The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13

Gen. GOethals announced that he
had sent his resignation as governor
OF the Canal zone to Washington to
take effect on the first of November.
Consul Canada at Vera Cruz cabled
that Henry w. Francis. correspond
emit of a news service. had been In
prison three days.
Three cOnvicts have escaped from
the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan.
Villas forces in Durango have suf-
fered a severe defeat and are retiring
toward Torreon.
l. H. Westbrook, of the furniture
firm of Kohl & Westbrook, of Contra
liza, ILL.,, has been adjudged insane.
Hugo Kempff, 60, founder of the re-
ligious sect knows as Government by
God" killed himself by inhaling illu-
minating gas at his home on Garden
street, haywood, N. J.
c. G. Stafford, former cashier Of q
state bank in Kansas City, Kan, was
arrested in connection with the en-
German losses to date total 2,178:-
683. The casualty lists gives the total
of Prussian losses at 1,641, $50, and
for the Bavarian, Saon and Wurtem-
burg troops 537,114.
Clarence Terry, 80 years old, Is dead
n three other men are wounded as
the result of a shooting ARRAY at
Cherry Valley, Mo-, iron mines.
Actual work of raising the Eastland
has begun. The hulk of the ship has
been pumped dry and divers went UNI
derneath the vessel to attach chains
and hawsers.
American farmers are harvesting
the greatest wheat crop ever grown
in any n country. 1t may reach
| 1000, 900, 900 bushels.
Roumania continues her
tions for war, having already called
to h colors three more classes of
~eserves than were summoned for the
Balkan mobilization of 1913.
The American answer to Germany's
latest note on the Frye case has been
sent to President Wilson at Cornish.
The large planters and shippers OF
blue point oysters from Great South
Bay, N. Y, attribute the present prom
Using condition of their stock to the
unusual abundance of rain.
Lee Osborn, 20 years old, was accd
dentally shot and killed by Harry
Lawson, II, at Mt. Vernon, Ill.
Alfred S. Woolf, 68 years old, a pic
neer merchant, is dead at Kansas City
One of the biggest deals in oil lands
in the southwest was consummated
when Jose de Soria completed the
sale to White & Sinclair of Tulsa, Ok.
of a large tract in the Panuca (Mex
ico) fields for a purchase price q
over $1,000, 900.
The draft of a treaty drawn up By
Bolivia and Paraguay, delimiting the
boundaries of the two countries, was
published by the La Paz Diario.
A posse with bloodhounds was be
l1eved to be close upon the negro wht
attacked the wife of Ned Stafford al
/ hnr h0no r0o~ T ;h@-x-
Ankle Deep Too, the new hydro
plane, which sank Off City Island o,
its trial trip a month ago, struck
submerged rock off Sands Point, La.
while running so miles an hour ant
went to the bottom.
Late returns from rural districts in
sure the election of Theodore g. Bill
BIO as Governor of Mississippi by /,
majority of 5000.
Australian artillerymen have IVAN
tony destroyed" the historic castle O
Lizzana, where the poet, Dante, passe,
his exile.
SA~eoOu ouVcIIlSluS revenue AM
a shortage in the supply of chemicals
necessary for the manufacture o
white paper has resulted IN an agree
ment by the proprietors OF London
newspapers to reduce the number o
pages.
No longer can Sharon, Pa, schoo
teachers enjoy the company OF
steady" without the board of educs
ton being aware of the fact. Ever,
one OF the teachers must declare tn
fact.
Average daily attendance durin,
July at the Panama-Pacific Expositio,
was 69.602. The daily average sine
opening 58,268.
Clint Williams, a young negro, cor
victed of numbering Oscar Scroggins
a messenger boy, last December wa
hanged at Fort Worth, Tex.
A Constantinople dispatch to tn
Mtttag Zeitung Of Berlin reported tina