The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
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FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
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Weeks News COMBINATIONS he
viewed Without Comment-AtI
Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and instruct.

Ethel Pigg, "a years old, a lifelong
crlpples, was shot and killed by Jo-
seph Tribbey in Cass, Ind, when he
mlstook her for a burglar.
Mike Demski, a Franklin miner,
killed himself with dynamite.
Walter Leake, colored, "a years old,
was shot and killed by Peter Brown,
a special Waterman of the Illinois
Central railroad.
The Swedish schooner Daisy struck
a mine and sank in the Baltic. Capt.
Stryback and four of her crew were
drowned.
Judge r. j. PEBBLES instructed a Spe-
cial grand jurw at Raleigh, N. c., that
the act prohibiting shipment into the
state of more than one quart of alco-
holic liquor to any one person in Is
days is unconstitutional.
In the strike of 10000 pantsmakers
in New York, which may involve thou
sands OF other garment workers, one
large firm has reinstated 800 strikers
at an advance of 81 a week.
The department of agriculture ex-
tended until Jan. 1, 1916, the time
limit for use of labels and cartons
printed before May II, 1914, which do
not state the quantity of the contents
offered in packages.
Bequests totaling $4OO, 900 were
made to the Home and Foreign Mis-
sion branches of the Presbyterian
church by the will of Edward A. Webb
of st. Paul, MINI.
Of the four counties voting in
county option elections July 10, Free
born, with IA saloons and three whole
sale liquor houses, and Anoka, with
" saloons, went dry.
A Central News dispatch from Am.
sterdam says: Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg is engaged in prepare
lions for something that will surprise
the world and may decide the war;
Henry Field, a grandson of the late
Marshall Field, has been promoted in
the ranks of the British army for dis
tinguished service.
The Illinois division of the Dixie
highway has been formally dedicated
Joseph G. Cannon threw the first
shoyelful of dirt.
Another effort to save Charles Beck
er has failed. Chief Justice Bartlett
OF the court of appeals has rejected al
appeal from Becker's counsel.
A raise of three cents an hour in pa,
of Chicago street car employees, an
nounced, will cost the companies ap
proximately $1,17O,0O a year.
President Wilson's daughter Mar
garet has joined the chautauqua sum
mer school. She will deliver severa
lectures during the season.
Henry Clay Crenshaw, 72 years old
one of the last of the Quantrell gang
is dead at the hospital in Kansa:
City.
Fire caused the death OF Mrs. J..
Rowan and her 3-year-old son Paul
and serious injury to Stella, 9
Eva, ii, nj Manuel, IL, children O
= Mrs. Rowan
A Little Rock, Ark, jury found Mr.
Mollie Washburn, Sc, guilty of frs
degree murder, for shooting and Kill
ing J.. H. Suth, 63, a carpenter, June
She vas sentenced to life imprisor
ment.
A Boston paper announces the r.
ceipt of a letter in which the write
states that two bombs have bee
placed in the state house and anothe
in the custom tower and that thes
would be exploded
Minister of Munitions David Lloyl
George, who absented himself froI
his office while reports of an impent
ing clash with ord Kitchener an
Premier Asquith we're in circulation
has resumed his duties.
A Paris paper suggests hat a stree
be named after Theodore Roosevelt
because of his friendship for th
allies.
Tse-Ne-Gat. Piute Indian, was foun
not guilty of a murder charge by
Jury in the United States distric
court at Denver.
A mob at Bunkie, La, hanged Thon
as Collins. q negro accused of wouns
ing q policeman, w. C. Townsend. VIII
was shot when he tried to arrest tn
negro.
The Portuguese legation here hs
received a dispatch denying the r
cent announcement that DR.. Alfons
Costa had died in Lisbon.
St Clair McKelway. editor Of th
Brooklyn Eagle. Ia dead at his HON
In Brooklyn.
Henry s. Graves, chief Of the fore,
service, left Washington for Alaska |
tnvektieate the national forests Their
He wfl remain until October.