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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
I OWNERS HIT
|N FEDERAL PROBE
~s,,eAToRs MAKE REPORT
T.onpIIIoNs IN MICHIGAN
COPPER DISTRICT.
|fllIoRs ARE ACCUSED
..,kers Were Taken to Mines
!. Paint of Pistols, II Is
Alleged.

s.~usper Union News Service.
xineton.-Report of the Depart
= Iabor's investigation Of the
= copper strike, made public
seeIares that strike-breakers
,nported into the copper region
.,srepresentations; that some
nsen to the mines at the point
.,olx that strikers were wounded
e,erms in the hands of armed
4 but that TO evidence was
q of officers being injured by the
hsn.
ms declared that while many of
mailer copper mining companies
A. region are operating at a loss,
cslumetHecla Company, which
kou more than 80 per cent OF the
n the region, had had extremely
vrofits." The report was made
tbe Investigations of Walter B.
=. special agent of the Depart
Il Labor; John Moffitt and John
more, solicitor for the depart
No we're sent out to the copper
= conciliators.
nry Wilson, making public a
~ Of the report, intimated that
hEngs Of his investigators might
y the basis of a proposed con-
6ual Investigation.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Arkansas
NEW CHARGES BY BREWER
Mississippi Governor Says State Has
Been Defrauded Of Great Sums.

Jackson. Miss.-Governor Earl Brew
er startled the legislature with a 5000
word message reviewing the details
of his crusade against methods of man.
agement in the penitentiary.
The governor wrote that he obtain
ed the assistance of the State Depart
ment at Washington in securing sta
tistics from Liverpool cotton ship
ments purchased from the states pen
al institutions and asserted that during
the past five years the state has lost
more than 100000 through alleged
discrepancies in weight and grades.
The governor also said that there
has been reckless waste in handling
of other crops and that hundreds of
thousands of dollars have been lost
by careless management.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Ask Federal Aid for Roads.

Kansas City.-Plans for the formu-
lation of definite requests for federal
aid in building roads were mapped
out by ]. NJ. Lowe, president of the
National Old Trails Road Association;
Sidney Suggs, state highway commits
sioner of Oklahoma and William Ken
nedy, secretary of the Commercial
Club, Arkansas City, Kans. in a con.
erence here. The conference plan
ned a congress of the heads of all
western highway associPtions to be
held in Tulsa, Okla, in February.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
FIRE CAUSES HEAVY LOSS
Industrial Plant Worth Million DOL
lars Are Burned.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Orleans.-A loss estimated at
S1,000,000 was caused by fire which
destroyed the plants of the Information
al Distillery and United States Indus
trial Alcohol Company, at Pine and
Ferdinand streets. Just what caused
the fire is not known, but it was first
seen by Alexander Reed, a private
watchman. He say the flames first
shot up from the cooper shop, two
story frame building, covered with cor
rusated iron.
From the cooper shop the fire spread
to the alcohol department, structure
having a one-story front and two-story
hack. The flames spread to the one
story warehouse, then to the five-story
byick building, the main building of the
plant, and to the boiler shed. all Of
which were destroyed. The buildings
were owned by the International Dis
tilling Company and the United States
Industrial Alcohol Company, consoli-
dated companies. Wood alcohol was
the product of the establishment, al
though cologne and scented waters
were also manufactured. These estab-
isfments combined. together with ma
chinery, stock and contents, were
valued at about s1,100,000.
Several people were slightly injured
by falling brands. Three box cars of
the Public Belt railroad, Containing
empty barrels, were standing on the
siding on Pine Street, near st, Fer
dinand. and were damaged about
$4,000.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
fEOERALS FLEE TO
THE UNITED STATES
MEXICAN AnIY ADA,!OCNs g,I..
AGA AID CROSSES CC0DCU
LIIC,
GENERALS LEAD THE FLIGHT
Nearly eco Soldiers 9urrender to
American Border PatroI-Sig
Victory for the Rebels.

