The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-03-26

act providing o 0HSen1c marriages.
A fine of $500 is fixed for any person
who weds withoat fulfilling the re-
quirements of the law.
II. J. Freelich, the Chicago pro-
moter who has been in jail at Dam
vile, ILL.,, since his arrest last Deem
Der, has been released on bond of
$4,000.
Speaker Champ Clark, wife and
their daughter, Miss Genevieye-Clark.
narrowly escaped injury when the
Lynn Haven hotel, at Pass Christian.
was destroyed by fire.
The export of pure and allowed gold
and silver in bars and also of coins
has been prohibited from Budapest.
Gov. William Spry of Utah vetoed
the statewide prohibition bill.
b aldermen of Berlin elected Herr
~Sassenbach, Socialist and secretary of
a labor union, to be a member of the
city council. This is the first time
that a Socialist ever has been nomi-
mated for this office.
The jury in the case of Clyde Barn.
hill, charged with the murder of Viii
liam OLoughiin at Boonville, Ind,
last January, found the defendant
guilty. Barnhill pleaded the unwrit-
ten law.
How he cut off his W hand at the
wrist with a pen knife, after being
caught in the cogs OF an electric
pump, was told here by Wallace E..
Rlttenhouse, who is suing the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company for
$4,000 damages at Denver. Ritten-
house claimed the place where the
electric pump was located was badly
lighted. 1t was his duty to oil the
pump. He slipped on a car wheel,
catching in the gear of the pump.
Held fast, he drew his knife and sey-
cred his hand at the wrist.
Mrs. Gus Kaehler of Sandoval, Ill.,,
shot and killed John Dierhoff, 81
years old, a neighbor, as he was try
ing to break into her home while in
~toxicated.
An order for the deportation of %
Hindus, issued by the federal immi-
grafton authorities. was sustained by
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals. The Hindus came from Manila,
P. 1.
Six officials of the defunct La Sale
National bank. including President
William Lorimer, who was rejected
by the United States senate, have
been arraigned before Federal Judge
Carpenter in Chicago.
Blue snow, pink frogs and meta
morphosis of white ducks into green
caused by acide from a chemical
draining into a stream cn his place
are complaints in farmers injunc-
ton suit filed at Union, N. J.
The Twenty-ninth United States in
fantry marched up Broadway, New
York, behind bands playing popular
airs, between tens Of thousands who
lined the streets. boarded the trans
port Buford and departed for Panama.
Joseph e. Vance, a retired business
man of West Point, Neb., in his trial
for the killing of A. J.. Krause, a for.
mer friend, was acquitted of the
charge of murder, the defense being
the "unwritten law"
The officers of the Italian general
staff nave tested the new 3O5-milli.
meter G2-inch) siege cannon and say
they find them to be excellent guns,
SURPRISING in exactness M range the
famous Austrian cannon.
Buster Caldwell, 4 years old, IA
tally shot Russell Standard, aged 3
through the body while they were
playing with a pistol at Evansville
Ind.
A campaign to raise 800, 900 in Chi
cago for the relief of Jews in the
European war zones was begun.
Mayor Curley of Boston forced
young society women in a classic
dance at a woman suffrage benefit tt
wear stockings. He said bare fee
and legs were shocking"
Eleven prisoners, under sentence O
death at the Arkansas penitentiary
will be electrocuted, three of then
this month, because of the failure o
the state legislature to pass a bill
abolishing capital punishment.
There was shipped from the United
States mint a package containing
1000, 900 nickel coins made for Sal
Salvador. The mint will now begil
work upon a contract to manufactur,
1 1000, 900 worth CT gold, silver an,
nickel coins for Cuba.
The Seattle chamber Of commerce
has received cable advices that
party of so prominent Chinese mer
chants, bankers and officials viii
make a Today. 11,000-mile tour of tn,
United States this spring.
A woman was killed and four me-
injured, one seriously, when a naturs
gas explosion wrecked the home o
J.. NJ. Mathews at Louisville, Ky.