The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-04

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tree. IT. daughter Of a Springfield,
n their subsequent marriage al San
Francisco. has become known to their
friends here.
The Allan line steamship Pomeran-
ian has arrived at Queenstown in tow.
The Grand hotel at Wimereux. near
Boulogne, which was occupied as a
hospital by 60 II more wounded Brit
ish soldiers, was destroyed by fire.
All the wounded were safely removed.
Miss Gaby Deslys, prima donna, has
received a cable message from Mar
settles, France, announcing the death
there Of her father, Hibbylite Caire.
Charles B. Munday, convicted vice
president of the La Sale Street Say
ings bank Of Chicago, was sentenced
to five years in prison.
Raymond Dodds, the mulatto chauf-
feur who eloped from San Diego, Cal,
with Mrs. Van Lee Hood last week.
has been released by the police.
Twelve robbers entered the Mo
Com (Ok.) State bank, bound the
cashier, ]. j. Tripe, to a chair and
escaped with $4,000.
Henry Ford fully expects to return
to Europe in the interests OF his
movement for peace.
The American steamer Moreni, from
Philadelphia for Copenhagen, with
petroleum and naphtha, has been
taken into KirkwaI.
Manuel Medinavietia, former chief
of staff to Francisco Villa at Juarez,
was admitted to the United States by
immigration authorities after a three
days hearing.
| One hundred soldiers were killed by
the wrecking of a German ammuni-
ton train en- route from Lide to Smor-
! ger.
M. Longuet, a French Socialist dep
uty, who addressed the British labor
conference, on being questioned re-
garding the French losses said that
100000 soldiers had been killed,
100000 wounded and 800, 900 had
been taken prisoners.
The extraordinary raipdity with
which the United States supreme
court has progressed during its pres
ent term, has resulted in the court
being forced to take an indefinite ad-
/ journment.
| The two American soldiers who
swan across the Rio Grande and
were captured by armed Mexicans
have been delivered to the United
States authorities.
At a meeting here IS Nebraska
leaders of the Progressive party de-
cided to nominate a full state, con-
g%ressional and presidential electoral
ticket.
Fifty funerals waited at the gates
of Calvary cemetery, New York,
while cemetery officials settled a
strike of 300 grave-diggers.
The split in Danville, ILL.,, over the
wet n dry issue was overshadowed
by the city council in passing unani-
mously an ordinance for a bond issue
Of $25O,OO0 to erect a municipal light
plant.
Surgeon-Genera1 BREASTED of the
navy told the house naval committee
that he had recently searched the
country in vain for LOO ounces of
quinine for the American marines at
Haiti, and that he had to pay 81 an
ounce for it instead of the customary
80 cents.
Payments on the third German war
loan have been completed, the last
lnstallment having been due Jan. %.
The total was 1850, OOO, 900 marks
($3,O4O, 00O, OO0).
Aviator Burnside at Ithaca, N. T.,
averaged IS miles an hour in making
speed trials in a Thomas aeroplane
built especially for government use.
A Liverpool message to the Ex-
change Telegraph company gives a
report that the Dominion liner Morse
man has been sunk.
A. G.. Lowther, tax collector and
city clerk of Waycross, Ga, in a let
ter to Mayor Beaton, has confessed
he is shor approximately $1,000.
By a vote of PSI to 81 congress
passed the Shackleford bill authoriz-
ing an appropriation by the federal
government of $25, OOO, 900 to aid the
states in the building of public high
ways.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
been compelled to interrupt her trip
in the flooded regions, owing to an
attack Of mumps.
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Otis Papier, a driver in Ogara No. 3
mine, Harrisburg. H., was crushed to
death when a huge slab Of slate fell
upon him.
The first wal seaplane purchased
BY the United States navy was
shipped for trial to the grounds ut
Pensacola, Fla.