West n Newspaper Union News Service.
Preside, TeXas.-Twenty-eight hun
dred Mexican Federal soldiers, six
generals, 100000 rounds of ammuni-
ion, two cannon, four large field pieces
and 1890 civilian refugees are in the
custody OF the United States army
border partol as the result of the Fed
eral evacuation of Ojinaga, Mexico,
and the occupation of the Mexican vii
lage by General Francisco Villas rebel
forces.
The distress of the refugees has
been intense. They had scant food
and no SHELTER. Men, women, children,
Gogs, chickens and cattle we're packed
together in a space covering several
acres. About them was scattered all
the goods and baggage brought in from
Ojinaga.
Federal Generals Mercado, Castro,
Ophinal, Romeo, Aduna and Landa are
in custody of the United States troops
awaiting disposition by the War De-
partment.
SaIazar Is Wounded.
General Pascual Orozco and General
Ynez Salazar, Federal volunteer COM
manders, escaped along the border to
some point remote from Preside.
Salazar was wounded. They were ac-
companied by General Carvoa and
General Rojas and 800 cavalrymen.
General Landa said he was certain
all the Federal troops escaped.
Charges of cowardice were made
against Orozco, Salazar and Rojas
General Mercado said the generals
abandoned their troops at the begin
ming of the battle and thus weakened
the Federal defense.
The defeat of the Federal army fol-
lowed only a few hours fighting, in
which the rebels, beginning at sun
down, started to close in on the besieg-
ed garrison with canon and rifle fire.
Flee to Escape Massacde.
General Castro and General Mercado
of the Federals saw the assault was to
be nothing less than a massacre. The
Federals had left but so rounds of
ammunition for each man. The gen.
erals, therefore, gave the orders to
evacuate.
All the Federal soldiers and their
officers who could scramble to the
American side did so.
Defeat of the Federal army at this
point marks the most important rebel
victory of the present revolution. 1t
leaves the rebels in possession virtual
ly of all the north of Mexico.
Mercado. Castro and Landa were the
only remaining commanders of the
Federal regulars. The other generals
commanded volunteers, and had been
threatened by, Villa with death should
they be captured.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
13,333,074 BALES GINNED
Report of Census Bureau Shows In
crease Over Last Year.

Western Newspaper Cn'nn News Service
Washington.-The eighth cotton gin
ming report of the Census Bureau for
the season, announced that 1888, ,074
bales of cotton, counting round as half
bales, Of the growth of 1913, had been
ginned prior to January 1. to which
date during the past seven years the
ginning averaged 93.4 per cent of the
entire crop. Last year to January 1,
there had been ginned 12,9O7, ,4O5 bales.
or 95.7 per cent of the entire crop:
14,317,002 bales or 921 per cent in
1911, and 12,465,29S bales or 95.3 per
cent in 1908.
Ginnings prior to January l in Ark
ansas and Louisiana, with compar risons
for last year and other big crop years
and the percentage of the entire crop
ginned prior to that date in those
years, follow:
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Is PELlkGRA HOSPITAL
~ MeAdoo Would Locate In
utution In Southern City.

Svrrsp~r Onion News Serv,ce
lhston. = Secretary McAdoo
amended to Congress that an
ration Of $4,000 be made for
oiiation of a hospital for the
elf Of pellagra in some South
~ He has sketched some phas-
ns project in a letter to Speak
note that pellagra has imposed
mancial burdens on comuni.
nich 1t prevails and that while
MONS Of the disease have been
sally carried on at the Ma.
val at Savannah for several
= facilities exist for the con.
3 netabolic and physico-chemi.
considered necessary by
.c Health Service because of
sion Of the association of the
nm diet and metabolism.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Test New tuberculosis Cure.

