The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-01-21


came known in Washington
Mrs. Philip n. Moore of st. Louis
was elected president of the National
Council of Women.
Yeggs blew the vault of the Midway
& James Banking company at Clayton,
Ala, getting away with only about
5000.
Peter Mohr, a young German soldier
who escaped from a French prison
camp. arrived in New York as a stow
away on the American steamer Vir-
ginian.
What is believed to be the worlds
largest single shipment of butter
744,OOO pounds, or 372 tons-is on its
way to New York, consigned by a Chi
cago firm to the Russian government.
The works of art in the galleries at
Nancy have been transferred by the
city authorities to Troyons.
Gov. Hayes OF Arkansas has granted
a sixth respite to Clarence Dewein and
Joe Strong, each 81 years old, who
had been sentenced to be electrocuted
for the murder of an aged merchant
at Benton, Ark.
Senator Tillman introduced a bill to
impose a maximum penalty of $500
fine and Is months Imprisonment for
common carriers, amusement resort
l~.-l-
dations to uniformed enlisted men OF
the navy and marine corps when the
applicants are sober, orderly and will
ing to pay.
Theodore Roosevelt is aflame with
Indignation over the latest reports of
Mexican outrages, and has sent a de-
mand to the president to take such
steps as will forever insure the safety
of Americans in any part of the world.
Relatives in Philadelphia of John
Ulrich, who was shot in Joliet, Ill, by
Mrs. Lillian Pfeiffer, a waitress, are
willing to forgive him if he RECEIVERS.
The new International hotel at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, was burned.
causing a loss estimated at $250,00O
Secretary of State Schmal received
a telegram from Elihu Root saying he
was not a candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination., and asked that his
name be kept off the Minnesota bal
lot.
President Wilson is opposed to COM
pulsory military service, Chairman
Hay told the house committee on mill
tary affairs.
Nine. E. Lanel, wife of the French
minister to Brazil, whose death in
Rio Janeiro is announced, was Miss
Amy Mckee, the daughter of Mrs.
Sam Bell Mckee of Oakland, Cal.
The Alabama circuit court of APP
peals held that beneficiaries of a man
hanged for murder cannot collect his
insurance policy.
A robber who had obtained $500 in
the First State bank here failed to
lock the cashier securely in the vault.
The cashier released himself and with
a rifle bullet broke the leg of the
horse on which the robber was fleeing.
Matthew A. Schmidt. convicted of
completely in the destruction of the
Los Angeles Times building by dyna-
mite. was sentenced to life imprison-
| ment.
! Porter Charlton, the American who
was released from prison recently aft
er serving a brief term for killing his
wife, will leave Naples for New York.
Mrs. Susan Davis is dead at Hick
man, KY, as a result of a rat bite
The rat bit her on the ankle.
Mrs. Frank Basso is dead as the
result of being shot in the head by her
husband at their home heal Yves
Frankfort, Ill. Basso escaped.
The Rome correspondent of the
Star says the illegitimate son of the
late King Milan of Serbia has beer
proclaimed king of Serbia at Belgrade
by the Austrian and German authori
ties.
Maryland, after hoving had a Re
publican governor and two Democratic
legislatures during the last four years
returned to Democracy in all branch
es of the state government.
.
President Wilson accepted an invi
tation to speak at the annual dinner
of the chamber of commerce of thu
United States Feb. 10.
The South Wales Miners fedora
ton. the strongest labor union in thu
United Kingdom, will vote on a reso
luton declaring in favor of a nationa
strike against CONSUMPTION.
Justice Hughes has denied an ap
plication for a writ Of error through
which it "a sought to have the gu
preme court review the conviction O
Hans Schmidt, under sentence to b,
e~lectrocuted at Sing Sing prison TO
the murder of Anna Aumuller in New
York.
For the fourth time Elson Scott. tn,