The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-04-09

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PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
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FROM AROUND THE PLANET
eian Countries Are Here Given
IN Short Meter for
Busy Readers.
A slight earthquake was felt In
Rome recently.

A slight earthquake was felt In
Rome recently.
The Hiram Lloyd Building and Con-
structi0n company of ST. Louis has
been awarded the contract for the
construction of the public building at
Miles City, Mont, at $86,817.
Americas claim or Germany on ac-
count of the destruction by the Prinz
Eite1 Friedrich of the William F. Frye
has been made public. 1t was for
$22S, 1854.
Paul Wallace and Ross Evert of
Terre Haute, Ind, were killed when
their motorcycle struck a hay wagon.
J.. w. Grimes, a mail carrier, and
Mrs. Carrie Cook, 40 years old, we're
shot and killed at Fort Worth, Tex,
by Gus Cook, the woman's husband.
Liquor valued at $4,000 was poured
into the river at Pine Bluff, Ark, by
Sheriff Williams and his assistants.
Thomas A. Edison predicted that
the United States would soon be man.
ufacturing it's own dyes, and that the
so-called famine in dyes, due to the
war, was about to end.
The Netherlands government has
notified the United States that any
foreign ship misusing the Dutch flag
or using other means to make a pre-
tense of Dutch nationality will not be
permitted to depart from or pass
through waters under the jurisdiction
of the Netherlands.
An unidentified man climbed over
the railing at Prospect Point, Niagara
Falls, and plunged into the river.
Serious disturbances in which sew
eral persons we're killed and a num-
Der hurt, following the governments
admission of in the Carpath-
ians, according to dispatches to Rome
newspapers.
Fistic supremacy passed from the
black to the white race at Havana,
Cuba, when Jess Willard defeated
Jack Johnson in the twenty-sixth
round of a prize fight for the heavy
weight championship Of the world.
According to a dispatch to the AM
sterdam Anzeiger from Beirut, Syria,
a Catholic priest named Yusef Elhait
has been sentenced to death by hang
ing for sending a letter to the presi-
dent of the French chamber of depu-
ties regarding the situation in Leba-
non.
Counterfeit gold pieces, a part of
which is glass, to give them the prop
er ring, are being made in Chicago
and have been in circulation for eight
months, secret service agents said.
Papers were filed in Trumbull CO.,
county court recording the transfer of
nearly 500, 600 worth of real estate in
Niles to the city of Niles as a site for
a $500, 900 memorial to the late Presi-
dent Mckinley, who at one time lived
at Niles.
Two California limited trains of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad,
east and west bound, collided head-on
neal M~onrovina, but, as both were
running slow, no one was hurt.
Mrs. Eloy Sweets, who says she Is
the wife of the editor of a Palmyra
newspaper, was fined s35 on each of
two charges of shoplifting at Lincoln,
Neb.
With the Russian armies threaten
ing to burst through into Hungarian
plains, Austrian diplomats have begun
tovertures looking to a separate peace
with Russia.
District Judge F. p. Creever was
shot and probably fatally wounded in
the street at La Flores, Tex. A. E.
Hines, said to have shot Judge Creev-
er, shot and killed himself shortly aft
erward.
Gov. Dunno was advised by John M.
Picco, Italian consular agent in
Springfield, ILL.,, that the reported
trouble between rival camps of Ital-
ians at Marion, ILL.,, have been greatly
exaggerated.
Giulio Gatti-Casasza, general mana
ger Of the Metropolitan Opera COM
pany, has received a cable from En-
rico Caruso. in Monte Carlo, stating
that the famous tenor had been en-
gagged for 10 appearances late In May
at the Buenos Aires opera house, Ar
gentine, at $1,000 q night
effJ1
Judge Bachman directed the jury to
sustain. the will of N. Phillips, which
left an estate of $35. 600 to Mrs. Mar
garet Mickler of Fort Wayne, Ala. his
fiancee. A sister sought to break the
will
fudge Marshall of the United Bt@tes
court issued an order for the removal
of Ten-NeGat, or.Hatch, the Riutes 81.
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