Washington.-A new method OF
treating tuberculosis is being investi-
gated by the Public Health Service
through experiments at Fort Stanton.
n. M. Officials of the service say
they are hopeful of important results.
The method is known as artificial or
induced pneumo-thorax. Air is pump
ed into the patients pleural cavity
every day or two to maintain pressure.
and the results are watched by X-rays
to ascertain the extent to which the
diseased lung b compressed.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
ANTITRUST LAWS
ARE FORMULATED
PROGRAM FOR LEGISLATION OUT
LINED BY CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE.
WILSON TO PASS UPON IT
President Is Expected to Give APP
provaI to Several Drastic Meas
ures That Are Proposed.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washlngton.-A general outline or
tentative draft of the antitrust legis-
lation prepared by majority members
Of the house Committee on the Judi
ciary for action by the full committee,
subject to a conference with President
Wilson, has become known.
While members of the committee
talked with the president some weeks
ago, the proposed bills so far as known
have not the administration stamp and
they will be discussed at a confer
ence between the president and the
committeeman. The bills drafted af
ter conference between Chairman
Clayton, Carlin of Virginia, Floyd of
Arkansas, Mccoy of New Jersey and
others, cover these three points:
1. Interlocking directorates.
2. Trade relations and prices.
3. Injunction proceedings and dam
age suits by individuals.
In every case President Wilson's
idea of proTiding penalties for indi-
viduals as well as for corporations in
case of violations, has been followed.
An attempt to define combinations
and conspiracies in restraint of trade
as far as possible has been made in
the bills already prepared.
The effect of the individual corpo-
ration feature of the interlocking di-
rectorate bill, the committeeman say,
would be of the most sweeping charac-
ter, cutting out the interlocking ar
rangements and enabling directorships
and control to pass to a large army Of
new men instead of keeping the indi-
vidual control of various lines of acti-
vity in the hands of a few.
The bin designed to stop agree
ments for regulation of prices has
drastic provisions. 1t is designed to
stop the fixing by wholesalers of
prices at which the manufactured
article shall be sold to the public and
TO prevent big business" from enter
ing into contracts TO control prices of
any commodity.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
CITY GETS new SHIP LINE
Hubbard-Zemurray Company Moves
From Mobile to New Orleans.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Orleans.-Mobile has lost the
Hubbard-Zemurray Steamship Com
pany to New Orleans. This announce
ment was made by an official of the
company at Mobile. Company Offices
and headquarters will be moved to
New Orleans. after which Mobile will
get boat a month to and from Puerto
"ortez, Honduras, instead Of one a
week, as at present. Three of the four
steamers now in trade between that
port and the Honduran port will come
to New Orleans.
II is denied that the Hubbard-Ze-
murray Company has been absorbed
by the United Fruit Company. II is
said that the move is made because
New Orleans and Louisiana capital
control the company. The removal
means, however, that Mobile loses
more than 100000 a year to New Or
leans.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
STATE PRESIDENTIAL
PRIMARIES PLANNED
SYSTEM PROPOSED BY JOSEPH w.
FOLK APPROVED BY DEMO-
CRATIC LEADERS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Neutrality-suspicious. for putting into
effect the presidential preference pri-
mary idea suggested by President Will
son, were discussed here by Democrat
ic leaders. A plan of state primaries
proposed by Joseph w. Folk was sup
ported by other speakers, including
Secretary Redfield and Secretary Will
son, Senator Owen, Louis D. Brandles,
Assistant Secretary Hamlin of the
Treasury Department and John Burke,
treasurer of the United States.
A committee was named to draft
a plan for the state pr: ary method
of nominating candidates for the
presidency. If the committees report
is adopted at the next meeting of the
club. it probably will be presented to
the meeting in May of the House Of
Governors and the committee will
urge Congress to adopt legislation
necessary for making the plan opera
tive.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Ryan to Serve Seven Years.
TWELVE MINERS ARE KILLED
Explosion Traps 200 Men but Most of
Them Escape.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Birmingham, Ala.-The bodies of the
IL men, five whites and seven negroes,
who were killed in an explosion at the
Rock Castle mine of the Davis Creek
Coal Company, 80 miles south of Bir-
mingham, in Tuscaloosa county, have
been recovered. More than 200 men
were at work in the mine when the
explosion occurred, but all but u got
out before the after damp affected
any seriously
The mine was little damaged by the
explosion, which is believed to have
been caused by gas, which, in turn,
ignited the dust.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
i HAVEN ROAD GIVES IN
ment for Reorganization Big Vic
tory for Government.
Newspaper Un'on News Service.

