The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-11
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OTHER COUNTRIES
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illness.
The liner Pretoria, bound from Bal
timore, has put into Gravesend, Eng
land, in a badly damaged condition as
a result of a collision.
Eighty-two naval cadets at Annap-
oils have failed to make an average
of so per cent in the mid-year exami-
nations, and will be asked to resign.
Greece has presented Germany with
a demand for indemnity for the re-
TeutOnic a1rmen.
Lieuts. Mort, Peyton and Waldron,
who crossed the Mexican border in
pursuit of bandits, have been ordered
courtmartialed by the war depart
ment.
Mail carriers from Iditarod said that
when the mail was taken over the
trail at Takotna the temperature was
II below zero.
The executive committee of the
Ozark Press association met in
Springfield last Saturday and selected
Rolla as the place and June % and "a
as the time for the next meeting of
the association.
The senate has confirmed the ap-
pointment of Otto Praeger Of Texas
fa no con0r6 occio<orf ~>e%rooo<o-
general.
Prince Leopold of Bavaria will be
Turkish army in an attack on the
Suez canal, according to the Bayer-
ische Burier of Munich.
Frank Anderson Of Mednota, Ill.,,
arrested and taken to Henry county
to tell what he knew of the death Of
Roy LenOx Of Dixon, confessed that
he murdered the man with an ak.
The funeral of II victims of the re-
cent Zeppelin raid, which was held in
the church of the Notre Dame de la
Croix, at Menlimontant, brought out
a immense throng.
A. B. Davis, Judge of the Thirty-sixth
judicial circuit court at Chillicothe,
Mo-, granted a temporary Injunction
against the Wabash and Rock Island
railroads and the American, Adams
and Wells Fargo express companies,
restraining them from carrying liquor
into Davies county.
In a letter Admiral Dewey described
the coast of Long Island as "the most
unprotected and most easily attacked
portion of the coast of the United
States" Admiral Dewey said that only
a powerful navy could prevent an in
vasion
Robert B. Briggs, 81 years old, in
charge of the United States weather
bureau at Phoenix, Ariz., is dead, fol-
lowing a five days illness. During the
recent storm and floods in Arizona he
was constantly at his post.
Too much water defeated the drys in
Sugar Creek township, near Terre
Haute, Ind, when a prohibition vote
was taken. The floods marooned the
dry voters.
Otto Ruehle, Socialist member of the
reichstag, has followed the example of
Dr.. Karl Liebnecht by Withdrawing
from the Socialist group in the reich
stag.
James Wilson Guiteau, a brother Of
Charles ]. Guiteau, who as~sassinated
President Garfield, is dead at his
home in Dobbs Ferry.
Fire in the heart Of the business dis
trict of Toledo, O., caused damage esti-
mated at $1O6,O0O.
shot Jour persons, N MORALLY, in Al
bany, was committed to Matteawan
state hospital for the criminal insane
by County Judge Arlington.
A wireless dispatch reports that 4
French cruiser had arrived off the Vir-
g1nia capes and was %patrolling there
to prevent the Appam from escaping
from Newport News.
The Rockefeller foundation has do.
mated $4,000 for carrying on surveys
Of the care Of the insane in Is states
this year.
The NATIONAL ~aeroplane fund being
raised for the development of a coun'
try-wide aerial reserve for the ma.
tional guard and naval militia has
passed the $35O,o00 mark.
Two negroes drowned in the Missis
sippi just north Of Cairo, one while
trying to saw two mules and the other
while salvagfng household effects.
The office Of the Socialist paper, the
Worker, at Glasgow, were entered by
the police and the plant seized. The
premises have been closed.
Twelve Pittsburg capitalists, explor-
ers and business men have sailed for
Colombia, South America, to explore
the Magdalena, river jungle.
In the United States court at De
troit Judges Denison, Knappen and
Sessions denied an injunctioE seeking
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