The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-10-08

of the human voice by
radio from the great naval plant Ut
Va, cross the continent
to the station at Mare Island. Cal.
2 800 miles away. The experiments
were conducted by the American Tel
ephone and Telegraph company and
the Western Electric company. Sec
Daniels announcing the result
predicted that further development Of
wireless telephony would make ueat
changes In longdistance communics-
ton. both for military and naval
service and in commercial usage.
Stewart w. Carothers. well-known
was instantly killed by .
fall from q window at De Joughe,s no
tel. Chicago.
A series of earthquakes was expert
enced In Utah. Nevada. the northern
part of California, Oregon and Idaho.
The Russian Red Cross society has !
published a list Of Is sisters OF mercy
who persisted in the bombardment Of
a hospital by the Austrians and Ger
mans.
The German naval base at Zeebrug- |
&c has been bombarded again. Five
allied aeroplanes attacked Zeebrugge,
but only three returned. One was
to earth by a German gun and
another was forced to land on Dutch
soil.
A federal indictment was returned
against the Delaware. Lackawanna &
Western railroad. charging it with 70
batting.
Three lei we're killed when their
automobile was struck and wrecked
by a New York-Washington express Of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near
Leslie, Md.
The pension office mailed to Wash
ing+on addresses hundreds of pension
checks for civil war veterans who
were attending the G. A. r. encamp-
ment.
Murder was the police theory re-
garding G. A. Mcdonald. wealthy re-
tired grocer of Rock Island. Ill, whose
nude body was found floating at sea
at Santa Monica, Cal.
For the first time in the history Of
the state, girl ushers served in the
Washington Park Methodist Episcopal
church, Bridgeport, Conn.
One of the historic oaks under
which the Republican party was born
at Jackson, Mich, in 1854, has been
seriously damaged by a storm.
!
Thomas Capello was found guilty
by a jury in the Franklin county cir
cult court of the murder OF Robert +.
Hill, chief of police of Senser, ILL.,, on
July IL. He was sentenced to serve
a life term In the Chester peniten.
tiary.
T. C. Betterton, general manager OF
the Tennessee Coffin and Casket com.
pany at Chattanooga, was arrested
charged with violating the penal code
of the United States by shipping
whisky in caskets sent out from his
factory without showing their con
tents.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, who left San
Francisco in June to climb Noun,
Everest, in the Himalayas, was sr
rested in Rangoon. Burma, as a Ger
man spy.
On pleas OF guilty under min,
charges of embezzlement, Irving
Hirsch of Little Rock, Ark, was sen
fenced to one minute Of imprison
ment in each case.
A verdict of $4,000 was returned b,
a jury In the Christian county TIL.
circuit court in favor Of Frank ]. Wot
iowa Of Belleville against Mrs. Or,
Belle Ridgley of Assumption and J.. 7
Long.
In the midst of a session OF cour
devoted to hearing divorce cases
Judge Sellers at Conway. Ark, SUI
pended business in hat line to pei
form the ceremony uniting c.. ]. YaI
cey and Miss Lille M. Roberts.
GAAAoOA 0COtSs O AC8AOt W00 AOOAA
guilty Of the murder of his sister.iI
law in circuit court at Murphysbors
H., and sentenced to be hanged. In
mediately after being sentenced b
escaped from jail. but was captures
Reports of five Of P~ittsburg
largest banks, carrying the payroll
Of big corporations in the Pittsbur
! district, show that the October ps
will approximate $32 .000.0 00, excee,
ing that Of any month by at least ]
per cent.
The death on the field Of battle
3 Lieut.. o Pohl, the only o Of A
miral Hugo ron Pohl. Is announced.
q
"A message from the British war q
flee has reached Mr.. and Mrs. Dani
Denny OF Youngstown. O., telli1
? them that their son. John Denny. hi
!. besn killed while fighting with Il
British army In Egypt
!. Denyerts great new union stati,
has been opened. It II strictly mp