The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-11-26
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Four Chattanooga (Tenn.) men have
been indicted here for defrauding the
government by shipping whisky in
collins from this city.
The charred bodies Of the three
small children of NJ. D. Tiller were
u In the ruins Of a barn on the
farm Of their father in Boyd county,
KY, according to a report reaching
here It is the superstition that the
children accidentally set fire to the
barn.
An increase in wages to 1900 en-
ployes was announced by the Yale &
Towne Manufacturing company. SIAM
ford, Conn, makers of builders hard
ware.
Maj. Gen. Wood has announced that
a military camp of instruction for
civilians would be established in
North Carolina early next year SINH
lar to that conducted at Plattsburg,
N. N, last summer.
Cardinal MERCER, archbishop of Ma
Hlines, Belgium. arrived at Lucerne.
Switzerland, on parole. Cardinal Mer-
cier aroused the ire of the Germans
by his pastoral letter Of Christmas,
1914.
Fire in the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy s%hipyards at Aurora, ILL.,, de-
stroyed a warehouse filled with huge
casks of gas, causing a loss estimated
at $3.50, 700.
According to a message, the kaiser
passed through Sofia, where he Wis
tied King Ferdinand for two days.
After the visit the German emperor
left for Constantinople.
Mrs. T. T. Taylor and her 10-year-
old daughter were drowned in st.
Francis river at Wise Ferry. Ark,
when the skiff in which they were
seeking to cross the river sank.
Fire has destroyed eight stores in
the village Of Oneida, Ill.
The Standard Oil company of Kan
c0o AAAS q u "a
of IS a share, payable Dec. Is.
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Gen. Geronimo Villareay Mexican,
was indicted by a United States grand
jury at Laredo for bringing women
into this country for immoral pur-
poses.
State Auditor Brady appointed Ed
ware Ridgley of Sprinefield. Ill. state
bank examiner.
The French liner Rochambeau.
bunker after leaving New York for
Bordeaux, Nov. Is, has arrived.
Augustus O.. johnson, a former col
lection clerk in the Fifth-Third Ma
tional a OF Cincinnati. has pleaded
guilty to having embedded $21, 900
and sentenced to five years in the fed
eral ~penitentary at Moundsville, w.
Va.
} The steamer Charles A. Luck,
owned by F. w. Green. supposed to
have been lost in a gale on Lake Su-
perior last week. is safe.
The Russian government is opening
5000 new savings banks in connection
with the %postoffice department
Frank Stephens, Jr., was shot and
killed during a quarrel with John Cain
and his two sons at Sullivan. Ind.
A decree has been issued by the
New Zealand government providing
that no men between the ages Of Is
and 45 will be permitted to leave the
country.
Judge Jett sentenced James Conner.
a negro, to be hanged Dec. IT for the
murder of his wife. This will be the
first hanging In Montgomery county,
Illinois.
In consequence Of the decision Of
he German authorities at Warsaw to
permit the reopening Of all schools.
b Warsaw university has resumed
its work.
Jean Duluth Pear, in Minnesota,
has established a new worlds record
for Red Poll cattle in the 1915 club
contest by scoring more than TOO
pounds Of butter fat in one season.
The towboat Harry rBown, owned
by the Monongahela Coal company.
struck q snag lea Osceola. Ark, and
sank In Is feet Of water.
A deed for SIS, 000. 900 which relates
TO the recent transfer Of the Wabash
railroad was filed for record in Nc
Lean county. III. The revenue stamps
IN the deed cost $4,000.
The lake steamer Charles A. Luck
has been lost with all hands, accord
ing to . report that has reached Chi
caG0.
The Handelsblad learns from Brus-
sells than two citizens Of Cambria were
executed - spies On Nov. 1. :
Herman Ridder, publisher, left q
net estate Of about $1,000. HIS will
was executed in 1914 and ~bsqueAthed
m - h&~ Ur3faN- $3.50