The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-12-24
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News COMBINATIONS Re-
viewed Without Comment-Ali
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.
There are more than 10000 soldier
priests in the French army.

NN> SAAN ~N~S
the Panama canal is now open for
tugs and dredges of light draft
Federal regulation of insurance COM
panies was proposed in a bill intro
duced by Senator Weeks.
L. E. Moody, a rancher of South
Maybe, Tex. swallowed poison and
died instantly. A year ago he married
a manicurist after a courtship of two
days. He left a note declaring that
his marriage was a failure.
Mrs. Minerva Memby, so years old,
wife of a farmer ear Joplin, Mo, per
ished in a fire which destroyed her
home.
Mayor James G. Woodruff Of At
lanta, Ca, vetoed a resolution passed
by the city council ordering a recall
election Jan. 5, affecting the mayor
and four members of the police COM
mission.
Worthy Tooley of Athens, N. Y, and
Ludwig Marquardt of Kingston, N. Y.
murderers, were put to death by cleo
tricity at Sing Sing prison.
David Mccormick of Peru. Ind, so
years old, a farmer, fell down stairs
when saving household goods from his
burning home and was burned to
death.
Franklin Newhall, 90 year old, long
In hr~,,o1@,& 49, .sll 1880
the apple king" is dead in Glencoe,
a suburb of Chicago.
Construction of another link In the
German canal system has been begun.
Daniel Worcester, 80 years old, who
was known as the original "Uncle
Tom" Of the dramatization of "Uncle
Toms Cabin" is dead at the Vermont
soldiers home.
The Rev. S. D. Lindsay of Rison,
Ark, was informed that he was worth
100000 as a result of a patent auto
mobile spring he invented.
Majority Leader Kitchin introduced
in the house a resolution to continue
the present emergency tax which ex-
pires by limitation on Dec. 81, for an
other year
Clifford Bnrfield, s years old, was
pounded to death when his clothes
caught in a drive shaft in the flour
mill at Blodgett, Mo.
Henry Beal. a negro at Kleinpeter,
La. foiled a mob bent on lynching
him by facing the leaders and turning
a revolver on himself.
The Los Angeles board of educa-
ton has defeated, by a vote Of 4 to 3,
proposals to introduce military train
ing in the high schools.
Prof. E. H. Lebolt, instructor In
French, has resigned from the faculty
of the University of Wisconsin and
left for France, where he will enlist
The Driggs-Seabury Ordnance com
pany, at Sharon, Pa, has closed a con
tract with the British government fol
1o,ooO CpAdAc guns.
Sir Richard Mcbride, for more thar
y years premier of British Columbia
has resigned from that position.
Mrs. Irwin Savelis of Hopkinsville
Ky, vas burned to death at a bonfire
in her yard.
France. in common with Great Brit
ain, Russia, Italy and Belgium, ha:
recognized the Carranza government
in Mexico.
The Japanese embassy at Washing
ton assures the world of eth simples
and purest" of motives in Japan's re
lations with China.
c. c. McChord, whose term as
member OF the interstate commerc,
commission has expired, was REAP
pointed by President Wilson.
Exports from the port of New Yorl
during November exceeded $3.50, 900,
900, the largest amount in the histor,
of the port.
The Milwaukee newspapers hav
dropped the hyphen from the word
"German-American."
Pope Benedict intends to consecrat
h year in which peace is conclude,
as holy year. His holiness hopes b
means of special prayers and pilgrim
ages to purify the world of all hatre
and ill-feeling.
Former Senator Hale of Maine is i
with paralysis at his home. Owing t
his advanced age, 70 years, little hop
is held for his recovery.
More extensive use of goats mill
especially for the feeding of infant.
is recommended by the New Yor
health department. The main reaso
for the suggestion is the immunity c
goats from tuberculosis.
President Thomas McClelland al
bounced a gift of $780, 900 to Knox co
1ege of Galesburg, H., from an anon.
mous friend Of the institution.
The war has cost France on a
; average more than So. DOC. 900 a da