- Newspaper Un'on News Service.
1skington.-The New York, New
u and Hartford and the Depart
! Of Justice have announced that
CeIninary agreement has been
~ designed to effect a reorgani-
y Of the New Haven and to pre-
suit for its dissolution under
nGman law.
Qnpliance with the departments
~. the New Haven will dispose
y holdings in the Boston and
ntlroad. cancel its joint agree
ee1trolling the Boston and Alba
3 up its trolley lines and sever
, steamship lines.
~ conceded that the Depart
q Justice gained virtually every
emanded.
'snnouncement Of the agreement
a have any bearing on the
nlked-of criminal suits against
directors Of the New Haven
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
FATHER AND CHILD KILLED
Man Meets Death in Vain Effort to
Save Daughter.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Patterson.-Eli Pergeron, a black
smith, 80 years of age. and his G-year-
old daughter, Bessie, were struck by
a Southern Pacific engine, and hurled
so feet and killed instantly. Bergeron
had recently moved his family to a
house situated near the track and the
girl was walking down towards her
home when her father saw that she
did not hear an approaching train.
He dashed from his house after the
little one and caught her just in time
for both to be struck at once and sent
to an immediate death.
Mrs. Begeron was standing on her
gallery and saw her baby and husband
killed. She tainted and was not re-
vived for many hours.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
IRIDIUM CURES CANCER
Hys'eian Reports That Great
No Has Been Made.

~ psp-r Union News Service
Great progress in the cure
oy radium is reported at the
hospital, London, under the
y Dr. Lazarus Barlow. Whila
70 September, 1912, the
laie was 100 per cent, in
perlod Of 1913 out of 6S cases
- died and S2 were dis.
most OF the discharged pa
pursuing their daily occu-
.a0 mere have been only one
CT recurrence reported.
Iov found that $50 MILL
st'ed in cancerous tumor
'oy 1t. He protests against
price of radium. which
"a disgrace to ciyiliza.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
To Insure Postal EMPLOYEES.

Washington.-All letter carriers.
postoffice clerks and special delivery
messengers would be extended the
right to compensation for injuries suf-
fered in service under provision now
in the postoffice appropriation bill,
which will be reported to the house
soon after the holiday recess. The
compensation is $4,000 death benefit,
or for injuries full pay for one year
and half pay for the second year,
should the disability continue that
long.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Insurance Man in Prison.

Shreveport.-W. G.. Laning. former
president of the Pelican Fire Insur-
ance Company, of Shreveport, who
was convicted several months ago of
embezzling from stockholders in that
company, has gone to Baton Rouge to
begin a seven-year term in the peni-
tentiary. AS a result of Laning's ir-
regularities the insurance company
was forced into liquidation. Laring
was arrested at Boloxi, Miss.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Local Option Upheld.

Austin, Textile validity of a new
Texas law permitting local option"
election on the question of poolrooms
was upheld by the state court of crimi-
nal appeals here. Lay ers said the
decision will probably open the way
for the legislature to permit similar
local regulations of Sunday laws and
possibly of gambling.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Grace Dies From Old Wound.

Newman, Ga.-Eugene Grace died
here from a bullet wound he mysteri-
ously received in Atlanta nearly two
years ago. Grace had suffered from
partial paralysis since shortly after
the shooting. Grace was wounded at
his Atlanta home in March, 1912. At
the hospital he accused his wife, Mrs.
Daisy Opie Grace, of the shooting.
Later in the same year she was tried
on a charge of attempted murder and
found not guilty.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Primary Set for January 27.

Baton Rouge.-The city Democratic
Committee fixed Jan. q as the date
for the primary to nominate a mayor,
commissioner of public health and
safe 3; a councilman, commissioner OF
finance, a councilman, commissioner
OF parks and streets, one member of
the committee at large, two members
from Ward l and two from Ward 2.
An effort to have city judge and
city constable included in the elec.
tive officers was defeated.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
England May Be Represented.

San Francisco.-Sir Robert Balfour.
member of the British Parliament, at
a luncheon in his honor given BY the
directors Of the Panama-Pacific Ex-
position. said he had not abandoned
hope that his government might re-
consider its determination not to take
part in the exposition here next year.
81 think it likely the question may be
brought up in the House of Commons
when it meets February TO-" he said.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Aviator's Fate Still Mystery.

New York.-The passing of Albert
X. J. Jewell, the young aviator who
launched his aeroplane from Hemp
stead Plains, Long Island, three
months ago and vanished, still re-
mained mystery, after his wife had
viewed the torso cast up on the beach
at Edgemere, L. |, The body was
headless, armless and legless, but Mrs.
Jewell said the clothing made her GER
tain that it was not her husbands.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
City to Buy State Land.

