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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Illinois Man Accuses Labor Leader Of
Being "GIoriousiy Drunk"

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind.-Scenes of the
widest disorder marked the session
Of the convention Of the United Mine
Workers of America, which heard Dun
can Mcdonald, secretary-treasurer Of
the Illinois miners, declare that Samu-
ell Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, was "gloriously
drunk" during the Seattle convention
and on other occasions, Mr.. Gompers'
denial and the reiteration by Charles
H. Meyer, president of the western
Federation of Miners, that if the cop
per strike in Michigan were to fail it
would be due to the lack of financial
assistance given by the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor.
The delegates showed little SYM
pathy for Gompers and he declared
he was being tried before a jury
whose minds were already poisoned"
Gompers sat within four feet of Mr..
Donald and during the applause which
greeted the statement that the head
of the federation was "gloriously
drunk" at Seattle, charges of liar"
and of "slander" were hurled back
and forth by the two. Mcdonald as
serted that Gompers had called him
(McDonald) "all kinds of names" while
drunk at Chicago and he had heard
Gompers' voice leading the singing at
the Seattle carousal.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
GR0UCHY REELECTED MAYOR
Wins in First Contest Under Commits
sicn Government.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Baton Rouge-In Baton Rouge's first
election under the commission form of
government. Alex Grouchy. Jr., present
mayor, was elected mayor of Baton
Rouge over his two opponents by a
majority of 21 votes.
second primary for commissioner
OF public works is necessary between
Alfred Persac and |. Larguier. There
vas only 45 votes difference between
Ar. Persac and Mr.. Larguier in the
first primary.
In the race for mayor, Alex Grouchy
received 700 votes in the two wards
of the city; Robert B. Day, 627. and
Leslie A. Fitch. so, giving Mr.. Grouchy
his majority of 81.
In the race for commissioner of
public works Mr.. Mundinger received
32l. Aired Persac $50, and |. Larguier
oO'. The second primary TO settle the
nominee for this Office will be held
on March 3.
l.. j. Ricaud, present city treasurer,
was nominated, without opposition.
for commissioner of finance.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
BARGE LINE TO ST. LOUIS
New Service May Be Installed Within
Next 80 Days.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Orleans.-Plans for establish
ing direct line of self-propelled steel
barges between New Orleans and st.
Louis are being considered by the Ala
bama and New Orleans Transportation
Company, and IL they are worked out
successfully the first vessel of the
fleet will be sent out of this port with
in the next thirty days with a cargo of
general merchandise, according to an
nouncement made by James F. Shaw.
president and general manager of the
company.
Mr.. Shaw now has agents at work
both at New Orleans and ST. Louis
feeling the pulse of the wholesale
trade in connection with such a SER
vice.
The barges are Of 1000 tons capa-
city, and are of solid steel construc-
tion. 240 feet in length. They are
equipped with their own self-generat-
ing gas plant, are self-propelling and
so designed that a crew of three or
four men, including the navigator, is
sufficient to operate them.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
EXECUTES A DlAZ ENVOY
hsesl Leader Orders Death Of Man At.
ter Hearing Message.

~eHem Newspaper Union News Service.
suarez, Mex.-Francis I Guzman,
vho figured prominently in the revolt
sgainst President Madero in Mexico
year ago. was executed in the front
ysFu OF a house occupied by General
Hancisco Villa here. Guzman had just
@ne from Havana, where 1t was
orged he had been given a secret
A.sion by Felix Diaz to induce Gen.
"a villa to renounce General Carran.
and throw the strength of the revo-
hthn to Diaz.
AZ soon as he heard Of the proposal
ssneral villa gave Guzman a confer
and after making sure of the
-.'sre OF the visit ordered the messen-
y mot. Within few minutes after
arrival, Guzman was led out of
s room, stood up before an adobe
~ and with his hands tied and
ves elindfolded, was executed.
me shooting was done by a rebel
ncer In charge of the railroads, who
ppened to be present when the exc
suon was ordered.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
REPORT ADVISES
WIRE MONOPOLY
SECRETARY BURIESON SAYS
PRESENT SERVICE FOR THE
CLASSES, NOT MASSES.
UNITED STATES Is BEHIND
Says Constitution Trainers Saw I'm.
portance of ControI-TeIephone
Ownership Is Urged.

