The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-21
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
1RIEFlY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY men
Weeks News Condensation Re
viewed Without comment-All
Nations Find Something to
Edify and instruct.
The impartial asserts. it has learned
that a new transatlantic line between
vigo. Spain. and New York is soon
to be launched

to be launched.
Fire in the downtown section Of
Augusta, Ca, did damage estimated at
800 900. The burned section is near
the principal t6ildings destroyed in
the disastrous fire of March 20 last
It was estimated that the presiden.
tial primaries in Chicago cost $780,
600. Oh about $3.50 per ballot cast.
Eight persons were killed and IS In
jured when the Gilt Edge express
train on the New Haven railroad
crashed into the ear Of q local train
on a siding at Bradford. r. /.
The house immigration bill contain.
ing the hard-fought literary test was
reported to the senate with recon-
mendation for passage.
The trade agreement recently made
between Germany and Roumania pro-
vides for the establishment of a sell
ing bureau in Bucharest and a buying
bureau in Berlin.
George w. Peck, Is years old, for
mer governor of Wisconsin, is dead
after a short illness.
Ray Ludwig was shot and killed by
Mrs. "Toots" Mullin when he attempt
ed to break down the door Of her
home in Champaign, Ill.
The price of Bibles has increased
because of the advance in the cost of
paper, ink, leather and glue, due to
the a
A dispatch from Petrograd says an
imperial ukase has been issued pro-
viding for suspension of sessions of
the douma and council Of empire until
May %.
The six wounded Mexican prisoners
brought from Ell Vale, charged with
completely in the Villa raid on Colum-
+ bus. were pronounced we'll enough to
travel and were taken to Deming.
The Chicago E. Alton has decided to
increase the pay of all section fore
men and those in charge Of extra
gangs from So to SO per month.
President Wilson has signed the bill
incorporating the American Academy
of Arts and Letters.
Jose Buenrostro and Melquiades
Chapa, alleged Mexican bandits, were
found guilty of murder at Brownsville.
Tex, and a jury assessed the death
penalty.
President Wilson has telegraphed to
Miss Evangeline Booth, commander of
the Salvation Army, endorsing a cam
paign to raise $4,000 for a memorial
to her father.
The japanese fruit steamer Ide
Maru made Honolulu with a jury rud-
der after a detour southwark of LOO
miles.
Canada has put on a censorship of
first-class mail, affecting thousands Of
firms and individuals of the north
west.
President Estrada Cabrera of Guat-
emala denies reports that he has as
sisted Gen. Felix Diaz with money
and arms. He said the reports of
mobilization on Guatemala territory
was false.
Clerks have made out checks for
$4,000, 900 which were paid Monday to
the deposftors of the failed Pittsburg
Bank for Savings as a 50eper cent div
idend on their claims.
The hearing of Capt. Hans Tausch-
er, husband Of Nine. Gadski. on the
charge Of conspiring to blow up the
Welland canal, has been postponed by
United States Commissioner Hough-
ton.
Prisoners in the Cherokee (Kan.)
county Jail are wearing shoes with
rubber soles, owing to the discovery
that ONE had taken steel springs
from their shoes and used them as
saws.
The semi-annua1. conference of the
board of bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal church will be held at the
home OF Mrs. Sarah B. Cochran at
Dawson, Pa.
Fighting between government troops
and revolutionists took place at Can
ton, China, when soldiers opposed the
landing of the rebels.
Judge Newton in Terre Haute. Ind.
fined George Baxter $500 and sen
| fenced him to the state penal farm for
| 100 days because he borrowed saws
and did not return them.
The rivers and harbors a~ppropria-
ton bill carrying $40. 000.0 900 was
passed by the house by a vote Of 210
to 1873. s
Eighty merchantmen with a total
| tonnage Of 107, 900 were sunk by Ger
man submarines or by mines during
| the month Of March.
Harold Eckman, . San Francisco
thea.eT usher. has brought q 500, 600
alienation suit asAinstE John. u
sprsrhes,sF
The treasury department notified
Dudley Field Malone, collector Of cus-
toms q New York, totaet1e.t the John
anm.vY3l1ard 1apxnr g.