The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-05-21

Cen Antonio Villa, brother<of Fran
cisco ePancho' Villa, was killed in .
quarrel at Chfhuahua following a Mex.
lean political argument.
More than 5000 German-Americans
of Baltimore placed themselves square
1y behind President Wilson in his
handling of the crisis with the Ger.
man government. 3
Lieut.. C. NJ. Lyman of the United
States army, whose. skull was frac-
tured in a game OF polo is dead at
Honolulu.
Resolutions endorsing President
Wilson's stand in the present interna-
tional crisis we're unanimously adopt
ed by the Chicago Federation Of La
Dor and forwarded to Washington.
The Japanese steamer Chiyo Maru,
which sailed on May 1 for leading har-
bors in the Orient, is afre of the
coast of Japan.
Fire destroyed an automobile tire
factory at Clichy, France. in the out
skirts of Paris. The loss is estimated
at $25O,OOO.
Mis- Mary Moore, a society leader
of Danville, ILL.,, and Dan Williams
were badly injured when a car driven
by Miss Moore yer over a 16-foot
embankment.
Two masked bandits held up 60
passengers aboard a Santa Anna, CAL,
interurban car and escaped after get
ting about 800.
The United States cruiser Charles
ton is under quarantine at Seattle.
Wash, and employees of the navy yard
have been ~vaccinated following the
discovery that w recruits from Salt
Lake City had smallpox.
Mrs. Louise Fletcher Harrington,
former wife of Booth Harrington, the
author and playwright, was married
in New York to Willard Connolly.
Two children we're killed and a
woman was wounded by bombs drop
ped upo Calais. France, by a Yep
pelin.
Lieut.. C. M Lyman of the Fourth
cavalry Of the United States army,
whose skull was fractured in a col
lision with Walter Dillingham; in a
game of polo, is dead.
Fire destroyed an automobile tire
factory at Clichy, in the outskirts of
Paris, France. The loss is estimated
at $25O,O0O.
The grand council of Illinois, United
Commercial Travellers, has held it's
nineteenth convention in Springfield.
Dr.. John C.. Acheson has been in
augurated as president of the Penn
sylvania College of Women.
Angered because the Rev. Frank
Merrithew knelt down in the street at
Grizzly, ILL.,, and publicly prayed for
him after ~upbraiding him. Louis Gibbs
kicked the pastor in the back. The
pastor now wants SIC, 900 damages.
.
The United States seeks no wal
with Germany, nor with any other ma
ton. but if war is forced upon the
country, the enemies will lace a uni
fed people, Senator James Hamilton
Lewis asserted in an address at the
dinner of the Naval and Military Or
der of the Spanish-American war at
Chicago.
An armed raiding party attacked the
Pacific cable at Bamfield Greek on the
west coast of Vancouver Island. Shots
yer exchanged between the raiders
and a sentry who reused the military
guard. The raiders escaped in the
darkness.
Resolutions expressing confidence
in President Wilson were adopted at
the closing session OF the annual con
vention OF the Illinois Council of the
United Commercial Travellers at
Springfield, Ill.
Live stock sanitary commissioners
from states west Of the Mississippi.
met In Kansas City, Mo-, In an effort
to standardize the shipping regulations
Of live stock between states and lift
the quarantine resulting from the foot
and mouth disease that are hamper
ing interstate shipments.
The Theodore Roosevelt-W. Barnes
trial has revealed q new type Of wit
ness. He is known as the G. @. d. va
riety. Several ex-legislators have re-
fused to take the stand before their
mileage fee of 8 cents a mile and at
tendance fees Of so cents were paid
by Barnes.
The Tenth Irish army division has
been completed and has left for the
front.