western Newspaper Union News Service
Washlngton.-Gov monopoli.
zatlon of telegraph, telephone and
wireless communication and such
other means for the transmission of
intelligence as hereafter may develop"
is recommended in a report submitted
10 the Senate by Postmaster General
Burleson.
immediate government ownership OF
telephone lines is recommended. with
system of license for the other agen-
cles or communication, establishing a
government monopoly even where
there is not actual ownership.
The report points out that the found
ers of the nation were alive to the
Importance of keeping under govern
ment control all means of communica-
ton and provided in the constitution
that congress should have power to
establish postoffices and post roads.
1t was clearly the intention, the report
adds, that the government should con-
troll every means of transmitting in
telligence.
The postal service already has adopt
ed virtually every means of transmits
sion except electricity and yet the
United States alone of all nations,
the committee points out, has left to
private enterprises the ownership and
operation Of telegraph and telephone
facilities.
These facilities now are for the
classes the report comments, under
government ownership they will be
for the masses"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Judoe Speer HEARING Ends

Savannah, Ga.-Federal Judge EN-
cry Speer Of the Southern District Of
Georgia characterizes as "malvolent
distortions" most Of the charges made
by witnesses before the investigating
congressional committee. His testi-
mony ended the hearings which have
been in progress two weeks. Judge
Speer was given three weeks in which
to file a brief in reply to the testi-
mony of the 20 witnesses. 1t is said
that final report will not be made
until two weeks after the brief is
filed.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
ly exhausted. Several had to be haul
ed over the side of the Nantucket with

