The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-03-31


The house education committee
voted unanimously to take no action
on pending bills to reopen the north
pole controversy. DR.. Frederick A.
Cook asked the committee to investt
gate his claims.
A romance ended in a Chicago court
when Charles Robinson divorced VAL
ala Bernicia Winton Robinson, daugh-
ter of former Mayor o. R. Winton OF
East st. Louis, and heiress to his
$500, 900 estate.
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, editor of
the Los Angeles. Times, is seriously
ill with pneumonia.
Mrs. Thomas Nelson and her sister,
Miss Clara Matthews. are dead at vi
%teriously administered.
The first submarine strike on rec
ord has occurred on a Batavier Line
steamship when the crew refused to
sail because the ship was not con-
voyed for protection from submarines.
James F. Walker, 81 years old, and
his wife, so years old, were asphyxi-
ated at Springfield, Mo.
Musical instruments as q means OF
inspiring sub-normal children soon
will be tried in classes for such chill
dren Of the Chicago public schools.
David Lloyd-George, minister of mu-
~nitions, speaking in the house of COM
mons. confirmed the report that Japan
had been invited to take part In the
Paris economic conference.
The death sentence imposed upon
Mrs. Ida Ball Warren, the first wom-
an ever sentenced in North Carolina
to die in the electric chair, was COM
mutei to life imprisonment.
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Because of extra expenditures for
the Mexican expedition and the cost
Of recruiting the army up to 120, 900,
urgent deficiency estimates of $780,
094 to the house.
LII a IClC6 on4 SCAL " L ICSlOCACF v l.
son the Aero Club Of America offered
for army use in Mexico two high
power aeroplanes, which the club says
excel in every way the army flying
equipment.
Judge Brewer, at Danville, ILL.,, SEN
fenced big John" Murphy, alias Wal
ter Murphy, to hang April IA for the
murder of Louis Roumas, a Big Four
track laborer, Nov. 9, 1915.
The ice moved out of La Crosse
(Wis.) harbor and the Mississippi
river is open to navigation at this
| point. The opening came two days
later than in 1915.
Men of the Hungarian 1andsturm
born in 1868 and 1869, who hitherto
have been employed in making ma
| terials of war, are ordered to join the
| army on April 5.
William G. Mead sec
| rotary of the rreas - bevofficial-
ly a guest of Chi auring his visit
with the other members Of the Amer.
lean delegation to the international
trade conference.
! The Wisconsin national guard has
| been ordered to recruit to full war
strength.
A total of 1888 recruits have been
| added to the army in the last 10 days,
the war department announced.
| Investigation in bituminous coal
| rates from mines in Pennsylvania,
! Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky
and Ohio to Lake Erie ports for trans
! shipment was ordered for April "a.
/ Thousands Of barrels of Oil were
destroyed in a fire near Drumright
! Ok, on the 22d, when "a derricks and
II wells were in flames.
Turkish soldiers have evacuated Err
zingan, according to Information re
ceived here.
A. Sully Guard of New Rochelle, N
Y, was killed when his automobile
running so miles an hour, struck q
telegraph pole.
Daniel G.. Patterson. formerly a rail
road man at Greensboro, N. c., shot
and killed his four children while
they slept and then killed himself. He
is believed to have been temporarily
insane.
Daniel S. Hoan, Social Democratic
candidate for mayor OF Milwaukee
leads Mayor Gerhard A. Bading, non
partisan, by 5,367 votes.
James Howard Grace Of Ell Pase
and his mother and sister of Chicago
will receive the bulk of the estate o.
$780, 900 of Edward Grace, according
to the terms of the will just filed.
Two hundred public schools in the
City of Mexico opened after being
closed since November, owing to the
epidemic of typhus.
Three motor water wagons, said tt
be the first ever used by the United
States army, will be In service in The
campaign against Villa in a few days