The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-10-08


Count Screius Tolstoi, brother Of
Count Leo. is dead at Moscow.
Four boys held up and robbed
two grown men in st. Louis,
The present eruption of Nesu-
yius Is the most violent since 1872.
japanese refugees who lived in
Russia at the time The war began
were started home October |.
Tom Watson, the populist cam
didate for president, is said to have
broken down and will cancel all en-
gagements,
The statute Of Gen. n. B. For
rest will be unveiled in Memphis
during the first week of November.
Seven hundred school children
went on a strike in a Chicago school
because they thought a teacher as
| signed to them was a negress.
The Eucharistic congress at New
York has passed resolutions de-
nouncing the course of France in
its attitude towards Catholicism.
The total number of deaths in
the Newmarket. Tenn, Southern
railway wreck viii reach seventy
five.
It is said that the democratic
leaders have decided that Indiana
is the pivotal state in the national
campaign.
United States Senator George T.
Hoar is again in a critical condi-
ton and on September % was re-
ported dying.
Several oil paintings Of the ear
in the Russian exhibit at the worlds
fair were defaced by yandals one
night recently.
President Roosevelt denies that
he wrote a letter published in a
mining journal yer his signature,
making an attack on union labor.
In his address to the Episcopa!
diocese of New York Bishop Hen
ry c. Potter strongly condemned
the present system of granting d.
yorces.
The archbishop of Canterbury,
accompanied by Booker 7. Wash
ington, and conducted by Jacob A,
Riis, made a tour of the New York
slums.
Mrs. Jennie English Of 1ittleton
Ala, was convicted on the charge Of
carrying concealed weapons and
fined $50. The case is the first Of
its kind in the state.
A Russian woman says her daugfl'
ter-in-law was kidnapped by two mer
while they were waiting for a trair
in Boston, en- route to New iorl
from Odessa, Russia.
The local police are wrestling
with what appears to be d myste
rious murder case at P~ittsburg, Pa
The body Of a young woman rich
ly dressed in silks, laces and vel
vets, was found in the Alleghen,
river a short distance below Unior
bridge. The body, which had eyi
IDENTIFY been in the water but a few
hours, bore three wounds OH thu
forehead such as might have beer
made by a blunt instrument an'
several small cuts, evidently made
by a razor. The dead woman wa
apparently about rs years Of age
five feet six inches in height ant
weighed about 1870 pounds. On he.
fingers were rings containing tw'
rubies and ten pearls. RiyermeI
who occupy lighthouses near wher'
the body was found, report having
heard two men Oh the wharf talk
ing in excited tones about 3 o'clocl
this morning.
Judge Parker has given his fna
decision that he will not 90 on
speaking tour.
One prisoner was killed in at
tempt of four men to break jail a
Atchison, Kan.
The city of Trinidad, Col, an'
the whole valley along the Las An
imas river was struck by a terrifi
flood which devastated a wide sec
ton and caused a loss Of severa
hundred thousand dollars. No live
we're lost.
Mrs. Carrie Nation and tire
other women broke the windows 0
a wholesale warehouse in Wichita
Kas., and were arrested and jailed
Justice Phelps, the Massachusett
Judge who fined the third secretar,
of the British embassy at Washing
ton, for scorching through the tow
:. Of Lee, Mass, in his automobile
has apologized to the state depart