The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-06-25

shortly after July 4, from his vacation
trip to Cornish, N. H.
Gov. Dunno re-appointed DIR. c.. st.
Clair Drake secretary of the state
board Of health.
The dismissal OF Prof. Scott Near
ing from the teaching staff OF the
Wharton school Of the University Of
Pennsylvania because Of his persist
ent advocacy OF free speech in def
ance of the faculty's policy not only
a caused great Indignation in local
educational circles and in the univer-
sity. but has developed into a question
of national Importance.
DR.. Paul NJ. Reinsch, United States
minister to China, is on his way to
America.
The Nebraska supreme court has
handed a decision down that the state
railway commission has no power to
either raise or lower rates on Ne
braska lines.
James Finan died at Mt. Vernon.
ILL, from injuries received in a fall Of
rock.
The citizens of Buffalo township,
Pike county, have purchased a chest
of silver for Miss Genevieve Clark as
a wedding present.
The Fort Dearborn Manufacturing
company of Chicago has purchased
1000 square feet of space and will
move its factory to Sterling, Ill.
Miss DOME, 26 years old, and her
little S-year-old nephew, John Dome,
were found dead in their home at Phil
adelphia, with their threats cut.
Rather than go to a sanitarium,
Agnes Robertson of Galesburg, ILL.,,
drowned herself in a neighbours els
tern.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has
announced that after June 80 no liQ-
uor will be sold on any of it's lines.
Archie Roosevelt, son of Col. Roose-
welt, was fined $25 in the West Farms,
N. Y, police court by Magistrate
House for speeding an automobile IS
miles an hour.
Shippers at Galveston were notified
that the American steamer Leelapaw,
Galveston to Gothenburg, Sweden,
with cotton, has been detained at
Kirkwall, Scotland.
Munich, the greatest beer center In
Germany, has been compelled to cur
tail the consumption of beer, owing
to the appropriation by the govern
ment of a large part of the product Of
the breweries.
Thousands gathered at Denver City
Park In a non-partisan meeting and
listened to addresses by noted speak
ers unfolding the administration in
it's present course in the handling Of
the foreign question.
"The king Of Greec's physicians ex-
pect their patient to enter upon con
v~alescence in a day or two" says
Reuters Athens correspondent.
Six persons were injured. two fatal
ly, by a. tornado which swept through
South Dakota.
Maj. Gen. Goethals will be retired
from the army upon his own applica-
ton some time this fall.
The degree Of doctor of laws was
conferred on Josephus Daniels, secre-
tary of the navy, at the commence
ment exercises of Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity.
One hundred and forty-two new ca
diets were admitted to the West Point
military academy, the new men com
prising the 'plebe" class.
John E.. Redmond, the IRISH Nation.
alist leader, is suffering from pto.
maine poisoning.
An inventory filed here Of the prop.
erty mentioned in the will of the late
Mrs. Frank Leslie showed that nearly
$1,000, 900 will be turned over to Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait for the use OF
the suffrage cause.
William j. Bryan denied q story
sent out from Toronto that he had
made a personal contribution Of $500
for elevation OF distress among in
termed Germans"
The German submarine U-21 sanh
the Lusitania, according to the Elsi
more, Denmark. correspondent of the
Evening Star.
The reconstruction OF the district Of
Colon, Panama Zone, which raj de-
stroyed in the great conflagration OF
April 80, has begun
A Central News dispatch from Am
sterdam says the recruits Of the 1916
draft who were ordered last week ia
prepare for service will be summoned
to the cOlors now.
Certain section In Mississippi arr
being visited by the 13-year locusts IL
some numbers. They made their las,
appearance In 1909.