The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-10-08
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I. F.. Depont de Nemours & Co. have
filed incorporation papers with The
secretary of state of West Virginia.
They will expend half q million dol
lars in purchasing land and will build
q powder factory.
Miss Clio Davenport. sister Of the
late Homer Davenport. cartoonist. is
dead at Los Angeles as the result Of
an automobile accident.
Otto Engel. an employee of a baker
at Sterling, ILL.,. was killed when he
became %entangled in a bread mixer.
Mrs. James Ogden. a bride Of last
June, is dead. the fifth victim of an
epidemic of typhoid fever at Peters
burg, ILL.,, in the last two weeks.
Pope Benedict Is preparing a cir
cular letter to the b~elligerents. asking
for q general truce on All Souls day.
Approximately 1000 employees Of the
United States Cartridge Co.'s plant
at Lowell, Mass, returned to work
after being out two weeks. The COM
pany has submitted the question Of
wages to the state board Of arbitra-
ton.
The number Of bankruptcies in Ger
many from July to September of this
year was 981. as compared with 1908
during the same period last yea
A semi-officiaI statement denying
reports hat Russia had asked the
Japs to send troops to Europe has
been issued.
Gen. Carranza has issued strict or
ders against violation of neutrality
laws on the American border.
Gen. Alexander H. r. Won Kluck,
after a period of recuperation in the
country, is now fully restored to
health and is living in his Berlin
home.
Distinguished clergymen of the
Protestant Episcopal church from
many states participated in the cunse-
Grafton services of the Rev. DR..
Charles Clark Fiske as coadjutor
bishop of the diocese of central New
York.
John r. Scott. a director of the fed
oral reserve bank in Dallas. assured 8
committee of the Southern Rice Grow
ers' association that the bank regards
rice as a staple. palcing it in a class
with cotton.
John Cameron Miller, Panama cana
employee, was arrested. charged will
being in collision with another man tt
raising the amoun Of a receipt Gov
ering payment on account of the trans
portation Of mails.
Chief of Police w. B.. Nichols o
Oklahoma City, Ok, was shot thre,
times by Patrolman John Lung in /,
fight which occurred in the police sta
ton.
Yale college has opened its 250tl
academic year.
The Army Nurses Of the Civil Wa
elected Mrs. Alice C. Rivey of Jeffer
o City. Mo-, president.
The Spanish steamer MILAN Cal
risco, Of 667 tons. foundered off Lual
crew was lost.
The first English snow of the sea
son fell Sept. 80. The peaks Of Del
byshire are thickly capped with white
T. z. Chang. Chinese minister Of az
riculture, purchased so ears of cor
that won the sweepstakes prize at tn
International Soils Products expos
ton in session in Denver, Colo, for 1
cents an ear.
The question of placing the NAL
members of the Marshall (Mo.) hig
school under military training is vi
der consideration and has many adv
catss.
A herd OF II anne deer. six head
cattle and 307 hogs. owned by Lou
E.. Swift, wer slaughtered by COVER
ment agents at his country estate
Lake Forest. Ill, because OF foot u
mouth disease.
Sangamon river water is nothiI
less than diluted sewage. says DR..
st. Clair Drake. secretary Of the sta
board Of health.