Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-10-22

Lieut. Charles Becker, In the shadow of the electric chair at Sing Sing, is willing to confess if that proves the only means of saving his life.
 The German foreign office reached the conclusion that the existing situ- ation in Mexico is such as to necessi- tate the presence of a German war ship in Mexican waters
 Washington society women will establish a school of practical house. keeping from which to recruit prop erly trained servants. Pupils will be paid wages during their schooling.
 Former Senator Henry c. Davis, who ran for vice-president when Al ton B. Parker headed the Democratic ticket, is reported to be seriously i'll at his home at EIkins, w. Va. He is nearly go years old.
 A wooden box, four feet long by two feet wide, containing the crun- pied body of nude man, was found floating down the Ohio river at One onta Ky. That the man had met death before his body was crammed into the box was evident, as his skull was crushed in and his throat slashed,
 The Russian government steamers Taimyr and Waygatch, under Com mander Wilitsky, which have been engaged in Arctic exploration of the north of Siberia for three years, ar rived at St. Michael Alaska, for coal. Capt Wilitsky reports the discovery of body of land as large as Green land extending beyond latitude S1 north and longitude 102 east.
 Searchers found the bodies of Mrs. Walter Nichols and Irving Wrisley in the woods of the Nichols farm in West Guilford, Vt Both had been shot to death, apparently by Wrisley, who was employed on the farm.
 
 Father Hans Schmidt, confessed slayer of Anna Aumueller, was indict- ed for murder in the first degree by the grand jury ill New York
 Opening fire in a general merchant disc store at Paris Springs, Mo, while the store was filled with patrons, Phil Vass shot Ben Neseler, probably ia tally, and injured three others in the store.
 Abbatemagio, the notorious inform CT in the celebrated Camorra trial, has been released from prison at Ma pies, Italy, and is determined to go at once to America.
  The roller towel, which has been a feature of many years in government buildings, has been abolished ''in the interests of the public health" by an order of President Wilson.
 
 William Assmann of St. Louis and Joseph O'Reilly, aid left San Antonio, Tex, in a balloon and landed two miles north of Russellville Mo.
 Mrs. Laura M Reuter- was granted a new trial at Bartlesville, Ok. In granting the new trial Judge Hudson stated, among other things, that the evidence did not warrant conYic- ton.
 President Wilson will get his cur rency bill. The three Democratic senators in opposition have yielded a point, and there will be further yield ing within few days. If not, a Dem ocratic caucus will be held.
 More than 4,000 refugees from Pie dras Negras and other parts of north ern Mexico have been rounded up ln the detention camp on the outskirts of Eagle Pass, Tex, by government immigration officials.
 The estate of Benjamin Altman, president of the dry goods firm of B. Altman & Go. of New York, who died at the age of 73 years, is said to amount to $45,OOOOOO.
 Federal Gen Alvarez and his staff and 125 federal soldiers were exc cuted in Torreon, Mexico, under or ders of Gen. Francisco Villa of the Constitutionalist forces.
 Lincoln Beachy, the aviator whose aeroplane killed Miss Ruth Hildreth and severely injured her sister Doro- thy at Hammondsport, N. Y, is re- ported to have forsworn flying for ever.
 
 Home rule for Ireland was indorsed with pronounced enthusiasm by the National German-American Alliance, in convention in St. Louis. San Fran cisco was chosen as the meeting place of the convention in 1915.
 William Ziegler, adopted son and sole heir of the late William Ziegler, the baking powder manufacturer will it is understood, settle a gener GUS part of his $16.000,000 fortune upon his sister, Florence Brandt.