The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-10-15

his stock and bond business, C. C.. Nc
Donald, widely Known Raleigh On. CO
stock and bond broker, took his life at
the Raleigh Country club.
The Lokal Anzeiger publishes a dis
patch from Constantinople saying that
the British consul and the consular
guards at Ispahan have been killed by
Persians.
Included in gifts announced by the
Harvard college corporation was a let
ter written by Thomas jefferson in
1919, in which it was stated that Har-
ward students of those days confined
their drinking to water.
Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Widener of
Philadelphia, widow of George d.
Widener, who was lost on the Titanic,
was married to DR.. Alexander Hamil-
ton Rice.
Charles FIueter, night counter man
in the railroad eating house at Mis-
souri, Valley, Ia, quit his job to be
married in order to qualify for a le-
gacy of $4,000 left to him by an I'M
Gle in New York City on condition he
should marry before Oct. L.
1t is reported from Bombay that q
great fire occurred in cotton ware
houses, causing a loss of $40, 200, 900.
The Washington navy yard machin-
lists have won their fight for increased
wages. Beginning Oct. 9, a new scale
of wages, with increases ranging from
50 to sc cents a day, goes into effect.
While the main part of the Atlantic
fleet is engaged in wal
along h whole Atlantic coast, a de-
tachment of torpedo boat destroyers
was detailed to participate in a mimic
attack on the coast defenses of Bos-
ton.
Prof. Sofa, director of the observa-
tory at Barcelona university, has an
nounced that he discovered Sept. Is
a new planet in the Pisces constella-
ton.
A vigorous campaign to defeat the
proposed new constitution OF New
York state, declaring that 1t tends to-
ward ~aristocracy, was decided upon
by the executive council of the state
federation of labor.
Mrs. Alice Hosmer was burned to
death n her daughter, Mrs. Robert
E. Preble, was SO badly burned that
she may die, when their home was de-
stroyed by fire at Chicago.
Three dwellings were DESTROYED and
n side of a hill was washed away
when one wall of the reservoir for the
storage of the Portsmouth, O., water
supply collapsed.
President Wilson practically has de-
cided not to cali a special session of
the senate before the meeting OF con-
gress.
Warden j. X. Codding of the Kan
sas penitentiary plans to have the
prisoners eat from tables instead Of
benches. He has installed one table
as an experiment.
Rev. J. w. d. Hunt, IS years old.
died at the home of his son, William
Hunt. at Polo, Mo. Hhe was q Bap-
fist minister for 60 years.
Complete returns from Is camps in
dictate the adoption of the Rockefeller
industrial plan by employees of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company by a
ratio of at least 8 to 1. The total vote
recorded was: For. 1890; against,
23O.
Frank o. Lowden declares that he
would exercise his authority to close
saloons On Sunday throughout Illinois
if he should be elected governor by
the Republicans.
A bread knife thrown in a fit of
anger by Frances Zimba, 6 years old.
caused the death of her 5-month-old
sister at Huntsville. Wis.
When the shovel he was carrying
owe his shoulder acted as . lightning
rod. Angelo Deli. q years old. was
killed at Walla Walla. WASH, during
an electrical storm.
At Conway. Ark, cottonseed sold
this week at $3.50 . ton. an advance
within = week OF $1ss
Two men who rode motor cycles
held up and robbed Earl Smith. book
keeper in the office of the Lattas
Creek Coal company. near Hymera,
Ind. and escaped with $s.ooo.
ttfsh military authorities have