The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-20

Five men were killed and one IN
juFed in an explosion which wrecked
the gelatin department of the Aetna
Explosives company at S~innamahon-
ing, Pa
Simeon Snowden, e years old. of
LIE Roy, Ia, hung himself in the Jail,
following his arrest on a charge Of
murder.
Secretary of State Lansing an
nounced that W. w. Russell, formerly
minister to Santo Domingo, will be
returned to that post.
Twelve buildings, constituting half
of the business section of Upper
fire.
A dispatch from Lisbon says that a
laborer at a Lisbon suburb dug up a
bomb which exploded and seriously
wounded him.
Orders by wireless we're sent to the
battleships New Hampshire and Lou
isiana to proceed to Vera Cruz.
Asiatic cholera has appeared at
Cannstatt, Wuertemberg. An official
notice says that only one case has
developed.
F.. A device invented by the Italian en-
gineer Quarini makes it possible to
drive torpedoes out of their course
n explode them.
Between 1900 and 1900 employees
of the Warner Bros. company, Bridge
port, Conn, makers of corsets, are on
strike.
The French government will issue
national bonds of denomination of 20
francs CS5) and five francs ($1) bear
ing interest at 5 per cent.
Eugene V. Debs, national leader of
the Socialist party, that a
national labor college, to be known as
the Peoples college, will be estab-
~ q l L oSOlL, Nall.
i A pile of ties was found On the
tracks of the Missouri Pacific railway
near Wichita, Kan, by a harvest hand
giving his name as Ernest Kidwell.
kidwell reported to the police that he
was held up and robbed by six men,
armed with rifles.
The Russian council of ministers
has approved the project for the utili-
cation Of prisoners of war and for
eign laborers for the manufacture of
war supplies.
Searching parties who have worked
indefatigably have no clew to the
whereabouts of Ray Knoblauch, II
years old, who disappeared from OF
tawa.
c. G. Stafford, accused with F.. r.
Henderson of embezzling $4,000
from the Minnesota Avenue State
bank, Kansas City, Kan, has sur
rendered to the authorities.
Four automobile bandits held up
the cashier of the Leonard Seed COM
pany, Chicago, and robbed him of
$500 and escaped.
Jesse Stillwell, Jr., "a years old, lay
down on the Illinois Traction tracks
near the Sleeps Head crossing, ILL.,,
and permitted the st. Louis north
bound sleeper to pass over him.
Death was instantaneous.
Baltimore has been selected, as the
convention city of the International
Typographical union for 1916.
Preston Gibson has bet $1,000 with
a fellow member of the Washington
Metropolitan club that the latter can
not bring forward a four-footed ami.
NAL with blue and white stripes, the
stripes to be not more than two inch
es wide.
Sudre Dartinguenave, president OF
the senate, was elected president OF
Haiti by the national assembly.
Joseph NJ. Smith, sexton of a GENE
terry in Oshkosh. Wis, has been ad'
judged bankrupt. Too few people die
for him to live.
The British steamship Yves; Wales
laden with approximately 235.0Oo
bushels Of wheat, cleared from Gal
weston for Rio de Janeiro. This is
the first cargo of wheat to be sent to
Brazil this season.
G. E. Wilson was shot and Instantly
killed at Starkville, Miss, by w. A
Thomas, who resented Wilson's atten
tons to his sister, Roma Thomas.
Special Judge Eichorn OF Blufftor
sustained all but five minor counts o.
the 48 indictments against Thoma:
Taggart. Democratic national commit
teeman.
Several Russian battleships are re
ported trapped In the Gulf OF Riga.
The Wh}&n Cfar 1ino etoonch3,