The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-21

The senate Immigration committee
decided to recommend passage of the
Burnett immigration bill without
amer dment.
Election OF "Bill" Sapp as national
committeeman by the Kansas Demo
cratic state convention was interpret
ed as defeat Of the federal faction OF
the party.
Frank Hitchcock has obtained on
troll Of the Kentucky Republican dele
cation and will swing the votes to the
strongest candidate at the Chicago
convention.
The ideal town has been found. It
is Warren, ILL.,, and men do not spit on
the streets nor swear at their wives,
according to Mrs. A. r. Garfield,
mayor.
Meredith Nicholson Of Indianapolis,
an author. practically has been agreed
upon by President Wilson and Score
tary Baker for assistant secretary of
war.
Stephen Mitchell shot and danger
ously wounded his sister, Miss Henri
eta Mitchell, in their home at Paris,
Ill. and was later wounded in a
pitched battle with officers who at
tempted to arrest him.
Frank A. Lowden has become an
avowed candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor of Illinois.
Eleven hundred and eighteen e
sons sailed from Seattle for Alaska as
passengers on five steamers. This is
the largest sailing to Alaska for a sim
gle day since the Klondike stampede.
After undergoing an hour of cross
examination in court, Mrs. Manda Ha-
zelbaker of Prescott, Kan, "A years
old. fell back in the witness chair and
died.
Hubert George de Burgh Claiming,
second Marquis Of Clanricarde, is dead
in London. He owned about 81, 900
acres Of Irish land. He was born in
1882.
Chief of Police Harper of Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, began a crusade against
disorderly houses and gambling.
An apple 20 years old, apparently in
an excellent state Of preservation, is
in the possession of Mrs. Margaret
Bischoff of York, Pa. 1t is studded
with cloves.
A warrant for the arrest of Robert
Gregory was issued at Appleton. Wis.
1t is charged that when he proposed
to Carrie Mailer he displayed a re-
volver and threatened to shoot her If
she did not promise to be his wife.
A Berlin dispatch says that the
German emperor has conferred the
Hohenzollern order on two submarine
commanders, Lieut.. Wenniger and
Lieut.. Won Werner.
Nine. de Navarro. formerly Mary
Anderson. many years age the fore
most American tragedienne, appeared
at Worcester Theater Royal as Cla.
rice in COMEDY and Tragedy" in
aid Of the disabled soldiers OF the
Worcestershire regiment.
A. formal charge OF conspiracy to
murder David Phillips Of Bunker Hill,
Kan, was placed against Wilbert Rock
and Phillips wife. Mrs. Lucille Phil.
lips:
Soldiers of the punitive expedition
are going to get their "makin's." Brig.
Gen. Sharpe announced hat IONS OF
tobacco and papers have been sent
from Columbus to the front.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that
meat tickets are being issued in Sax.
ony and that the government of that
kingdom will u control of all
stocks of meat.
A jury brought in a verdict of muir
der in the first degree against Joe Nc
sCowan of Stuttgart, Ark, and sem
fenced him to death In the electric
chair.
AAo UIcdhAuS VI d SLElQS connecting
the trigger of a loaded rifle with a
door. the opening Of which would have
discharged the weapon, saved Edward
Page, a brother of Charles Page, wide
ly known philanthropist, when he Wis
tied a farm near Tulsa. Ok, to evict
his tenant.
The German emperor Is at Potsdam
recovering from a nervous shock, as
the result of the explosion Of a she'll
at Verdun, which destroyed the i'm
perial motor car and killed severa Of
ficers.
William, the Silent" Leonard, con-
fessed robber of the Durant Oa.) post
office, was sentenced to Is months in
federal prison.
my wife bobbed her hair in imita-
ton of Mrs. Vernon Castle" said f.
X. Rosenbaum of New York, replying
to her divorce suit. He made 1t stick
and will not have to pay alimony.
Two persons ere killed and two
others probably fatally injured when a
Denver interurban car struck an auto
mobile at the Federal boulevard cross
ing.
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