The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-03-17
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'eddy' Slingsby, 5-yearold Cali
fornIa boy, lost his fight for the
Siingsby millions.
The %postoffice at lakewood, Ill, was
robbed. This was the nineteenth post
office robbery in this part of the state.
queen Victoria of Sweden is suffer
ing FRO man attack of bronchitis.
An avalanche has buried several
houses in the Agordo, Italy, district.
Victim" so far reported number %.
The Rockefeller foundation has con-
tributes an additional $50, 900 for the
relief of Armenian refugees now In
!1flis, Constantinople and Tabriz.
Theodore Voorhees,. president Of tha
fhliadeiphta & Reading Railway COM
pany. is dead at his home in Elkins
Park.
The trial Of William Lorimer-
charged with conspiracy in connection
with the failure of the La Sale Street.
Trust and Savings bank, has been re-
sumed.
Fire destroyed the fertilizer plant
of the International Agricultural cor
poration, at Buffalo, causing a loss
estimated at $55O,OOO.
At the request OF Senator Owen, the
fedora reserve board Will allow a per-
son to be a director in more than one
hank DrnpjAoH II ho chouyn &lo& ~.
institutions are not active COMPETE
tors.
More than 4 score of wealthy Chi
caso women have taken a course for
war nurses at Il local hospital and are
in readiness to go to the Mexican
front if they are needed.
A reward of 10000 pesos for the
body Of Francisco Villa has beer post
ed for 60 days in Carranza c%onsulates.
Seymour Eaton, author and journal
is, who created the Teddy Bear toy,
is dead of apoplexy at his home in
Landsdowne, Pa.
James w. Gerard, American ambas-
sador at Berlin, is expected to return
to the United States within the next
few weeks.
The National Housewives Co-opera-
tive league at a meeting declared a
boycott On sugar and sent out com
munication to all branches of the
league Urging cooperation.
A balky horse stopping on a cross
ing brought death to three persons on
the Pennsylvania railroad at West
Berlin, N. J.
The proposition of changing the
government of the city of Anna, Ill,
from aldermanic to commission form
will be voted or at the April election.
Willet Fisher, a Choctaw Indian of
Hugo, Ok, was sentenced to be cleo
trOcuted for the murder of his father
and mother last November.
According to statements made by
the French minister OF war, Gen. Gal
lieni, the French casualties up to
March I, 1915, amounted to 800, 900
dead and 100, 900 wounded.
The voluntary contributions of post
office workers throughout England
are bringing in an income of $4,000
a year.
William Roberts, sc years old, be-
lieved to be the last Of the survivors
of the Twelfth royal lancers, the he
roes of Tennyson's poem, Charge Of
the Light Brigade" is dead at Joliet,
Ill.
Ten Mexican generals in command
of only 100 men recently raided San
Juan Guadalupe, in Zacatecas, and
captured a German named Weiner,
whom they held for ransom at 10000
pesos. They got the money
j. S. Jones, a convict in the federal
~penitentiary at Leavenworth, was
bound over to the United States SUI
preme court, charged with the murder
last January of Henry Schmidt, anoth-
er convict, who was beaten to death.
Carl Gustav Engholm, who was ar
rested on the steamship Lapland at
Liverpool. was sentenced to six
months for making a false statement
regarding his identity.
Vico Scrisko, an Austrian, was
murdered as he entered the gate of a
friends home in Kansas City, Kan.
No cause is known for the attack.
With the jury complete and accept
ed by both the defense and the prose-
cution, the trial Of former Senator
William Lorimer as a bank wrecker
has been postponed.
A split in Taylor's m is an
nounced in a message to the Harvard
observatory from the Yerkes observa-
tbry.
The Maryland prohibition bill,
amended SO as to be a local option
bill. was passed by both branches Of
the state legislature.
Food prices in Vienna are the high
est Of any point in Europe. Meat