The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-06-04

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Official figures tAbulated show that
since the beginning Of the war 200. 900
Italians have volunteered for service
in the army.
Mrs. Roy Ely and her 7-year-old
daughter were killed by q Chicago &
Northwestern train at Rockford, III.
The British steamer Ansonian vas
badly damaged by fire while lying in
the London docks.
The sealing steamer Beothic, bound
for the Labrador coast, struck an ice
berg off Trinity bay. Her bow vas
crushed in, but she was able to keep
afloat.
Two allied airmen bombarded and
destroyed the German aerodrome at
Gartrode, southeast of Client. Dis
patches said that "a soldiers were
killed.
The total number of prisoners
taken by Russian armies and interned
in Russia up to April l vas 1874 Of
ficers and COS, 1878 men.
v. B. Gray and John Gill were
drowned and c. v. Root and Clarence
Mullock barely escaped death in the
Platte river, at PANEL, Mo-, when a
motor boat, on a trial trip, capsized.
Gov. Hunt Of Arizona has included
the question of capital punishment in
the call for a special session of the
legislature which has convened. He
proposes to substitute life imprison-
ment for hanging.
Nine of the 10 deputies accused of
murder ip the first degree. for having
fired into a crowd of chemical plant
strikers in Roosevelt, N. j., last Janu-
airy, killing two and w%ounding a o
of strikers, were convicted of man
slaughter.
Al Jennings, a former train robber
Of Oklahoma, and we'll known in state
politics, was baptized in Glendale,
Cal, after being converted by Rev.
John H. Troy.
Edward Long, while bidding good
bye to his brother Clarence, who was
leaving Terre Haute, Ind, was killed
by q Big Four train.
A message to President Wilson in
recognition of his devotion to the
uoblest sentiments of humanity" was
adopted by the Union Of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America at
it's convention in New York.
The first shot in the Italian invasion
| OF Austria was fired by q custom
house guard, who killed an Austrian
about to explode a mine at Cormons. .
Prince Won Buelow, the German am
~bassador, has arrived in Berlin.
An Italian airsh1p was shot down by
Austrians at Gorlitz and two staff Of
ficers killed.
A. r. Brown, Democratic member Of
the Illinois legislature from the Gales
burg district from 1876 to 1873, is dead
from apoplexy.
Great ice foes blocked the eastern
seaboard of New Foundland. Steam
ers are imprisoned in the harbors.
1t is reported a Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy train has been wrecked a
Chaplin. One man was killed and sew
eral were injured.
Policeman George Trojan Of New
York City was ordered by Judge Stew
enson to take Louis Brougofsky bacl
to New York at once or the prisone
would be released. The court assert
ed that Trojan had been continuousl,
entertained since his arrival by lodg
men. while his prisoner remained i
his cell.
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Taken to the Los Angeles jail bt
cause he was making a disturbance i
the street, H. w. Cecil stabbed with
p~ocketknife five prisoners, two G
them perhaps fatally, when he was r.
leased from his cell two hours later.
Clarence Dewein, the young Bell
vile GILL; boy under sentence OF deaf
for the murder of a storekeeper
Benton, Ark. has been successful !
obtaining another stay of execution.
Following q conference betwee
American Ambassador Page and 8
Edward Grey. British foreign seer
tary. it was stated that all misunde
standings between the United State
and Great Britain regarding trade n
gotiations have been celared away.
The b~attleship Rhode Island dragge
, her anchors during q heavy gale th'
swept Narragansett bay and VI
blown against the ~battleship N
braska, carrying away q porto NOT Il
bridge and injuring some Of the gul
On the latter ship.