The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-07-29
Premier Botha arrived At Capetown
from the campaign which ended with
the surrender of German Southwest
Africa.

Two German cabin passengers
| aboard the Dutch steamer Nickerie
were taken off that ship by board
ing party from the British cruiser Isis,
While making flight In g. new
machine, Lieut.. Kenneth Whiting OF
the navy aero corps and Walter
Brookins. civilian aviator, fell into
the bay at Pensacoa, Fla.
Frederick Cors, an 1S-year-old I'M
migrant, admitted that he stole dia-
monds valued at $4,000 from the Chi
cago home Of Mrs William Selig.
Golf as q treatment for insanity Is
to be tried at the Elgin Illinois state
hospital for insane.
Candy has been added to the list Of
articles which inmates Of the Federal
prison at Atlanta, Ca, may purchase.
Suits are about to be brought by the
Government against American citi-
zens, who, refuse to repay money ex-
pended for their relief when they were
stranded in Europe at the outbreak OF
the war.
A dispatch to Lloyd's from Durham,
Natal, says the Peninsular and Orien-
tai line steamer Benalla, previously
reported in the Indian Ocean with a
fire in one of her holds, has arrived
at Durham.
The United States capitol and the
House and Senate Buildings are heav-
lily guarded to prevent another at
tempt to blow up the structure.
Two thousand Italian volunteers
from the United States were landed at
Naples, Italy, and received great
ovation.
The trial of Henry Starr and his
three alleged accomplices on a charge
of bank robbery at Chandler. Ok. was
postponed to Aug. 2.
: Former Gov. John A. Dix OF New
York, in a statement, admits he is In
solvent and unable to meet his obliga-
ti0ns.
The Catholic school buildings at
Jonesburg, Miss, conducted by Father
Tuhay, was burned.
II is understood that the Journal OF
Paris has been sold by the Leteilier
family to syndicate for -, 400. 900.
Emma Goldman, we!l-known anar.
chist and often just charged with
advocating free love-" sat next to
Anthony Comstock, the noted New
York purist, at the International Pur'
ist congress in San Francisco.
Congressman T. U. Sisson or MIS-
sissippi underwent a TRANSMISSION OF
blood to his baby son, nine months old
in a last effort to save its life.
Mrs. Allen Robinson, 35 years old,
killed her father, David Eugene De-
vaul, SIS years old, with baseball bat
at the family home, near Chittenango,
N. Y.
Floods in the Illinois river have
swept away the homes OF 40 families
at Pearl, Pike county.
Princeton university graduates and
undergraduates from all parts OF the
country are celebrating "Princeton
week" at the Panama exposition.
President Wilson approved the ap.
pointment Of Judge r. C. Allen as ma
tional attorney for the Creek Indian
tribe OF Oklahoma,
Newell Woodworth OF Buffalo. N.
Y, was elected president-general OF
the Sons of the American Revolution.
Premier Asquith asked a new vote
of credit of E150. 100000 sterling
(about s75O. 900, ,oo0) for war purposes,
out of the funds created by the war
loans. s.,a
A special dispatch to the Messagero
from Udine told of great Italian VIC
tory in the Bario region. near Sa'
grade.
Because Charles Shuster OF Banner
man, NJ Y. called an automobile De-
longing to Charles Kowatch a "fl1y-
ver," he was shot to death by the
latter.
A severe windstorm wrecked
obaufo,fn1,a font at DaIlaStOWIl, Pa,