The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-03-19

Twelve suits for damages aggregnA.
ing 100000, growing out OF the shoot
ing Of strikers at Roosevelt, n. j., by
the guards of the chemical plant ON
Jan. 10. we're filed against the Ameri.
ian Agricultural Chemical company.
h supreme court has formally
granted the application Of the state OF
Virginia for permission to sue J. p.
Morgan for the return Of the will Of
Martha Washington. The state alleges
the will was taken from Fairfax coun.
ty courthouse during the civil war
and eventually was sold to the late
J. p. Morgan.
It is reported that Mrs. Florence
Carman, released by q hung Jury in
her first trial on the charge Of having
shot and killed Mrs. Louise Bailey in
her husbands office in Freeport, L. L
ON June 80, 1914, will be placed on
trial early in May.
Two young men bound Charles Pc
terson in a bathtub in the rear of his
barber shop in Chicago, robbed the
cash register, turned on the cold wa
ter and fled. Peterson released him
self in half an hour and ran shiveriug
to the police station.
A dispatch from Copenhagen to the
London Daily Mail says Germany has
modified the elephants in Hagen
backs menagerie and has sem them
to Valencienne for work in heavy
hauling.
Mystery surrounds the death Of
Mrs. Clara Brerton, 35 years old, Of
Springfield, Mo-, whose body was
found on the floor of her home by a
neighbor. The head and face were
mutilated. Near the body were sew.
eral small coins.
h annual meeting of the Missis-
sippi Valley Suffrage conference at
Indianapolis has adjourned. A peace
meeting" was the feature OF the last
days program.
Beverly Cove for the British embassy.
Sir Spring-Rice, the British ambassa-
dor, who spent last summer at Dub
lin, N. H., is expected there May Is.
Arthur Smith, an aviator, before the
members of the American Association
of Fairs and Expeditions, ascended in
his biplane yer the lake front in Chi
ago and turned 80 somersaults in
the air.
Statistics on Swiss trade show i'm
provement in the past few weeks.
This condition is due to orders from
England for great quantities of wrist
watches for British soldiers.
Two dirigible balloons are to be
sought for the United States navy.
They will no be as large as Zeppe-
Inns, nor will they be of the rigid type.
Bids for the dirigibles will be adver.
tised for within a week.
Secretary Daniels announced that
the new educational system inaugu-
rated in the navy last year has proved
to be a success and that already 49,
600 sailors are taking courses of vari
GUS sorts,
A package containing 81, 200 cur
rency and drafts was taken from the
depot office of the Wells Fargo Elk
press Co. at Springfield, Mo, recently.
Two men, it was stated by the de-
t%ectfves, are under surveillance.
Betting on horses in Texas was put
off for two fears when the house
killed the pari-mutuel bill by a vote of
78 to II.
A tax of 81 on every barrel of beer
made or sold in Michigan is proposed
in bill in the state legislature. Out
side distillers and liquor dealers wiz
be required to pay $500 yearly.
Rabbit sauSage-made in Texas"
If you come across this new wiener
you may remember that the Texas
legislature has placed a bounty of s
cents per head on jack rabbits.
After escaping from his burning
home, Thomas Upp, collector of Car
AAAOS ~. oufAOA anu udtUTd11SI,
rushed back to save his collection Of
rare coins and was burned to death.
Sheriff Butts of Peoria county. Ill.
announced hat the mittimus commit
ting Newton G.. Dougherty, former
superintendent of the Peoria schools,
to Joliet penitentiary mad disappeared
from his office.
Compulsory school attendance by
all Belgian children will be enforced
by order of the encouragement Of
Belgium, according to a telegram re-
ceived from Brussels by way Of Der.
lin.
The state department received word
from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin that
the German wal Office had told him
all waters surrounding the Shetland
and Orkney islands are in the war
zone.
More than $1,000 laborers and UNI
skilled workmen in the Clyde, Scot