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

FROM DeC. 81, 1910, 10 MdICu, I9Ao,
deposits in national and state banks
increased s15,71S.817.23, according to
w. W. Bowman, secretary of the Kan
sas Bankers association.
DR.. f. H. Trezona, 20 years old. of
Gibson City, his mo~ther-in-law, Mrs.
Mclean, go, and Miss Gertrude Shaw,
40, were instantly killed at Garter, ILL.,,
when a Wabash train struck their au-
tomobile.
Gov. Frank B. Willis Of Ohio col
lapsed on the stage in the Mansfield
opera house here when delivering an
address.
Passport" champion Jersey milk
er of the United States, owned by
former Congressman Joseph c. Sibley
of Franklin, Pa, is dead. Her record
was Is ,694.S pounds of milk a year.
Henry M~orgenthau, former ambassa-
dor to Turkey, was stricken with ap-
pendicitis at his home at New York.
Members of a gypsy band accused
of robbing the Farmers bank of
Alicia, Ark, although denying guilt.
reimbursed the bank rather han re-
main in Jail pending trial.
Edward NJ. Hall, a stocknlan, Is
dead from burns received in a. un-
successful attempt to rescue his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, and her
maid, Miss Alma Shaw, when the Hall
country home at Carthage burned
Edgar H. Pettigrove of Denver,
colo. was arrested at Hos Springs,
Ark. on a charge of embezzlement of
$4,000 from Swift & Co.
The interstate commerce commits
sion ordered Cancelled proposed in
creased rates on fresh meat and pack
ing house products between points in
the middle west.
President Wilson has received an
appeal to intervene in the cases Of
Mexicans recently convicted of MUIR
der in connection with the Villa raid
on Columbus, N. M.
The bodies of Arthur Robinson and
Walter McPeek. who were crushed to
death at Jennings, Ok, were taken to
Pana, ILL.,, for burial.
y
Reilly M. Smith, former deputy
United States marshal at East st.
Louis, who was convicted of murder
in the second degree in the Omaha
courts, was released under parole to
bis wife
: Plans for the second annual mill
tary training camp for high school
boys at the Culver military academy.
which will be held May Is to 20. have
been announced. Six hundred boys
from the high schools of the central
west states will be admitted this year
to the camp, which last year was Inn
tied to 200 boys from Indiana.
.
Derailment of a train by a crocodile
lying across the tracks near Tela,
Honduras. caused the death of Henry
Kinard Smith, civil engineer. %, son
of the late Bishop Coke Smith of the
Southern Methodist church.
The faculty Of Dartmouth college
has recommended that credit toward
q degree be given to undergraduates
VINO attend a military training camp
next summer.
Harry G.. Hawker made q worlds
altitude record in an aeroplane at
B~rooklands, England. Hawker ascend
ed to a height of 24,40S feet.
From figures furnished by the New
York chamber of commerce. the Brit
ish have lost 1876 merchant vessels
since the beginning of the war.
Notices were posted In the mills of
j. & P. Coats, Ltd, thread manufac-
'turers at P~awtucket. r.. L.. announc-
ing an increase Of 25 per cen in the
wages of $500 employees, effective
May 1.
Bar silver was quoted at TN cents
m ounce. the highest price In almost
q decade.
The Norwegian steamship Strom-
naes. bound for Lubbock. Germany,
with a cargo of herring from Norway.
has been blown up and sunk off Gied-
ser, Denmark.
Pope Benedict has expressed his
disapproval of the political disturb
ances in southern Ireland and has CO.
bled to Dublin for particulars.
The bank at Alicia, Ark, was robbed
ny gypsies. While they engaged the
attention Of the cashier . 7-yearold
lsirl seized the money and gave It to .
companion who fled on horseback.
A truck train under Capt. James
w. Furlough made . record ran In to
the base. 40 miles from Colonia Dub
Ian. ina little more than II hours.
Employees Of The Erie railroad called
on tor military duty are 20 have full
pay with leave Of absence. In adAitloa
to the regular vacation period
British casualties for April aee
slightly In excess 81 those IN March.
Tho total from al fields of operation
Is las Officers and 1885 mon.