, ly exhausted. Several had to be haul
ed over the side of the Nantucket with
ropes.
Thomas r. Harrison kept his wife
afloat by swimming with her hair in
his teeth, only to have her die few
minutes after she was hauled aboard
the Nantucket. Lieut.. L.. B. Curtis,
L. S. A., was rescued, but died after
reaching the Nantucket.
Wireless Operator Dies a Hero.
There were notable deeds of heroism
by Assistant Engineer Oscar Perkins
and First Wireless Operator Ferdinand
]. Kuehn. Perkins, when the thrush
OF water stopped the main dynamo
and left the Monroe in darkness, rush.
ed below and put to work an emergen-
cy dynamo. He is among the rescued.
Operator Kuehn gave the first S. o..
S. call, and after adjusting a life pre-
server, which doubtless would have
saved his own life, removed it from
his body and fastened it on a girl
kuehn was lost. His assistant, r. l..
Ethridge was saved and walked into
the arms of his wife after the Nam
tucket docked with the rescued.
c. w. Poole was en- route from Gray,
Va, by his wife and 1-2 year-old
boy to visit in Massachusetts. His
wife and child were washed fom his
arms over the rail of the sinking Mon
roe.
Ed German of New York described
narrowing scenes, dominated by wom-
en- screaming for help in the cabin
Of the Monroe. Walking upon the side
OF the careened ship, German met
girl whom he begged to jump with
him into the sea. The girl refused and
perished. German was picked up by
a passing lifeboat.
One of the most thrilling stories told
by survivors was that of Miss Nc
Combs. She was one of the nine mem
heTs of the Ma:caria Theatrical Com
pany who survive. Miss McCombs
owes her life to the bravery of Charles
Sutton, native of Hartford, N. c.,
and a member of the Monroe's crew,
who leaped overheard from the foun-
dering ship and kept her afloat in the
icy waters until they reached one Of
the Nantucket's lifeboats.
James O'Connell of Washington. D.
c., vice president of the American
Federation of Labor, escaped injury.
He was in the water for some time,
but is only slightly indisposed from
his experiences.
The coroner of Norfolk will conduct
an inquiry bearing on the death of
Mrs. Harrington and Lieutenant Cur
lis. Local union steamboat inspectors
will proceed with an early investiga-
ton.
Passengers declared that the ot.icers
of the Monroe behaved splendidly.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
FIND MONEY IN MEAL SACK
Louisiana Posse Finds Nearly All Of
Robbers Loot.
-estern Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Shreveport. La.-Detectives of the
local Police Department, acting upon
information obtained from the two
suspects in Jail here charged with the
robbery Saturday of the Bank of
Logansport, La, found s5,760 in a meal
sack which had been thrown into
brush during the flight Of the THE yes.
According to the detectives, who were
aided by party of citizens of Logans-
port, the location given in the sup
posed confession was searched for
some time but without result. How
ever, as the hunt was about to be
abandoned a meal sack containing
the money was found in a bush mile
west of Iogansport. The amount found
is $40 short of the sum stolen from
the bank.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
WILSON MAY LET
REBELS GET ARMS
Is INCLINED TO LIFT EMBARGO
AGAINST IMPORTATION
OF SUPPLIES.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-The ever-recurring ap
peal OF the Mexican Constitutionalist.
that they be permitted to purchase
arms in the United States on an even
footing with the Huerta government
soon may be granted. Though Presi
dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan have
reached no final determination, the
Washington government is strongly
inclined to such a course.
Inquiry discloses that virtually the
entire cabinet, many members of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
and many leaders in Congress are
ready to support the president should
he raise the embargo.
The recent defalcation by the Huer-
ia government the interest on the
bonds. the growing anxiety of Euro
pean nations about the financial af-
fairs of Mexico and the declared in
tention of the Constitutionalists to car.
ry the fighting into the thickly popu-
lated cities in central Mexico are
said to be underlying reasons for
further development of the American
policy, though no official will predict
when 1t will occur.
That the president is giving serious
consideration to the question of arms
is apparent from the trend of his
talk to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, and from evidence which
daily has been coming to the govern
ment of the disadvantage to which a
denial of arms has put the constitu-
tionalists. The latter have argued
that the United States, by forbidding
expectation of arms into Mexico, has
helped Huerta.
The view among officers that to
give arms to both siles on an equality
would end the revolution quickly in
favor OF the Constitutionalists proceeds
from the belief that the latter have
more men available for service and
are financially better able to obtain
supplies than is the Huerta regime.
There is a feeling that the mere an
of the Washington govern
ment's intention to raise the embargo
would weaken the Huerta government.
Before finally passing on the ques-
ton, it is believed the American gov
ernment will seek some assurance that
the lives and property of all foreign
ers would be respected and that arms
would not be permitted to fall into
the hands of irresponsible bands.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
PRESIDENT HEARS
!. APPEAL OF WOMEN
r,vE HUNDRED IN sUFFRAGETTE
pELEGATION-25 ARE AD.
MITTED.
WILSON AGAIN REFUSES AID
However, He Is Impressed by Plea.
May Take Up Matter In Future.
Several States Represented.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Vesfern Newspaper Union News Service
Washington.-The women worker.
Who toll daily in the mills, sweat
/, shops and factories Of the nation
pleaded with President Wilson for his
assistance to the cause of womon suf
frage. The president regretfully told
( them, as he did delegation last De.
eember, that he cannot urge anything
on Congress which had not received
Z ne organic consideration of the Demo.
4 cratic party.
The demonstation-not the brass
band, the street procession, the color
Cd penants and battle flags of the
cause, but the tale Of hardship of the
struggling to live on low wages, of
ne santariums for those who sickened
It their work and the heartbreaking
mgedies of poverty-affected the
resident deeply.
Az the delegation left the executive
offices discouraged and disappointe,
because they obtained no positive aiu,
hey did not know that the president
himself was depressed, perhaps even
more than they as he went to lunch
con with his family. He told his
friends afterwards he wished he could
help. but saw no way to do it.
There is every reason to believe,
however, that the day gave added
timulus to the presidents desire for
Nfly legislation on social justice and
Industrial reform mentioned in his
inst annual message.
Five hundred women-old and young
most of them plainly dressed, but
arnest and determined, went to the
White House. but only a committee Of
y with five speakers gained audience
With the president, the others waiting
mtl the argument had ceased and Mr..
wilson asked to shake hands with all.
b voices often choked with emotion,
ne I'VE speakers recited tale of mod
IN industry which, they said, knew no
eaivalry; where old and young women
worked side by side with men for in
reQuate wages and under conditions
nat undermined health. Representa-
yves OF the weavers, the laundresses,
- carpet makers, the hat makers and
oment workers in ten eastern states
addressed the president.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
SAYS SOUTH GETS BIG SHARE
Iowa Man Objects to Plan of Money
Distribution.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Southern states will
get more than their just share Of the
funds for farm demonstration work
provided for in the Lever agricultural
extension bill, according to Senator
Cummins of Iowa, who contended that
the funds should not be distributed
by basis of rural population, but on
farm land acreage.
Senator Vardaman replied that the
South has to carry the burden of a ne
gro population and that the money is
needed to offset the burden. Senator
Hoke Smith said the rural population
method was not adopted at his sugges-
tion, or that of Representative Lever,
but at that of committee represent
ing state agricultural colleges.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
New Interurban Planned.

