The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-03
news Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News COMBINATIONS Re
viewed Without Comment-AH
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct

The department of labor has an
nounced that 80 states have pledged
their cooperation in the observance
OF Baby Week on March 4 to IL,
next.
Joseph w. Zook. champion office
holder Of central Illinois. is dead. He
was postmaster for 80 years. tai col
lector for 40 years, town clerk for SO
years and justice OF the peace for 20
years.
Mrs. Ruth Current of Paducah. KY,
70. has filed suit for divorce from
Jesse Current, II. alleging absence of
the husband. The couple were mar
ried in 1865 and separated "a years
ago.
kilograms from Damascus state that
Djemal Pasha, commander Of the
Turkish forces in Syria, has ordered
that the chiefs of two Turkish bands
be hanged for Ill treatment Of Ar
menians.
Officers casualty list for the fort
night ending Oct. Is show that the
British army in all theaters of the
war lost 474 officers killed. 875
wounded and lat missing.
Col. Charles Med. Townsend ar
nounced that a commission has
authorized the immediate expenditure
Of 5000 to remove Mud Island" a
An.0nr0 how d{rA~t1y IN f~o~t ~ thn
Memphis tTenn.) wharf.
twenty-five arrests were made at
Fafrmont, w. Va. on charges grow
ing out of the recent strike Of clerks
and carriers at the local postoffice.
They were charged with obstructing
the passage of mail.
The greatest oats crop ever grown
in Nebraska by fully 100000 bushels
was that of the current year, H.
ISL, 900 bushels, with Boyd county to
make return.
James r. Forgan, president of the
First National bank of Chicago and Of
the First Trust and Savings bank, will
retire Dec. 81, to become chairman of
the boards of directors Of those insti-
tutions.
The Rev. A. H. K. Beam, SO years
old, a United Brethren minister, who
served GO years and accepted no re-
Enumeration of any kind, is dead at his
home in Huntsville, Ind.
Dispatches from Athens say the
Italians are landing in Albania and
that Russia has concentrated a we'll
equipped army of $50, 900 men in Bes-
Barabia.
One man was burned to death in a
fire at the Hotel Burton, Chicago. a
five-story structure.
Songs written by Joseph Hillstrom,
who was executed in Utah after con-
viction of murder, were sung in a
dozen languages at his funeral in Chi
cago.
Proposals have been submitted to
the justices for increasing the fines
for drunkenness in England. One-half
" SAO NAAAAS ~ kAC CITY ~ UU0 ~ GA-
cessive drinking.
The president has been asked by
the National Golf association to have
the department Of agriculture investi-
gate the kinds Of grasses best suited
for . golf course.
The Bridgeport (Conn.) Daily News,
owned by Alexander and Victor Con.
dos, has been suspended indefinitely.
Forty f~ortresses have been captured
by the armies OF the central powers
to date. Five Of these fortresses were
in Belgium. IL were in France, is
were in Russia and 8 were in Servia.
A doctors bill for sos, 1858 for at
tending Mrs. Nellie M. Noe Of New.
York three times a day for four years
was presented to her estate by DR..
Joseph Byrne.
Meta Aromel, II years old, and Her
man. 6. were burned to death at
Bloomingville. Wis. when the home
caught fire. probably from an over
turned lamp.
Postal savings deposits in October
increased $2.150,000 over the proceed
ing month.
Herschel Bruner. IA years old, mem.
her Of the Garrison (Ky.) high school
football team. Is dead from injuries.
Schedules OF the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois proposing . general increase
Of I cent per 100 pounds in rates on
yellow pine and hardwood lumber
were suspended by the Interstate som
merce commission until March 30.
A Swiss military patrol on Simplou
mountain was caught by an avalanche
and Lieut.. Wiley and i've men were
buried.
Dr.. John F. Stanton, q physician.
Was killed and his wife injured In IN
automobile accident ct Plainsvflle. p.
Il II officially statsd that during
tho three months ended Sent. 80 there
were SIT outbreaks of fire In London.
a which 6 persons lost their lives.