The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-07-29
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER W0RLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News CondeNsations He-
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Nations Find Somewhat to
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Edify and Instruct
The interstate commerce commits
sion set aside as unreasonable rates
on lumber and other commodities in
large southern and southeastern ter
ritory.
Ross Brady of Boone Grove, Ind,
and companion named Morris were
killed when their automobile WAS
struck by an engine running wild at
a crossing near Valparaiso.
Announcement was made at the
University Of Michigan Of campaign
among the $4,000 alumni of the insti-
tuition to raise $1,O0o,0O0 to endew
building for the Michigan union, an
organization composed of the students
attending the university.
The Chicago Federation OF Labor
wired President Wilson q copy Of reso-
lutions adopted by the federation call
ing on the president to investigate the
trial and sentence to life imprison-
ment Of John r. Lawson.
w. A. Whitney, contractor and bank
er of Superior, Wis, is in critical
condition at Lemont hospital, In Vir-
ginia, Mimi, as the result of an auto
mobile accident.
Members OF 100 local unions of the
International Brotherhood Of Black
smiths and Helpers have ratified the
proposal to call off the strike on the
Illinois Central and the Pere Mar
Quette railroads.
Mrs. Burgess Davis went to the
home OF her father-inlaw, A. ]. Davis,
at Murphysboro, ILL.,, and after smash
ing bedroom window with revolver
took away her three children.
AS result of hes effort to catch a
rabbit, Chester Barrie, a Raymond,
ILL.,, farmer, lost his life. His team
became frightened and he was
knocked down and the binder crushed
his head.
Judge Carr McNatt In the circuit
court at Cassville, Mo-, quashed the
information filed in the case of Con-
gressman Jacob Meeker in which
criminal 1ihQ1 was CharQod
The American Red Cross will estab
lish baby hospital in Serbia. About
$4,000 already has been contributed.
DR.. Lc4dse Taylor and DR.. Catherine
H. Travis of New Britain, Conn.,, will
take charge.
Gen. Carranza says Gen. Gonzales
had completely routed the Zapata
army in an engagement at Confer,
practically clearing the valley of
Zapatistas."
Carrollton, Mo-, voted dry" by
majority of 1876 out of 541 votes.
The gunboat Nashville was ordered
from San Juan, p. r., TO San Domingo
City. This was at the request Of the
state department..
A large part OF the shipments OF
American cotton held up by England
probably will be condemned by the
prize court
A freight trains 2OO-foot plunge into
a gulch at Indianole, Tex, killed the
engineer, fireman and a brakeman.
Believing that her husband had
ceased to love her, Mrs. Inez Manship
OF Philadelphia, with her two small
children In her arms, turned on all the
gas jets in her home and the three
were found dead by the husband.
Congressman Richard Wayne Park
er of New York is to be taken to pri-
vate sanitarium.
Unaccompanied by guards, David
Essacson, convicted of sWindling, left
New York to serve sentence OF
year and a day in the federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta, Ga.
A Berlin dispatch published here
says that martial law will be declared
throughout Germany in order to sup
press the socialist agitation for ter
minating the war.
Henry Clay Crenshaw, ~ years old,
one of the last of the Quantrell gang.
is dead at the hospital In Kansas
CITY