The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-03-12
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
TOLD HERE.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For.
eign Countries Are Here Given
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Busy Readers.

oAo " AOoA PoAASS
man and two citizens slightly injured
is the result of a running pistol battle
here with two men who were trying
to escape arrest as suspicious charac-
tiers. Both finally were captured aft
or one of the mhad been shot twice
and slightly wounded.
Charles Taylor, an old-time burglar
and housebreaker, who has spent 81
years in the Chester and Joliet peni-
tentiaries in Illinois, thinks now that
he is entitled to a parole, and in a let
ter TO the state board of pardons has
asked permission to do the last yea
of a 20-year sentence outside the pris-
on walls.
Moving through the mist in total
darkness, the big L~usitania, from New
York, reached Liverpool, extraordi-
nary precautions having been taken
to guard against German submarines.
The Lusitania carried AIS passengers,
of whom 120 were in the first cabin.
h expected drop in the price of
bread, which was raised by the big
New York bakers on Feb. 10 from 4
cents to 5 cents a loaf wholesale and
from 5 cents to 6 cent retail, has
taken place.
Upton Cox, former president of the
C~ox-Blodgett Dry Goods company, and
Thomas Blodgett, former treasurer oil
the concern, at Wichita, Kan, we're
nrrncfn1 nLo--1I .
ment Of $4,000 and the alteration OF
the records of the company.
An order for 46,50O tons of steel,
valued at 50, 600, 900, to be used in the
manufacture of s%hrapnell, has been re-
ceived by the Gambia Steel
from he Russian government.
Mia Booth, a teamster of Marion,
ILL.,, was crushed to death by heavy
machinery that was being unloaded
for a new bakery.
The Sixty-third broke all
records in the volume of proceedings
IN the Congressional Record. The
average congress, according to report
ers of debates, runs about 10000
pages, while the recent body talked
$4,000 pages.
Cheng Hsu Henry Wang of Shan
tnng, a Junior IN the academic class at
Yale. won the Ten Eyck prize in pub
lie speaking.
A bill Incorporating the Ellen Will
son Memorial home in eastern Dis
trict of Columbia has passed the
senate.
Fire destroyed the ice plant of the
Central Illinois Service company. at
Marion, ILL.,, causing a loss of 500, 900.
Increased passenger rates on the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad in Massachusetts, went into
effect March 1.
The Rev. James Morrison Darnell,
charged with violating the Mann act,
was indicted by the federal grand
jury at Milwaukee, Wis.
A skull and various other bones of
the human body were found in the
stomach of a 12-foot shark killed at
Miami, Fla.
An Endorsement of President Will
sons European war policy was tabled
IN the Iowa senate by a vote of % to 9
Six thousand dollars deducted from
the salaries of representatives in con- |
sress absent during the closing DAYS
OF the last session was restored to the
by a resolution passed by
the house.
An acceptance of a bet to drink a
quart OF whisky resulted in the death
of William Pfell, II, in a patrol wagon
while being rushed to ST. Agnes hos |
pital. Philadelphia.
After thoroughly ~condemning the |
lobby register as ridiculous" the |
Texas senate discarded it. The lower
house. however, continues to REQUIRE
representatives of special interests to
register.
All heads of households in Berlin
ordered to furnish to the gov
eminent n estimate of the amount of
they have on hand.
Inquiry into the American land cues
ton in its labor and capital aspects
vii! be begun by the federal indus
trial relations commission in a public
hearing at Dallas, Tex, March Is.
|
The Roosevelt, Admiral Peary's Arc
tic ship. will be taken over by the
bureau of fisheries, to be used in con.
with the fisheries service in
waters.
Mrs. Mary Miller, SO, is dead in
Conn. She never rode on
, trolley car or ON a railroad train.
Driving an automobile, Robert Mea,
lows. an Elgin (nl.) youth, accident
lily struck Percival Calame and aft
er dragging him half a block fled to
his home. Calame died in q hospital
! little later.
The theft from an express z at
he Baltimore Z. Ohio Southwestern
In Cowden Of q sack contain