The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-06
news OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
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Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and instruct
Kate Masterson, a brilliant author
n journalist, was committed to
Bellevue, New York, hospital for OBJ
%servation.
Finnish steamers Leo and Urania
have been sunk in the Baltic Sea.
The Urania struck a mine. The Leo
was sunk by a German submarine.
Eleven men and five women were
killed.
President Wilson has commuted to
life imprisonment the sentence i'm
posed at Milwaukee. Wis, on James
Waupoose, an Indian, who pleaded
guilty of murder of an Indian woman.
Three children of w. r. Grimes, a
farmer of Temple, Tex, were beaten
to death with a hammer. Grimes and
his wife were beaten into unconscious
ness.
Eleven f~oreign-built steamers. pur-
chased with German capital, are to
be granted American registry.
An Austrian cruiser and four de
stroyers bombarded the Singaglia Pc
saro railway, running parallel to the
Adriatic s%eacoast.
Theodore Roosevelt's life won't be
worth 10 cents if, after Aug. 10, he
makes any move to "embroil the
United States in war with Germany"
according to threatening letters
mailed to him at San Diego, Cal.
The Morning Posts Budapest cor
respondent estimates that the calling
up of the last landsturm class in Aus
tria-Hungary will add 100000 men to
the army.
Charges that his home in Ell Paso,
Tex, has bee violated without scru-
ple". by federal agents and a request
for guarantee for his home and family
in future were made by Gen. Victo-
riano Huerta, in a message to Chief
Justice White of the supreme court.
The annual green corn dance of the
Kiowa and Apache Indians is being
held near Fort Cobb, Ok.
In a telegram from Amsterdam the
Morning Post correspondent says:
THE city of Antwerp vas fined $780,
600 francs ($50,OOO) for popular dem
onstration held here on Belgian fete
day"
J. NJ. Cockrell, Chicago agricultural
commissioner of the Rock Island, has
been employed as manager Of the
farm development bureau of the Mem
phis, Tennessee, Business Mems Club
and will resign the Chicago position
Aug. IL.
A cablegram reports an unprece-
denied heat wave sweeping over
Southeastern Alaska. So intense is
the heat that beach residents are tow
ing small icebergs broken off the
Taku glacier to anchorage neal their
phere.
The dedicatory exercises of the
government experimental creamery
were held at Grove City, Pa.
A Russian ukase issued calls to
colors men born in 1896.
wish" Sheppard, a negro, charged
with attacking Miss Mildred Clark, IA
years old, daughter of Enoch Clark,
a fredericksburg, Nd. farmer, July 10,
was found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged.
The Swedish army is now the
largest and most efficient in the
%country's history. Since the outbreak
of the war the army has been almost
doubled.
Charged with recruiting soldiers for
the Villista army lei in violation of
American neutrality laws. Manuel de
Icaza. Villa consul here, was arrested
at Laredo. Tex, July ~ by Deputy
United States Marshal Walker.
Gov. Edward F.. Dunno telegraphed
\ subscription Of 5000 to the Eastland
relief fund from Los Angeles.
A taube aeroplans dropped Is bombs
on Dunkirk. None Of them caused
serious damage.
Eight hundred Seventh Day Adven-
lists, camped at Dalwortb. Tex, ex-
pect the second coming of Christ
~ soon as the allies capture Constan-
tinope.
A blaze Of mysterious origin did
$100,00 damage to sheds containing
large stores Of government supplies
At Belfast.
The strike Of 1900 longshoremen
employed by the Clyde Steamship Co.
and the Mallory Steamship Co. Is
ended.