The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News COMBINATIONS he'
viewed Without comment-Au
Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and instruct

The German ship Steinbeck, which
has been loading lumber at Belling-
ham and which is interned at Eagle
Harbor, has been sold to American
shippers.
An eight-hour day with the same
wages heretofore paid for II hours
work will be granted to all employees
Of the Gulf Refining Co. at the Port
Arthur and Fort Worth refineries.
The onu proposition recently
made by the Locomobile Co. of Amer
lea to its employees was rejected at a
meeting of 500 employees.
Wargrave Church, which was de-
stroyed by fire by militant s~uffragists
June 1, 1914, is being rebuilt. In
restoring the tower the discovery has
been made that the present casing of
red brick covers the original Norman
tower.
King George sanctioned the estab-
lishment of a medal to be known as
the naval general service medal. This
will be awarded for service in minor
naval wa-like operations.
Gov. Walsh of Massachusetts an
nounced that he would be a candi-
date for denomination for a third
term.
Alexander Schroeder, a portrait
painter of New York City, is dead
as a result of eating toadstools which
he had mistaken for mushrooms.
The Atlantic fleet is again to be put
to the test of protecting the eastern
seaboard from invasion by a supposed
foreign fleet.
Dispatches report an attack by
French aviators on Strassburg. CAPT
tai of A1sace-L Lorraine.
The t~wo-year-old son of Mrs. Elmer
Joseph of New Haven, ILL.,, fell into
an open cistern and was drowned.
One man was killed and three 9TH
ers were injured by an explosion in
the experimental bomb proof room
at the United States arsenal al
frankfort, Pa.
The Germans already have begun
using flax as a substitute for cotton
in some of their munitions factories.
S~auerkraut promises to be low in
price next winter. Central Illinois
gardeners are being paid but Is cents
per hundred pounds for cabbage.
Harry G. Hontz is in Jail at Salt
Lake City, having confessed that he
wrecked the Scenic Limited on the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad near
Springville, Utah, last Monday.
The Kaiser has been CHALLENGED to
fight a duel. His would-be opponent is
Lord Northbourne, 20 years old.
Leo Mayer, ~17-year-old Bavarian
boy. who has been in the county jail
at Oakland, Cal, since July 10,
charged with theft, hanged himself in
his cell.
Specially constructed talking ma.
SAAASo oAS ~ DC1u6 Manufactured
by a Paris house for use in the
trenches.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Gootch of Litch.
field, ILL.,, found their daughter in
Pan after IS years absence. She
was placed in a n o~rphanage in Chi
cago Is years ago.
Edward Kinno tho r o,,iex,;l1o fux- \
boy, charged with desertion from the
British naval reserve, was released
Reports indicate that Marion w
Reilly had received $4,000 votes OF
10000 counted so far in the Missis
sippi gubernatorial primary. Theo
dore G. Bilbo received 10000.
c.. C. Curtis, charged with conspir
acy In the robbery of the Kaw City
(Ok.- National Bank April Is, was ar
rested at Sierra Madre, Cal. He ad
mits he is the man sought.
Premier Okuma OF Japan and hi.
cabinet may reconsider their resig
nations. The elder statesmen have
recommended to the emperor that he
decline to accept the designations.
Mrs. Florence Virgins was killet
n Attorney H. w. Peck mortally
wounded when Mrs. Virgins autt
crashed over q concrete bridge ant
into h river al Dallas. Tex.
In the room in which their three
year-old child slept. George w. Cool
of Endicott, Neb., murdered his wiz,
and cut his own throat.
President Wilson has signed q
executive order creating the Bic LAX,
Reserve in Northeastern Arkansas 70
the protection Of native birds.
Twelve thousand Italians, nov
prisoners IN Siberia, win be releases
By the Russian Government.
employees e the Dupont Powdsl
ca. have been notified that they vi
awork on N eixhtshour bosls andsre
cokve he same waxes = - - houEs