The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-02

The British teamer Indrani. oldest
was torpedeed and SUM Ia st. Georges
channel.
Retired Admiral Kalau von HOfe
writing in the vossiche eitung, de-
clared he believed six 6-inch guns were
mounted on the Lusitania, but in posi-
tons easily concealed from the Amer.
lean customs inspectors.
Two men were killed and 40 box
| carr were wrecked in a collision be-
tween a passenger train and the box
cars, running wild, on the Kansas City
Southern railway near Gravette, Ark.
Harry Barton, who escaped from the
GAINESVILLE, N. Y, prison with two
companions. and was caught Friday,
donned a pair of boys knee breeches
and a bathrobe and walked put of the
state hospital to freedom.
Wives deserted by husbands in Ili-
nois may claim benefits under the
mothers pension act. Gov. Dunno has
| signed the Bruce bill.
Thomas Mccoy, former revenue
chief, was arrested at Ashville, N. c.,
and later released under $25, 900 bond
in the alleged $780, 900, 900 monshine
conspiracy.
Judge Hume Smith. police judge of
Centralia, ILL.,, is dead. He al elect
ed judge last April, but on account of
i'll health was never able to preside
e his court.
Willis Reed of C%arrollton, Mo-, has
been reunited with his daughter, from
whom he had not heard for 80 years
The daughter is Doll Reed Davxis,
now living in Omaha.
An unidentified negro was lynched
and hanged near Cedar Bluff, Miss.
He was said to have confessed enter
ing the room of a young white
woman.
Tolls of 81, 900 we're collected in
the Panama canal between it's opening
in May. 1914, and June 6, 1915.
Seven hundred unemployed men
gethered at Salina, Kan, in advance
of the harvesting season, were guests
of the First Methodist Sunday school
at a hot breakfast served in the
church.
A IS debt, two years old, was the
cause of the death of one and the
wounding of two persons in Milwau-
kee, Wis.
The United States is not consider
ing the placing of an embargo at pres
ent on shipments to any belligerent
country. This was an official. state
ment.
Frank Martin, a negro farmland.
was stabbed to death and John Nc.
Peters, a white man, was shot SO that
he will die, in a duel in, the dark
near Farley, Ala
Joseph Leonardo, a miner, aged So
was shot mad instantly killed al
Springfield, ILL.,, by J.. ]. Irkin in a
pistol duel. Irwin was wounded in the
head, but will COY The trouble
started when Irwin accused Leonardo
of feeding his COW glass.
Homer McCord. so-called Kansas
bride ~kidnapper," and Frank Viii
liams,s convicts in the state prison
in Lansing, Kan, escaped from the
prison coal mine by a perilOus 800-foot
climb up an airshaft.
Workmen ~excavating under thu
house occupied by Eugene Butler, wh<
died in 1913 in the North Dakota hos
pital for insane, unearthed the bodies
of six men. believed by the authori
ties to have been murdered by Butler
while employed by him as farmhands
Mrs. Irene Murphy of LOS Angeles
CAL, found to have killed her hus
band, was sentenced to two years i'm
p%risonment for manslaughter.
James Lewis, a negro, was arrestei
at Decatur, ILL.,, and brought to Spring
field, charged with the murder of Mrs
Herman Schmidt
The Willys-Overland Automobil
~. duuOuICcU LudL voluntarily III
wages of it's 10,50O employees will b
increased 5 per cent beginning July II
While, Governor Clarke of low
made an address in connection wit,
the celebration of Iowa day at tn
Panama-Pciic exposition, 200 citizen
of Des Moines were reported lister
ing in" by telephone at h Iowa cap
tai.
The sum of $3.50. 600 in round nun
bers of the new war loan had bee
applied for at the London banks witt
. in the first "a hours.
The interstate commerce commits
sion denied the application Of wester
: trunk lines to establish q rate of /
cents per 100 pounds on spelter fror
Springfield, Ill, to gulf ports Tor q
: port.
The permanency Of the "railroa
II woman" has been recognised by o.
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