The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-24

F1neS aSgregatlnS more thar &c. OOO.-
600 marks (se.5 SOC, OOo) have been i'm
posed at Bonn on three distillers for
excise frauds.
The Gounaris party, supporting King
Constantine's neutrality program. was
returned to power by large majorities
in the Grecian elections.
principal temperance So
cfety. 1.-The Alarm" has just been re-
organized with President Yoincare as
honorary president.
Munich newspapers announc the
suicide of Gen. Jenesco, commanding
b second Rumanian army corps.
Checks aggregating 5000 were
mailed by the Workmen's Compensa-
ton department Of West Virginia to
more than 700 beneiciaries.
Attic was placed across the Wabash
track two miles west of Dalton, Mo,
in an attempt to wreck the fast mail
from Kansas City to st. Louis.
Robert A. Childs, aged 20, former
congressman from the Eighth Illinois
district, is dead of pneumonia in his
home in Hindsdale. Ill.
Since the war began, 734 ships own
ed by Gernany's enemies have been
destroyed. OF this number, SOS were
sunk by submarines and SO by mines.
The Socialist party national execu-
tive committee in session in Chicago
ordered a nationwide campaign in
support Of a peace resolution.
Fay Clanton and George B. Smith
were killed and George Nettles seri,
ously injured when Nettles' automo-
bile plunged through a bridge into a
ravine at Waco. Tex.
The Armour Packing Company of
Chicago has closed a deal to lease
100000 acres of land at Eureka
Springs, Ark, to mine potash. An
immense bed has been discovered.
Fire destroyed the Cleveland Ele-
vator Company's elevator and wood
storage house at Sheldon, ILL.,, with
an estimated loss of $500 OO
Seven men were drowned in Ches-
apeake Bay when the sloop Lady Har-
rlngton of Oxford capsized and sank
In a gale of wind and rain.
Accusations Of having received stip-
ulated sums of money for the city
which were in effect brides to give
immunity to keepers Of alleged gam
bHng houses and liquor selling estab-
llshments caused Judge Conn Linn of
the district court to remove Mayor
FRANK M. Wooden and T. J. Quinn of
Tulsa, Ok.
John Mcpherson two years ago de.
clared he had been haunted by the
ghost Of the man he had killed in Ala
oama, has been found guilty of the
murder and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
Representatives of Belgian and Hol
land firms have been buying up large
supplies of leaf tobacco and heavy
shipments to Europe are now beins
made.
If former Mayor Crump's plan pre-
walls. Memphis, Tenn, will soon hav.
a poor mans" court.
Lady Byzantine, the white leghorr
hen that laid 314 eggs in 365 days
making her the worlds champion
layer, was presented a diamond
studded gold anklet at the Philadel
ph1a poultry show.
Word comes that Earl Kitchener ha,
fallen a victim to Cupid's darts ant
is soon to wed the dowager duchess q
Mimic.
Miss Virgie Stevens, 20 years old
shot and killed Viola Horne, 81. In s
rooming house at New Orleans.
Mrs. Rose Ferling was arrested
charged with killing her husband
James Ferling, by shooting him from
a taxicab at Pitcher, Ok.
Jesse Seligman, a wealthy leathe
manufacturer of GloversvilIe, N. Y.
shot and killed his wife and the,
killed himself at their home.
The stock of gold held by the Banl
OF France reached a total o
5,OOO,0OO,000 francs ($1, 900, 0OO. oOO)
a worlds record.
Creation of a $4,000, 600 Booker r
Washington memorial endowment 70
the Tuskegee institution was author
lied by the institutes trustees. VIII,
announced hat $450,OOO already ha,
been pledged.
Leland Thompson, president of tn
Mems Student council of the Unive,
sity OF Kansas has received a bill TO
Sal for damages done to Lawrenc
property during football celebrations
P. D. English, who has been cler
of the Arkansas supreme court sine
1860, has resigned.
Switzerland has extended its emba,
go list to include dyestuffs and paint:
paper and paper stock, wire, elastic
metal and wood tools and a few chen
icals.