The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-09-24

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Bulgaria has removed all restric.
tons on the passage of merchandise
through that country to Turkey.
Multiple eruptions of the Italian vol
canoes are now occurring. Vesuvius,
Aetna and Stromboli are all active, a
singular phenomena never before re-
corded.
Demand from banks and merchants
for newly minted half dollars, quar-
tiers and dimes has led Director of the
Mint Woolley to purchase 1875 600
ounce of silver for these coins.
The private bank of J.. B. Fuller &
Son, owned by j. Bradley Fuller and
his daughters, Bessie and Margaret,
with $13S,000 in deposits, has closed
Michigan's congressional delegation
is overwhelmingly for national pre-
paredness against war and is almost
equally united in UNFOLDING the ex-
p%ortation of munitions.
AN oSoS OAoSA ~ SAA~SS
that has ever been given has just
been handed out by the Russian gov
eminent to three New England shoe
manufacturers. It calls for 5000, 900
pairs of high-topped boots at not far
from IS a pair, or around SIS, 00O, 900.
A muscular ailment from which
former United States Senator Joseph
Benson Foraker of Ohio has been suf-
fering has grown so sever that the
surgeons have decided on a. opera
ton as the only chance for his com
! plete recovery.
Property totaling more han 500, 900
is now owned by the Young Mems
Christian association in cities
throughout the country.
Church and social circles through
out Kentucky were shocked when it
became known that Mrs. w. H. Gag
Ter had gone before the Methodist
church board at Middleboro and made
public confession of improper rela-
tions with the retiring pastor, Rev. B.
F. Chatham.
In an attempt to arrest LATE Young,
George Ford. jailer at Hot Springs,
Ark, was fatally shot by Young, who
then killed himself.
Ed Stephens, a farmer of Chickasha,
Ok, recently became insane and told
of having murdered his cousin, Oscar
w. Stephens, - years old, five years
ago.
Purdue university was made de
fendant in a $25. 900 damage suit filed
by Abraham L. O%benchain OF South
Whitley, Ind, father of the late Fran
els w. Obenchain, who was killed In
the university tank scrap" on the
night of Sept. IL. 1913.
Alberto Santos-Dumont, the Brazil
ian pioneer in aeronautics, will heaf
a committee to take charge Of a move
ment to develop a~eronautics in Soutl
and Central America.
William Davis, an artist of New
York, was found dead In his studio be
fore an unfinished landscape, clad IL
his artists apron and with palette an
brush in his hands.
A. D. Novey and his wife of Clev<
land, O., have what is believed to b
the oldest wedding cake in existence
1t was made for their wedding 3
years ago. and they decided never t
cut it.
> The marriage of Judge ]. N. Grit
ley, veteran central Illinois lawye
and Republican politician, and Mr.
Emily Collins Brady at her home
Long Beach, CAL, marks the culmin,
ton of q romance of the early sixties
: The Fabre line steamer Santa Ann
has arrived at st. Michaels, Azore.
according to q dispatch to Lloyds.
Il Forty-five yachts belonging /
northern people were destroyed b
fire at Miami. Fla The loss will b
! about 100000.
: The Turkish city Of Phocaea. on Il
. coast of Asia Minor, was burned
g the result of = bombardment by allie
warships.
= Four German prisoners who escAps
r from the detention camp at Amhers
= Nova Scotia, were captured In an op<
e boat on Point Lepreaux In the b,
of Fundy.
4 A man named Arthur Smit
+ charged in the Bow street poll,
court, London. with begging v,
# found al the trial to have proper
worth III 5000.
William Howard Taft address,
d 5000 persons at Stanford universal
my guess" said Taft els that Il
war win last 1T least two years more
Wtlliam H Taylor. . carpenter q
ployed upon the Bloomington. M, u
high school. died of injuries Secety,
BY falling from = scaffola-
After assaulting Taller d. C. Cool
= Of the Tulsa, Ok, Jail. and Als VI
James Murphy, William Moore Il
Charles Smith, held Tor robbery q
burglary. escaped
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