The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-10-19

!. BRIEF


Tart has ordered one officer and q
marines to the isle OF Pines.
S~ilveira. missing Cuban banker, said
to be hiding in New York city.
Auditor OF the Chicago & Alton will
be cited for contempt in the rate
case. He admitted that freight bills
had been destroyed.
Machinists of the Southern railway
are voting On a proposition looking to
settlement OF the strike.
The strike Of students at Drury col.
lege, caused by desire to make up for
holiday, comes TO an end.
BENJAMIN Combs, aged 81, pioneer
settler, dead at Clarence, Mo.
Miss Iona Kerstine, 17-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Polly Kerstlne,
Williamsville, ILL.,, vas accidentally
shot and killed by Don Darlington, a
young gentleman friend, who called
while on his way to hunt ducks.
Southwestern lines at Eureka
Springs meeting consider question OF
reducing mileage rate and favorable
action will result upon approval by
chief executives.
Woman socialist candidate for con.
gress in Texas stumps district, adj o
eating federal ownership of packing
plants.
President Kimball resigns from one
Chicago, Peoria & st. Louis and Gen.
eral Manager John P. Ramsey is elect.
ed vice president in charge of the
property.
Isle of Pines will be given United
States provisional governor pending
settlement Of its status as Cuban soil,
Is Havana statement.
Curtis Barbee found guilty OF muir.
der of sweetheart and punishment Ia
fixed at Is years in %penltentiary.
Roy k~nabenshue, In his airship,
two successful flights and calls
on governor OF Tennessee.
Latest move In railroad manage.
ment gives control of Chicago G. Alton
road to Rock Island.
Available cash balance In United
states treasury Thursday, $3.50, 453, $40.
The Imperial Bank OF Germany has
raised It's discount rate.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
spoke before the Kentcky bankers
Wednesday.
Colored men complain to the inter
state commerce commission that Jim
crow cars furnished in the south are
inferior in all respects to the service
provided for other people, and raise
the question of equal facilities.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Prouty reports to the president that
railroads have practical monopoly OF
coal lands.
Prisoner held on two charges at MI,
Sterling, ILL.,, locks sheriff in Jail and
makes his escape.
Miss Mackey loses in the golf tour.
ney, and the Misses Bishop and o.
good are also put out of commission.
b. B. Pope of st. Louis. is elected
president of the American association
travelling passenger agents.
Speaker Cannon opens his Ohio
our, n while he pleads for a candi.
late news comes that the man K dy.
ng.
Missouri Pythians elect j. e. Thorn.
IS, a railroad man, grand chancellor.
southweste' a tarfflc officials are ex.
oected to make a fiat 2-cent rate for
travelling men.
Sister Of Mrs. Howard Gould re-
oents marriage to Chinaman and de-
'erts her husband. /
Annual report of Missouri Pacific
Lon Mountain roads shows net
for the year of 5 per cent.
President Gould submits the TWEEN.
y-sixth annual report of the Missouri :
system showing good net re-
iults and handsome surplus after pay.
nent Of dividends.
Eight indictments are returned by
federal grand jury in New York
n the sugar rebate cases.
Annual election OF the Wabash in
'oledo leaves Gould board in control
Il the property. One new director
Ills the Sage vacancy.
Concessions granted Dowie in Mex.
forfeited and plan for a new Zion
alls through.
WIZ. Hearst is Ill at his homo with
severe cold.
Josephine Frank, 10 years old. Of
'urora, ILL.,, is abducted from her
ONE, taken to an island, and brutal.
Y assaulted by two men. :
Secret of the Sultan's C illness .
5 said to be that he was stabbed by =
jealous MEMBER of his harem. .
Missouri supreme court refuses to
rand Mrs. Aggie Myers, under sen. &,
to hang, a writ of error to ap- II
her case to the United States su- t
court. :,
Argenta feud and mob record shows :
were killed and five wounded in u
ISIS than a month X