The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-14

Two thousand d. the 5000 miners m
the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas val
leys- who struck TOR the recognition Of
the newly formed union gained their
point and have returned to work.
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which were discovered on the cross
channel steamer Sussex have been for
warded to Washington by Ambassador
Page.
The tank steamer. San Cristobal was
destroyed by fire at Puerta, Mexico.
Representatives Of the United Mine
Workers a the mine operators in
Iowa and Missouri met in Des Moines
to formulate . new wage scale.
The municipal gas plant established
about so years ago vas formally rele-
gated to the scrap heap on April 1.
The increasing 8 of natural product
and electricity a assigned as the
reason for dismantling.
Five hundred candy manufacturers
have petitioned the interstate COM
merce commission for a general read
justment Of rates to all points west Of
the Mississippi river.
Joseph Black. a negro, was taken
from Jail at Kingston, N. c., and
lynched by a mob. He was the father
OF William Black, 16 years old.
charged with an attempted attack on
a young white girl.
About $50 sick American troopers
have been brought back from the
front in Mexico, suffering from vari-
ills due to the climatic conditions
OF the Sierra Madre.
The taxation committee OF the
reichstag has fixed the amount of the
Increases in the postal taxes recently
proposed.
PROBE Menchure, his wife and broth
er-in-law and three children were muir
dered at Saskatoon, Canada, their
homes and farm buildings were
burned and their horses and cattle
shot. - .
Gen. C~arranza, head of the de facto
government, issued a decree calling
for a new, issue of paper money, not
to exceed $500, o00, 900, to substitute
for the present issue.
Arthur Thomas of Marion, ILL.,, 80
years old, was killed in a fight and
Brooks Bond, 81, was arrested. He is
alleged to have killed Thomas with a
blow of his fist.
Benjamin R.. Mcclure, a lawyer OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, was named presiding
bishop of the Reorganized Church OF
Latter Day Saints.
The French government has con-.
ferred on Mrs. Edith Wharton, author
ess, the Legion of Honor for her re.
lief work in behalf of French war sui.
ferers.
An Amsterdam dispatch say that
Vfce-Admiral Dick, director of the
shipyards department of the German
navy, has been retired on pension.
Inc German government exproprf-
ated coffee, tea and chicory and ap-
pointed a commission to regulate their
distribution.
DR.. Pierre Roux, director of the
Pasteur institute, announced to the
Academy of Science the discovery of
a serum for the treatment and pre-
vention of eruptive typhus.
The Illinois miners in convention
endorsed Louis D. Brandeis for JUS
tice OF the supreme court.
The French bark Bourbaki, which
left San Francisco on Oct. 26 for lbs.
Wich, has arrived in tow and leaking.
having struck a mine.
While police were searching the
home OF DR.. H. Brooks of Memphis.
Tenn, for a burglar, the 15-year-old
son, Henry P. Brooks, mistook Police
man W. Gresham for a burglar and
shot him.
Strong gains for the drys were
made in many Nebraska towns and
villages at the recent election. Re-
turns indicate that IL places changed
from wet to dry and three from dry to |
wet.
The senate bill for an plate |
factory was favorably reported by the
house naval committee by a vote of |
16 to 6.
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Clarence Hudson, alias Ernest Schil-
Ter, the German sympathizer, who sim
gle-handed captured the British liner |
Matoppo at sea and compelled the |
crew to do his bidding, has been de-
clared insane.
Walter H. Page, American ambassa-
dor to England, announced that an
analysis of the fragments of torpedo
found in the hull of the channel liner
Sussex proved ~conclusively that the
device was of German origin.
One thousand miners employed BY
the Ellsworth Galleries company and
by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Coal
at Acme, have quit work.
They demand ar increase Of 10 per
cent.