The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-06

Muphis, Egypt. was announced by b
University of Pennsylvania
The first daily newspaper to be pub
hshed in the German language has aD-
peared in Brussels.
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Nine persons were injured when the
supports of a veranda dining room Of
a board walk hotel Rockaway Beach
collapsed.
Renewed activity of Katmai volcano.
Alaska. is indicated by the presence
of ashes in the air.
The Danish government $12, OeO.0 900
5 p e cent national loan, which has
just closed has proved a failure.
This is German-American week at
the Panana-Pacifc exposition.
Treasury receipts for July, the first
month of the new fiscal year, ran
10000 900 behind expenditures.
Duxbury Reef, the Graveyard Of
h Pacific" has caught the Amcri-
can-Hawaiian steamer Georgian, from
e York to San Francisco.
The British submarine operating in
the Sea of Marmora, shelled a Turk
ish troop train, destroying seven cara
and killing more than 200 soldiers.
Australian casualties in the war uD
to late are 2,610 killed and 1922
wounded, it was officially
Beginning Aug. 2 2O8 automobile
rural free delivery routes, distributed
among eight states were put into OF.
Grafton by the p~ostoffice department,
American bluejackets and marines
are ransacklng Port au Prince for
arms.
The Valdez Bank and Trust Co. 1has
suspended business, with sic. 900 LA
bilities and assets of $4,000.
German sn1pers now wear greenish
clothing and have their faces and guns
painted SO as to merge with the color
OF the landscape.
A Constantinople dispatch to the
Mittag Zeitung of Berlin reported that
John Odell and W. O. Ruch. at
Beaumont, Tex, attempting to save
Tom Nicholson, from. asphyxiation in
an empty 500 barrel cypress oil tank,
were overcome and all three died.
A report circulated in the finan-
cial districts stated that the Westing-
house Electric Company has actual
orders on its books which total be-
tween $50, OO0, 900 and $4,000, 900.
The Wolverine and Mohawk Copper
Mining Company, in paying their
1,2O0 employees, included an extra
check for 5 per cent of the total
wages of June as a bonus.
and being taken East on a fast train.
Accompanied by her husband she
reached Chicago Sunday morning,
| Aug. 1.
Judge Hand, in the United States
district court, denied the motion for
a receiver to take over the business
of the American s and 10 Cent Stores.
American dispatches to the London
newspapers say that the recent init
nation to the American Government
that England will send another note
soon indicates a reversal of British
policy.
Il have no political aspirations
whatever, looking to the holding of
office in the FUTURE" said William 7.
Bryan in a speech at Portland, Ore.
The Wharton National Bank at
Wharton, Tex, was closed by order
Of the comptroller of the currency.
Illinois Central Chicago to Cairo
passenger train was derailed Just
south of Anna, ILL.,, July 80.
A double electrocution took place
at the Eddyville, KY, penitentiary.
when Turner Graham, "a years old.
and Will Lane. %, q negro wife muir
derer, were executed. ].
After b~alloting IL hours without re-
suit, the jury In the a Of George
". Ward, charged with killing his
wife, was discharged at whiteplains,
Mo.
Four girls were drowned at F1em-
ington. Pa. They were: Esther
Fisher, 90, and Thelma F1oruss, IS,
of Pennington: Marion Bower, 10, Of
Monument, Pa. and Erma Butter
baugh. 18. OF Cherry Tree, Pa.
A man was killed by lightning in 4
hollow tree, al Terre Haute, Ind.
where he sought shelter during :
storm. He is believed to be Roy
Davis of Effingham. III.
During the past two weeks the
Italians have advanced five miles
along the entire Isonzo front. The
Austrian losses r estimated at So.
900.
Secretary Wilson has denarted for