The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-04
NEWS.

Paris is saved. The Seine has
ceased to rise. It's tributaries are
slowly falling.
This bulletin brought relief at the
end of a day of greater suffering,
more desperate fighting than any
since the memorable river began to
send it's waters through the streets of
the city. .
Despite a bitter fight led by Sen
ators Gore and Burkett the disposal
of public lands by lottery won out in
the senate. The bill opening up the
Rosebud lands in South Dakota was
attacked as a form of gambling, but
was passed after a filibuster which
halted the passage of a companion
bill d%isposing of the Pine Ridge agency
lands.
A new light was shed on the federal
inquiry into the activities of the Chi
Gag packers. Coincident with the
statement by Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Wade H. Ellis that the govern
ment has been investigating the fresh
meat industry for six months, it be.
came known that it was information
given to Judge Lands by members
of a former grand jury which partici-
pated the ~jurist's sensational charge
to the present inquisitorial body.
President Bowling of the Northern
Miners federation has been sentenced
at Sydney, N. S. W., to a year in pris-
on at hard labor for ~obstructing work
at the mines during the strike.
The specter of pestilence is the
great haunting fear of Paris. It al
p,rct 0unrShoINu fh~ ---.p
of destruction by flood. A commis-
sion of doctors was summoned to per-
feet plans to avert what they fear will
be an epidemic of plague when tn.
waters subside. Countless dead cattle
have been swept along in the cur.
rent and the great sewerage systems
are damned. This dreadful burden
has bee borne into the great under.
ground passages which underlie Paris,
n with this situation the city will
have a dread accounting to make. The
stage of waters caused by the floods
has exceeded all records back to 1918.
A temporary injunction was granted
by Judge F. Philips in the United
States circuit court at Kansas City.
Mo-. enjoining the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad from refusing to take
liquor shipments consigned to Okla
homa and Kansas. This is a victory
for the brewers.
New York III Berlin capitalists
plan a balloon trip across the Atlantic
ocean mex May in a dirigible carry,
ing $4,000 cubic feet of gas.
The Illinois state senate adonted
the Daley primary bill. with the Glib.
son blanket ballot amendment. nv a
vote of % to Is.
Thomas A. CASTOR, q farmer. WHIT
died at his home near Oxford. O.
while reading a newspaper, had a re
markable record. In the 76 years a
his life he had w consulted a doc
tor or tasted medicine. He died Of
apoplexy. without rain and withou,
the attendance of a physician.
A disastrous flooding OF the partly
completed Livingstone channel al
the mouth of the Detroit river. where
blasting operations have been coins
forward for a year. protected by {
cofferdam. has been averted by the
finding and stopping OF the last bis
leak that threatened the work
The engine OF the New York Cen
trail Twentieth Century limited. The
lS-hour train from Chicago to New
York. was overturned a quarter Of !
mile west OF st. townsville. II slid 3oc
feet before It stopped. The enRinee,
and fireman were killed. None 81 Tho
passengers were severely hurt.
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