The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-10-15

BLUEGRASS minister and his stan
have left Rome for Sofia, proceeding
via Switzerland.
Nineteen Turkish ships were sunk
by two Russian torpedo boats of the
coast OF Anatolia.
Heavy japanese guns, manned by
expert gunners from the Japanese
army. are being used by the Russians
in the defense Of Dvinsk-
twenty-five members OF the crew q
the German steamer Lulea, which was
torpedoed by the British submarine
Els in the Baltic. have been saved.
The Lajara (Colo.) State bank was
entered by four yeggmen who blew
open the vault and got $500.
Application was made in New York
for. Incorporation of the National
School Camp association. The object
Of the association is to issue a call
for 1000. 900 schoolboys to take .
course in military training.
Is
British casualties reported from
Oct. 1 to Oct. IL amount to more than
y, 200.
Phillip Bell of Brimfield, Ill.,, the IA
Their of v e children, committed sui
eide at his home by hanging himself
from the limb of a tree.
Four of the daily papers of Paris
Rappel, Radical, Guerre Sociale and
Loeuyer-have been suspended by or
der of the censorship.
Former Judge William Johnston Is
dead at Valparaiso, Ind, at the g
of r..
Health authorities of Pennington,
I'LL. yer considering steps to combat
an epidemic of typhoid fever. Eigh-
teen cases are under quarantine.
Fire destroyed the Vienna milling
plant, at Peoria, ILL.,, owned by Dom
meyer. Gardner & Co., with a loss of
500, 900.
Mrs. Christen Dean, 80 years old
and a cousin of George Washington, is
dead at Carthage, Mo.
A silver jubilee celebrating the
twenty-fifth anniversary Of the found
ing of the Daughters of the American
Revolution was held at Memorial Con-
tinental hall. President Wilson made
an address,.
Despondent because of poor health,
George W. Eikleberry, a farmer living
near Fairfield, ILL.,, committed suicide
by hanging himself with a halter rein
in his barn.
Ophelia Hanson, 8 years old, and
her sister Violet, 4, daughters of Mrs.
lewis O. Hanson, of Maiden Rock,
Miss, were burned to death while
their mother was driving home the
cows.
Vic Guerringer of Kansas City was
sentenced to Is years in the peniten-
tiary for attacking Mrs. Gertrude
Shidler in March, 1914.
The marriage OF Mrs. Mary Quinlan
Brady, Michigan wife" of James J.
Brady. Illinois state auditor, was re-
ported.
Probably the most brilliant wedding
in the history of Yazoo City, Miss.
took place when Miss Sallie Shelby
| Williams. daughter of United States
Senator John Sharp Williams, became
the bride of Lieut.. William Joel
Bunkley.
Word comes that the prince OF
Wales, at the headquarters of the
! staff officers near Ypres, became too
familiar with a pretty waitress and a
jealous husband shot him in the arm.
Twin girls born to Mrs. Andre Free
man at Lafayette. Ind, are joined I'd.
! gether. head to head.
Official reports at Juarez state that
Gen.. Rosalio Hernandez; who was re
ported to have revolted against Villa,
was shot by his own men.
Three sons. of Gen. Edouard de Gu.
rieses de Castelnau have lost their
| lives at the front.
The first transactions in the
$50O,0O0 900 Anglo-French five-year
5-per-cent bonds on the New York
stock exchange was for the amount OF
$4,000. 600 at IS.
The famous parish church at La
chine, Quebec, was destroyed by fire
with a loss Of $3.50 200.
A banker named Huguet. who was
serving a sentence in Paris for EN-
~bezxlement, was released and allowed
to atone for his ~offense'' as q sol
der at the front.
Max Samfield. rabbi emeritus OF
the Congregation Children OF Israel,
Memphis, is dead. aged Il years.
Henry Blandy Wren. aged 81, who
died at his farm. Whitley Reading,
England. had spent only one night
away from his home at Whitley
where ho waa horn