The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-04-02

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the British steamer Trostburg lost
their lives when the vessel was wreck
ed q Cape Spartel. on the Moroc-
coast 1t the entrance to the Strait
Gibraltar.
Hall Thompson of Virginia, Ill, aged |
81, SON Of the late Harry Thompson. |
suicide by taking strych.
nine 1t the home OF his grandfather,
Robert Hall. He RAJ engaged TO mar.
~ = girl in Chicago early this spring.
The total attendance at the Panama |
exposition during the first i've
weeks was announced officially ~
been 2.S5S,642. This was an
average daily attendance Of more than
G., 900.
The Jefferson County (Il.) Medical
Society at Mount Vernon placed itself
record as opposed to the practice
of clairvoyancy. An alleged swindle
perpetrated by a ~clairvoyant was the
reason.
Eight masked robbers entered the
mail order business of Babson Broth
ers. Chicago. felled the Waterman,
John Kastory, with an iron bar, bound
him to a chair, blew open two safes
and a vault and escaped with more
than $500.
Kansas motor cars increased in
number from 36,775 to 53,216 in the
asst year. In the same time the num-
Der of motorcycles has grown from
6,911 to 1914. 1t is estimated &c.,
000. 900 was spent in the state for
ars during the year.
Col. Francis Desclaux, Madame
Bechoff and a soldier named Verges,
tial. of stealing army stores, and sem
fenced to terms of imprisonment, have
appealed from the decision Of the
court.
Clarence Burke, who has been held
at Aurora, ILL.,, for a month as a sus-
pect in the Emma Peterson murder
mystery, was released from custody.
A. M. Augustine, one of the leading
horticulturists of Central Illinois, has
section has beer ruined by the yer
temperature of last winter.
California has 800 Incorporated oil
companies and 276 oil producing com
panies. The number of producing
wells is 6,1s3, producing 657,051,45S
barrels of oil.
Forty-five hundred Villa soldiers
were opposite Mercedes pumping
plant, on their way to Matamoras to
give battle to the 'constitutionalists.
Villa currency is being traded here
freely at three Villa dollars for one
25cent piece of United States cur
rency..
A German Zeppelin attacked the
Russian fortress of Lomza on the
Narew river, the war offices
nounces. Fourteen bombs were
dropped and nine civilians were in
jured.
Sammy Mucoish, aged IL, confessed
that he had shot and killed Felix No
venski, also aged IL, "a Jackson
vile, Ind, recently. He admitted hid
ing the body i'll a clump of bushes.
AS a result of a fight at Big Muddy,
ILL.,, Patrick Priest is in the county
io;1 nroho h1x- ,oo~&ollvy ,,o,,nJol o~A
six other men, slashed with razors
and shot, are in hospitals and eight
others ire prisoners.
Bernard Montvid was held by the
police court for trial for murder in
connection with the killing at New
Britain, Conn.,, last month of Rev. Fa-
Their Zabris and his housekeeper, Miss
Iva Gilmanaitis.
Mrs. Victoria Cadaract, aged los, is
dead in Ottawa county infirmary,
near Oak Harbor, o. Mrs. Cadaract
was the last survivor of the native
Ohio Indians.
The report which has been circu-
lated that Crown Prince Rupprecht OF
Bavaria has been seiously wounded
by a shell is officially denied.
Ben Horn, 25 years old, and his
bride, 10, were found dead in bed at
their farm home at Gainesville, Tex.
The woman had been shot through
the temple and the al through the
heart.
Walter L. Ross, receiver for the
Clover Leaf railroad, applied to the
federal court for permission to Dor
row 5000, OO0.
The South African assembly unani'
mOusly passed an amendment to the
war indemnity bill, removing the
death penalty from all participants in
the recent rebellion.
A vote on the preferences of chill.
dren in the Alton, ILL.,, public schools
as to moving picture dramas shows
that the largest number like cowboy
dramas. The vote was Is follows:
For cowboy pictures, sS4; for comedy
594: dramatic, AT; crime, So; educa
tional, %.