The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-18

| uue 10 d&lLaLOH and Tear OF draStlC
action against corporations in general,
to be unjustified, and throughout his
talk pleaded for the sinking of fac.
tiona1 differences towart the future OF
the Republican party and the carrying
out OF its pledges.
That poison was found by Chicago
chemists in the contents of the stom.
ach of Miss Margaret II. Swope and
that Chrisman Swope went into con
vulsions. according to Miss Anna
Houlehan. his nurse, q few minutes
after she had given him a capsule at
he direction OF DR.. B. C. Hyde, were
W startling statements made under
t by Attorney John G.. Paxton,
| executor of the Swope estate.
! The Battle Greek s~anitarium Is lost.
to Battle Creek, Mich. Judge Parkin-
son handed down a decision Of un-
conditional custer for nonpayment of
taxes.
The Paris Figaro that
President Fallieres will give a grand
fete at the EIysee palace on the occa
sion of ex-President Roosevelt's visit
here.
The Pacific Navigation Company's
steamer Lima is ashore on one of the
islands of the Huamblin Passage of
the Straits of Magellan, and will prob
ably be a total loss. The chief pilot
and so passengers weredrowned. Two.
hundred and five persons were save4
by the steamer Strahurst, but So peo-
pie were left aboard the Lima, their
rescue being impossible.
A 14year-old daughter of Perry
Tedder was found stabbed to death in
the yard of her parents home at Glen
wood, Fla. A posse is hunting a negro
suspect.
Judge Dana Of the United States
district court at Topeka, Kan, held
that Attorney General Jackson had
failed to make a case against the in
surance companies in Kansas whom
he charged some time 6 with being
in a trust 81
Lincoln's birthday was celebrated
all e the country. Among the more
notable affairs were the exercises con-
Quoted by the recently organized Lin
coin league in Chicago. Columbus, Ind.
and other cities.
Senator Borah of Idaho -d&1itered a
brilliant reply to the criticisms of Gov.
Hughes of New York on the proposed
income tax amendment to the consti-
tuition. His general argument was that
the proposed amendment will confer
no powers on the central government
with regard to taxation that it does
not already possess and that therefore
the fears of Gov. Hughes are idle.
Appropriations ~aggregating nearly
$13,O0O,O 900 for the development OF
deep waterways in the Mississippi val
ley will be carried by the river n
harbor bill, which was reported to the
house of representatives. A definite
plan for preliminary work o N h
lakes to gulf project is presented in
the bill.
After an eight-hour ~debate the
house passed a resolution authorizing
the members of the committee on
printing to appear before Justice
Wright of the District Of Columbia
supreme court and plead their priv
1lege as members of congress ind the
courts lack of jurisdiction to cite
them before it to answer in a civil
suit. The senate by a decisive ma
jority instructed it's members of the
committee on printing to ignore the
citation from the court, holding that
Justice Wright had exceeded his jul
risdiction in issuing to SEN
| ators.
Kildysart, the million-dollar country
home at Deal Beach, N. j., built by
the late Daniel O'Day, vice-president
and counse of the Standard Oil Com
pany, will be converted into a pre-
paratory school for boys.
NJ. e. Potts, believed to be a former
Roman Catholic priest of Birmingham,
Ala, was found dead In a Cincinnati
hotel under circumstances which, the
police believe, point to murder. Cas-
per jackson, a a driver, is held as
witness.
A conflict over the question OF juris.
d1ction between the United States war
department and the state of Illinois
regarding the territory known as the
Spring lake drainage district was
started at a hearing in Peoria. ILL.,.
called by Maj. C. S. Richie. u. 8. A.,
to take up the application Of the
Spring Lake drainage commissioners
for permission to permanently close
that region to navigation.
Gambling in futures in cotton and
other agricultural products was the
subject of a hearing begun before the
agricultural committee of the house at
Washington, which brought together
prominent members of the Cotton Elk
change of New York, cotton growers
and agriculturists to testify on the
measures designed to prohibit deal.
ings in futures.
According to a plan submitted to
congress by Herbert Knox Smith, com.
missioner of corporations the great in.
t~erstate industries can be brought un.
der a permanent federal supervision
through a system of regular reports to
a federal agency in a rational, enec.
tive way, which will involve no dras-
tic action, but. on the contrary, will
forestau It
Miss Martha Gruening of New
York. a Smith college graduate. has
been indicted at Philadelphia on ths
charge of melting to riot during the
shirt-waist strike.