The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-06-25
NEWS OF The WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News Combinations Re-
viewed Without comment-Ail
Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and instruct.

Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify n instruct
The first pro-war demonstrations
since the recent Portuguese elections
too place at Lisbon.
Word is going the rounds that Rob
ert Lansing, now acting secretary Of
state, will be appointed as the per-
manent successor to w. ]. Bryan.
The body of Albert Hood. a farmer
OF Jackson county, who m~ysteriously
disappeared two weeks ago at Du-
quoin, Ill, was found in the Big Mud
dy river.
Mrs. H. M. Dansle, 20 years old,
died in Colorado Springs, Colo, after
a Caesarian operation. Twins were
born Iii both are likely to live.
The Rev. DR.. Loaring Clark Of st.
Paul's Episcopal church, Chattanooga,
Tenn, received a message announc-
ing the death of his son, Lieut.. Chas.
Loaring Clark at the front in France.
The German government has made
a full explanation and has paid an
indemnity of 10000 marks ($45, OOO)
for the lives of Spaniards who were
shot at Liege last August.
Mot pooI1~ ~ Tho Do1,
flying corps was killed while flying
over the Brooklands aviation course.
Herr Muller, convicted German spy,
must die at London. His appeal was
dismissed.
William H. Rand, for many years
head Of the printing and publishing
house of Rand, McNally & Co., is
dead at New Canaan, Conn.
Ambassador Marye, st. Petersburg,
notified the state department of the
arrest at Kholm, Russia, of John
Reed and Boardman Robinson, Amer
leans.
Announcement has been made that
French postal service is handling
mail in 90 towns and villages in Al
SAGE. They all now bear the names
they had As years ago.
Two tornadoes swept a part of
Adams county, Neb. No great damage
was done by the wind, but the hail
section Of farming country Is miles
long and five or six miles wide.
DespOndent over a love affair, Elsie
Blake, % years old, Of st. Louis, drank
poison in Springfield, Ill.
The Nashville, Tenn, scandal over
the disappearance of the city books
had a new sensation when 1t became
known that J.. B. West, Jr., assistant
treasurer, a u~naccounted for and
his whereabouts unknown.
The American dollar Is now worth
more than 100 cents. The drop in
sterling exchange to $4.76A makes
the American bill represent a value OF
$1.O2A in English coin.
The British press bureau issued an
official denial of a report current in
the United States that the British bat.
tleship Agamemnon was sunk at the
Dardanelles.
William Jennings Bryan plans tc
speak at a peace demonstration to be
held in Madison Square Garden.
The Illinois house passed, 104 to !
the Lyle bill. a substitute for the pres
ent child delinquency act. The bill
provides a fine OF $500, Imprisonment
in jail for n year or both. for per
sons taking a male child under /,
years of age or a female child under
Is into resorts, policy shops, pool
rooms. saloons or gambling rooms.
Pope Benedict has Informed Austria
that should a hostile air raid result il
damage to church property in Rome
or to residences Of dignitaries tn,
| Vatican would consider it q grave in
cident.
Miss Mona McAdoo, daughter OF thu
| secretary Of the treasury, has return
ed to New York from France. whert
| she has been nursing wounded sol
diers.
Joseph H. Peterson, attorney-gen
| eral of Idaho, was acquitted Of
charge of completely in embezzle
| ments from the state treasury.
It was learned from authoritative
| sources that Len Small of Kankakee
Ill, will be elected president of thu
| state board Of agriculture.
Because the purchase contract wa.
not ready to be submitted, the boart
OF directors Of the Detroit United Rail
ways company adjourned until Jun
so.
A brutal baby murder case came T.
light when the body Of q 2-month-olt
girl baby was washed ashore from tn
damage canal near Lamont, III.
The Evangelical Lutheran Orphans
home ct Hoyleton, Ill, was destr0ye
By dra started from q detective hue.
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