The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-25

Roland S. Pennington and George
Fl. March were e~lectrocuted in the
Pennsylvania pe%nitentiary for the
murder in November, 1913, of S.. Lew
is Pinkerton in Delaware county.
According to reports, SIS persons
are known to be dead and 40 injured
as the result of an avalanche in SAILS
burg Alps.
Bombardier Wells knocked out Dick
Smith in the third round of their bout
for the heavyweight championship of
England.
After a posse of men found the body
of Miss Josie Pryor hidden under a
straw stack a few miles from Paris,
Tenn, Tom Barry, a negro held In jail
as a suspect, confessed to having MUIR
dered the young woman.
Fire in the laundry at the govern
ment bureau of printing and engrav-
ing spread reports Of a bomb plot.
Spanish Consul Elguerea, at Monte
rey, has arrived at Laredo, Tex, fol-
lowing his deportation by order OF the
Carranza authorities.
B. M. Tinsley, county clerk of Penn
iscot county, died recently. and his
daughter Margaret is a candidate to
fill the vacancy.
Missouri's road district law regulat-
ing the assessment Of benefits n
damages on property owners in the
construction of new highways was
held to be constitutional by the SUI
preme court.
President Wilson is running for re-
election in Iowa. His affidavit to that
effect properly signed by himself and
a notary public has been filed with
the secretary of state.
Francisco Villa, with 300 men. at
tackled an equal Carranza ofrce under
| Gen. Jesus CavazoS at Cusihuriachic
and drove Cavazos to Chihuahua City.
Details related by passengers from
Chihuahua tended to confirm previ-
Gus reports hat Francisco Villa was
looking for two Americans when he
held up a train recently.
Suit to construe the will of the late
| Charles Edward Kohl, theatrical mag
note, was filed in the United States
district court at Chicago by John P.
Kohl of Boston. Mass.
The production of 35 13 pounds OF
butter in seven days by a registered
Holstein COW owned by DR.. J. G.
Whitney was declared by officials at
the Vermont state experiment station
to be a worlds record for a one-week
test.
A quarter key of beer slipped from
the grasp of several men who were
carrying it up the stairway at Phila
delphia and killed John Strang, q
years old.
Two minutes after Mrs. Mary Doc
ley's death a baby was brought int
the world by a C~aesarian operation
It was performed at the city hospita
in Jersey City.
Lawrence Ginter, a wealthy insur
ance man and grandson Of a million
aire tobacco magnate of Virginia, wa!
founde dead in the basement Of hi
mothers home at Sedalia, Mo.
Necessity is the mother and tn
manufacturers are the father of a new
style in hats. Owing to the grea
shortage in dyes, several hat factorie
are getting out samples of undye'
hats for spring wear.
Mayor J. E. Lightfoot of Ash Grove
Mo-, "a years old, is dead of hear
trouble at his home in Ash Grove.
The Swedish government has deci6
ed to ask parliament for $3.50, 900 t
defray the expense of maintainin
neutral defenses.
!, The navy department has opene
bids for building two of h larges
submarines In the world. They wi
displace 1,50O tons and be capable Q
Is knota an hour.
Henry ]. Tennel, a negro, convic
ed OF assault. was reprieved just a
J, Sheriff Hammond of Houston, Tel
was reading the death warrant.
Acompromise proposal between tn
Republicans and ~Progressives OF Cal
> fornia in the nomination of Californi
delegates to the Republican nations
convention was rejected.
Reports Of the sinking Of the steam
er Tergesta were confirmed when 2
! members Of the crew were landed
0ravesend.
Anthony Peteskey. IL, Of New Yorl
has confessed that he has commftte
{ 10 burglaries and that the moving pi
lures are responsible.
{ Fire has caused $4,000 damage
J the village Of Hermansville. Mich
and for . time threatened to destro
large lumber. mills and yards.
l. More than 500 students Of the On
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