The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-11
Senator Lewis introduced a bill for
establishment of q $1,000, 900 naval
academy at Chicago.

senator Lewis introduced q Dill Tor
establishment OF q $4,000 900 naval
academy at Chicago.
Locked out by his negro congregar
ton at Norwich. Conn, Preacher John
Dennis crawled through a window and
conducted services which ended in q
free-for-all fight and police court fines
for all.
It's SO cold In Minnesota that rail-
road locomotives freeze to the tracks.
The Crookston local passenger
stopped at st. Hilaire for. water and
had to be Jared loose before it could
start again.
A wireless from the steamer Prin-
cess Masquinna Of the Canadian Pa
cific railways fleet stated the vessel
went ashore in Seymour Narrows in
a snowstorm.
The New York Central railroad,
formed in 1914 by a merger of IL mi
nor companies, in the supreme court
won its fight against the opposition
to the combination.
The ~bundesrath has ordered a re-
striction in the allowance of malt and
barley to breweries and also outlined
an ordinance limiting the production
of canned meats. >
Mrs. j. A. Stout was sentenced to
serve 80 days in the Memphis work
house for violation of the state liquor
laws. Mrs. Stout is the first woman
to be sentenced for such an ~offense.
Sadie Ostorff. IL years old, failed OF
promotion from the seventh to the
eighth grade in the New York public
schools and, returning to her home,
jumped out Of a window to death.
Two women were killed in a myster;-
GUS assault in the home Of G.. w. st.
Clair, a railroad worker, at Mingus.
Tex. Mrs. st. Clair and Mrs. Will Viii
Ill were beaten to death with an iron
bar. No clews.
George Burch of Bonham, Tex, Just
coughed himself out of an illness of
II years duration. Physicians said
his coughing spells were due to tuber-
-%culosis. But he coughed up a collar
button swallowed when a boy and is
getting well.
Three men were drowned at the wa
terworks lake at Forum, Ok, hen
they were trying to rescue Miss Stella
Anderson, who went through the ice.
Robert n. Perry, 103 years old, said
to be the oldest Arkansan, is dead at
his home at Conway. He was too old
for service in the civil war.
Notice announcing a 10 per cent in
crease in wages, effective Feb. %,
was posted at the Phoenix Iron com
pany's plant at Phoenixville, Pa.
. .
Sixteen persons were killed and As
injured in a wreck of the Calais ex-
press at Saint Denis. a Paris suburb.
Augustin Beauchamp, 6 years old,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. August Beau
champ, Escanaba, Wis, has been
asleep for a e kand all efforts of
physicians and others to awaken him
have proved futile.
Roumania has called to the colors
all members Of the class of 1916.
Irving and Herbert Updike. who re-
Gently confessed a plot to murder
their millionaire father, mother and
sister, have left Chicago and are
now on a ranch somewhere in the
west"
Lewis J. Marshall of Lisbon Falls,
Me-, convicted of using the mails to
defraud women who made neckties at
home on commission, was sentenced
to two years in the federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta.
The convictions of Don NJ. Roberts,
former mayor of Terre Haute, Ind,
and 10 others found guilty with him
of election frauds we're sustained by
the United States district court of an.
pea1s.
Miss Ida Clark, 10 years old, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Clark of
New Britain, Conn, died from an in
jury received recently in a playful
tussle in bed with her roommate at
the Baypath institute, in Springfield,
Mass.
The four suits brought against the
North German Lloyd Steamship COM
pany to recover 81, 900, 900 damages
because the steamer Kron Princess
Cecilie failed to complete her voyage
to Franc and England, just before
the war;, were dismissed
A general battle over the possession
of land In the Kentucky mountains, in
which one man was killed and three
others badly wounded, was reported
from Floyd county.
Miss Lena Keyser of Schenectady,
n. Y, was shot and killed by John H.
Pierce Of Delenson. N. Y, to whom
she was engaged. He afterward shot
himself.
An increase of from 1919 to % cents
an hour for common labor was an.
nounced at the general offices Of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company.
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