The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-11-19


The lake steamer ClAtsS9 AgsEM1E
hae been lost with All h4nds, aecqr1.
ms to = report that has reached CHI
cage
The Standard on company o. Kan
sas has declared = quarterly dividend
Of 5 : share. payable Dec H.
The Handelsblad Iearns nom Brus-
sells that two citizens Of Cambria we1u
~exaDuted as spies on Nov. ].
Herman Ridder. publisher, let .
net estate OF about $1,000. His WIN
was executed In 1914 and heQueathea
all to his widow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Schonen. OF
Mt. Sterling. Ill, and HI. and Mr..
John Dass of Maryyille. Mo-, cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver.
saries together.
Sixteen hundred Italian reservists
sailed from New York for Naples on
the Italian liner Taormina, q sister
ship Of the Ancona. The Taormina
also carried log passengers.
Col. Heussler, q Swiss military
statistician. calculates the total losses
in killed in the present war 1T
5000, 900.
According to a message, the kaiser
passed through Sofia, where he Wis
tied King Ferdinand for two days.
After the visit the German emperor
left for Constantinople.
Mrs. T. T. Taylor and her 1O-year-
old daughter were drowned in st.
Francis river at Wise Ferry. Ark,
when the skiff In which they were
seeking to o the river sank.
Fire in the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy shipyards at Aurora, ILL.,, de-
stroyed a warehouse filled with huge
casks of gas, causing . loss estimated
at $780, 00.
Cardinal MERCER, archbishop Of Ma
lines, Belgium. arrived at Lucerue.
Switzerland. on parole. Cardinal Mer-
cier aroused the ire of the Germans
by his pastoral letter Of Christmas.
1914.
The Swiss government has prohib
tied the expectation of fresh milk.
Maj. Gen. Wood has announced that
a military camp of instruction Tor
civilians would be established in
North Carolina early next year SINH
lar to that conducted at Plattsburx.
N. N, last summer.
Gen. Geronimo villareal, Mexican.
was indicted by q United States grand
jury at Laredo for bringing women
into this country for immoral Dur.
poses.
Four Chattanooga, (Tenn.) men have
been indicted here for defrauding the
government by shipping whisky in
collins from this city.
An increase in wages to 1900 en-.
pIoyes was announced by the Yale 4
Towne Manufacturing company. STAN,
ford, Conn. makers Of buiIders hard
ware.
Eortysseyen orphan4 MorchAdeonf q
lqs.s..s
- Maoovss1 -
ia Ths certu bodb2e s. the three
small children Of NJ ruler were
found IN the ruins of ! barn ON the
farm OF their father In Boyd county
Ky. according to q report reachine
here. It is the supposition that the
children accidentally set fire to the
barn.
A bill to give a greater measure Of
self-government to. the PHILIPPINES
will be made part of the administra
ton program for the next session al
congress.
An express train carrying 10000
gallons of petrol to fill war orders
will leave the Pacific coast for New
York every "a hours until the Panam,
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Upward of S ,000, 900 pounds of vege
tables have been purchased by a Belle
vile, Ontario, corporation to be con
centrated and shipped to France t.
feed soldiers.
Statewide prohibition was defeated
in Ohio Nov. 2 by q majority OF 55.412
according to- official returns from thu
50 counties Of the state made public
here. In 1914 voters rejected the pro
hibition amendment BY . majority Of
S4,152.
When Fred Miller Of Galesburg
I'll. IS Years old. began to undo til,
wrappings OF q package he found 81
2 sidewalk it exploded. killing hin
almost instantly.
DR.. Booker 7. Washington. princi
pal Of Tuskogee. Ala, institute. Ii Il
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