The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-09-17

When their automobile capsixed q
muddy road Mrs. Howard Cope o
Peoria. Ill. was killed and her hus
band perhaps fatally injured.
Rey s. Y. Pitts, 50 years old, is deaf
at the home Of his daughter, Mrs. Josl
bunker, at Salisbury. Mo.
Lyman u. Humphrey, former gov
ernor of Kansas. is dead.
Owing to its inaccessibility, the
treasury department expects 10 sell
the Seattle (Wash.) postoffice site IL
recently paid $17o,O 900 for.
DR.. J. l.. Silvert, suspected of the
murder of Nettie Poland, whose nude
oooy was found n a automobile ON a
deserted road, was found dead in his
office at Georgetown, w. Va.
Waiter T. Hale, a brakeman on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad,
was caught between two cars of his
train at Momence and crushed to
death. His home was at Kokomo, Ind.
Robert Fuqua of Centralia, ILL.,, was
found guilty of opening a letter be-
longing to another. He was sentenced
to one year.
Judge John E. Day Of the Webster
county (Mo.) court died as the result
OF injuries suffered in a runaway acci-
den several weeks ago.
A summons charging criminal libel
against former Gov. Eugene N. Foss,
one OF the candidates for the Repub-
llcan nomination for governor of Mas
s~achusetts, was issued by the munich
pal criminal court at the request Of
Dennis d. Driscoll. secretary of the
Trades Union Liberty league.
Ambassador Gerard advised the
state department that DR.. L. l.. Fam
ennof, the author of Esperanto, and
mis- wife, who have been missing sew
eral months, are in good health in
Warsaw.
The Marais Des Cynges river was
falling and the flood waters were re-
ceding from bottom lands. Because
OF the high water at Rantoul, Kan, 10
miles from Ottawa. it was necessary
to hold a boat funeral.
The attendance at SCHOOLS in Butler
county, Mo-. has been reduced one
hal1, owing to he large number of
mosquitoes which have gathered since
the C flood.
One Of the historic oaks under
which the Republican party came into
being at Jackson, Mich, in 1854, was
seriously damaged in the recent storm
which swept this section of Michigan.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean Bankers association has selected
Kansas City, Mo-, for the next meet
ing place.
The two days strike at the Nation
al Equipment company's plant, Spring
field, Mass, has been settled, the COM
pany~ conceding the mems demand.
Dr. George Hazeltine, for many
ear one Ct The leading patent 4sEi
last week when he fell out Of
led.
Edward Stephens. a farmer living
Chickasha, Ok, is in jail for the
of his cousin, Oscar Stephens,
four years ago.
The war department ordered Lieut..
L. Goodier, judge advocate gen.
office, Pacific coast division,
courtmartialed on charges of conduct
to the service.
David Starr Jordan, chancellor Of
Stanford university, advocated chang
United States SO as to admit Chinese
and Japanese to citizenship.
A German aeroplane, flying at a
great height, appeared over Chaven-
nes, France. The aviator dropped a
which bore the inscription:
ITO Pegoud. who died like q hero.
From his adversary"
Miss Estells Lawton Lindsay, the
lone committeeman, was acting
mayor of the city recently. This II
the first time, so far as known, that a
woman has acted a. the head of q mu-
nicipalfty the size of Los Angeles.
One hundred and twenty-eight stu
dents of the Ecole les Beaux Arts,
Paris. have been killed in the war up /
to date.
The war office has announced that
in the Zeppelin raids over England
bombs were dropped on docks and
other pier establishments in London
and vicinity. The German airahips
returned safely.
A. r. Anderson. deputy collector OF
customs at Astoria, Ore. his bride Of
few weeks. his mother. Mrs. Mar
garet Anderson, and a cousin. Aaron
Anderson, were killed. when their M
tomobile was struck by a train.
Four hundred employees Of the
American Grarhophone company at
Bridgeport. Conn. voted to give the
company "a hours notice that they |
would strike unless a 20 per cent in