of
soil and plant as good as a ten year
average. With seasonable weather
r~epIanting where it was made neccs-
sary will be compelled by the goth
inst. at the outside.
The Denver, Woodward and
Southeastern Railway Company,
with a capital stock Of $20,00O,0Oo
was recently chartered at Guthrie.
Ok, to construct lines of railroad
extending from Denver, Col, in a
southeasterly direction through Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory tc
Texarkana, Ark, a distance Of t.
900 miles.
Fire at Batson, Tex, this after.
noon destroyed eighteen derrlcks
five drilling rigs and twenty-five
tanks, containing about $4,000 bar
rels Of oil. Tom Walker of Leaven,
worth, Kan, mounted a ladder in
an attempt to cut off the flow Of
oil, but fell into the mass of burn
ing oil and timber and was slowly
roasted to death.
C. W. Heath, president Of thu
American Cotton Manufacturers
Association. declares that the higl
price of cotton is not due to specu
lation, as some have claimed, bu
due solely to a response to the Law
Of supply and demand, the increas
ed growth being insufficient OWN!
to the migration of negro farm
hands in the south to the cities.
A dispatch from Manila says tina
Lieut.. Winfield Harper and thirty
nine men of company T, Of tn
Seventeenth United States infan
try, were caught on May s in al
ambush by several hundred Moros
!, Two American officers and fifteel
men were killed and five men wer'
wounded. The ambush occurred a
simpatem, on the cast shore 0
Lake Liguasian, island of Minda
mao.
!, Col. John y. Warren, a wealth.
retired merchant Of Hillsboro, Tex.
shot and seriously wounded his wifi
and then sent a bullet through hi
!, brain. Jealousy was the cause.
Capt. Walter Allen, of st. Louis
a brother Of ext Congressman "Prl
!, yate" John Allen of Mississlppi
committed suicide by shooting him
self through the heart. Capt. Allel
!. had been a long sufferer from rheu