Shreveport The Louisiana-Texas
Traction Company, represented here
by Major A. B. Blevins and Secretary
Glen n. Walker. is considering con-
structing an interurban electric line
from Mansfield to Vivian, passing
Shreveport, Blanchard. Oil City and
Mooringsport. A committee of Vivian
citizens. including Mayor Baker, has
been named to work on the franchise
and rights-of-way details. This line
is separate from the proposed Shreve.
4ort-Monroe interurban.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Charges Of Rebatinu Brought.

Chicago.-Indictments against three
railroads and the packing firm of
Swift & Co., were returned by a fed
eral grand jury on charges of re-
batting brought by special agents of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The railroads indicted are the Penn
sylyania, its subsidiary, the Fittsburg,
Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis,
known as the Panhandle, and the Chi
cago and Northwestern.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Declines Amhassadorship,

Washington.-Henry NJ. Pindell oI
Peoria, ILL.,, who was nominted re
Gently and confirmed as ambassador
to Russia, has declined the appoint
ment in a letter to President Wilson
Just made public. Mr.. Pindell wrote
President Wilson that although the
Senate had investigated accusations in
connection with his appointment, he
felt, nevertheless, thet no controversy
of any kind should surround the ap.
pointment of any ambassador, as il
was liable to be misunderstood abroad.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Old Convent Building Burned.

Grand Coteua.-Fire destroyed the
old community at the Sacred Heart
convent, which was erected in 1921.
1t was the first Sacred Heart convent
in Louisiana and the second in Ar'eri-
ca. The fire also destroyed all the
buildings in the rear of the convent.
Had the wind been north the large
convent and the whole college
Grand Coteau would have been de-
stroyed. A short while after the alarm
was given the Jesuit fathers. colle@,
boys and the whole of Grand Cote"
and Sunset gathered to help. All the
efforts were centered on the big CO.
vent.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
H'tia Guards Strike Breakers.

o. Colo.-Guarded by a detach.
= ~ militia, special train bearing
aaeoreakers left here for the
-, mine Of the victor-American
.ompany. The train was the
'nat was fired on by alleged
-, near Williamsburg, the engi-
- 0sng forced to put back to this
~ 1eneral Chase detailed a de-
nt OF infantry from Trinidad
S.o the train on it's second trip,
uered 20 soldiers and a machine
" oe taken on board at Florence.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Upholds slim Crow Law.

st. Louis.-The "Jim Crow" law of
Oklahoma was upheld by the United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals. The
court affirms the decision of the Dis
trict Court at Kansas City, which re-
fused to award DR.. William ]. Thomp-
kins $4,000 damages. Thompkins, a
negro, was ordered to enter a negro
coach at the Oklahoma state line. He
refused and was ordered off the train.
A disturbaneS resulted. Thompkins
was arrested and fined SIS.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Mrs. Stroud 70 Get Insurance

