The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-05-14

speech and appeared at the invita-.
of the war office.
With his head almost severed from
his body. President H. C. Burlington Of
the Traders National bank Of Fort
Wtorh, Tex, was found dead IN the
Texas & Pacific railroad yards under
q cal.
The United Presbyterian is author
ity for the announcement that the
vote OF the Presbyterians ooking to
union with Presbyterian and Re-
formed churches will be announced as
u~nfavorable to the merger.
Girls who have worked in shops and
become domestics are more satisfac-
tory than girls who have worked only
a. domestics, Commissioner of Labor
Lynch of New York said in a report.
Thomas A. Edison received the civ
ic forum gold medal of honor for dis
tinguished public service at a meeting
of the forum in New York.
The body of Frank A. Muzzy Of Bur
lington, Ia, was found in the reservoir
of the Davenport Water company.
Muzzy had been missing since Nov. 20.
Chinese residents, of Hawaii me-
morialized visiting congressman who
have been in the islands to obtain a
joint agreement between the United
States and China to exclude Hawaii
from the provisions of the Chinese
exclusion act.
Chicago Chinese rallied to the sup
port of their country by starting what
they expect to be a monster fund to
add to the $1,000 subscribed in New
York and the $4,000 gathered in Bos-
ton.
Mary Kossalo and George Zober-
nick, a boarder in the Kossalo home,
are held pending an investigation into
the death of the woman's husband,
Simon Kossalo.
The national board OF the National
Woman Suffrage association has is
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frage leaders to be held in Chicago
June 6 to g..
"Lovey'' Mitchell, who has been
held in the Warren county Jail,
charged with the murder of the Daw-
son family at Monmouth, was released
because the grand jury neglected to
take any action in his case.
After celebrating As minutes, a
jury at Fayetteville, Ark, acquitted
Della Williams, q 16-year-old wife,
tried for first-degree murder of her
stepsor-
Republicans in convention at the
Hotel La Sale, Chicago, renomlnated
Justice Orrin N. Carter for justice of
the state supreme court from the Sew
enth district.
A young sergeant in the French
army from whose heart q splinter OF
a hand grenade was extracted was
presented before the Academy OF
Medicine at Paris. His heart beats
are perfectly normal.
Angelo Lunardi, a leper, whose
presence at Highland Park, ILL.,, for
| several weeks has been looked upon
as a fearsome thing by the residents.
is to be treated at a state institution.
Dom M. Roberts, who is serving q
sentence in the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth. Kan, for election
frauds, was removed as mayor OF
Terre Haute, Ind, by a circuit court
decision.
Five hundred miles of road work
to cast $4,000, 900, will be done in Ar
kansas this year.
A new publication by the depart
ment' of agriculture, called thu
Monthly Crop Report" will appear
this month, taking the place of "The
Agricultural Outlook" which has beer
discontinued.
Since the last great earthquake a
Avezzano, Italy, the shocks have con
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and recently the vibrations were 81
great that the population camped II
the fields.
A petition filed by the state In tn,
supreme court Of Georgia for the re
sentencing of Leo M. Frank will no
be acted upon until the case is re
stored to the Jurisdiction Of the stat
from the federal tribunal.
Mayor Thompson's plan for nomina
ton Of a n~onpartisan slate of judge
Of the superior and circuit courts II
Cook county was knocked into !,
cooked hat when Cook county Repuh
licans named their candidates.
The banana crop in Honduras viii
be smaller this year because of tn
swarms of -locusts that have strippet
the plants of their leaves and exposes
the fruit to the sur.
Sixteen men confessed In court t,
having participated in the fatal riot
at Pennington, w. Va, last February
The men wopo Sonfonood immodiufo1v