Shreveport.-ChIef State Engineer
Frank NJ. Kerr. while here attending
a meeting of the Caddo Levee Board.
announced that his department had
just completed and filed with Cover
nor Hall and State Land Register
Frank ]. Grace, the surveys and maps
of the cross lake lands north OF
Shreveport after several months OF
labor. in accordance with a legislative
act authorizing the state to sell these
lands to the city of Shreveport at a
dollar an acre for a municipal water
reservoir. The lands aggregated H.
S49.l3 acres
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
biography Of Great Evangelist.

Winona Lake, Ind.-While Rev. Billy
Sunday, the noted evangelist, was rest
ing here recently, after a strenuous
campaign in Johnstown, Pa. he re
ceived word that the new biography,
"The Spectacular Career of Rev. Billy
Sunday" was off the press. 1t is the
work of T. T. Frankenberg and the
evangelist says it is a truthful ac-
count of his life.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
AVIATOR ORDERED TO FIGHT
Jules vedrines Must Give Rival Salts
faction, Aerial League Rules.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris.-Jules Vedrines, one Of the
two French aviators who recently flew
from Paris to Cairo, was ordered by
the French National Aerial League to
give satisfaction to Henry Roux, his
rival, who also accomplished the
flight. Roux challenged vedrines to
a duel after the latter had struck him
in the face.
The quarrel arose between the avia-
tors because Roux is alleged to have
requested the Turkish officials not to
assist Vedrines in his flight in the
Orient.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Thief Makes Rich Haul.

Alexandria, number OF houses
we're entered and robbed in the White
Street section of the city. The home
of Or. Graham Stafford was robbed OF
a gold watch, money and clothing, the
loss being about 5000. Four other
houses on the -ame street were en-
tered.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
Gallon Is Liquor Limit.

Jackson, Miss.-A bill providing that
no person in this state can receive a
shipment of more than one gallon Of
LIQUOR at time and making it neces-
sary for the consignee to have a doc
tors certificate that the liquor is
physical necessity, was passed here
by the lower house of the General AS
semtly by a vote Of 81 to 80. The bill
went to the Senate.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
6stors Estate s35. goo. .s2s.

New York.-The gross value OF the
estate of the late Col. John Jacob
Astor is ss5,s9o.s26, according to a re-
port of re-appraisement. The reap
praisement adds another 81 ,109.321 to
Mrs. Madeline Force Astor's share of
the estate.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-17
LABOR OFFICIALS
SENTENCES Stand
TWENTY-FoUR OF MEN CONVICT
ED OF CONSPIRACY LOSE IN
HIGHER COURT.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Chicago.-Sentence of "a of the Ia
Dor union officials convicted in Indi-
annapolis of conspiracy to transport
dynamite, were confirmed by the Unit
ed States Ciruit Court of Appeals Of
the Seventh district. Six of the 80
who appealed were granted new trials.
They are: Olaf A. Tveitmore, San Fran
cisco; William Mccain, Kansas City,
Mo-; Fred Sherman. indianapolis, Ind;
VIM. Bernhard, Cincinnati, O.: James
E. Ray, Peoria, ILL.,; Richard Eoulhan,
Chicago, Ill.
Counsel for the "a winthin 80 days
will petition the court of appeals for
rehearing on new legal points. If
that is denied they will take the case
to the federal supreme court. Pend
ing final adjudication it is understood
that no attempt will be made by the
government to return TO the Leaven-
worth penitentiary those of the con-
victed men who are at liberty under
bond.
Conspiracy Charge Upheld.
The appeal was heard by Circuit
Judges kolsaat, Baker and Seaman
The decision declares conspiracy
clearly was shown on the part of the
"a defendants. and that challenge of
the conspiracy accounts of the indict-
ments was erroneous.
The decision stated succinctly that
McManigal and Clark, though code
PENDANTS. were competent witnesses
for the state.
The final contention of the defend
ants counsel that the United States
had not jurisdiction in the charges
alleged was disallowed.
Counsel for the labor officials heard
the decision with keen disappoint-
ment. E. n. collins, of the attorneys
for the petitioners, however, stated
that he already had prepared briefs
on three important points which had
been overlooked in the first appeal.
Ryan to Serve Seven Years.
The sentence Of seven years penal
servitude against Frank NJ. RYAN of
Chicago, president of the association,
was affirmed. There were 80 convic-
tions in the dynamite cases charging
transporting dynamite. Two of the
convicted men did not appeal.