The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-09-24
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
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Nations Find Something to
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large part Oh ne GeTLudu IfOOpS WHICH |
have been operating against the Rus
slams, is being transferred to the An |
glo-French front.
Oliver Harker, cashier of the John |
ston City, ILL.,, National bank. which
failed in July, 1914, was found guilty
of making false entries in the cash
ier's book.
The Alabama senate passed a house
bill permitting the shipment of Quanti-
ties of stored liquors from the state.
The measure vas designed to relieve
distillers.
Highwaymen, believed to be those
villains, were discovered on the Fres-
not tract in Texas. Fired on by a
party of soldiers, the Mexicans fled.
Secretary Garrison said he would re-
fer all requests for additional citizen
training camps in the middle west to
h central division of the army. at
Chicago.
A special war tax on munitions OF
war is being planned by the treasury
department to help swell the govern
ment funds, which have cen depleted
recently.
The dead body of Capt. John w.
Milan of the Thirteenth United States
cavalry was found hanging in his
room in the officers quarters at the
Preside.
A check for $751; 900 was received by
Commissioner of Correction Davis
from John D.. Rockefeller toward the
establishment of a hospital for drug
fiends in New York.
Howard Gould has decided to ap-
peal to the United States supreme
court rather h pay a federal in
come tax on the $4,000 a year ali
mony he has to give Kathryn Glenn
mems Gould.
Secretary Redfeld laughed at the
report that he would resign because
of dissatisfaction over his investiga-
ton of the Eastland disaster. "For-
get it," said the secretary.
Warning that many sellers of gaso-
line are giving short measure was is
sued by the several commissioners OF
weights and measures to the drivers
and
Clarence Brown. n of the three
convicts who escaped from the Joliet,
ILL.,, ~penitentiary, was captured
Brown was found hiding in a ave in
q stone quarry.
Frank Clay, balloonist, who fell
1000 feet at the Colorado state fail
when his parachute failed to open. is
dead.
The body of Prof. Epra Ripley Thay
or, dean Of the Harvard law school
was found in the Charles river basin
The southern labor congress a
Chattanooga, Tenn, representing
$50, 900 wage throughout tn
southern states, has gone on recors
in favor of the equal suffrage move
ment.
George Miller, SIS years old. died a
a hospital in Peoria, ILL.,, having beel
chewed to death by rats.
Returns from the Maryland primar
show thai Comptroller Ellerson {
Harrington was nominated as tn
Democratic candidate for governo
and o. E. Weller by the Republican,
The German military attache at 81
fla, Major Baron Won der Goltx, ha
departed.
A bond issue of 500, 900 for the ere,
ton of a. tuberculosis sanitarium wa
voted in Jasper county. Mo.
Company g Of the Nineteenth II
fantry will be stationed at Fort She
idan. neal Chicago during the bus
ness mems army school encampmen
A French torpedo boat patrol hs
sunk a German submarine In Il
Mediterranean sea between Mityler
and Tenedos.
John A. Lewis. a fisherman. W
shot and killed at Cairo. ILL.,, by Jot
Canadian. Lewis attacked Carnahan
he could escape.
The fourth trial Of DR.. b. Cla1
Hyde Of Kansas City ON the charge
numbering Col. Thomas H. Swope ",
continued until the January term
court.
The first cargo Of German-made to.
to arrive this year Is being unload.
from the Holland-American Iii
steamer Zaundyk at philadelphia
0ottlieb von Jagow, German foreil
minister. has been promoted to Il
rank Of major in reserve Of the Thi
regiment Of HussaTs.
Park guards saw . man leap fru
Prospect Point into the NiasAE1 Eiv
ana 80 over the American falls.
While sho was sleepinx quietly q
o9a1 nights ago somaoe entered II
Rnoooll 0ordm's rOom at Bellaire, |
eAolo : eo1d tooth from her mona
Pear1 Tollfver q Tsrrs Han
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