The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-25

yards.
William Ely of Flushing, L. l., claims |
he has the shortest name in the
world.
Because her teacher Intercepted a
note in which she asked a boy to
come to a Valentine party and read 1t
to the class, Gladys Stone, Ii, of Hart
ford, Conn, committed suicide by TAX
ing poison.
Because she lie not like the ser
mon and accurately hurled six g
at the preachers head. Annie Me
kanus, 10 years old. was before Mag
istrate Saylor in the Baltimore West
ern station. She vas freed.
Corporal Frank J.. Harrington, 81
years old, of the Fourth United States
infantry, was found dead at Fort
Brown, Tex. his body pierced by a
rifle bullet.
More than 100 communities
throughout the country are preparing
to observe Baby week March 4 to IL.
Three thousand laborers in the
wire, brass and copper mills of the
American Brass company, Ansonia,
Conn, IN on strike for an increase
In wages.
w. S. Roberts, so years old. Of Ma
rietta, O., fell while carrying two cans
of nitroglycerin Inc was blown to
pieces by the explosion which fol-
lowed.
New equipment, mostly rolling
stock, to cost between $4,000, 900 and
50, 200, 900, has been ordered by the
Southern Pacific company for use On
the ccmpany;s Pacific system.
Gov. BiIbo OF Mississippi signed a
bill limiting the amount of liquor any
one person may import into the state
to one quart of whisky. "a pints OF
! beer or two quarts of light wine every
Is days.
The reference of H. J. Tenant, par
liamentary un~dersecretary OF war, to
Winston Spencer Churchill, as "Col.
Churchill" in the house Of commons,
is the first public intimation of his
promotion.
The Japanese steamer Kenkon Maru
No. II, from Marseilles to Baltimore.
foundered in a storm in the Atlantic.
William Waldorf Astor, who was
elevated to the peerage on New
Years day, has taken his seat in the
house Of lords.
Two armed men held ZIP and robbed
In the heart of the Tulsa (Ok.) bust
ness district. There we're more than
200 persons in the store at the time
Louis Fitzgerald has agreed to de
liver one red rose on June "a each
year to Mrs. Elizabeth T. Dick as con
sideration for her Rer,nitting him to
run q water pipe line from a dam on
Mrs. Dicks estate at Garrison, N. Y.
Despite the remonstrances of doc
tors, Daniel Hawkins of Lake Grove
n. Y, smoked his pipe necessarily
I III 0"ohC, uulAlS H. ACSOlI lOus
illness of pneumonia, and is recover
ing.
The Italian city of Schio was bonn
barded by aeroplanes. Six person'
we're killed n several wounded.
w. A. Lawler, former finance com
missioner Of Emporia, Kan, wa
found guilty on a charge of embezzle
ment by a jury in the Lyon count.
district court.
The Brazilian steamer Tropeiro re
Gently has been purchased by a Brit
ish company and will be renamed tn
Edith Cavell, in memory of the Eng
lish nurse executed by the German
in Belgium.
S. A. Walden, a Confederate We
eran of Murfreesboro, Tenn, VIII
wrote that he was 60 years old, bu
not too old to fight, sent Presider
Wilson a sword made of cedar frol
: the Stone River battlefield, as ev
: dence of his interest in preparedness
Five Swiss delegates to the For
peace conference at Stockholm WEI
named.
Mitchell Dallas, a clerk in the Lol
don home office, pleaded guilty at tt
{ Old Bailey, and Joachim Altani We
; found guilty OF conspiring to obtai
money in connection with the issr
Of passports to aliens.
: San Mateo county, CAL, which fl
three years has placed women c
grand juries, wen back to the old o
: der Of things and drew a list of A:
D | men.
The senate passed the house bi
for the coinage Of loo. 900 gold dolla,
i bearing a likeness of President M
t | Kinley, which the Mckinley Mem
l rial association expects to sell at
( premium to derive a fund for a pc
manent memorial.
Sweden has warned her citizens n,
g to embark on armed merchant We
sells, the state department was moi
fled.