Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-11-05

Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama, who introduced a resolution in congress to prohibit throughout the United States the sale of alcoholic liquors, was elected life member of the Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance union, at it's convention in New York City.
 
 President Wilson approved the sentence of dismissal by court-mar- tial of Capt. Marion c. Raysor, Sec ond cavalry, recently tried at Fort Sam Houston, Tex, and convicted of drunkenness on duty and making false certificates of troop funds.
 Seven dead firemen and 24 injured were taken from the ruins of the Goodyear Rubber company building in Milwaukee in a fire which caused damage of $500,000.
 Gen. J. w. M. Appleton of Salt Sul- phur Springs, w. Va, was killed by a young Jersey bull on his farm, near Cumberland, Md Gen. Appleton was 82 years old.
 John c. Schaffer of Chicago, after concluding negotiations for the pur- chase of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Times, purchased the Denver Republican and consolidated all three publications. This change leaves one morning daily in Denver. A new island has been found in the Atlantic near Sable island, according to the reports made to the marine de cated by them to headquarters at Ottawa
 It is positively known that not one of the 284 miners caught i'll the eX- plosion of the Stag Canon mine No. 2, at Dawson, N. M., remains in the mine alive.
 G. Bernard Shaw said in London that the iconoclast of today finds his task hard one, as modern idols are of flesh and blood, not wood and stone.
 Accidentally shot by rifle in the hands of several boys" was the yer dict of coroner's jury inquiring into the death of Fred Pratt in Chicago.
 
 Simultaneous with the funeral serv- nf J01y in services were held in 35 cities Of the country in honor of the dead million aire brewe. and philanthropist.
 
 One striker killed, two strikers re- ported wounded, one seriously, and one mine guard slightly wounded are the net results of an attempt by strikers, it is said, to prevent defec- tion in their ranks at Walsenburg.
 Five persons were killed and seven injured on the Canadian Pacific west of Chapelant, Ont, when a work trair collided head-on with an east-bount freight
 Forty sailors and passengers o1 board the Finnish steamer Westkus ten were drowned when the vessa struck reef near Vasa, in the Gull of Bothnia, and went down. No one was rescued.
 Two hundred and forty-seven min CTS are believed to be dead beneath tons of fallen earth, timber, coal and rocks in the cuts and rooms of Stag Canon mine No. of the Stag Canon Fuel company at Dawson, N. NJ.
 
 The grand jury in New York re- turned an indictment charging Harry K. Thaw with conspiracy. Thaw is subject to extradition under the of fense charged.
 A central commission to control the missionary work of the Catholic church in the United States is favored by a committee of the congress in session ln Boston.
 The bones of Christopher Columbus, iloN III IikS CdtLlCQi sil III odIttO lJClllll- go, will be sent to the Panama Pacific exposition in San Francisco as part ol the Dominican republics exhibit
 
 The trial of Dr. William B. Craig, under indictment on a charge of mur- dering Dr. Helene Knabe at Indianap- oils on the night of Oct. 23, 1911, was set to begin on Nov. 28.
 Cleve N Culberson, accused of the murder near Ray, N. D., of Mrs. D. T. Dillon and her daughter Lela aged 12 years, and of shooting E. T. Dillon with intent to kill, was held for trial in the district court at Williston, N. D.
 China has granted to Japan an i'm portant concession for the extension ofher railroads in southern Manchu- r:a which will open up great bean producing and general agricultural dis trict
 Proposed advances in freight rates on various commodities between cit ies in Missouri river territory were