Shreveport.-Attorney James y
Foster announces that a $4,000 life in
surance policy taken out by Jess
Stroud, Caddo oil worker, a few
months before he was shot and killed
by Mrs. Della Stroud, his wife. will be
paid the widow Immediately. Mrs.
Stroud shot her husband, after less
than a years married life, on public
road. She was charged with murder.
but convinced the trial jury that she
acted in selfdefense. Relatives of
Stroud filed suit for the insurance, but
the litigation has been withdrawn.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07

partment have made additional arrests
in the alleged plot against the gov
eminent. The people generally have
received news of the conspiracy with
some reserve. the evidence submitted
by secret agents not being credited
in some quarters. Jose Luis Requena,
chief of the Felix Diaz political Or
organization, and Pedro Villar, who
were arrested on a charge of COM
plicity in a plot against the govern
ment were released. 1t is understood
both have agreed to leave the coun.
try.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Mrs. Belmont JOINS Insuruen nts.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who re.
Gently withdrew from the Congress
sional Union because of dissatisfac.
ton with methods in which that or
ganization was conducted, announced
that Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont of New
York had applied for membership In
the insurgent organization and had
accompanied her application by q
check for $4,000. No title for the in
surgent organization has yet been de-
.cl6ed upon.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Wavy Has Plenty of Men

ngton.-For the first time
@e war between the states the
~ complement of the navy al
oy law has been filled and here.
.uiy specially qualified appli.
ut the navy win be accepted.
Daniels attributed this to
sp'ion in the navy of the general
VI education Of the enlisted
me popularity of the recent
. cruise of the fleet and to
aedse on the part of young
pQroaching cruises.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Aged Pioneer Has Family Reunion.

Iota.-Mattheus Pousson, Sr., prob
ably the oldest pioneer Of this section
of Acadia parish, having settled here
65 years ago celebrated his SSth birth.
day by a family reunion. Nine chill
dren, six sons and three daughters,
with their wives and husbands, and
30 grandchildren, we're assembled. Mr..
Pousson was born in France, and serv.
ed with distinction in the Crimean war
in Europe before emigrating to Louisi-
ana
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07

Washington.-Shortage OF meat ami
mails in the United States was strik-
ingly demonstrated by comparative
figures made public by the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The report show
ed that there are nine less beef cattle,
seven less sheep and three less hogs
now for each 100 person in the coun.
try than there were in 1910. This
means that 1t would take 1928. 900
more cattle, sheep and hogs to give
the present population the same sup
ply that the census of 1910 showed to
exist.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER
Jury Finds Miss Edwards Guilty With.
out Capital Punishment.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
New Orleans.-Miss Augusta Ed
wards, aged &c, charged with the MUIR
der of George w. Reihl, 35, here last
July, was found guilty by jury which
recommended a verdict without CAPT.
tai punishment. The court deferred
sentence. Reihl was married.
The girl testified that she and Reihl
were engaged and that she did not
know for long time that Reihl was
married.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
ssW Shipment of Foreiun Meat.

suie, Wash.-Two million pounds
nozen beef and mutton, the first
shipment of this kind ever sent
4. australia to Seattle, arrived on
british ship Waimato. Officers of
~ importing company say regular
~ snts from Australia to Seattle
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Bond Extension Authorized.

Pittsburgh the United States Dis
trict Court here receivers of the
American Water Works and Guarantee
Company of Pittsburg were authoriz
ed to extend until February 1, 1916
s1,25O,O00 six per cent bonds of the
Arkansaw w ,er Company and until
January 10, 1915, $1,000 six per cent
bonds Of the Louisiana Water Com.
pany, now overdue.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07

Alexandria.-The government GIN
ners report shows 1921 bales of cot
ton ginned in Rapides parish from the
crop of 1913 up to January 1s, as
compared with 11,2S1 for the same
date last year.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07

washington.-Postal money orders
will be payable at any postoffice, in.
stead of only at the office on which
they are drawn, under a bill passed
by the senate It slready had passed
the house.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
cotfon Oil Plant Burned,

Ada. Okla.-The plant of the Choc-
taw Cotton Oil Company here was
burned, but adjoining buildings of
the company were saved by the work
of the Fire Department. The loss
will reach 100000, partially insured.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-02-07
Commissioners Nominated.

Washington. - President Wilson
nominated these Interstate Commerce
Commissioners: Winthrop Moore Dam
iels of Princeton, n. j., and Henry
Clay Hall of Colorado Springs, Col.