The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-01-28

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manded for meat products is RESPONSE
Bile for the Institution Of q suit
Magazine owners in New York city,
aroused W. the effort Of the post
Office department to bring about an
Increase in the rate for second-class
mail matter. declare that any advance
In the postal rate will mean an In
crease in the price Of magazines.
The Hamburg liner President LIN
coin. Is bringing q veritable menagerie
consigned by former President Roose-
welt, including elephants. cameis, re-
bras, llamas and jaguars.
Santos Zelaya, former president OF
Nicaragua, will sail next Monday from
Vera Cruz, Mexico. for Brussels. Bel
GUM. where he will be Joined later
by his family.
A murder rivaling the atrocious
Whitechapel outrages committed in
London a quarter of a century ago.
was revealed with the finding OF the
headless body of Mrs. Jennie Cleg-
horn, 48 years old, a woman of form
er wealth, in a cheaply furnished
room at 81 West Seventeenth street.
The head had been cut from the won.
ans shoulders and carried away by
the murderer. The heart and other
organs had been cut out and then re-
placed.
Paul o. Stensland and Henry W.
Herring, president and cashier, respec-
lively, of the defunct Milwaukee Ave-
u bank of Chicago, will become free
men before the end of the week. AS
a result of the action taken by the
board of pardons at Joliet, Ill, they
pe%nitentiary.
The Canadian parliamentary miner
al committee has decided to investt-
gate the operations of the so-called
nickel trust. The company is con-
trolled by American capital.
President Taft won half a victory
in the Republican caucus to select the
house members of the Ballinger-Pin-
chot Investigating committee. He had
the name Of Mr.. Rainey Of Illinois,
n of the Democratic caucus nomi-
nees, taken off the list of the members
OF that committee. Also the "insur-
gent" Republicans won half a victory.
They succeeded in keeping on the
committee Mr.. James of Kentucky, to
whom the president also objected.
Four girls and one man leaped to
their death in a panic caused by a
fire in the four-story factory building
at Philadelphia. Five others received
probably fatal injuries and many more
were less seriously hurt. Nearly all
of the dead and severely injured were
employed in the shirtwaist factory Of
Joseph Chachkin.
Revolving conditions of white
slavery" among Chinese restaurant
and laundry men of Michigan have
been revealed through the arrest of
two young Battle Creek girls in a
Chinese joint at Ann Arbor. One war
rant. for Lem 10y of Saginaw, was
issued, while others will follow. Both
girls have confessed to depravity so
disgusting as to be u~nprintable.
Speculative manipulation in the
stock of the Columbus & Hooking
Coal & Iron Company, o~verreached it.
self with the result that two strong
financial houses. Lathrop, Haskins &
Co., and ]. M. Fiske & Co., were
forced to the wall and at least one, If
S oSASAO - I'LL knS
brink of ruin. The failure of the two
firms means a loss estimated at from
$4,000 900 to $4,O0O,0 900 to the mem
bers of the firms N their customers.
New York State Comptroller Clark
William has begun proceedings to
have the estates of George Smith, the
Chicago millionaire, and his nephew,
James Henry Smith, known in Wall
street as silent" Smith, reappraised
on the charge that the executors
have attempted to defraud the state
out of the transfer tax on S1,263.4S1.
Charges that Secretary of the In.
terror Ballinger had been involved in
petty grating for the benefit of a
member of his family were filed nv
Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska
in q statement addressed to the house
committee on expenditures.
The committee of the University of
Copenhagen has completed its final
examination of DR.. Frederick A..
Cooks original notes and confirmed
its previous conclusions that not the
slightest proof that the explorer
reached the north pole had been sub
mitted.
A bill was filed In the circuit court
alleging that John c. Fetzer, a prom
inent Chicago financier; Benjamin
Thomas, former president of the Chi
cago & Western Indiana Railroad
Company, and Charles r. Kappes, a
former real estate agent of the com
pany, had defrauded, through the
manipulation of a series OF real es-
tate deals, the Chicago & Western In.
diana Railroad Company out of $780,
900.
Even behind the bars in the fedora
prison at Fort Leavenworth the DOW
erful influences that kept John R.
Walsh out OF a cell for two years aft
er he was proved a felon have pre-
vailed. John r. Walsh, convict No.
6,s61, is enjoying practically every
luxury that was enjoyed by Walsh,
the ~possessor Of $40,0 O0. 900 and an
income that could satisfy the wishes
of any human being.
Eight-cent milk for New York cftv Is
expected as the result of the state
investigation of milk prices d
ed there.
The Republicans of the house elect.