The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-01-09

IoOSehelt LOT tne DOMINATION
Hon. Joe Cannon, speaker of the
house, is being urged by his friends
as the logical candidate for vice
president as Rooseyelt's running
mate.
The department of agriculture is
preparing for an active war during
the year for the eradication Of the
cotton boil weeyil, and have great
hopes of success.
Despite the fact that there has
been alleged concentrated effort to
discourage trade unionism, the
New York state department of la
Dor reports a great increase in
membership and in unions estab-
lished.
John NJ. Glover, an ey-congress-
man from Missouri, was shot and
wounded by a posse of militiamen
at Cripple Creek, Col. The COM
mandcr of the militia ordered all
citizens to surrender arms kept at
their homes and places of business,
and Glover refused to comply. He
barricaded himself in his office and
defied the officer with a Winches7
ter until he was wounded.
After being crazed by strong
drink during his Christmas spree,
William Shepherd, a Kentucky
mountainer, shot and killed Riley
Webb, aged 28, a teamster. Then,
turning upon his own wife, Mary
Shepherd, who wa carrying her
10-months-old baby for protection,
shot them both fatally, The muir
dercr was captured in the noun
tains after a desperate battle and
lodged in Jail at Whitesburg.
Details Of eleven months COM
merce of the United States of the
year 1903 have been made public by
the department of commerce and
labor through its bureau of statis-
ties. They show an increase in
practically all of the great groups
into which the bureau of statistics
divides the exports and in all of the.
groups into which it divides the i'm
ports. Agricultural products, as a
whole, show an increase Of $74,-
000, 900; products Of the forests,
$10,000,O00; products of the mines,
$8,o00,O00; manufactures, $4,000
900, and miscellaneous articles,
$2,000,000. In the single group,
fisheries, is shown a slight decrease
of a little more than S1,0O0,0OO.
Frank Rose, a barber, formerly
of st. Louis, deliberately murdered
his wife at their rooming quarters
in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the wo-
man lay on her bed, holding in her
arms their 2-year-old babe, and
pleading for her life. After com
mitting the awful crime Rose wan
dered around for several hours and
then went to the police station, re-
lating the manner in which the
crime was committed. When Off
GERS entered the room the child was
sitting in the bed, half froze, his
nightgown saturated with his moth
er's blood. The scene was so pitt
full the police, used to vice and
crime as they necessarily are, burst
into tears. Jealousy was the only
reason the cold-blooded murderer
gave for the crime.
The News, in its annual edition,
says: Galveston has broken all rec
ords as a port and a city during the
year 1908. There have been expend-
ed for private and municipal i'm
proyements in the city, 1872, 900;
for rebuilding Notifications and jet
ties. 100000, and contracted for
continuance of this work, $1,059,-
900 spent in the construction of the
sea wall, $685., 900, leaving a balance
of $695,000 for completion of the
work and filling behind the sea pro-
lection, all of which has been con-
tracted for with the wall two-thirds
completed. The port has made a
remarkable record, as the following
figures will show The total value of
freight passing oyer the Galveston
wharves for the past year was $685.
COZ SCI, compared with a value Of
S347. 1898 1853 for the total amount of
business passing over the wharyes
during 1908.
What might have been a serious
catastrophe, with a heavy loss of
life, wa averted by the bravery and
GOODNESS of mind of Engineer
Greenhough of Crookston, MINI.
He discovered a bridge On fire, and,
securing a light engine, without a
thought of his own life, succeeded
in crossing the burning structure
a few minutes before the timbers