The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-01-14

William burst, rs, said to be the
sole survivor of the crew Of the Mont
tor, which engaged the Merrimac in
h historic battle at Hampton Roads,
is dead at Philadelphia of pneumonia.
Arch Eckersall, his wife and four
children were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed their home at
Salmon, Idaho.
A wage increase approximating 5
per cent will go into effect in the
Lockwood cotton mills at Waterville,
Me-. Jan. II.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Tex
as Oil company, at North Birming-
nam, Ala, causing a loss estimated
at s25O,0O0.
The national prohibition convention
VIII be held at the Auditorium in st.
Paul June 10, instead of at Mime
apolls, the place originally set by the
national executive committee at Chi
cago.
President Wilson was asked to set
aside a day as a Jewish relief day, on
which contributions should be raised
for suffering Jews in the wal zone.
The will of the late Thomas l..
Shevlin of Minneapolis has been filed
for probate. The entire estate of
SS.g0O,OO is left to the widow and
two children.
W. w. Venable, Democrat, has a
comfortable lead over his five oppo-
nents In the special election Of Tues
day in the Fifth Mississippi congress
sional district for a successor to the
late Representative Samuel A. Wither-
spoon.
b. W. A. Henson, a retired farmer
near Wichita, Kan, was arrested on
a charge of Staying his wife and his
son n went to his mothers assist
ance when she vas attacked.
| Twenty-Five laborers had a hard
time easing Giovanni de Blaze, weigh
ing 0 pounds, into his grave in New
York after 10 ~palIbearers strained to
| get the casket there.
Eli H. Redman of Terre Haute, Ind,
who served several months in prison,
was formally disbarred from the court
in which he once presided.
Eleven Chinese members of the
British freight steamer Veturia mu-
| tinted at The dock at Hoken, N. J.,
| and drove the chief officer from the
! ship.
Matthew w. Pinkerton, for "a years
head of the Pinkerton United States
Detective agency, is dead at Chicago.
He was born at Mount Eaton, O., in
| 1852.
Fearing punishment because they
had played hockey, Toney Delay and
Dominick Antonacci, each IL years
old, of Riverton, ILL.,, kept secret for a
day the fact that their playmate. Jack
Jannessee, had fallen through thin ice
in Mud lake, near Riverton.
Hundreds of popular periodicals
have been withdrawn from news stand
sale at Spokane, Wash, because OF
the statewide prohibition law forbid
ding the advertising of liquors.
Paris reports that another Italian
liner has been sunk by mine or sub
marine in the Adriatic. 1t was load
ed with foodstuffs on the way to the
starving S%ervians.
A Harlequin duck, on n leg O
which is a metal tag bearing thu
words "22, Berlin Zoo,' was kille.
near Heavener, Ok.
Miss Catherine Goggin, secretary O
the Chicago Teachers federation, wa.
accidentally killed by an automobil,
truck.
Henry Ford has returned to Detroit
but he avoided a delegation OF cit
zen who had planned to welcom,
him and present him with a flora
piece.
Under the terms of the will of TIC
ASS Salvini, the actor, who died a
Rome, sums ranging from $1,000 t
$4,000 are bequeathed to institution
of charity and art of Florence.
The board of army engineers in
report to congress recommends tn
improvement of the Missouri rive
from Kansas City to the Mississippi
The project calls for a total appropr
alton of about $50, 900. 900.
Miss Anna Franklin of Paris, Ill
inserted an ad in a matrimonial pape
for the right kind of a man and
wealthy Michigan farmer seemed t
fill the bill, as she married him a
first sight.
Charles D. Hilles, chairman of th
Republican national committee, al
nounced that the committee on a
rangements for the national CONVEX
ton at Chicago will meet in that cit
on Monday, Jan. "a.
In need of a tick from the eye of
bat for scientific investigation, th
British museum has placed an orde
for the specimen with the San Al