The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-05-19

The house adopted the conference
report On the bill amending the,
postal savings law and raised the
minimum deposits per month from
800 to $1,000.
Tenants ID a New York building
kicked a stick Of dynamite around the
Railways o three days before = 10
borer. discovered the nature of the
! football.
! Between 1000 and 5000 inside in
dustrial iron and bronze workers at
filiated with the International Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers union in
New York struck for higher wages
and fewer hours.
Arguing over whether 1.-THE Birth Of
a Nation should be suppressed. Rep
resentative Sam Nichols and Repre-
sentative Lehbach came to blows in q
Washington hotel.
Frank Steele Of Little Rock. a brake
man, was killed when a trestle on the
Iron Mountain road fell.
"A OoloC Shop ".Aclc VIC nldy SHAVE
himself was started in Chicago. 1t is
called a shaveteria.
1t is up to Company X of the Sew
enty-first New York militia to learn
the 'corkscrew" attack, now that Nor
man Selby (kid Mccoy has joined.
The Kids ~corkscrew was usually a
sleepmaker.
h shovelers employed by the Fed
eral n Doe Run Lead company at
Flat River. Mo-, have been on a strike
for more than a week. and as a result
1000 men are out of work.
Consul T. d. Edwards, at Juarez.
has received a message from the state
department at Washington to order all
Americans in his district to leave
Mexico at once.
! Two of Indiana's famous sons
Meredith Nicholson and Booth Tark-
1ngton-put their names to the enlist
ment roll for summer military train
Ing at Fort Benjamin Harrison.
Miners for the East Gulf Coal COM
pany, in West Virginia, have un-
earthed the body of a petrified man.
Ground was broken in New York for
the nave of the Episcopal Cathedral of
st. Johns, the Divine, the fourth in
size in the world.
Nine seniors at Columbia university
never have been kissed. One is the
class beauty, n is a wrestler and
another is a Chinaman.
Preston w. Bean of Atchfsou, Kan,
formerly a probate Judge, died last
week a convict in the Kansas peniten-
ttary.
State Mediator Fred C.. Croxton an
nounced that the nine-day strike Of
the 800 electricians at Cleveland, O.,
had been settled.
Two thousand bales of cotton de-
stroyed at Paris, Tex. by fire were
l~inters. which had been purchased for
use in making ammunition in eastern
factories.
President Wilson will not accept n
agreement that looks to the withdraw
al of American soldiers from Mexico.
Declaring that Mrs. Mabel Jackman's
collection of trained spooks are re-
sponsible for the engagement of D.
Claflin. 80, of Chicago to Mrs. Jack
son, relatives seek to prevent the wed
ding.
Charles D. Probert, cashier, and
Ernest c. Theobald, assistant cashier
Of the First National bank of Ocono-
mowoc, Wis, were arrested on the
charge of, misappropriating between
$4,000 and $1,000.
r. B.. Crittenden of Muskogee, Ok,
was sentenced to serve II years in
prison following his conviction by a
jury on a charge of robbing the First
National bank at Wan. Ok, of $1,000.
into marrying her after an ~acquaint-
ance of three hours, and that she is 81
instead of q. as he believed, N. A.
Jerjin Of Chicago asks the annulment
of his marriage.
Five men are known to have been
killed and scores injured by an explo-
sion of dynamite in the mixing plant
OF the Atlas Powder company at Land
ing, N. J..
The New York police are searching
for Miss Doris Ponty, a Sunday school
teacher. who has been missing from
her home since April 2.
The Arizona superior court has do
MED the application Of Sheriff Forbes
Of Pima county for an order to pre-
vent a vote on his recall.
Chicago's all-night cabarets no long
er exist. A new city ordinance reQuir-
ing restaurants where liquor Is sold to
close at 1 a. m. has gone into effect.
Adoption of m amendment reducing
from $4,000 to $500 the salaries Of
members OF the proposed farm land
board was the net result of another
all-day debate in the house on the
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