The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-04-02

HAPPENINGS or THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
TOLD HERE.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and
eion Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter for
Busy Readers.

The Majestic theater at Sioux Falls.
S. D., was destroyed by fire, with a
loss of $4,000.
Four.year-old Teddy Slingsby, the
center of a lawsuit in the British
courts involving a 100000 estate. ar
in New York with his mother,
Mrs Charles Slingsby.
An announcement that the Interna-
tional Esperanto congress would hold
it's convention next August at San
instead of Edinburgh, Scot
land, as scheduled, was made by the
Samuel Turnipseed, a farmer, was
killed at Dewitt, ILL.,, by making a mis-
step while trying to board ain Illinois
train.
David Reynolds, 4 years old, proved
a hero when he routed four families
from their beds and saved them from
possible injury or death when fire at
tackled an apartment house in East
Sixty-fifth street, Chicago.
National President John Williams of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers announced
that the official count of the recent
referendum. shows that the sheet and
tin plate wage reduction has been ac-
cepted.
! Secretary Bryan announced that the
grand vizier of Turkey had informed
Ambassador Morgenthau in CONSTANT
nople that there was no foundation
for the reports of violence at Urumah,
Northwestern Persia,
The hearing on the habeas corpus
writ by means of which Harry K.
Thaw hopes to procure a test of his
sanity was adjourned until April s..
Mrs. Andrew Borden. mother of Sir
Robert Borden, premier of Canada, is
dead at her home at Grand Pre-.
DIR. Charles Richmond Henderson,
head OF the department of sociology
at the University of Chicago, is dead
of paralysis,
The United States land office has
announced the cancellation of Al coal
claims totafing 1000 acres in the
Christopher (Alaska)s group in the
Boring river coal fields.
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Mrs. Marion Louise Davis. 81. years
Id, of Paterson, is believed to hold
the record for children in New Jersey.
She has borne II children, nine of
whom are living.
Mrs. Robertson Marshall of West
port, n. Y, is dead and her husband,
a retired stock broker, is suffering
from injuries as a result of an acct
lent to their automobile.
Mrs. Laura Green, wife of a farmer,
living near Lexington, KY, was at
tackled by a COW, and narrowly
escaped death after being badly
gored. She seized the horns of the
maddened beast and held on until
her cries attracted her husband, who
came to her rescue.
Beginning April 1, the price of flour
will be lowered considerably, the
German government announced.
DR.. James H. Dyea, a dentist of
Benson, ILL.,, was killed when he failed
to observe an approaching train while
crossing tracks.
By drinking a glass of buttermilk
James Robinson, inmate of the county
infirmary at Warsaw, Ind, ended a
fast of 81 days. During his eight
weeks of fasting Robinson lost about
100 pounds.
The government of China this week
ordered s240, coo. 600 worth of tin
plate, total of 10000 boxes, to be
rolled by the American Tin Plate
company.
Through Minister Van Dyke, at The
Hague, the United States protested
emphatically to Germany against
b~omb-dropping near Belgium-bound
relief ships.
Gen. Rene Joseph Delarne, chief Of
a division of the French army, was
killed when he was struck in the head
by a bullet on an inspection Of a
trench at the front.
Kites were demonstrated as means
Of saving life when DIR. F. w. Riehl
70 years old, of Alameda, Cal, leaped
from the deck of the ~battleship Ore
gon t San Francisco bay and was
lowed to Alcatraz island, four miles
from the anchorage of the war vessel
by a device Of his invention
The bodies of Joe Jackson and John
| w Ryan, brakemen ON the Missouri
| Kansas & Texas railroad, were found
ut Denton, Tex. on top Of a freight
car. Both had been shot and theil
pockets rifled.
Thirty-five cases 81 smallpox have
been discovered at Millville, N. J.
and the board Of health at q meeting
completed preparations for the vacci
nation Of the entire population, mum
herring nearIy $4,000.
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