The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-05-05

George Zeller Is IN the hospital at
Decatur. ILL.,. from a bullet wound in
flfcted by a holdup man.
Winston Churchill was elected pres
ident and Theodore Roosevelt vice
president of the Authors league at
the annual meeting.
Miss Martha H. Andrews. a mem
Der of an DID New York family, who
died in February, ~bequeathed the bulk
OF her estate, valued at $1,500.OOO. to
religious, educational and charitable
institutions.
Mrs. Julia c. Marsh, whose divorce
proceedings against her husband, For
rest Marsh, an investment broker of
New York, are in charge of a referee,
committed suicide by inhaling gas.
May 21 is to be observed by hum
dreds of churches throughout the
country as Humane Sunday"
The week of May 1920 is to be
known Is BE Kind to Animals
Week"
Determined to aid in checking the
theft of automobiles in Illinois, the
state board Of pardons has announced
that hereafter such offenders will be
required to serve the full time of any
indeterminate sentence.
The losses by the Bulgarian army
during the war are estimated by Bull
garian reports received in Athens to
amount to $1,000 killed and $4,000
wounded INT missing.
Two fugitives Joe and Dave Smith,
who resisted arrest by a sheriff's
posse. were slain when they opened
fire on the officers at Murkogee, Ok.
g" kill myself because I have
stopped to kiss the degraded woman
who has wrecked my lift," wrote
Ralph Lane, %, who committed sui
eide at New Orleans.
A. walter koehler Of the Copperfield
(Utah) State bank and took $4,000 in
cash.
The Postal Telegraph company was
fined $1,000 in the criminal court in
Butte. Mont. on conviction Of trans
hitting information On which racing
bets were made.
To test he new Florida law making
it illegal for white persons to teach
negroes. three nuns were placed un-
dor fonI~Sooy $4,000
were brought by several negroes.
~Ccntraband cocaine valued at more
than $4,000 was found in the coal
bunkers of the United States army
transport Logan.
Senator Shafroth of Colorado made
a strong plea in the senate for action
on woman's suffrage during this ses-
sion.
Military training will be an elective
course next fall at Throop College of
Technology, in California.
A British coal and Oil station is to
be established on Tanning island, an
English possession in the mid-Pacific. |
The New York police are searching !
for Miss Doris Ponty, a Sunday school
teacher, who has been missing from
her home since April 2.
The Japanese government has re-
paid to the American Red Cross $685.
expended last summer for the relief of |
the destitute on the island Of Rota, in
the Pacific Ladrone islands.
There were at least 68s Industrial
accidents in New York state in every
working day from July 1. 1914, to Jan. |
1, 1916, according to Commissioner
Archer Of the state Industrial COM
mission.
The state department was advised
that British Ambassador Spring-Rice
had received an anonymous letter
threatening his life If Sir Roger Case
ment received ill treatment at the
hands of the British government.
A petition asking the appointment
of a receiver for the Guardian Trust
company, capitalized at 2 $500, 900, has
been filed in the Kansas City federal
court by attorneys representing mi
nority stockholders of Chicago.
Fred Bissell of Lansing, Kan, who
confessed to tho murder of the 1O-year-
old Dinsmore girl, seeks to justify his
crime by the statement that the moth
er of the little girl had refused to
marry him.
Scores of letters have been received
from residents of Florida at the state
department telling of attempts of al
legged German spies to obtain infor-
nation regarding the coast fortifica-
tions Of the state.
Wal bread has Just appeared on
breakfast tables in Holland for the
first time.
F1urries Of snow fell in central Tex
as on the 2Sth, when the temperature
reached 40 degrees.
The army bill. the first of the aA.