The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-16

zenS STATE bank OF Crystal Lake, Ill,
has been arrested charged with en-
tezzlement.
1t was announced here that Emperor
Nicholas Of Russia had conferred the
cross of st. George upon all the Off
GERS and members Of the crew of the
British submarine which recently sank
a German b~attleship IN the Baltic.
Mrs. H. J.. Hamilton. 40, and H. D.
Wise, both of Bowlissvlle, O., were
killed when a Big Four work train
crashed into a jitney bus operated by
Wise.
James Lewis, negro. held for the
murder of Mrs. Henrietta Schmidt of
Springfield, Ill, sawed a hole through
the roof of the county Jail in an at
tempt to escape.
Kansas farmers have returned EN-
porarily to the fashion of long hair
and long boards to prevent mosqui-
toes interfering with harvesting.
Several great turf fires have broke
out in Germany southwest of Hanover
and war prisoners and German troops
have been sent to fight the flames.
The crew of the trawler Syrian,
shelled n sunk in the North Sea,
was landed at Grimsby, England.
News from Athens and Sofia adj
yises that the sultan has been dead
several days and that the young
Turks are hiding the news, fearing
political complications.
Fifty steers shipped by Mrs. r.
Morgan of Plattsburg, Mo-, topped the
ed 1,343 pounds each and sold at SO
a hundred.
The COLORADO supreme court af-
frnned the death sentence of Col.
James c. Bulger, soldier of fortune,
convicted of the murder of Lloyd L..
Nicodemus, a Denver hotel manager.
Gustav Stahl, German r%eservist, in
dicted on a charge of perjury because
he swore he saw guns mounted on the
Lusitania, withdrew his plea of mot
guilty in the New Yorn federal court
John R. Lindburg, 81 years Did,
former president of the Kansas Bank
ers' association, is dead in Denver,
Colo.
The jury in the trial of John Pritch-
| ard at Murphysboro, H., IN a charge
Of wife murder. was. discharged, hav-
| ing been unable to agree after being
out Is hours.
F. S. Monroe, of counsel in the ''tax-
payers suit to enjoin the Illinois
state treasurer from paying out near
~ $4,000, 900 appropriated by the last
legislature, said that the petitions
would be amended to include State
Auditor Brady and Secretary of State
Stevenson as defendants.
Garment workers to. the number OF
10000 are out on stxike in New York
The Gary (Ind.) Steel Mills started
operations at full capacity on the 18th
Frank Holt, the would-be assassin
of j.. p. Morgan, who killed himself
was buried secretly at Dallas, Tex.
on the 18th.
While out on his rounds driving q
laundry wagon, Fred Bolmer Of Ma.
con, Ca, received a telegram from at.
torneys in New York notifying him
that he is the sole heir to an estate
worth 100000. Bolmer quit his jof
at once.
Charles Scaratt, an honor convict in
the Joliet penitentiary, returned vol
UNFAIRLY, after running away from the
ungarded prison farm. 8
A syndicate of Norwegians has &C
copied a commission from the German
meat trade to furnish 10000 live rein
deer.
The German brewery associations
have ordered all breweries to reduce
their output of beer to 40 per ent Q.
the normal.
The Belgians have suddenly adopted
the practice of wearing sprays of iv!
as an expression of loyalty to Bel
GUM n the allies.
The Wilson liner Guide was torpe
doed and sunk off the north coast o
Scotland.
Semiofficial advices reaching Neuv<
Laredo reported a big battle between
Carranza and Vil1ista forces neal Pa
redon, with several hundred killed OF
each side.
His wedding day set for next week
Charles Brehmer, a prosperous youn,
farmer, shot and killed Ida Camp, hi
iancee, at the girls home. He thel
killed himself.
A. J. Waller of Kansas City, % year
old, is dead as the result of beina
struck on the head by a pitched ball