The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-11-27
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Switzerland, on parole. Cardinal Mer-
cier aroused the ire of the Germans
by his pastoral letter Of Christmas,
1914.
Fire in the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy shipyards at Aurora, ILL.,, de-
stroyed a warehouse filled with huge
casks of gas, causing loss estimated
at $4,000.
According to a message, the kaiser
passed through Sofia, where he Wis
tied King Ferdinand for two days.
After the visit the German emperor
left for Constantinople.
Mrs. T. T. Taylor and her 10-year-
old daughter were drowned in st.
Francis river at Wise Ferry, Arr,
when the skiff in which toy were
seeking to cross the river sank.
Fire has destroyed eight stores in
the village Of Oneida, III.
The Standard Oil company of Kan
sas has declared a quarterly dividend
of 50 a s-are, payable Dec. Is.
State Auditor Brady appointed Ed
ward Ridgley of Springfield, Ill, state
bank examiner.
The French liner RochanSbeau,
which caught fire in a reserve coal
bunker after leaving New York for
Bordeaux, Nov. 16, has arrived.
Augustus o. johnson, a former col
lection clerk in the Fifth-Third Ma
tional bank Of Cincinnati, has pleaded
guilty to having embedded s21, 200
and sentenced to five years In the fed
eral penitentiary at Moundsville. w.
Va.
The steamer Charles A Luck,
owned by F. w. Green, supposed to
have been lost in a gale on Lake Su-
perior last week, is safe.
The lower house Of the Georgia gen.
eral assembly passed a resolution in
dorsing President Wilson's program
for national preparedness.
Charles L. Loop, vice-president of
the Southern Express company and
one Of its founders, is dead at his
home in Chattanooga.
Joseph C. Goode of Houston, Mo-,
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree and sentenced to 10
years. He killed his father, Fouste
Goode, who was a farmer, in defense
of his mother.
vice-President T. r. MarshalIs we'd
ding gift to Mrs. NJ Gait, the presi-
dents fiancee. is gorgeous Navajo
Indian chiefs blanket.
Because his wife and six children
are starving, President Wilson has or
dered ]. M. Pugh Of Aberdeen, Miss,
tiary. Pugh was serving two years
for making of "moonshine" whisky.
Frank Stephens, Jr., was shot and
killed during a quarrel with John Cain
and his two sons at Sullivan, Ind.
Directors of the Citizens and Screw
en- County bank, Georgia institu-
ton with $4,000 capital. announced
that the bank had suspended. The
depositors will be paid in full.
II was announced that the Argen-
tine government had authorized the
Federal Holdings company of New
York to establish In Buenos Aires a
wireless telegraph station to commu-
nicate with similar station in New
York.
Judge Jet sentenced James Conner,
negro. to be hanged Dec. II for the
murder Of his wife. This will be the
first hanging in Montgomery county,
Illinois.
In consequence Of the decision of
the German authorities at Warsaw to
permit the reopening Of all schools,
the Warsaw university has resumed
its work.
Jean Duluth Pear, in Minnesota,
has established a new worlds record
for Red Poll cattle in the 1915 club
contest by scoring more than 700
pounds Of butter fat In one season.
The towboat Harry rBown. owned
by the Monongahela Coal company,
struck a snag near Osceola, Ark, and
sank In Is feet Of water.
A deed for $1s.000,000 which relates
to the recent transfer of the Wabash
railroad was filed for record in Nc
Lean county, Ill. The revenue stamps
on the deed cost $4,000.
The lake steamer Charles A. Luck
has been lost with all hands, accord
ing to report that has reached Chi
cago.
The Handelsblad learns from Brus-
sells that two citizens of Cambria we're
executed as spies on Nov. /.
Herman Ridder. publisher, left a
net estate OF about $1,000. His will
was executed in 1914 and bequeathed
all to his widow.
More than two days after the explo-
sion in the Northwestern Improve
ment compapy's coal mine at Raven
lo1~ nth fha Ioeo of 81 live, z,...lc