The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-14
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
weeks News Condensation Re-
viewed Without comment-Aii
Nations Find Something to
Edtfy and Instruct.
Dr.. David B. TEEN Of Sherman,
Tex, was placed in Jail on an indict-
ment charging him with the murder
of Miss Aline Walker.

on ~AoA6AAS lulLH WIN the murder
OF Miss Aline Walker.
Action on the nomination of Louis
D. Brandeis for justice of the supreme
court was deferred for a week by the
senate judiciary committee.
The monthly statement Of untitled
orders OF the United States Steel cor.
poratton again broke all records. The
orders stood at s,ss1,oo1 tons, an in
crease of $3.50 tons.
Typhus has broken out at Hurley.
N. NJ, the third case in this county
within three weeks.
A church built of $500 grindstones,
which were dug out of a waste pile at
Henry Disston & Sons saw plant, was
dedicated by the Baptists of Tacony,
Pa.
"A national convention representa-
tive OF all branches of the tobacco in
dustry will be held in WASHINGTON
May 20.
All the Mississippi river items last
ed through the debate on that portion
OF the rivers and harbors bill in the
house, despite vigorous attacks.
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German losses to date total $780,
917, London newspapers figure, by
adding the German official casualty
lists. OF these 6S1,437 have been
killed.
The Southern Pacific machine
shops, a roundhouse, three engines
and two coaches were destroyed by
fire at Naco, Sonora.
At the request of Gen. Chen vi, gov
ernor of ~Szechuen, Tsai 40, the rebel
leader, has granted 80 days armistice
In the provinces of Yunnin and Szech-
uen pending peace negotiations.
The Texas Portland Cement COM
pany, which is to make its. product
from oyster shells taken from the bot
tom of the bay, will be in operation
within a week or two.
Rear Admiral Caperton. command
ing the cruiser squadron in Haitien
waters, t~elegraphed that the minister
of public instruction had been bitten
by a mad dog and is en- route to New
York.
Gen. N. 1. Ivanoff has retired from
the command of the Russian armies
in Volhynia Inc Galicia.
Miss Elsie Fathers, daughter of May
or James A. Fathers, and Charles Carr
We're killed at South GAINESVILLE, is,
when their automobile was struck by
an interurban car.
Mrs. Lillian Dieber and her two
young daughters were suffocated in a
fire which swept the Dieber home in
Detroit.
A poll of the Republican members
of the New York legislature shows "a
out of 129 favor Hughes for president.
Col. Roosevelt and Senator Root were
hardly mentioned.
Charles Thompson is mining gold in
the back yard Of his home in South
Bandon, Ore, following the finding of
three gold nuggets in the craw of a
chicken he cleaned for the family's
dinner.
A big observation balloon which
broke from it's moorings at the navy
aviation station, Pensacola, Fla, and
floated away u~noccupied, descended at
Argyle, Fla, 100 miles northeast.
Five hundred shell makers in the
Plant of the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing company, at Phila-
Se!phia, are on strike for increased
wages and double pay for Sunday
work and overtime.
Andrew Groess Of Laclede, Mo-, a
grocer, was shot and probably fatally
wounded by William Ausmus, a
farmer.
Lawrence (Kan.) BARRIERS raised the
price Of hair cutting to IS cents. Uni
versity of Kansas students who OBJ
jected were told that the war has
0A0~ IA pAA~VS "a pup
plies.
The first married men under the
group system were called up by the
war department. They range
from 25 to 80 years OF age.
Military training for pupils in high
schools In Peoria may become a real
[ty as a result OF a resolution author |
izing q poll Of parental sentiment
throughout the city.
Appointment OF L. r. Fletcher to
succeed A. J. Reno as deputy warden
At the Leavenworth penitentiary has
been announced.
A motor ambulance unit for the
Russian army, the gift of prominent
Americans, will be formally turned
over to the Russian government
The Republican state convention
former Congressman James
2 Watson and Harry S. New for the
Omitted States senate by reclamation.
Ray 'BIggs of Waukesha. Wis, has
placed q piano IN the stable back OF
undertaking establishment 1t