The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-04-23

HAPPENINGS or THE SEVEN
PAaJ DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
TOLD HERE
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For.
eiqn Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter for
Busy Readers.

eign Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter for
Busy Readers.
Private Ellis of q Yorkshire regi-
ment has Spent four birthdays on the
battlefield, one in the Khyber pass,
Two in South Africa and one q few
days g somewhere in France"
stephen ]. Fitzpatrick and four 9TH
or occupants of an automobile, all
from Decatur, were seriously injured
when their automobile skidded and
overturned at Dawson. Ill.
Leonard Seppala, driving his own
team of 16 Siberian wolf dogs, won
the 412-mile all-Alaska sweepstakes
dog team race, which started at 9
o'clock April IA. His time for the
course was 70 hours, A minutes and
81 seconds, 4 hours and 80 minutes
slower than the record established by
John Johnson's wolves in 1910.
MIS-. Fred Osborn of Argentine.
Kan, saved the lives of two children
with a fishing pole. Both fell into the
swift current and were successfully
pulled to the shore by the valiant lady.
The sole Progressive in the United
States senate, Miles Poindexter of
Washington, has ANNOUNCED that he
would cooE rononinof;oo IN tho Do
publican ticket.
Mayor Hanna of Des Moines, La,
has proposed to the city council that
hotels and restaurants of tho city be
taxed a sufficient sum to make up the
$14O, 900 annual revenue loss caused
by closing the saloons.
The Montana state board of health
has made a ruling which makes all
hotel proprietors who place guests in
beds infested with bed bugs liable to
criminal prosecution.
Turkish troops are invading Persia
In force. They have occupied Kari.
shirin, surrounding the government
house there and are advancing to-
ward Kirmanshah.
A Gerlnan newspaper, advertising
for a new editor, stated that owing to
the war and the depleted condition of
the staff the editors hours would nee
~essarily be from 4 a. m. to 10 p. m.
4. ToNoanc ESol~E How b. >o~-o AZ.
leader of the Brotherhood Welfare as.
ISOLATION. At the national convention
at Baltimore, Md, the Industrial
Workers of the World faction carried
the day. Alexander Law was chosen
leader.
Dell, Ark, a town Of 200 inhabi
tants, was practically destroyed by
fire. Sixteen business buildings were
burned. Only one store remains stand.
ing.
Two Russian princes and a Russian
count have escaped from the Austrian
detention camp at Milowitz. They are
Prince Vlamir. Jaswill, Prince Michael
and Count Tolstoi. son of the writer.
City officials Of Elizabeth, N. J..
have been asked to speed up go-carts
It is charged that strolling mothers
push the carts so slowly that they
hinder traffic on the principal streets
San Francisco experts reported that
the rough stone found recently by
Louis Moulton in the Chicago Park
section is pure diamond.
The petition of the men convicted
of election frauds at Terre Haute, for
a reduction of the bonds under which
they were held, was denied in the
United States circuit court of appeals.
Although the supply in 1928 was
less than this year, cold storage hold
ings of apples or April l were 1876
per cent less than W years ago.
The resignation of E. Y. Foster OF
] Nevada, Mo-, as g member of the
board of regents of the fourth district
state normal school, at Springfield,
was announced.
The total Prussian losses in the
war up to date are 1,164,427, accord
ing to figures issued in Berlin.
A fatal accident in a coal mine. neal
Shimonoseki, Japan, has resulted in
the loss Of 236 lives, according to In
formation received in Toxic.
Harry K. Thaw, slayer Of Stanford
White, lost in the supreme court, ap.
pellate division, his fight to be re
turned to New Hampshire. He must
return to Matteawan.
The Western Grain Dealers associ-
alton, comprising prominent grain
men Of Iowa and Nebraska, held q
two days convention at Omaha.
Amended SO drastically that even
its author voted against II, the
Straight statewide prohibition bill
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