The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-02


mortgage for $1O0,OOO,OOO given
b, the Lake Shore & Michigan South
e. railway to the Central Trust COM
pay OF New York was filed in the
clnty clerks office at Buffalo. The
t. fee was $5OO,OOO.
he effort of the administration to
haze the senate reconsider ratifica-
tin of the London sea safety treaty
WIS defeated.
President Wilson nominated Gane
E. Parker of Oklahoma to be superin-
tesdent of the five civilized tribes in
oklahoma. Parker, a Choctaw Indian,
.s'how register of the treasury.
The Rivadavia, one of the world
grsatest battleships, built in this coun-
ri for tee Argentine republic, left
lSe| York port for a destination
gh bh was not definitely known, but
winch Vas unofficially reported to be
Bueuos Aires.
illiam b. Mckinley of Champaign,
III who had previously given the Y.
NJ c. A. of the University of Illinois
$4,000, made Christmas present to
ih9 institution of $4,000.
former United States Senator Will
liam S. West was found dead In bed
at his home at Valdosta. Ga. He had
retired apparently in good health.
contracts for s500,O0O worth OF
DO es and the same amount in tents
were let to Toledo, o., companies by
c. Vassadarkis Of New York, Greek
ccnsul-general to the United States,
in behalf of a Greek company. He
Inied they were to be used for war
Thc United States cruiser Tennes-
:, has arrived at Alexandria, Egypt,
frbm Chois.
1t is officially reported that the
Gsrmsn vessels bombarding Hartle-
mol, Scarborough and Whitby were
hin several times by the coast batter
il but that the damage was slight
the right of the state of New York
:. extradite Harry X. Thaw was up
h ID by the United States supreme
c brit in a unanimous opinion revers-
lJg Judge Aldrich Of the federal dis
tAict court of New Hampshire.
lSteros Sarandakos, just before he
WI las arraigned at Lowell, Mass, on a
charge of having murdered his son-in-
law, Nicholi Psikramis, confessed to
the police he has killed 16 men.
SPresident Wilson plans to reappoint
- y Clay Hall of Colorado Springs,
member of the interstate COM
nj Ie commission. Mr.. Halls term
q Ep es Jan. 1.
: 1t was announced that the Acme
Harvesting company, at South Barton
j ille, ILL.,, employing $50 men, will re.
I open Jan. 2, after a suspension OF
! several months.
Sixty thousand eight hundred and
| twenty citizens were called upon by
| the tax commission of Wisconsin to
paw state income tax that will
amount to $1,427,923.1S.
Appropriation of s2,500,000 for the
! fight against the foot and -iouth dis
! ease in cattle was included In the
urgent deficiency bill reported by the
house appropriations committee.
Discovery of a new counterfeit $1t
note on the National Park bank oi
New York City was announced. The
counterfeit bears the check letter "F'
and the portrait of William Mckinley
GOV. Major appointed Miss Frances
hopkins of Liberty, Mo-, as probate
iudge of Clay county to succeed hel
father, the late Louis G.. Hopkins.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdot
will represent President Wilson at th'
opening Of the Panama-Pacific exposi
ton in Sun Diego, CAL, Dec. 81.
The cities of Bridgeport. Bellaire and
Na-tln's Ferry, o., voted to re-estab
lisN blooms. The election vas unde
toe law and brings saloons int
Be}ra county for the first TIM
sine. .-'5.
H - fer Confederate veterans
10 .- pYur,ed by the federal govern
ment, was pc, posed in a bill intro
duced by Se,- or Works of California
himself a Cuiun veteran.
An urgent ,iciency bill was passe
by the hoy.r carrying s4,730,905 In
! cludiug S5J+. l to cover unexpecte'
ex- eusus t..5 red by the army as
re At C., ,No ccupation of Vera Cruz
T"1kr- dispatch to the Londo
D .ai' vs. that aviators of tn
a aid a visit to Brussels an
+ d Hamss on the Zeppelin shed'
..., t afire.
+ rar ray, alias Frank Jone
+ in unity jail at Virginia, III
i geo a.A larceny, hanged himse
l. a-...c his belt to the bars Z
cell
s I.s- sa Meyer was to hay