The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-01-28

Richardson, Alaska, reported 80 Do
grees below zero. Other points report
ed from 40 to 60 degrees below.
China's poppy growers, whose bust
ness soon will be wiped out. are re-
sponsible for the recent outbreaks. &C.
cording to Wang Shin Young, editor
of the Shanghai Shin Wen.
The "a ~convicts who escaped from
the Arkansas ~penitentiary, are said
to have been found barricaded In the
hills near Moscow, heavily armed with
guns and ammunition stolen from q
gun store.
The Texas branch Of the Congress
sional Union for Woman's Suffrage
was organized at a gathering of prom
inent Texas women. Mrs. Harris Mas
terson of Houston was elected presi-
lent.
The half yearly statement of the
American Locomotive Co.. shows an
increase in gross earnings of $685..
63O for the last six months. The com
pany had untitled orders amounting
to $52, 24O, 1000.
Second Iowa district Republicans at
an informal meeting pledged the sup
port of the district to Senator A. B.
Cummins of Iowa for the Republican
| presidential nomination..
Col. Roosevelt in a letter asks that
his nam not be used in the Mime
sofa primaries.
The burning gas well at Sinton,
| Tex, owned by J. M. Guffey of Pitts
| burg, Pa, and associates, has become
a volcano" The crater has widened
to a circumference of 100 feet and
around it is piled a cone of mud more
than 80 feet high.
Saline county, Mo-, voters defeated
a proposal to issue $1.13O. 900 in bonds
to be used in constructing a system
of rock roads.
Petitions to place President Wilson's
name On the Minnesota presidential
primary ballot were filed with the
secretary of state and the name will
go on the ballot.
A resolution indorsing President
Wilson's preparedness program was
voted down, 68 to 81, in the lower
house of the Mississippi legislature.
Ii Sale hotel boys, at Chicago,
r paging the Hobbies for a tall. dignf'
fled looking man who left a two-foot
pet alligator in the hotel.
Harold NJ. Mech, Republican. was
elected mayor of Middletown, Conn.
defeating James F. Connery, Demo
Graf.
Tabitha, the Albany capitol cat, COB
bled down six white state laboratory
mice, containing several million pneu
monia germs.
Dispatches from Amsterdam STATE
t that the danger continues to grow II
l the flooded districts Of the provinces
Of North Holland.
The Ellenrod mill, at Rochdale, tn
largest cotton spinning mill in Lanca
f shire, have been partly destroyed b,
fire.
Chile's ratification of the peace con
missions treaty was presented to tn
+ department by the Chilean ambasss
; dor, Eduardo Suarez Mujica.
h Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the Bri
ish s%uffragist leader detained by Ne
Wall -o-s--c& - @,kh~-SkS~~ ry~~ ~
q dered admitted to the United State
Internationally.
Seven Austrian aeroplanes flew owe
Ancona, dropping several bombs. N
Z great property damage was done, b.
- one man "a killed and several i
~ jured.
The receipts of iron ore at Buffai
k in the year 1915 were the create
O. ever recorded-5.32S, 60S tons, again
ot 5.2OS,43O in 1913, the next best sc
son.
The greater part Of the extensf'
20 dollhouse establishment of Jof
" Bauscher, Freeport, ILL.,, was destroy,
n by fire.
& Fearing assassination, King Co
stantine of Greece has doubled Il
e. strength of his bodyguard.
y Cyclone" Davis, representa-
from Texas, wants someone to write
" Death March of the Republic"
It was not q German submarine tn
sank the liner Persia, according
lc the German government.
S: A Copenhagen dispatch says t
90 steamer Kiev, bound from Copenhag
o. for Liverpool. has been captured by
sr- German destroyer and taken to po
An increase in pay for $4,000 opel
tives in virtually all Of the textile &C
al tiers of Rhode Island is assured.
ed
"A young woman answering the
scription Of Sister Rita Vincent,
eft ~23-yearold nun who mysteriously d
err appeared from the Convent Jose
lat Villa. Philadelphia, two weeks al
III was found in q girls home at Ba