The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-09

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A Pere Marquette passenger train
struck an automobile at a grade cross
ing near Detroit, Mich, killing three
persons and injuring three others.
Billy Carson, the noted automobile
driver, died of injuries suffered in the
race at the Speedway in-Tacoma,
Wash.
| The funeral of Gen. Porfrio Diax.
former president of Mexico, who died
in Paris Friday night, was held July
s at II O'Clock at the Catholic church
cf St Honore d'EyIau.
Two f1otillas of American-designed
British submarines have sailed from
Quebec for England. EEE
The Austrians have assumed the Of
fensive against the Servians all along
the Danube river front.
Frank Holt, the mar who shot ]. P.
Morgan, was an instructor in the Ger
man department of the Cornell univer-
sity at Ithaca, and was a noted lin
guist.
Twenty-Five thousand advocates of
temperance gathered at Atlantic City,
n. j., July 6 for war councils in the
campaign against the liquor traffic in
the United Sttaes.
Three accomplices of Lieut.. Col.
Miassoyedoff, an Interpreter on the
staff of the Russian tenth army, who
some time ago was hanged as a spy,
have been convicted after a trial by
court martial and hanged.
Eight men were killed and eight
more seriously wounded on board the
British steamer Anglo-Californian
when it vas shelled off the coast Of
Ireland by a German submarine.
John e. Redmond, leader of the
Irish Nationalist party, speaking at
Dublin, said that up to June Is, $780,
741 Irishmen from Ireland had Joined
the army.
Hero stuff, bravery and courage are
all a matter of how much of a certain
kind of secretion you have in your
adrenal glands, says DR.. De Witte Will
cox of Boston.
A Florida man cut down a bad fence
post on his place and discovered that
a nearby grapevine had grown entire
~ through the body of the post.
Japanese exhibitors at the Panama
exposition seem to have had a monop-
oily on winning medals, as the Orient
ais have won 1,511 decorations.
The PHILIPPINE Islanders having been
! cut off from the source of their sup
ply of candy which was formerly Ger.
many, have turned their attention to
the Chicago market.
Real snow was reported from juno.
ton City, Kan, on the I'd of July.
Deputy sheriffs at Charlottesville,
IND, have discovered that three dead
men have been drawhNto serve>on the
regular jury panel.
Lightning struck the steel rod of an
umbrella carried by Mrs. Martha Bur
ASI at L Nv 1Chu.S LIZ u
her instantly.
The output of torpedoes at the va
rious y. S. arsenals has been so re
stricted that only one is made daily
whereas authorities agree that ter
would be none too many.
Another field of operations has beer
opened for the blind, as John Gibson
sightless for sever a has demon
strated that he can clean windows In
a successful manner.
All social clubs il Vicksburg, Miss.
no matter how exclusive, will here
after be as dry as Sahara. This is il
accordance with a new ruling of may
or and chief of police.
Six million dollars toward the con
struction of a rapid transit system
was appropriated at a session of Phil
adelphia city council.
Six persons are reported to have
been killed in a tornado that swept
parts of Ottawa county, northwestern
Oklahoma.
Observation-Disclosures fare automo
biles have begun operating on thu
Spokane (Wash.) streets. Books con
tanning tickets for 100 rides are being
sold for $3.50.
Desperate because he believed they
had separated from him his wife, Al
len Westbrook of Jackson, Miss, sho'
and instantly killed his father-in-law
C. C. cleveland, and Mrs. Cleaveland
One Of the curious effects Of thu
war is that London is smoker thar
ever. War has filled the f~actorie:
with unskilled stokers.
Matthew Jefferson, prosecutor O.
Cape May county, n. J., was found
guilty by a jury of m~alfeasance il
office.
With a smile on his face as he wa.
strapped into the chair, Joseph Ferri
an Italian. vas e~lectrocuted in Sing
Sing On. W prison.
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