The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23

sion set aside as unreasonable rates
on lumber and other commodities in a
large southern and southeastern ter
ritory.
Ross Brady of Boone Grove, Ind,
and a companion named Morris were
killed when their automobile was
struck by an engine running wild at
a crossing ear Valparaiso.
DIR. O. De Courcey, held on charges
preferred by two white girls, Pearl
Cummins and Myrtle Cole, at Carroll
ton, ILL.,, was acquitted by Squire Nc
Mahon.
The last of the idle steel mills in
the Wheeling CIV. Va.) district was
placed in operation when the force re-
turned to work at the Riverside plant
of the National Tube company.
Declaring that jitney competition
had seriously affected it's business,
the Charleston CIV. Va.) Interurban
Railroad company asked the public
service commission to allow it to dis
continue traffic on two of it's ines.
Timber valued at several hundred
thousand dollars has been DESTROYED
by a forest fire along Turpin creek in
the Medicine Bow national forest.
Announcement was made at the
University of Michigan of a campaign
among the $4,000 alumni of the insti-
tuition to raise ST. 900, 900 to endow a
building for the Michigan union, an
organization composed of the students
attending the university.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
wired President Wilson a copy of reso-
lutions adopted by the federation call
ing on the president to investigate the
trial and sentence to life imprisoa-
ment of John R. Lawson.
W. A. Whitney, contractor and bank
er of Superior, Wis, is in a critical
condition at Lemont hospital, in Vir-
ginia, Mimi, as the result of an auto
mobile accident.
| Members of 100 local unions of the
International Brotherhood of Black
smiths and Helpers have ratified the
proposal to call off the strike on the
Illinois Central and the Pere Mar
quette railroads.
Mrs. Burgess Davis went to the
home of her father-inlaw, A. j. Davis,
at Murphysboro, ILL.,, and after smash
ing a bedroom window with a revolver
took away her three children.
AS a result of hes effort to catch a
rabbit, Chester Barrie, a Raymond,
ILL.,, farmer, lost his life. His team
became frightened and he was
knocked down and the binder crushed
his head.
Judge Carr McNatt in the circuit
court at Cassvil1e, Mo-, quashed the
information filed in the case of Con.
gresham Jacob Meeker in which
criminal libel was charged.
The American Red Cross will estab
fish a baby hospital in Serbia. Abou,
$4,000 already has been contributed
DR.. Louise Taylor and DR.. Catherine
H. Travis of New Britain, Conn.,, will
take charge.
Believing that her husband ha6
ceased to love her, Mrs. Inez Manshi1
of Philadelphia, with her two small
children in her arms, turned on all the
gas jets in her home and the three
were found dead by the husband.
There were 585 fire in the state O
Illinois in June, the total damage be
ing s573.O53./
Gen. Carranza says Gen. Gonzales
had completely routed the Zapats
army in an engagement at Confer
practically clearing the valley O
Zapatistas."
Unaccompanied by. guards, Davit
Essacson, convicted of swindling, lef
New York to serve a sentence of
year and a day in the federal peniten
tiary at Atlanta, Ga.
A Berlin dispatch published her,
[ says that martial law will be declare,
throughout Germany in order to SUP
press the socialist agitation for tel
minating the war.
Mary White, Atna Creech and Mar,
Jane Wilson, mountain girls, II to 1
I years old, are under arrest nea
| Whitesburg, KY, charged with run
{ ming a moonshine still.
By a unanimous vote, the bill c
rights committee Of the New Yor
constitutional convention decide
against proposals to abolish the deaf
!, penalty.
> The Dresden National bank at Dire.
den. Ohio, was closed while Nations
Bank Examiner Bachman was tryin
to untangle the mystery of the disal
, pearance of the cashier, John Horl
ung.
, Eight white and Al negro muleteer.
!. survivors Of the British steamer Al
. menian. torpedoed by a German sui
marine, arrived at Newport News, Va
on the British steamer Winnifredial