The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-05-07

The body Of 6-year-old Adam Vol
dix was found propped against a tele-
phone pole In an east side alley in
the real of his home at Milwaukee,
WIS. The boy disappeared Sunday
night.
CHARLES c. Shor, one of the three
Americans who were killed when a
German submarine ~torpeGoed the
United States steamer Gulf Light, for
merly was a wireless operator on lake
boats.
The Illinois Alfalfa Growers asso-
citation will hold it's fifth annual meet
Ing In kewanee, May ~. Speakers
Will be F. 1. Mann of Gilman, l.. D..
Seass of Arthur, J. P. Mason of FL
gin, c. V. Gregory Of Chicago and
A. P. Circuit of Chicago.
A Rome dispatch to the Havas
Agency says the Italian cabinet is
sued a decree placing Tripoli under
martial law.
Problems of interest to the Journal
lstlc craft, as seen through women's
eyes, we're discussed in the opening of
a three-day's session Of the Texas
Women's Press association at Waco.
Ochelata, a small town 10 miles
south of Bartlesville, Ok, was hit by
a cyclone n considerable property
damage was caused.
The London Daily News saws the
budget statement of Lloyd George has
been introduced in the house. It will
be a provisional budget on the as
sumption that the war will last
throughout the fiscal year 1856.
Frederick Farwell, 10 years old, q
motorcycle racer, who crashed into a
fence after winning a fve-mile Gun
race, is dead at Sacramento, CAL, from
his injuries.
Clyde Slower, the negro slayer Of
theGardner brothers of Springfield.
Mass, has been found guilty of muir
NSA Az <A0 AAol uC6Ic0 duu sentenced
to be hanged.
Clarence A. Blain has invented a
submarine which he insists in unsink-
able because of certain suitable air
ducts.
Persistent reports that parts of sub
marines have been shipped from the
I1nifod Stofnc into Co-@A 49, ~x.1r
under investigation.
Theodore Brink, a blacksmith of
Dioxn. ILL.,, who was charged with
making counterfeit money, was SEN
fenced to Is years 1905. 123456 Z
fenced to Is months at Leavenworth,
Kan.
President Wilson took another step
in r~ejuvenating the diplomatic serv-
ice by signing an executive order
which will bar men more than So
years old from the so-called civil serv-
ice portion of the corps, which in
cludes secretaries and clerks.
Mrs. Thomas Lewis of New Lexing-
ton, O., who cited as one cause she
should be granted a divorce is that her
husband made her curry and take
care OF his horses, was granted the
horses as alimony.
L. s. Scurlock, travelling agent for
a Chicago firm, was shot and Instant
ly killed at his home near Edmond
son, Mo-, by his on Bedford, Is years
old. The elder man was attacking his
wife with a razor when the boy fired
the fatal shot.
The trawler Union was held up In
the North sea by a German torpedo
boat and forced to surrender rs bas-
kets of fish, a result of three days
work. The trawler was then released.
The Orion district levee on the Red
river, in Arkansas, has broken, re-
splt1ng in the flooding of 10, 900 acres.
Cieveland's record April heat wave
caused the death Of Is babies, health
department officials say.
Six hundred acres of wheat have
been destroyed by crlcketS in the Will
SON Creek section of Grant county,
Wash.
Sixty-four vessels of the United
States navy will take part In the ma
val review that win be held at New
York May 10.
An average price Of $3.50 was re-
ceived for 80 pure-bred Shorthorn cat
tie from farms Of Missouri and Kan
sas at the annual sale Of the Central
Shorthorn BREEDER association In
Kansas City.
A long series Of alleged discriminA-
| tions against soldiers and sailors at
! public amusement places in Washing
ton eliminated In . police court trial
In which the owner Of Q dancing
school was fined $40 because he 10
fused TO admit q trooper In u1ifoem
from Fort Myer.
Gov. Ferris Of Michigan has vetoed
The boxing bill which was passed BY