The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-03-19

oria educator, convicted of embezzle-
ment of school funds, reached the
Joliet p~enitentiary at 8 O'Clock Satur-
day and five minutes past 10 a long
distance telephone message from Gov.
Dunno made him G free nan
An Information charging perjury
was filed in Denver, Colo, by District
Attorney John A. Rush against VIII
liam w. Rowland of Denver, a mem
Der of the Colorado house of repre-
sentatives.
Illinois is free from the foot and
mouth disease for the first time since
Nov. /, according to DR.. o. S. Pyson,
state veterinarian.
After being convicted at his first
trial and sentenced to 10 years in the
penitentiary, F. M. Douglas, a farmer,
was acquitted of a charge of murder
at Alton, III.
The unemployed of Boston should
walk the streets unclothed in order to
call public attention to their needs,
the Rev. William Short told 1000 per-
sons at a meeting for the unemployed
at Parkman Memorial bandstand on
the Common.
Edward F. Burch, 40 years old, of
Virden, Ill, drank carbolic acid at the
bedside of his wife, who is ill. Mrs.
Burch sprang from her bed and tried
to force an antidote down her bus
hands xh-oo L, r. ia =
minutes.
Sheriff Wooley of Tulsa, Ok, has
liquors valued at more than 5000,
which he obtained in a single raid on
a resort.
United States Senator Lawrence Y.
Sherman Of Illinois was Endorsed for
the Republican nomination for presi-
dent of the United States in 1916 by
the Sangamon county Republican Gen.
trail committee.
Pearl Lowe, on trial for murder for
the killing Of Ben Grimph in a room
ing house at bennington, ILL.,, was &C
quilted by the jury.
Walter R. Barnes, whose service
without pay as divorce proctor at
Kansas City Throughout the last term
OF he circuit court was pronounced
by the judges Of great benefit, will
continue he work.
Gen. Joffre, the French commander,
has sent a letter to Mrs. Clara Wash
ington Lopp of New York thanking
e for the large supply of tobacco
she gathered for distribution among
the French soldiers.
An English landing party composed
of from 1000 to 1000 men was re-
pulsed at the Dardanelles and forced
to retire to the warships.
Nine. S~koldowski Curie, the scien-
fist who, with her husband, the late
Prof. Curie of the University of Paris,
discovered radium, is working in hos
pitfalls near the front with a complete
photographic equipment.
The 60-day session of the Washing
ton legislature adjourned without
passing an appropriation bill to en-
force the prohibition law adopted at
the election last November.
Arthur Hawk, engineer on the Cass.
vile & Western railroad, living at
Cassville, Mo-, shot and killed his wife
and then killed himself. The couple
had been separated about 10 days.
Secretary McAdoo was operated on
for appendicitis. The physicians is
sued a bulletin saying the operation
had been successful in every way.
A bin providing for prohibition
throughout the territory of Alaska
was issued in the lower house Of the
territorial legislature and referred to
the committee on education.
An electrically controlled bucket
containing two tons of coal fell on
Frank Clark, %. Of Buffalo, N. Y,
completely severing his head.
Lieut.-Gen. Tchinosuke Okla, minis
ter of war, and Viscount Yoshimichi
Hasegawa, chief of staff Of the Japa-
nese army, went from Toxic to Hay
anna and were received by the emper-
or OF Japan at his winter residence.
Declaring that he is the only and
genuine divine healer" Francis
Schlatter. who several years ago had
. nationwide reputation as q divine
healer" has made his appearance In
Cincinnati after having lived in seclu-
sion for a few years.
David Lloyd-0eorge. the British |
chancellor Of the excheQuer. revealed
In the house of commons that no IN
dsrwriting commission whatever had
been paid to issue the British war
loan Of s325. o00.0 900 Approximately
q. 625. 0O0. 000).
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