The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25

Miss Agnes Leslie Elkins, niece Of
Senator Stephen b. Elkins Of West
Virginia. who shot herself Al the VIII
lard hotel in Kansas City, IL dead.
The 5oung woman apparently was on
the road to recovery when suddenly
she relapsed into Inconsistencies.
All OF the directors Of the National
Packing Company. commonly called
the beef trust" with m exception.
were indicted by the grand jury Of
Hudson county. N. J., sitting at Jersey
City, on the charge Of conspiracy. The
indictment charges that the defend
ants c~onspired to raise the price OF
foodstufs by putting them in cold
storage and releasing them from time
to time.
Another tong plot, according to the
New York police, is responsible for
the murder Of Sam Wah. a Chinese
laundryman, who died In the Harlem
hospital.
With three companies Of National
Guards on the ground. under the per-
sonal charge of Adjt. Gen. Dickson, the
riot situation resulting from a mob
attempt to break into the county jail
at Cairo, H., and lynch a negro charged
with picking women's pockets, is well
In hand. The negro, John Pratt, who
was the cause of the trouble, pleaded
guilty on two counts for robbery and
was sentenced to the p~enitentiary at
hard labor for an indeterminate sen
tence not to exceed II years under
each count. the second term to begin
qf tho ovni~of3rn NJ tho fret
One man is dead and foul others
are wounded as the result of a mob
attempting to break into the county
Jail at Cairo. ILL.,, with the avowed
intention Of lynching John Trap and
Lincoln Wilson, two colored boys
charged with picking the pockets OF
two women On request Of the sheri6
Gov. Deneen ordered Company K Of
the Fourth infantry at Cairo to place
themselves at the disposal of Sheriff
Nellis and also ordered a company at
once.
The Root amendment to the postal
savings bank bill is to be abandoned,
and in its original form the measure
will pass the senate within the next
few days. 1t was decided at a White
House conference that the amend
ment should not be passed.
Marie Martinke, SO years old, fell
dead and seven persons were over
come by smoke in a fire which
wrecked a two-story brick building at
St. Paul.
Through the explosion of a dyna-
mite bomb in the home of Oscar
Catanzaro at Jamaica, L. L., a pass
ing policeman was knocked down and
stunned and the neighborhood was
thrown into a panic.
By a vote of 70 to 40 the Belgian
chamber of deputies passed at Brus-
sells the Congo budget, which makes
no change in the system Of raising
revenue by compulsory labor.
Liquor dealers in Newton, N. j.,
anticipating the state law, nave ap-
pointed a committee of their mem
bers as guardians to look out for
habitual drunkards and refuse them
drink.
A most painful scene was enacted
in the house of commons when Joseph
Chamberlain, who had not been in the
house since he was stricken with
paralysis four years ago., was literally
carried In to be sworn as a member
of the new parliament.
Japanese commercial interests at
the United States in granting that
country minimum tariff rates, but
they express the hope that the Amer
lean congress will not pass the Hayes
exclusion bill.
A tragedy was narrowly averted at
Uniontown, Pa, when the shaft of a
sleigh drawn by a runaway horse
caught Miss Helen Sh~aneberger by
her high couture and dragged her
more than a hundred yards.
Shooting over his shoulder with q
revolver taken from q table drawer.
Jacob Bzdek killed a robber in his real
self seriously wounded in the head
from a shot fired by the dying man as
he fell.
After three trials In the Dewitt
county Qll.) circuit court and two
hearings in the supreme court, Rich.
ard Smell wins in the contest to break
the will of his father, Col. Thomas
Smell. the eccentric Millionaire of Clin.
ton.
A locomotive on the Tionesta Valley
railroad toppled over on John Abram-
son near Oil City. Pa, but he escaped
death when the engines fall was
stopped by the heavily packed snow.
Two children of Clifford Piersee.
four years and one year old. were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the Piersee home, near Center
vile. la.
Shareholders of the three principal
London tube railways, whose stock
is held largely in the United States.
have agreed on a plan OF amalgama
ton.
A search by the Bibriophile society
of New York for the love letters OF
Charles Dickens. the novelist, has
ended with the finding in that city of
a packet of the notes. which will pc
published.
That more than a million persons IN
New York are strangers to the bath
tub is the report of Lawrence WELLER.
director of fho rom.